Current Events and Continuing Education for
June 30, 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
MAY 19, 2025: Friends, I will be AFK for
awhile, I'm afraid. This afternoon I am having substantial
surgery on my shoulder to repair multiple areas of rotator
cuff damage. Due to the nature of the recovery process, I
won't be able to work a keyboard for at least a month, and
therefore will be off-line for the duration.
See you all on the other side!
(And as of June 30, please see the update
following today's Declaration Day observance, below.)
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whole page...)
June 30- In 1805, Michigan is organized
as a United States Territory. In 1859, Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on
a tightrope. In 1882, Charles Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the
assassination of President James Garfield. In 1934, Hitler purges Germany of
his political rivals on the 'Night of the Long Knives'. In 1953, the first
Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. In 1997, Britain turns
Hong Kong over to The People's Republic of China.
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!!
Click
here to enjoy the most recent (July
5, 2025) episode.
Another Declaration Day Is
Upon Us!
The most important day in the
American calendar, and the most challenging and
consequential day for every American.
AS LONG-TIME READERS OF
THESE PAGES are aware, it is my tradition at this
time of the year (and often at the beginning of a
new year) to post observations and admonitions
related to Declaration Day. I do so in
the hope that these words will not be mistaken for
entertainment. That is not why they are offered.
Similarly, these
observations and admonitions that follow are not
offered in order to inspire noble thoughts and day
dreams with which to occupy one's mind while
grilling Fourth of July burgers and dogs, or while
watching firework displays.
These observations and
admonitions are, rather, meant to inspire serious
recognition of unsettling truths about our current
American situation and trajectory and resolute
corrective action.
They are, rather, meant to
remind us that those firework displays are
reenactments of deadly-serious battles that had to
be fought, and real sacrifices that had to be made,
in order to bless this land and those fortunate
enough to live in it with liberty and the rule of
law, and that those blessings do not sustain
themselves. Instead, those blessings must be
defended and nourished and celebrated every day--
still by battles and sacrifices-- in order to
preserve them in the face of constant, sophisticated
attack by their enemies.
SO, ON THIS FOURTH
OF JULY, whether seeing them for the first time or
the twentieth, please read the words that follow
with all the foregoing in mind. Recognize that right
now, more than at any time in our American history,
the precious and fragile gifts of liberty and the
rule of law bequeathed to us at enormous expense by
our noble ancestors are on the very edge of
extinction, and it is right now that they must be
upheld, and defended, by YOU.
Recognize, too, that mere
political action-- always the easy pretended
solution-- will not suffice. As Josef Stalin
reportedly remarked-- while fastening in place his
iron tyranny of a Russian people misled into
complacency and cooperation by faith in their
ideological exceptionalism and the virtues of their
institutions, "I don't care who votes, as long as I
get to count the votes."*
Today's American version of
incipient fascism has that same sly smirk about
voting now in the mix. It also has a streak of, "I don't care who gets to write
the laws, as long as I get to decide what they mean
and how to enforce them," coupled with an
unprecedented and perilous control of public
perception and dialogue by those same enemies of our
American heritage.
If we want real freedom--
the kind embodying the principles laid out in the
Declaration of Independence-- to survive for
ourselves and our children, we all need to starve
the rampaging beast that despises those principles
and which is sustained by our individual timidity in
the face of its self-serving and lawless demands.
Now, let's get to those
(hopefully) stirring and inspiring words:
Here We Are, People, At
DECLARATION 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
"Declaration 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, 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
Declaration 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 two enlightening
little 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 because you now
know the truth, the power is in your hands.
The responsibility is, too.
Rise to deserve the blessings secured
by America's Founders for their posterity.
"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
"Power concedes nothing without a
demand. It never did and it never will. Find out
just what any people will quietly submit to and you
have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong
which will be imposed on them, and these will
continue till they have been resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants
are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
suppress."
-Frederick Douglass
"Be
the change you want to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi
Remember:
*Before the last of the generation of
Russians alive when Stalin purportedly made that
remark had left the stage, the Russian people threw
off the tyranny cemented in place for sixty years by
the Georgian monster and his successors by simply
saying beginning to say "No!" to the state, one by
one, sometimes loudly and sometimes quietly.
I've long wondered if this inconvenient
example of the power of "No!" underlies the
relentless and increasingly strident demonization of
Russia in certain quarters ever since its liberating
transformation in the last years of the 20th
Century...
***
P.S. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE for all
the kind words and well-wishes in regard to my
shoulder surgery. They have been much appreciated.
After four weeks in a sling, I am now
two weeks into physical therapy. There are small
gains every day, but with a long way yet to go. When
I went into this I didn't really take seriously the
recovery time estimates of six months to a year
(which are due to both the inherent slowness of
connective tissue healing and the degree of
upper-arm-area trauma that results from the surgical
procedures involved). I do now.
I expect to be on the short end of that
spectrum. But I don't think I will escape it
entirely.
Hence, though I am now able to use my
left hand a good deal more than I could six weeks
ago (and despite the occasion of Declaration Day
having compelled me to make an exception), my AFK
period goes on. Some limitations persist, and
prudence urges me to be conservative, as difficult
as that may be.
I thank you all again, in advance, for your
continued understanding.
***
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.
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."
(This is the opening monologue from the
June 29 episode of The Mother Of All Talk Shows.
Those interested can watch the whole show
here.)
...now please proceed to the
afterword below...
Afterword
YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE George Galloway's
passion. You've also got to appreciate the insights
in his analysis and presentation, especially as to
the seismic shift in world opinion over the last 20
months regarding the State of Israel.
