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January 6- In 1553, Francisco Pizarro
founds Lima, Peru. In 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests his 'telegraph'.
In 1907, Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome. In 1912, New Mexico
is admitted to the union as the 47th of the several states. In 1929, Mother
Teresa arrives in Calcutta. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that
Roosevelt's 'New Deal' Agriculture Adjustment Act is unconstitutional. In 2021,
several hundred attendees at a rally held by President Donald Trump are
encouraged by thus-far unidentified but apparently Deep State/Democrat agitators
to enter the Capitol building-- with the cooperation of the Capitol Police-- in
protest over widespread election fraud in the November elections (since
thoroughly proven). Some minor vandalism was committed, and one of the
protestors, unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a Capitol
Police officer once inside without warning and while presenting no threat. Four
other protestors died outside the building of natural causes or, in one case, of
being crushed by a panicked crown fleeing a gas attack by the police. The
false-flag event was immediately characterized as an "insurrection" and then
used by the perpetrators as a pretext for demonizing anyone objecting to the
Democrat/progressive/Deep State agenda.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Please don't just
read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or
approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order
to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with
perspectives and arguments with which to
educate others, and in the
expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or
direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things,
especially in recognition of the fact
that my posts are heavily suppressed. They will NOT get out
if you don't get them out.
Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
***
BTW, join me on The Shields Report
the first Saturday of every month at 5PM EDT!!
A semi-annual "wake-up" call for today's real American men and
women. You
may have seen this before, but no matter. Read it again. It's that
important.
RESOLUTION DAY.
That is,
"NO MORE PARALYSIS Day"
"NO MORE DENIAL Day"
"NO MORE, "I DON'T DARE..." Day"
"NO MORE, "THE BAD MEN WILL NOTICE
ME SO I'D BETTER NOT!" Day"
"NO MORE, "I'LL WAIT FOR SOMEONE
ELSE TO GO FIRST..." Day"
In short, here we are at,
"GET OFF YOUR ASS Day"
"GET LOUD AND PROUD AND UN-COWED
Day"
I'm talking about,
"DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU'VE GOT LIBERTY
AND THE RULE OF LAW Day"
"FACE THE FACTS Day"
"NO TIME TO RELAX Day"...
MORE THAN ANYTHING, here we are at "PUT
ASIDE DELUSIONS Day" That's what the original
"Resolution day" was all about. It was the day the
American colonists finally acknowledged that the
people they had been entreating to respect their
rights actually didn't want them to have
their rights.
It was the day the American colonists
finally acknowledged that the government operatives
they had been petitioning and politicking and
lobbying and arguing with weren't misled or mistaken
or suffering from misunderstanding, needing only to
have things explained a bit better, or argued a bit
more authoritatively. Instead, as the colonists
realized and finally admitted by way of the
Declaration of Independence, those operatives were their
competitors. Those operatives were the
colonists' opponents. Efforts to persuade
them were pointless-- they admitted to no limits on
their power and had no interest in curbing its
abuse, which was being practiced for their
benefit.
IT WAS HARD for the colonists to reach
that epiphany about their government. Because states
exercise power (and partly also because they
maintain an elaborate apologia dedicated to
justifying that exercise as being for the good of
the citizenry, or at least the way things must or
are supposed to be), they come to be viewed as
virtual parents in the hind-brains of those subject
to that power. It is very hard for people to
recognize and acknowledge that actual Mom and Dad
are bad people. It is nearly as hard for people to
recognize that the state under the influence of
which they have been raised is corrupt and
malicious.
But of course, sometimes Mom and Dad
are indeed bad, and states usually are. And while
Mom and Dad can and often do become remorseful, and
proceed to reform and redemption, states are
institutionally-incapable of remorse. The only
remedy against a bad state is taking away its power.
Eventually, after wasting all that time and effort
on petitioning, politicking, lobbying and arguing,
the American colonists admitted this truth on
their Resolution Day and said, "No more talking-- it's
time for walking!"
Bless them for abandoning their
child-like view of the state and becoming grown-ups
at last.
IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN if we modern
Americans are equally deserving of blessings. We
should be up to the task; after all, we have a much
easier row to hoe than the colonists did.
While we, too, must adopt a grown-up
understanding of the true character of the dangerous
servant against which we have been wisely warned,
our state is already bound down by the written law,
thanks to the blood and sacrifices of our ancestors.
