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April 28- In 1788, Maryland becomes the
seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1945, Italian
fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is executed by fed-up Italian citizens. In
1947, Thor Heyerdahl sets out from Peru bound for Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki raft
to prove that it could be done. In 1952, the post-World War II occupation of
Japan ends after 6 1/2 years. In 1996, President Bill Clinton testifies for the
defense in the "Whitewater" land fraud, conspiracy and political corruption
trial of his and Hillary's partners Jim and Susan MacDougall and then-Arkansas
governor Jim Guy Tucker.
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!!
EVEN AS "TAX DAY" 2025 shrinks in the
rear-view mirror, Americans still have plenty of
stressors with which to contend. Ascendant neo-cons
in the Trump foreign policy camp have the United
States murdering people in Yemen while helping
Israel bomb and impose famine on Palestinians in
Gaza. Israel and the US simultaneously drive other
Palestinians out of their homes in Jerusalem and the
West Bank, bomb Lebanon, and relentlessly agitate
for an attack on Iran which would immediately result
in a worldwide economic disaster, the deaths of
Americans and Iranians and likely lead quickly to a
world-ending global war.
Though able to bring the US proxy war
against Russia in Ukraine to an end at any time by
simply ending military, economic and intelligence
resources to the Zelenskyy regime, the Trump
administration keeps the conflict alive at the
expense of a few dead Russians and a lot of dead
Ukrainians day after day.
Domestically, the continued failure to
release the list of Epstein "clients" (read: rapists
and blackmail puppets), the impending "REAL ID"
surveillance-state break-out (under the ridiculous
pretext that such a measure will enhance security),
the concerted assault on the First Amendment (and
others) in order to shield Israel from
criticism, the massive national sales tax
illegally imposed by presidential decree in the
form of tariffs, and much else reinforce everyone's
chilling, if often only subconscious, recognition
that our Constitutional republic is also far behind
us, and fading fast into invisibility.
RATHER A DIRE PICTURE, no? But still,
let's not despair.
There is a remedy, which is being
exercised by good Americans across the country. That
remedy makes use of a state-restraining disciplinary
provision--
detailed explanation of which is laid out here for
anyone's eyes entirely free of charge-- which
was built into the Constitutional structure by the
Founding Fathers in anticipation of exactly these
sorts of straits.
The remedy can be applied, at will, by
anyone-- no permission required. It puts the
overgrown, unchained Leviathan state on a strict
diet which will shrink it back down to its proper
Constitutionally-imposed limits.
Does this sound too good to be true?
Well, it IS true. In fact, it's been my
great pleasure for the last 22 years to introduce
Americans to their upstanding neighbors who are
deploying exactly that remedy, and restoring and
preserving the republic for the benefit of us all.
Let's meet and celebrate a few more of
those good men and women today.
Sherrivonne Brown
SHERRIVONNE shares her debut CtC-educated
victory in imposing Constitutional restraint on
Leviathan today-- an outright admission by Uncle Sam
that none of her earnings qualify for the income
tax, and the return of the majority of what had been
withheld from her in 2022 against the possibility of
a tax liability, with interest (and
the expectation of the remainder to soon follow):
Sherrivonne's victory,
secured by way of this claim, came only after a
bit of a tussle. To begin with, her filing last June
was met with
an
IRS LTR12C suggesting that Sherrivonne's
documentation was incomplete or insufficient.
Sherrivonne very capably derailed that train by way
of
this reply.
An unexplained delay followed,
prompting Sherrivonne to check in on the IRS website
to see what was going on. She was met with a "Return
Verification" request meant to ensure that the
filing the agency had received had indeed been from
Sherrivonne,
which she verified as correct.
Then came the partial refund check
shown above, and a CP12 notice admitting that
Sherrivonne had done nothing taxable during 2022,
but pretending that the government can nonetheless
keep the amounts withheld from her earning that year
as FICA taxes:
Sherrivonne has very competently (and
somewhat tartly) responded to this lame pretense
as shown here, with every proper expectation of
a quick satisfaction of the remainder of her claim.
