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Current Events and Continuing Education for January 6, 2025

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

-James Madison

 

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Once again,

It's Resolution Day!

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A few words about Moore, false flag theater, Trump II, and other amusements.

An Eclectic Survey Of The Current Splash Zone

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Other Voices (with an important afterword):

Time To "Allocate", Mr. President-Elect

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Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present:

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes."

-Thomas Paine

 

You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past...

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

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.

 

NOTE: I don't even try to include in these anniversary compilations items involved in the "COVID-19" scam, hysteria and exploitation. There would be way too much to say about all that to suit this format. But find my summary of that history, and related observations posted throughout 2020 and 2021, here.

  

Fear nothing but God's judgment as to your honesty and your courage

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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

-Samuel Adams

HEY, People!

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So, Here We Are At "Resolution Day"...

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.

See what the tax really falls upon and how it really works in application (and how and why it may have been misapplied to you in the past). See what those who have learned the long-obscured truth about the income tax have been accomplishing since that truth was revealed in 2003.

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.

Rise to deserve the blessings of liberty.

Make this year's "Resolution Day" real by making it a personal Declaration Day-- a day on which you resolve to act relentlessly on behalf of liberty and the rule of law, and to hound everyone you can reach into doing the same.

"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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An Eclectic Survey Of The Current Splash Zone

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 Moore here, and also the Weed-Whackers lessons here, and plan your litigation strategies accordingly.

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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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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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

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The Income Tax Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES.

Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been 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 use.

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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.

Read this little two-page document. Click on the links at the end.

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

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Regarding Trolleries

(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.

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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.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION

TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC

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.

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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...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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."

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Time To "Allocate", Mr. President-Elect

by David Stockman

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:

Click here to read the rest of this article

 

...and then proceed to the afterword below...

 

Afterword

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!

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A Little Extra

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..."

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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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.

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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

Click here for more information

And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

picks up where 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax' leaves off.

Click here for more information

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Do you have a victory to share? Click here to learn how to do so.

If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go here to learn what to do.

Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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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!

C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy!

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!)

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Resources:

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

Let's celebrate some more victories.

As We Move Deeper Into The Happy Holiday Season

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Other Voices (with an important afterword):

America's Axis Of Misery

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In order to overcome a lifetime's worth of propaganda, I'm...

Turning Down The Gaslight

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Make sure your kids know

The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

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A cautionary commentary:

The Delusional Style In American Politics

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Well!

About Last Tuesday...

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Along with a pet-peeve about the "college educated" demographic distinction, a few comments

Regarding Trump's Mandate

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Here's a good question:

How Long Can Christians Continue To Turn A Blind Eye To Israel's Atrocities?

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Though it may sound odd to begin with, hear me out:

BRICS Might Be America's Best Hope

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A few comments, and endorsements of a sort,

Regarding Next Week's Elections

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Word to the West:

If Israel Attacks Iran, Russia Is Not Going To Stay On The Sidelines

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Folks STILL aren't taking this seriously enough, so...

One Moore Try...

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A nice little connect-the-dots historical review:

From 9/11 To 7/10: The Fake 'War On Terror' Collapses

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Folks aren't taking this seriously enough, so...

Back Again To Moore

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Regarding the immigrant invasion:

Whether Or Not They're Killing Our Pets Is Small Potatoes, 'Cause They're Definitely Killing Our Constitution

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To many agenda-driven people, it's

America, The Candy Store

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Regarding a thus-far unopened gift:

A Bit More About Moore

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Getting back to basics:

That To Secure These Rights...

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It's outrageous, but it's undeniable:

The Virtual Certainty Of Foreign Interference In The 2024 Elections

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

It's A Good Time For Some More Victory Posts

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

Illegal War, The Orgy In Paris, Riots In The UK, And More

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

The Assassination Attempt, The J.D. Vance Pick, And The Biden Withdrawal

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In light of its condemnation of it everywhere else,

Why Does Washington Support Racism In The Middle East?