All we have to do is recognize that the state is
constantly struggling to escape any limitations
placed upon it by that law, and to suppress and
marginalize anyone revealing its bad behavior and
anything showing how it can be put back into its
chains.
Particularly, we have to recognize that
the biggest and most important limitation put upon
the state concerns its ability to take resources
from individual citizens for its own use. It's this
simple-- the one who controls the disposition of
property is the one in charge.
Because it is so important, for decades
the United States has been engaged in the
cultivation and exploitation of myths about what
limitations are placed upon it in regard to resource
acquisition. Sadly, for most of those decades most
Americans have fallen for the fictions.
Chief among these state-serving,
people-harming myths is the truly absurd proposition
that our grandparents amended the Constitution in
1913 to authorize the state's exploitation of their
resources at its will, in defiance and rejection of
the previous tax-limiting Constitutional rules under
which the American people had become the freest and
most prosperous in the history of the world.
THIS IS A MYTH! It never
happened, and even the premier organs of the state
itself have said so endlessly-- but quietly, so as
to preserve the on-the-books harmony of the law
while allowing the state (and its clients and
cronies) to ruthlessly exploit anyone who doesn't
know to look and remains in ignorance.
See the proof that this is a myth,
here. Read the 1916
Cornell and Harvard Law Review articles on the
Supreme Court's unanimous conclusions about the
Sixteenth Amendment. See what Department of Treasury
experts admit about the income tax. See what the
Supreme Court continues to say about the amendment
and the tax over the decades. Learn the real history
of the tax and its antecedents.
Then go
here and see how the state has been struggling
to keep you from knowing any of this.
After you take these enlightening
excursions, recognize that every single
person or institution that would lose prestige,
power or profits by acknowledging the truth about
the tax can be expected to lie about the subject if
queried. So will every interest that sees itself
benefitting from the existence of a mammoth state
(which might even include those who make their
living complaining about the mammoth state, or the
supposed evils of the income tax).
Every one of
these persons and interests are today's equivalents of the invested
promoters and defenders of the "divine right of
kings" myth that kept people enthralled and
exploited in the colonists' time.
But also recognize that now knowing the
truth, the power is in your hands. The
responsibility is, too.
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted
fountain is the righteous man who gives way before
the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"I am only one, but I
am one. I cannot
do everything, but I can do
something. What I
can do, I should
do and, with the help of God, I
will do."
-Everett Hale
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
"Be
the change you want to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi
***
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Another point about the hugely-important
Moore ruling; a bit of
analysis of the two New Year's Day false flag events; airing
some concerns about the upcoming second Trump administration; a
sharp and instructive irony in the Sarah McBride story; and a
few words about the just begun 2025 Season of Lies.
ONE OF THE EASIEST WAYS to leverage the Supreme
Court's Moore v. US
admissions of last June is to observe that whatever one might understand (or
believe) about the nature of the income tax, Moore makes it
clear that the manner in which the lower courts and the tax
agencies have administered and enforced the tax, and to which
you (or your interlocutor) have been accustomed,
has been wrong.
Those agencies and courts have stated outright that they have administered the tax as a direct
tax relieved of the apportionment requirement, but as the
Supreme Court has just plainly-stated in Moore, it is no such
thing.
Applying the same point to a specific
context, Moore establishes that every lower
court income tax decision which claimed-- or relied
on a prior decision which claimed-- that the
Brushaber court deemed the tax to be direct but
relieved of the apportionment requirement, is bad
law. Put another way, any case which failed to
analyze the tax or its application in light of its
nature as an excise, or relied upon a precedent
which made the same mistake, is bad law.
Together,
that's pretty much all lower court decisions of the
last fifty years or more. See the detailed
discussion of Moorehere,
and also the Weed-Whackers lessons
here, and plan your litigation strategies
accordingly.
***
I THINK THE NEW YEAR'S DAY false-flag
"terrorist attacks" are the most egregious
propaganda scams I've ever seen...
Plainly timed and meant to influence
the House Speaker election in ultra-Zionist Mike
Johnson's favor and to furnish the Israel über
alles crowd with grist for the "Let's go to war
with Iran" mill, these slop-fests nonetheless appear
to have been hurried out by folks still a bit fuzzy
from hard holiday partying.