WELL DONE, SHERRIVONNE!!
***
Don & Michelle
DON & MICHELLE have successfully
reclaimed everything withheld from them and given
for fuel to the United States Leviathan in 2021,
plus interest:
This victory was accomplished quickly
and without complication by way of
this
amended return.
WELL DONE, DON & MICHELLE!!
***
Julius Tavernaro
JULIUS has reached all the way back to
2017 to secure a complete victory in reclaiming
everything paid in against an assumed liability
while his tax-related affairs were in the hands of
an unscrupulous or simply ignorant CPA:
HATS OFF TO Sherrivonne, Don &
Michelle, Julious and Jacques & Peggy! Their great
victories join those of the tens of thousands of
other awakened and activated Americans represented
here, and constitute more critical steps toward
the restoration of
the Founders republic and the true rule of law.
Their great activism and outreach drive everything
forward.
Remember, it's all about upholding the
law, and that is YOUR responsibility. Awakening
others to this high and honorable duty is the best
way to make it happen.
BTW, one thing all of you can do to
help is join X and follow me (click
here to do so), find my posts (which you can do
by choosing the "search" function and looking for
"Pete Hendrickson (@losthorizons1)") and REPOST and
COMMENT on them.
"Like" them too, sure, but REPOSTING
and COMMENTING is what makes them more visible to
others, and hence, more effective. Doing this might
succeed in overcoming the shadowbanning to which I
have been subject the whole time since first posting
on Twitter back in 2011.
"In a time of
universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
-George Orwell
Now, 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
given above or below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
...embodying some key Constitutional
provisions and the time-tested and well-proven
wisdom of America's Founding Father.
(I first posted this argument
just
about exactly one year ago. Its virtue has only
grown more apparent-- and its necessity more acute--
during the passage of that interval. PLEASE read it.
PLEASE share it.)
WHEREAS, THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION PROVIDES, at Article 1, sec. 2, cl.
2 and sec. 3, cl. 3, and Article 2, sec. 1, cl.
5 that only American citizens shall hold elected
offices in the United States government; and,
Pursuant to the clear language and
obvious intent of fundamental US law as cited
above, no person who can be shown to harbor an
interest in the well-being of any other country
or people, either benevolent or hostile, and
either personally or as a proxy for others,
whether in response to blackmail or bribery or
for any reason whatsoever, shall be permitted to
hold elected or appointed office in the United
States.
Upon a sworn allegation of any
officeholder's compromised interests, as outlined
above, supported by any additional credible
evidence, the United States House of
Representatives shall assemble the evidence for
presentation in trial and forward articles of
impeachment against such person to the United
States Senate, which shall promptly convene a
trial for the hearing of the evidence and the
rendering of a decision. No showing of action
against America's interests shall be required
for either charging or conviction.
(I characterize this as a new law here,
but perhaps it would be necessary to enact it as a
Constitutional amendment, since the current crop of
deeply-compromised office-holders are unlikely to
enact it as mere legislation. In this case the text
would consist only of what follows the first comma
in paragraph 3:
No person who can be shown to
harbor an interest in the well-being of any
other country or people, either benevolent or
hostile, and either personally or as a proxy for
others, whether in response to blackmail or
bribery or for any reason whatsoever, shall be
permitted to hold elected or appointed office in
the United States.
Upon a sworn allegation of any
officeholder's compromised interests, as outlined
above, supported by any additional credible
evidence, the United States House of
Representatives shall assemble the evidence for
presentation in trial and forward articles of
impeachment against such person to the United
States Senate, which shall promptly convene a
trial for the hearing of the evidence and the
rendering of a decision. No showing of action
against America's interests shall be required
for either charging or conviction.)
***
I'M SORRY TO SAY IT, but even many of
the supposedly conservative and law-respecting
"right" in America have become censorship
enthusiasts in service to an Israeli agenda (and in
likewise corrupt and hypocritical service to
Ukrainian interests-- whether directly or as an
expression of festering hostility to Russia). It's
time the adults in the room step up and forcibly
kick all the compromised foreign-policy nutcases to
the curb, and really and meaningfully put us back on
the path to America first.