The mask of sophisticated narrative
management that had shielded the barbaric apartheid
state from (at least overt) mainstream criticism and
condemnation over the prior 75 years has slipped. It
could not survive the combination of a sustained,
frenzied massacre in Gaza, indefensible and
obviously desperate assaults on speech rights
throughout the Western world meant to prop up that
narrative management, and an omnipresent,
independent social-media journalism powered by good
people with no vested interests in the lies.
Israel's barbarism (and United States
complicity therein) is being laid bare before the
world, and the world is recoiling.
IN LIGHT OF THAT SEISMIC SHIFT in world
opinion, the
CtC-educated community-- that is, all of you
reading these words-- is given a big opportunity to
strengthen itself, to the enormous benefit of each
individual member and of America as a whole.
Current polling (and evidence such as
is seen in George Galloway's podcast) shows that
clear majorities-- especially of younger Americans--
are angrily sick of supporting Israel with wealth
taken from them as taxes. These folks are primed and
ready to learn the liberating truth about the income
tax that will offer them freedom from this odious
seemingly-compelled participation in war-mongering
in general and genocide in particular.
That is, the iron is hot right now for
word-spreading
CtC activism to really produce results.
SUCH WORD-SPREADING ACTIVISM is simple. Those who have already received
CtC's
liberating and empowering revelations must help the rest of the
American population quickly understand
the
truth about the tax and discover that even though Washington
may remain in
the hands of
immoral establishment hacks and self-servers, its ability to just carry on with chronic irresponsibility
and immorality can be severely curtailed.
Bell-ringing efforts like this are easier than ever now, with the US Supreme Court
having just reaffirmed its 108-year-old ruling
in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR. Co. and
freshly acknowledged the accuracy of
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.
P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS
ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham
Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to
keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in
his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip
service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel
available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands
of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to
be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my
rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite
means..."
Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
"[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
"Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people." "As an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability
in navigating the law. THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice."
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
*****
Are You Ready For More Power?
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (sixteenth)
edition of
CtC!
If
CtC were actually
right, it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying and suppressing the truth for years
on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no
e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC.
Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for
free-- any such thing.
July 1- In 1863, the Battle of
Gettysburg begins. In 1870, the United States Department of Justice (sic)
begins official operations. In 1921, the Communist Party of China is founded.
In 1931, United Airlines begins to do business (as Boeing Air Transport). In
1963, United States Postal Service ZIP codes are introduced. In 1968, the CIA's
'Phoenix Program' of terrorism and assassination begins its first campaign, in
South Vietnam. In 1979, Sony introduces the 'Walkman' portable, personal CD
player.
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
Hey! If you're not getting the newsletter delivered
to your email inbox every Monday, go to
this link
and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.
July 2- In 1776, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution
of independence from Great Britain. In 1937, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
make their last radio transmission from somewhere over the Pacific. In 1962,
the first Wal-Mart opens. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of
1964. In 1976, North and South Vietnam merge to form the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam. In 2002, Steve Fossett flies solo and nonstop around the world in a
balloon.
*****
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important
(plus it can get you some great LHC swag!). See
(and carefully read)
these guidelines and encouragements.
Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
Hey, Gamers!
WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU
ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and
listen!
You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
sophisticated spells which also keep you from
engaging in the fight.
There are real great deeds to be done,
and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and
frankly, your real future
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
penetrate the illusions.
Visit
losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto
the real field of battle!
*****
PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
July 3- In 1775, George Washington takes command of the
Continental Army. In 1778, British Loyalists massacre 360 American patriots in
Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. In 1884, the Dow Jones publishes its first stock
average. In 1890, Idaho is admitted to the union as the 43rd of the several
states. In 1952, the United States Congress approves what passes for Puerto
Rico's Constitution. In 1988, the USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air flight 655
over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 aboard. In 2013, the first
legitimately-elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi-- the democratic choice
of Egyptians after their ouster of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak-- is
overthrown in a coup by Mubarak's still-entrenched military and judicial
apparatus. The US promptly announced its approval, bizarrely describing the
event as a "restoration of democracy".
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!!
July 4- In 1776, the Declaration of Independence is
formally adopted by the Second Continental Congress. In 1826, Thomas
Jefferson and John Adams both pass from among us. In 1845, Henry David
Thoreau begins his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond. In 1862, Lewis
Carroll spins a yarn for Alice Liddell. In 1934, the engineering for an
atomic bomb is patented by Leo Szilard. In 1946, 48 years after the
United States claimed ownership of the Philippines and crushed
resistance to its occupation at the cost of a million dead Filipinos,
the country is granted independence.
*****
"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
July 5- In 1687, Isaac Newton publishes his 'Philosophiæ
Naturalis Principia Mathematica', laying out the foundation of his
revolution in human understanding of the natural world. In 1865, the
Salvation Army is founded in East London. In 1937, the highest temperature
ever recorded in Canada-- 113 O F-- is reached. In 1946, the bikini is
introduced in France. In 1954, Rock 'n' Roll is born, with Elvis Presley's
first commercial recording session. In 1996, Dolly the sheep is produced by
cloning. In 1999, President Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions
against the Taliban government of Afghanistan.
*****
*****
'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:
July 6- In 1415, early Protestant
reformer John Huss is burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church. In
1535, Sir Thomas More is executed by English King Henry VIII for refusing to
countenance Henry's decision to formally transform the Church of England into a
Protestant church. In 1785, the dollar of silver-- 27 grams-- is chosen as the
official American currency. In 1854, the first Republican Party convention is
held. In 1887, the King of Hawaii is forced at gunpoint to sign a new
Constitution written by Americans living in the islands which transferred power
to the foreigners and set the stage for Hawaii's annexation by the United
States.
*****
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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are collected in his second book, �Upholding
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has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of
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consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens
for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and
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president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design,
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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
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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
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