This tone with which I describe these
events is in no way meant to make light of the
heinous crimes and deep tragedies involving the
victims of the New Orleans truck attack and
subsequent shoot-out with police, nor of the person
whose unrecognizable body was found in the Tesla
truck in Las Vegas or the several people injured in
the blast set off there after, apparently, the man
in the driver's seat was already dead.
Rather, while acknowledging all those
tragedies in the most heartfelt way possible, we all
must nonetheless look past them and at the bigger
picture in order to protect ourselves and the
America we love from being gulled into conclusions
and reactions intended by those who bear
responsibility for those tragedies and the crimes
from which they result. That bigger picture view may
not positively identify the real perps, but it makes
pretty clear that whatever really happened in those
two New Year's Day events, it's not what the usual
suspects are trying to sell.
THE PSYOP MARKERS for these purported
"terrorist attacks" (the Las Vegas one of which has
lately been sloppily reassigned as just an
inexplicable halftime-show level suicide as the
early detail-release oopsies made the original story
harder and harder to defend) are rampant. Most
egregious (and most ironic) is the false flag meant
to flesh out the storyline in the New Orleans
attack.
I refer to the ISIS flag mounted on the truck driven by
the alleged radical Muslim terrorist.
It was
upside down.
This is not the kind of mistake you'd expect from a real ISIS
terrorist, even a relative newcomer to the cause.
But it is exactly what might be expected from a
propagandist unfamiliar with that cause and its
symbols, and especially one hurrying out a
"terrorist theater" event and throwing on
last-minute details to help lock in the sale.
Here are some shots of the ISIS flag in
the hands of real Islamist radicals:
Here is the flag as it was found on the
truck driven in the New Orleans attack:
I think this false flag thing is enough
by itself to establish my opening premise: that the
New Orleans event is a "false flag" psyop presented
by, and serving the interests of, those wanting the
US to go to war against Iran. Iran is the last
country on the pre-9/11 deep state hit list famously
shared with Americans by General Wesley Clark during
a 2007 interview by Democracy Now, and its time
has now come, as far as the neo-com nutcases are
concerned. But there's more.
Everyone who knew the New Orleans truck
driver, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, has said that if
he ever displayed any hint of "radicalization" it
wasn't much and only just recently. He was, however,
at a very low point in his life, having suffered
marital and business failures-- which is to say, at
a point of high susceptibility to suggestion and
manipulation.
Some videos posted on his Facebook page
are cited as evidence of Jabbar's radical jihadi
frame of mind, but all of them only appeared within
a few hours of his attack. Hardly evidence of an
actual radicalization-- instead it seems more like
evidence of stagecraft. Someone only reaches the
point of murder-suicide on behalf of a cause after a
long evolution of increasingly agitated thinking, a
record of which arising over the months or years of
that evolution would inevitably exist.
Instead, we get the announcement of the
five videos, and then
an obviously staged and otherwise inexplicable,
counter-to-norms tour by a hack journalist of
what ought to be the closely cordoned-off,
sensitive-evidence-rich home of Jabbar, in which
damning artifacts of the sort that would be written
into a B-movie script are presented one-by-one. The
display of contempt for the target audience of this
narrative theatrical is really quite remarkable.
THEN THERE IS THE MATTER of Jabbar
having spent a lot of time at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina-- home to the US Army's
Psychological Operations unit, and at the same time
as Matthew Livelsberger, the truck driver said to have died in the Tesla Cybertruck
in Las Vegas on New Year's Day. Ryan Routh, the man accused of lurking
in the rough at a golf course intending to shoot
Donald Trump last summer was also a frequent visitor
to that facility, as it happens.
One thing Psychological Operations
might involve is identifying susceptible targets and
then molding them into tools for the molder's
purposes. But maybe the time spent there by three
men all of whom went off to do heinous,
outside-agenda-furthering, deeply self-harming stuff
was just coincidental.
HERE'S ANOTHER COINCIDENCE: In addition to sharing time spent
at Fort Bragg, both Jabbar and Livelsberger rented
the vehicles they used on New Year's Day from the
same vendor. That last bit (the same vendor) was
very possibly a valid coincidence, but the decision
to rent from any vendor is another matter,
it seems to me. Did neither of these men own a
vehicle?
And why make the long drives involved
in each case, rather than commit their alleged acts
of ideologically-inspired terrorism somewhere within
the equally target-rich environments closer to home?