The hands of those in thrall to
affections or hostilities to other countries or
peoples have no business on any levers of power
here. Now and then American interests might align
with favoring one place or group, or disfavoring
another place or group, but those calls should never
be made by people predisposed in such matters--
enslaved in such matters, in fact, as George
Washington put it in his deeply wise and prescient
Farewell Address.
As it happens, when Israel was engaged
in one of its prior suppression exercises in Gaza
back in April of 2018, I was moved to bring
Washington's thoughtful words to the attention of
the CtC community (in hopes that members would help
spread them further). What I said then is, if
anything, even more important today than it was back
then, and so, here it is again (updated with some
additions concerning Ukraine, which was not, back
then, the festering boil of exactly what Washington
warns us against, as it surely is now...):
A Word To America's Policy
Makers From The Father Of Our Country
There's never been a better time for
revisiting this wisdom.
ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1796, George
Washington's
farewell address was published as an open letter
to the American public. Among much other wisdom, the
man so universally respected by the Founders as to
have been unanimously elected president of the
convention that drafted our current United States
Constitution made the following observations
regarding prudent, productive, and
liberty-protective foreign policy:
"...[N]othing is more essential,
than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against
particular Nations, and passionate attachments for
others, should be excluded; and that, in place of
them, just and amicable feelings towards all should
be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards
another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness,
is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its
animosity or to its affection, either of which is
sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its
interest. Antipathy in one nation against another
disposes each more readily to offer insult and
injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and
to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or
trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent
collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody
contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and
resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government,
contrary to the best calculations of policy. The
Government sometimes participates in the national
propensity, and adopts through passion what reason
would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity
of the nation subservient to projects of hostility
instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister
and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes
perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
"So likewise, a passionate
attachment of one Nation for another produces a
variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation,
facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common
interest, in cases where no real common interest
exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the
other, betrays the former into a participation in
the quarrels and wars of the latter, without
adequate inducement or justification. It leads also
to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges
denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the
Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily
parting with what ought to have been retained; and
by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to
retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges
are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted,
or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the
favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice
the interests of their own country, without odium,
sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the
appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a
commendable deference for public opinion, or a
laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish
compliances of ambition, corruption, or
infatuation."
WHAT DOES THIS SAY TO US (and
especially to current denizens of Washington, DC)?
Here's what:
Sh*t-can
the bad attitude toward Russia and Iran, dammit, and
fire anyone who harbors it!
Russia is a country whose people
heroically threw off a deeply-embedded vicious
totalitarian state not long ago (maybe this is why
some folks hate it so much?). It is properly secular
and tolerant of all faiths (while being more
Christian than the USA has been for decades), has
far lower taxes than those imposed by the United
States and a much more lasseiz-faire regulatory
demeanor, and has been doing everything possible to
be a good neighbor to the rest of the world for
many, many years. The United States should be doing
everything possible to be its friend.
Iran, though a theocracy, is
religiously and ethnically open (for example,
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in Iran
right now; Sunni Muslims live there alongside the
Shi'ite majority; and Jews are a protected religious
minority with expressly-reserved seats in
Parliament). It has a long history of
non-aggression, and has been relentlessly and
viciously victimized by the United States over the
last 65 years. We owe it our good behavior.
Sh*t-can
the creepy mooning over Britain, Israel, Saudi
Arabia and Ukraine, dammit, and fire anyone
afflicted by it!
Britain for many years now has been a
political and cultural embarrassment to Western
civilization, and even before that had a long
history of deception as a routine tool of
"statecraft", lawless "might makes right" military
aggressions, and basic unscrupulousness in regard to
the rest of the world.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are apartheid-esque
theocracies which have succeeded in establishing
"Master-Blaster" relationships with the United
States (with them in the "master" seat) by buying
influence in Washington (often
with money taken from Americans). Israel is
aggressively, disruptively and unscrupulously
expansionist; Saudi Arabia is the source of
Wahabbist Islamic radicalism.