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Gotta love it:

The Supreme Court Gives It All Away In Moore

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It's been a busy last couple of weeks, so...

Regarding A Few Other Recent Events

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A new video resource:

The Income Tax Is An Excise Tax, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

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The video above is meant to make this unnecessary, but in the meantime...

Dealing With A Little Tax Agency Corruption

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the still-persistent MSM denial of election-rigging in 2020,

Does Everyone Know That Nuclear-Armed Russian Subs Have Taken Up Positions Off The US Coast?

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Never needed more than now:

One Of The Best And Most Important Speeches I've Heard In A Long Time

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the Trump trial and verdict,

From Ron Paul To RuPaul

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Among other thoughts on current events,

An Important Message To The Christian Community

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Among other thoughts on current events,

Support For Israel Is Giving Christianity A Bad Name

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Since the Swamp isn't able to discipline itself voluntarily in accordance with George Washington's wisdom,

It's Time For A New Law

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Further...

It's Time To Demand The Courts Show Respect For The Fourth Amendment

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Back in the saddle after my extended hiatus, I am pleased to start with:

A Couple Of Notable New Victories

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I must share a few more thoughts on current events, since...

The Dangerous Craziness Continues

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Apologetically,

So, It's Been A While Since I Last Posted...

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Amongst comments on other current topics...

A Prescription Against Today's Dangerous "DEI" Infection

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A couple of recent wins over the obnoxious "partial refund" ploy means...

Ending The Year With A Nice Christmas Present

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

A Few Final Thoughts (For This Year) On Current Events

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

Israel: It Gets Worse And Worse

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With a heavy heart, I find myself compelled to say:

Good-Bye, Ron DeSantis

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In the interests of inspiration and encouragement when Leviathan needs shrinking more than ever before...

It's Time To Share More Victories

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Although it is a subject so polluted by mis- and dis-information that I hate to even think about it, I feel compelled to offer...

A Few Comments On Israel And Hamas

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Continuing with my Twentieth Anniversary celebration, I offer:

Another Code-Cracking Freebie

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Re: cancel culture crimes; Newsom's "trans" admission; and selected observations from the debate...

A Few Comments On Current Events

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As the assault upon it continues unabated, I offer:

A Word To Its Critics From Western Civilization

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A few weapons for fighting on behalf of Western civilization, including...

A Legislative Model For Dealing With The "Trans" Infestation

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It's the twentieth anniversary of the book's publication, and now it's time for:

CtC Online

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For the benefit of everyone in this community, I ask you all to participate in:

An Important Action Item

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Contemplating Russia's ban on destructive "trans" nonsense; a path to redemption for Disney; 'Oppenheimer'; and a little legal red meat, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Out from beneath their concealing bushels, we have:

Some Bright Candles With Which To Illuminate The World

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Contemplating "national security" secrets; the need to call things by their right names: Section 230; and other matters, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Pay attention, people!

It's Declaration Day

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A brief touch upon some of the many things that could be said...

On The 60th Anniversary Of The Deep State's Dark Awakening

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The lesson to learn from...

Why Tucker Carlson Got Fired

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To the counter-productive benefit of the war-mongers,

Even Well-Intentioned Commentators Persist In Getting The Ukraine Story Wrong

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Recent revelations pose a serious challenge to American grown-ups:

The FBI Is Clearly Dirty And Rogue... What Are You Going To Do About It?

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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More early educated filers have emerged, so...

Let's Enjoy A Few More Recent Victories, And An Excellent New Video

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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While sitting on the front porch and watching the world go by, I've had...

A Few Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Mass murder in Nashville raises this disquieting question:

Do We Have More Time Bombs Walking Among Us?

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Democracy dies amid a din of state propaganda and narrative management. Hence,

America Needs A New Law

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So...

It's A Girl!! (Along With Other Good Things To Celebrate)

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You'll want to sit down for this one, and then afterward, stand up.

The Ugly Face Of Gender Confusion Disorder

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"Social distancing" originated as a middle-school science project. There's another such juvenile notion being enthusiastically promoted...