Livelsberger lived in Colorado Springs, 816 miles
from Las Vegas. Jabbar lived in Houston, 535 miles
from New Orleans.
I have no explanation for why New
Orleans and Las Vegas might have struck some
propagandist as particularly choice locations for
these events. But I think it's even tougher to
explain why these two men would target places a
long-day's drive away from home when New Year's Eve
parties were surely happening all over Houston, and
prominent places sure to get plenty of attention
when made ground zero for a truck bomb incident can
be easily found in Colorado.
Although it does so in an inchoate way,
the oddity of these locations-- especially in both
cases-- suggests the direction of an actor other
than Jabbar and Livelsberger. And such direction
shouldn't be assumed to always be rational and
meaningful. It can be randomized, just to muddy the
waters, as this perhaps appears to be. But again,
Jabbar and Livelsberger would have no such motive,
while a hidden hand very well might.
FOCUSING A BIT MORE on Matthew
Livelsberger, the apparent Las Vegas truck bomber,
whose body was said to be burned beyond recognition
as was everything else in the truck except a
remarkably durable military ID card and passport:
...reminiscent of nothing so much
as the miraculous passport found on the ground in
New York on 9/11 which ensured
public acceptance of the official narrative of 19
Arabs with box cutters as the perps, and precluded
timely consideration of other possibilities which
became better and better supported by the
slowly-emerging evidence over the following years
but only after things like the PATRIOT Act and the
invasion of Iraq were all fait accompli.
Another suspicious anomaly of the Las
Vegas truck bomb was its amateurish character, when
the alleged perpetrator, Matthew Livelsberger, was a
highly-trained Army Special Forces veteran easily
capable of making things light up in a big way. One
explanation for the incongruity consistent with
other evidence is that psychological manipulation by
which Livelsberger was made to kill himself in a
spectacular way had him in so puppetlike as to be
incapable of engaging his higher faculties in the
task.
ALL TOLD, there is much to wonder about
in these New Orleans and Las Vegas New Year's Day
events, but as always, the first question upon
encountering mysteries such as these is Cui
bono? (who benefits?). Certainly not Islamic
jihadis or Muslims in general, either in the US or
elsewhere. After all, taken as given by the official
narratives, these events will serve as pretexts for
increased US aggression against just such groups.
In fact, that the narrative will focus
American ire on Muslims (whether formally ISDIS or
otherwise) answers the question of who benefits from
these horrific events and the deaths and injuries
that they have entailed. The beneficiary is plainly
those who WISH American ire to be so focused, and
who see such a focus as in service to their
interests, rather than the Muslims who are thus put
in the crosshairs (or Jabbar and Livelsberger
themselves).
Figuring out who that is is paramount,
as is keeping firmly in mind that only by doing so
will we learn who is really responsible for the
deaths of 17 Americans on New Year's Day in New
Orleans and Las Vegas.
***
IS DONALD TRUMP going to be the good
guy this time around, or is he again going to be the
Menschurian Candidate, doing a little window
dressing in regard to American interests while
making his real focus Israeli interests (and usually
at America's expense)?
It's not looking good.
As many have already observed, Trump's
key appointments are uniformly Zionist. Some, like
Pete Hegspeth and Mike Johnson, are rabidly so,
apparently believing that God Himself (not Trump,
but actual God) has commanded them to serve Israel
and also that what happens to America while they do
is of no significance, since their service to Israel
will quickly lead to the desired destruction of the
world.
Briefly, Trump had made one key
appointment who is NOT, it seems, a Christian
Zionist lunatic-- Matt Gaetz for Attorney General--
but the deep state machinery quickly rolled into
action. It spun out a long-discredited but still
smelly sex scandal allegation against Gaetz, giving
the made members of the senate a pretext for lining
up to declare Gaetz a non-starter for confirmation.
Gaetz was then replaced for the AG
nomination with Pam Bondi, a (wait for it...)
lunatic Zionist, rounding out Trump's team as a
four-square Israel First administration.
Bondi has offered a nice demonstration
of her Israel First/ America, who knows?
orientation. She has stated that students-- even
American citizen students-- who protest deep US
state enabling of Israeli actions against the native
Palestinian population they have displaced and
dispossessed for 77 years now should be subjected to
FBI scrutiny, "watch listing" and interrogations
over that speech.