Both are responsible for endless
Middle-East conflicts and abuses of poorly-defended
victims; both have been eating meals taken from the
tables of American citizens for decades; and both
should be kept at arm's length rather than hugged so
closely that we get their fleas.
Ukraine is a relatively new barnacle on
the American ship of state, but
is no
more deserving of affectionate attachment than
the rest while bringing into the picture a greater
physical risk to our country and people than any of
the others.
LET'S REMEMBER Washington's wisdom: NO
OTHER COUNTRY'S INTERESTS ARE WORTH ONE DROP OF
AMERICAN BLOOD, OR ONE DOLLAR OF AMERICAN TREASURE.
Their enemies are NOT our enemies, and
their friends are NOT our friends, and this can't be
evaded by any pretenses about "strategic"
considerations.
America First, and that means not
swaggering around the world creating pretexts for
pissing away American treasure through hostile
posturing-- or outright aggression-- against people
who haven't invaded our shores.
Listen to Father George.
AND HERE'S MY WORD TO EVERYONE ELSE:
Stop leaving critical calls like these up to
political hacks. How has that ever worked for you in
the past?
Use the tools the Founders provided for
us all, as discussed
here.
Take seriously Saruman's question:
***
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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.
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."
AS SOMEONE ELSE POSTED in the comments
on this video on YouTube, Jeffrey Sachs is a
national treasure. An actual grown-up and realist,
Sachs is able to articulate in measured tones
fundamental and hugely important facts about foreign
policy and world affairs that put the lie to
dangerous ideological agenda otherwise left free to
influence US policy down dark and perilous paths.
This video, like pretty nearly all
instances of Sachs holding forth on such subject
matter, should be shared as widely as possible (and
I thank my good friend Prof. Harry Veryser-- no
slouch himself on the wise, open-eyed and articulate
front-- for bringing it to my attention).
Nothing need be added to Prof. Sachs'
recital. But I will emphasize his point about the
United States (that is, the federal entity, not
America itself) being the chief impediment to the
needed enforcement of long-standing UN resolutions
about the division of Palestine into two sovereign
states:
The reason for this emphasis is to
remind everyone that what is done by the United
States, for good or for ill, is disciplined by the
resources available to that entity. This puts the
matter of the US as the singular impediment to real
peace and justice in the Middle East into the hands
of you and me, as American citizens.
Here I am not speaking of merely voting
to try to put into office sound and able persons who
it is hoped will act properly-- a largely forlorn
hope, as experience (and
the reality discussed here) has shown. As has
been pithily but accurately observed, that somehow,
no matter who you vote for to be president, you
always end up with John McCain.
Rather, I am speaking of-- you guessed
it-- the fact that our brilliant Founders were
visionary and diligent, and we here in America are
blessed with tools by which we can still take a
viable shot at setting things right.
THAT FOUNDING GENERATION built into the
Constitutional structure they created the means for
the peaceful disciplining of an errant and overgrown
state such as the one with which Americans now
contend, even in the face of official resistance.
One of the major peaceful means of discipline rests on the
overall structure by which the state is able to
acquire the fuel (revenue) for all its endeavors,
good and bad.
Built-in limitations on direct taxes,
having made them inherently incapable of dangerous
exploitation, (and tariffs, whether properly imposed
or not, being susceptible to a possibly very
uncomfortable but nonetheless simple belt-tightening
refusal to consume imported goods) all the people need to do in
exercising the necessary state-restraining
discipline is
learn how and why to say "NO!" to improper
applications of the income excise, in a legally-meaningful manner and context.
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 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 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.
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.
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. That said, these days are
also a good time to be keeping your powder dry.
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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
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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
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-Michael Carver, JD
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-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
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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
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.
April 29- In 1770, James Cook arrives
at what he names 'Botany Bay' in Australia. In 1968, 'Hair' opens on Broadway.