A Few Words About "Chatbots", And AI In General

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On a proper reading of the civil rights laws,

If Any Discrimination Is To Be Illegal, Ideological Discrimination Surely Qualifies

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It's time the grown-ups go on offense and get America on the path to...

Recovering From The Madness

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As this year's "tax season" commences...

A Few Words About Corruption And American Civic Responsibility

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A bad idea born of ignorance has once again reared its ugly head.

Regarding The So-Called "Fair Tax"

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The issue of Kamala Harris's qualification for office is becoming very important, because...

It Looks Like Joe Biden Might Be Getting The Hook

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With winter coming on, it's a good time to remember:

The Biggest Snow-Job In History

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It's a proper season in which to report:

A Nice Victory In Tax Court

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The assault on liberty and the rule of law continues apace...

A Few Observations On Current Events

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Among other clarifications and corrections,

What Pro-Lifers Mean By "No Exceptions For The Life Of The Mother"

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The madness continues, and worsens:

On The Situation In Ukraine And The Nordstream Sabotage

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Though only responsible themselves for one of two crimes being committed,

Aliens Wandering Around Texas ARE Illegals, Judge Napolitano

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"Trans care" crimes; mislabeling abortion; "identity politics"; and so-called "emergency powers"...

More Comments And Observations, In Brief

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Because they seem necessary:

Cognitive Inoculations Against Selected Misunderstandings, Misinformation And Madness

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Humbly offered:

A Legislative Agenda For The Protection Of America's Kids And Culture

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A few comments on crickets, lesser meal worms, and the like, along with some great...

Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

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It may seem strange to hear this, but,

A "Right To Abortion" Is NOT A "Right To Kill An Unborn Child" (Or Fetus, Or Whatever Label You Prefer...)

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

White Slaves And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts

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It's about time...

A Welcome IRS Admission Debunking The "ARG44" Hoax

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Selected observations on current topics, starting with:

What The Evidence Suggests Is REALLY Going On In Washington, And Why

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This is not mere rhetoric:

What A REAL "Existential Threat" Looks Like

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Regarding the inherent anti-Americanism of EVs and the illegality of "preferred pronoun" punishments,

A Couple Of Quick Comments

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Sharing interesting information about a few things, including:

Key Facts About "Fossil Fuels"; A Miracle Medical Treatment; More...

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Purveyors of gender confusion have succeeded in a disturbing imposition of,

Life Imitating Art

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As I celebrate more real American heroes, I have to ask,

How Many Times Does This Have To Be Said?

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The Founders understood, and we should, too:

Why Americans Need Weapons Of War

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See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

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Get All Newsletters As They Are Published:

Newsletter Delivery Options

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My interview by Lana Lotkeff for Radio 3Fourteen can be found here.

Find my YouTube channel here.

 

The upgraded Seventeenth Edition of CtC is Now Available-- free!

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.

Get The Short, Easy Intro To The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

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.

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.

Watch this fascinating 12 minute video on how climate data are misrepresented.

Then share this link with everyone you can

H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.

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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.

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Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's?

Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you.

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No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do.

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

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.

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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.

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Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

Learn how (and why) to share YOUR testimony, here.

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The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior

This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up.

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IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward

A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up.

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JFK conspiracy? No problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't be silly! How could that ever happen?!

Cognitive dissonance in action.

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Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium?

Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda.

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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!

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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...

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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.

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The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment'

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...

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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.

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Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries?

Set Your Church Free

Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.

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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?

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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!!

Click here to take the test

Click here for more Tax IQ tests

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

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.

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"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

-James Madison

How About You?

Are You Governing Yourself?

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

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There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated...

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

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IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.

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"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

The Choice Is This Stark

Wear this new T-Shirt proudly, and tell the enemies of the law that if they don't like Constitutional limits, they should find someplace else to live!

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

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.

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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)

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The willingness of some people to trade liberty for convenience is without limit...

Regarding "Tax Reform"

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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

"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

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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.

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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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About The Author

Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare �contributions� withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in �Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America�� (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students.

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.