Apparently, in Bondi's view, a core
American interest-- the preservation and defense of
the US Constitution, which includes the First
Amendment-- should take a back seat to protecting
Israel from having its indefensible barbarisms
called-out and publicly condemned.
Not only does Bondi (and everyone else
who attacks protestors as she does) assault the
Constitution with her expressions, but she puts
Israeli interests above American interests in a
purely practical sense, as well. Anti-Israel
protestors neither take our money nor threaten our
rights. But pro-Israel tools like Bondi & Co. DO
take our money-- the Biden puppeteers just announced
yet another $8bn. in (completely
illegal) arms "sales" to the apartheid state,
using US taxpayers money for the "purchase"-- and DO
threaten our rights, as in Bondi's porposed speech
assault.
Indeed, folks like Bondi and the rest
of Trump's proposed Israel First cabinet threaten
not only Americans' rights, but our very existence.
As noted in the preceding topic, these folks have
been clear with their eagerness to start (or enable)
a war against Iran which is likely to turn into WW
III and give the Mike Johnson types that Armageddon
of which they've been dreaming-- at least, the total
destruction part of that religious-porn wet-dream.
We all heard endlessly that MAGA meant
Making America Great Again. The reality is shaping
up to be the same show as the last time, only on a
different day:
(Do keep in mind that YOU can stop that
US-enabled Armageddon. See and share
this little paper.)
***
ONE THING UPON WHICH I HAVE TO COMMENT
both because it merits the attention on its own, and
because it will, in a way, lighten the mood a bit,
is something I learned about incoming
congresscritter Sarah McBride (D-DE) from a
newspaper article to which Doreen directed me last
week. It seems that Sarah had a long-term
relationship and eventually married someone named
Andrew Cray (since deceased).
Now, Sarah McBride is actually a man
who pretends to be a woman. Andrew Cray was actually
a woman who pretended to be a man.
In short, McBride and Cray were a
biologically normal heterosexual couple. Each of
them insisted on cross-dressing, but that was as far
as their pioneering into the Brave New World went,
when all was said and done, and however much they
may have viewed themselves as living on the daring
cutting-edge of cultural transformation.
It may have even been more farcically
undramatic an adventure for McBride and Cray,
though.
Although it is unreported in the
sources available to me, it is very possible McBride
and Cray had each gone for "gender-assignment
surgery". In that case they would still have been a
standard (though deeply mentally-ill) heterosexual
couple, but one incapable of real or fruitful
intercourse due to the real penis and vagina
originally between them having both been destroyed
thanks to their tight embrace of their delusions,
whereas otherwise they could have done the dirty
deed just like normal people-- saving only for the
matter of which one was wearing the lingerie.
A nice illustration of the utter flight
from reality and dystopian matrix into which
transgender delusions seek to drag our culture.
***
FINALLY, we are now in the 2025 Season
of Lies concerning the income tax, in which millions
of inaccurate "information returns" (i.e., W-2s,
1099s, K-1s, etc.) are going to be on their way to
citizens across the land, needing to be either
affirmed if correct or rebutted if not. These
allegations are also due to arrive at tax agencies across the land, which
will treat all of them as solid grounds for
considering a related tax amount as due and owing if
the aforementioned rebuttals are not forthcoming.
It is during the next three-and-a-half
months that Americans have their greatest chance to
re-take control of the ship of state, which was
relinquished in ignorance and foolishness some 80
years ago, and begin steering us away from the
iceberg looming in the waters ahead.
Those of you who already know of what I
speak will doubtless be taking care of things for
yourselves. But it is more imperative than ever
before, as shown to some degree by the other matters
discussed above, that those who DON'T know of what I
speak be given a chance to become educated and add
their weight to the corrective task at hand.
In my opinion nothing is a better
resource for accomplishing that educational mission
than the little three-page document
here. I urge all of you that care to download
that .pdf and send it on to as many people as
possible, along with a persuasive message
encouraging the recipient to read it.
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better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money
for their own uses.
If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to
apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you
can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having
the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your
own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that
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*****
Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...
...an important action item opportunity.
FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC EASINGS of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under
since the onset of the
COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative should not be
allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing.
The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.
And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if
they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and
Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you
can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):
[Name], since March of 2020 you've
watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy
classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No
dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.
YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant
state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in
size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an
opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has
been nurturing in the average mind for decades).
Those things having not yet happened, you
should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.
Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to
begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take
place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a
who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to
show it to you.
When you're done with that reading, you'll know
what to do next.
BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact
that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the
law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and
you don't call them out for it.
If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the
truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be
grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They
would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in
that delusional bubble.
As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they
certainly WOULD do something
like that.
Use this evidence in all your
outreach efforts.
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the
citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to
keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from
learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when
CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a
concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This
effort involves official government websites and press releases
touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds
with some
CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the
real substance of the ruling)--
and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.
Are the presentations and
resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?
Tim Kendrick has posted
a video
on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about
it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to
feel obligated in any way.
But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue
to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only
the cost of a cheap paperback.
Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very
thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is
just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be
conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support.
No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to
act let it be solely because it seems right.
All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others
that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.
Leadership is a challenge. But it's not
complicated, and you can do it.
*****
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The
Word?
SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE
EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that
everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to
believe about something as entrenched and significant as the
income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help
cut through the resistance:
Ask your listener how he or she would react if
you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the
earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the
time because people don't understand how it works? Or how
about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying
the same?
Now you just have to explain that
you're going to show exactly those things-- but because
the state really doesn't want people to know this, these
things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would
all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these
admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press
release. But it'll be worth the effort...
IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of
energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool
families and community groups, your neighbors, your
family members, your pastors and
co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs,
members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia,
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone
in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth
movement, other activist movements and everyone
else,
you have only yourself to blame for your
troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which
you might complain. It's on you.
WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note
explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic
is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI
(weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.
Remember: Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of
adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the
truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar
at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be
strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be
highly rated."
-Thomas Paine
OUTREACH!!!
JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.
ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY:
Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled
outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it
here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't
do this all by myself.
"In a time of
universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
For crying out loud, Mr.
President-Elect. During your first time at the plate you didn’t
accomplish the salutary outcome of delivering the most
conservative Supreme Court of modern times solely so that it
could write Dobbs and thereby return the regulation of abortion
(or not) to the states where it properly belongs. You actually
now have a court that will do a lot more good—and in the present
instance that includes permitting you to take rational and
urgent action to require the Federal government to live within
its means.
We are referring, of course, to the
presidential authority to allocate Federal revenues on a
priority basis if the latter falls short of scheduled
expenditures and there is no available headroom under the public
debt ceiling for the US Treasury to borrow in order to cover the
shortfall. And with the impending expiration of the current debt
ceiling suspension on January 1st that’s exactly what you will
need to do from the very first hour you return to the Oval
Office.
So, please, do not under any
circumstances capitulate to the Swamp Creatures and embrace a
debt ceiling increase, thereby requiring your GOP congressional
rank-and-file to walk the plank to vote for more open-ended
borrowing on top of the $36.5 trillion public debt that will be
in place by year end. The GOP has done the Swamp’s dirty work
too long, and, besides, you were elected to drain it, not
nourish it with more IOUs.
Needless to say, the minute you move to
allocate the incoming revenues to debt service payments and say
social security benefits, Veterans support and critical national
security operations while cutting back or deferring everything
else, you will get the Congress’ attention with respect to the
urgent matter of entitlement reform, spending cuts and fraud,
waste and inefficiency removal like no president has ever done
in our lifetime.
Of course, the Swamp Creatures will
first scream default, default, default! But that’s complete
baloney and by taking decisive action to rationally allocate
revenues in the absence of a debt ceiling increase you can make
it abundantly clear that Washington has no choice except to
finally bite the bullet on the nation’s runaway public debt. And
for the reasons we outline below, we believe that the Roberts
Court will not block any such effort to embrace fiscal sanity.
To start with, the current cash balance
in the Treasury’s TGA account at the Fed is $800 billion, which
would be enough to cover interest payments averaging $100
billion per month well past mid-year. So adroit use of the
allocation power should eliminate any possibility of a
short-term upset in the bond markets.
As a practical matter, the current $800
billion cash balance should be held in reserve and metered into
current funding applications on a cautious basis in order to buy
plenty of time for negotiations with Congress over the sweeping
entitlement reforms and defense and nondefense appropriations
cuts which are urgently needed. Thus, perhaps $100 billion per
month could be released from the TGA account for current
payments.