In 1974, Richard Nixon releases an edited version of the Watergate-related tape
recordings made in the Oval Office. In 1975, the United States begins
evacuating Americans from Saigon in the expectation of its imminent fall to
North Vietnamese forces. In 1986, Roger Clemens throws 20 strikeouts in nine
innings. In 1992, riots break out in Los Angeles after the acquittal of police
officers on trial for use of excessive force in the arrest of Rodney King. In
2004, Oldsmobile builds its final car; and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
"testify" before the "9/11 Commission", refusing to be under oath, recorded, or
witnessed by anyone but the two commission members allowed to be present, and
insisting on "testifying" in each other's presence.
*****
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.
*****
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April 30- In 1492, Christopher Columbus receives his royal
commission. In 1789, George Washington takes the oath of office as the first
President of the United States. Unlike modern holders of the office (and a few
bad moves during his tenure notwithstanding), he means it. In 1803, the United
States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. In 1812,
the Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th of the several states, styling itself
'Louisiana'. In 1900, Hawaii is declared a territory of the United States, with
Sanford B. Dole as governor. In 1900, Casey Jones wrecks the Cannonball
Express. In 1927, the first United States federal prison for women opens. In
1938, Porky Pig goes on his first rabbit hunt. In 1945, Adolph Hitler and Eva
Braun commit suicide. In 1993, the World Wide Web goes public. In 2004, photos
of grotesque detainee abuse by officials at the United States Abu Ghraib prison
facility in Iraq make it to the media. In 2009, Chrysler files for bankruptcy.
*****
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
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Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
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*****
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WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU
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You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
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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
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penetrate the illusions.
Visit
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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...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
May 1- In 1328, England recognizes Scotland as an independent
state after 32 years of attempted conquest. In 1931, the Empire State Building
in New York City is dedicated. In 1950, Guam is organized as a "State
of the United States". In 1960, the U2 spyplane piloted by Francis Gary
Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union. In 1971, the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is formed. In 2003, George W. Bush declares:
"Mission accomplished!" in Iraq. In 2006, the government of Puerto Rico closes
its Department of Education and 42 other government agencies in responsible
recognition of its fiscal situation. In 2011, Barack Obama announces the
assassination of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan by a crack team of Navy
Seals. The truth of this assertion is unknown. According to the official
story, although arguably the most potentially-useful subject of interrogation in
US history (at least in the context of the alleged "terrorist war" paradigm
within which all of this happened), and although described as unarmed and
easily-taken, bin Laden was instead summarily shot in the head. No body was
ever seen; instead it is claimed that the body was taken away by the SEAL team
and then simply dumped at sea. Considerable evidence exists indicating that bin
Laden had actually died years earlier, in December of 2001; further, the series
of videos purportedly of bin Laden making various pronouncements useful to the
US propaganda campaign supporting its foreign and domestic policies in the
intervening years were obvious fakes.
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!!
May 2- In 1670, Charles II of England grants a
perpetual charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to ply the fur-trade from
North America. In 1863, General Stonewall Jackson is accidentally
wounded by his own troops, and dies of complications eight days later.
In 1885, Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale. In 1918, General
Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company. In 1932, Jack Benny's
radio show hits the airwaves. In 1945, Berlin falls to the Soviet
Army. In 1998, the European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
*****
"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
May 3- In 1802, Washington, D.C. is incorporated. In 1901,
a fire destroys much of Jacksonville, Florida. Unhindered by FEMA, the city
is quickly rebuilt. In 1916, captured leaders of Irish Easter Risings are
executed by the British. In 1921, West Virginia imposes the first union
state sales tax. In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far
East begins trials of Japanese officials for offenses such as authorizing
the waterboarding and other inhumane acts to which captured enemy combatants
were subjected. Ultimately seven are executed and 16 are given life
sentences.
*****
*****
'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:
May 4- In 1886, a day after police had
fired into a crowd of striking McCormick Harvesting Machine Company workers--
killing at least two, a bomb is thrown at police trying to break up a subsequent
labor rally in Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois. 8 are killed and 60 are
wounded; the police open fire on the crowd again, resulting in an unknown number
of casualties. In 1932, Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year sentence for
tax evasion. In 1970, National Guardsmen shoot into a crowd of unarmed students
protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four and wounding
nine.
*****
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.
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