Based on the US Treasury’s
most recent outlook for FY 2025 the underlying
challenge would be to bridge the gap between
projected monthly receipts of $465 billion and
monthly outlays averaging $620 billion. But with the
$100 billion drawdown from the cash balance, as a
practical matter the equation to be balanced would
amount to $565 billion of available cash per month
or 91% of projected monthly outlays.
In that 9% shortfall
condition, the President would have full powers, as
we explain below, to prioritize the $620 billion per
month of outlays. One sensible approach would be to
pay 100% of certain high priority items, and then
allocate the balance of available cash to a pro-rata
cut of all other Federal accounts. As it turns out,
that allocation factor for all except interest
payments, Social Security, Veterans benefits and
military pay would be about 84% as shown below in
this example.
Illustrative
Monthly Allocation Scheme In The Absence Of A Debt
Ceiling Increase, FY 2025 Basis:
DAVID STOCKMAN is a treasure-- a very well-spoken,
well-educated and thoughtful observer with a strong bias for
sound governmental policies and practices and a strong grasp of
what is necessary to achieve them. I read everything I encounter
of his writings, and would urge everyone else to do the same.
In the piece above, Stockman makes a
great case for how and why the new Trump
administration can and should step up to the plate
and begin the much-needed process of reining in the
dangerously-uncontrolled federal spending juggernaut
of the last quarter century+. Stockman may well be
talking to a brick wall (as I am sure he realizes),
since Trump has never shown the least interest in
fiscal responsibility, but the case Stockman makes
needs to be made.
Even if Trump and team have no
interest, the wise among the American people surely
do, and perhaps even some in Congress (Thomas
Massie, at least) will find Stockman's article
inspiring of action.
AT THE SAME TIME that we hope for
fiscal epiphanies among public officialdom, let's
remember that even if the political class is
disinclined to rein itself in (as it always seems to
be), the American people, individually, are equipped
by the Founders and Framers with the power to make
that happen even despite official resistance.
All the people need to do is
learn how and why to say "NO!"
Those of us who have already received that
liberating and empowering lesson need to help the rest of the
American population quickly understand
the
truth about the income tax, such that even though Washington remains in
the hands of immoral establishment hacks and self-servers it
finds its ability to just carry on with chronic irresponsibility
in spending severely curtailed.
Such an effort is easier than ever now, with the US Supreme Court
having just reaffirmed its 108-year-old ruling
in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR. Co.,
acknowledging the truth about the income tax
revealed in
CtC.
Remember, the arising and sustenance of
the Leviathan state monster is a direct result of
the successful mis-administration of the US income
tax laws. This began primarily in the early 1940s with the
adoption of the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943
amidst the tumult of WWII, and after a couple of
decades of corrupt misrepresentation of the 16th
Amendment's purpose and effect, despite that
misrepresentation being squarely in defiance of
the
history of the amendment and multiple express Supreme
Court rulings on the subject.
Shrinking that
Leviathan state monster merely involves the
reversing of that misadministration-- something that
can be done by individual Americans, acting
one-by-one, with no help or approval of any
government official. Each such act makes use of
state-restraining tools baked into the
Constitutional cake by the Founders and Framers, and
each such act WILL make a difference, however small.
Most important, each such act will absolve the actor
from the dishonor of participation in the heinous
crimes their resources would otherwise finance.
All that is required is some knowledge
(which can be gotten
here),
and some courage-- the latter of which naturally
blooms in the hearts of real Americans when given
the nourishment of the former. As the saying goes,
America is the Land of the Free because it is the
Home of the Brave.
You can find all of this
explained
here, along with links to some additional
relevant resources.
Read that material, and then become an
agent of change. Urge everyone you know to do both
of these things, as well.
Seriously, people. It's time to stop
whistling past the graveyard and start using the
powerful and important tools with which our wise
ancestors equipped us.
See you all next year. Happy Holidays!
P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS
ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham
Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to
keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in
his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip
service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel
available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands
of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to
be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my
rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite
means..."
Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
"[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
"Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people." "As an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability
in navigating the law. THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice."
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
*****
Are You Ready For More Power?
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (sixteenth)
edition of
CtC!
If
CtC were actually
right, it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying and suppressing the truth for years
on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no
e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC.
Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for
free-- any such thing.
January 7- In 1782, the Bank of North
America, the first United States national bank, opens for business (it continues
today as Wachovia Bank). In 1927, the first trans-Atlantic telephone call is
made. In 1953, Truman announces the development of the hydrogen bomb. In 1980,
Jimmy Carter signs off on a $1.5 billion dollar federal loan to the Chrysler
Corporation. Constitutional scholars are still scratching their heads and
searching for the authority for that... In 1999, the impeachment of Bill
Clinton begins. In 2015, shootings of curious character in the details
suggesting false-flag possibilities but ascribed to Islamic extremists enraged
by what they viewed as sacrilegious cartoons about Mohammed take place in Paris,
France, and lead to a massive re-affirmation throughout the Western world of the
unequivocal sacredness of unconstrained speech rights.
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
Hey! If you're not getting the newsletter delivered
to your email inbox every Monday, go to
this link
and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.
January 8- In 1790, George Washington delivers the first State
of the Union speech. In 1835, the United States national debt hit $0 for the
only time, after Andrew Jackson succeeded in shutting down the Second Bank of
the United States (an early version of the Federal reserve). In 1973, the trial
of the Watergate burglars begins.
*****
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important
(plus it can get you some great LHC swag!). See
(and carefully read)
these guidelines and encouragements.
Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
Hey, Gamers!
WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU
ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and
listen!
You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
sophisticated spells which also keep you from
engaging in the fight.
There are real great deeds to be done,
and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and
frankly, your real future
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
penetrate the illusions.
Visit
losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto
the real field of battle!
*****
PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
January 9- In 1788, Connecticut becomes the fifth of the
several states to ratify the United States Constitution and authorize the new
version of the federal government. In 1861, Mississippi becomes the second of
the several states to secede from the Union. In 1951, the United Nations
headquarters in New York City opens for business. In 1968, snow begins falling
for the first (and so far only) time in Mexico City, continuing off and on for
the next two days. In 2015, the alleged perpetrators of the shootings in Paris
two days previously (the "Charlie Hebdo" shootings) are silenced by police
gunfire.
If you're not talking this one up everywhere and
helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the
rule of law...
*****
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just because some government officials
denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
*****
Test Your
"Income" Tax IQ!
CtC Warrior
SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz
to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States
"income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family!
Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the
liberating truth!!
January 10- In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar crosses the
Rubicon. In 1776, Tom Paine's 'Common Sense' is published. In 1861,
Florida becomes the third of the several states to secede from the
Union. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. In
1920, the League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the
Treaty of Versailles, which ends World War I under terms which set the
stage for World War II.
*****
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives."
"It is not the function of our Government to keep
the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the
citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
January 11- In 1787, William Herschel discovers Oberon and
Titania-- two moons of Uranus. In 1805, Michigan is carved out of the
Northwest Territory. In 1861, Alabama becomes the fourth of the several
states to secede from the Union. In 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first
woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. In 1943, the United States and
the United Kingdom relinquish imperial holdings in mainland China. In 1964,
the United States Surgeon General announces that smoking may be hazardous to
the smoker's health.
*****
*****
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or
TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant
"Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed,
second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-Arthur
Schopenhauer
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
January 12- In 1932, Hattie Caraway
becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate (Democrat from Arkansas).
In 1967, Dr. James Bedford becomes the first cryogenic corpsicle. In 1971, the
Reverend Philip Berrigan and five compatriots are indicted on charges of
plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger and also do a "Guy Fawkes" in steam tunnels
under federal buildings as a protest against the U.S. activities in Vietnam.
In 1991, Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of
Kuwait.
*****
Last Word
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel
Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution
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Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on
matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works
are collected in his second book, �Upholding
the Law And Other Observations�. He is a member of Mensa;
an
award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth
soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and
has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of
Michigan�s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a
consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens
for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and
as a member of the International Society for Individual
Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across
the country.
Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a
decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy
industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials
Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy
Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and
energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and
president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design,
manufacture and installation firm.
Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the
twelve years before his present full-time focus on the
restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed
purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year
multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan
branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+
apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and
incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.
He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and
distribution systems in four states, and designed and
administered the company's website.
On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst
these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the
primary creative force behind a small
board- and
card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several
years.
Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan,
with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his
next book.
� All written and graphic material on this page and
website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.