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.
*****
"The preservation of a free government requires, not
merely that the metes and bounds which separate
each department of power be invariably maintained, but
more especially that neither of them be suffered to
overleap the great barrier which defends the rights
of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such
encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive
their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who
submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves
nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."
-James Madison
***
No one can guarantee
success in all they do in life. But anyone can
guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they
do.
***
Columbia, Cupcake!! April 6th!
Be there for the next CtC Seminar in the
Palmetto State!!
The Permanent State has learned how to
milk hysteria about threats from within as well as
from without.
MOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST A PASSING
FAMILIARITY with Hobgoblin Mongering. This is the
political-hack-practice of beating the drums about
alleged threats against The People from some
demonized Other in order to generate support for the
growth or perpetuation of state power or
prerogatives which are of benefit to the political
hack class.
In simple terms, this is how Hobgoblin-Mongery
plays out: A foreign people or place which has been
groomed by relentless besmirchment with insults and
lies by state officials and their organs in the
press and popular culture industry is then held up
as an imminent threat to our physical safety, or to
the American Way of Life, or at least to our
delicate sensibilities. Think: Russia; Iran;
"radical Islam"; or, most lately, Venezuela (of all
things)...
The pretended threat is then fanned
into a call for war of some kind or another
(metaphorical or real-deal). This, of course, is
accompanied by a call for a corresponding growth in state wealth and
power in order to properly prosecute the
war.
Here is how a few wise folks describe
this hoary but perpetually-successful scam:
“The whole aim of practical politics is
to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to
be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
-H.L. Mencken
“Taxes are not raised to carry on wars,
wars are raised to carry on taxes.”
-Thomas Paine
“The fetters imposed on liberty at home
have ever been forged out of the weapons provided
for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary
dangers from abroad.”
-James Madison
"War is the health of the State."
-Randolph Bourne
AS I SAID, MOST EVERYONE has at least a
passing familiarity with the idea of "foreign
threat" Hobgoblin- Mongery. Much less well
recognized, however, is the fact that Hobgoblin-Mongery
is practiced just as vigorously and effectively on a
domestic political level as well, here in America--
even though in a more disjointed fashion.
Domestic politics in this country has
for years been the playground of a two-winged
predator variously described as the "Deep" or
"Permanent" State (the latter being the better
descriptor, because "Deep" implies concealment when
really, none is being practiced). This vulture
consists of entrenched and embedded beneficiaries of
state power and wealth.
These beneficiaries range from crony
capitalists using state power to maintain
competitive advantages in business, through dynastic
(and in some cases, life-tenured) political and
media players enjoying perks and privileges and
prestige, and through opportunistic sharks who have
learned how to grab nourishing bites from the
well-filled state trough now and then. The broad
base of the Permanent State pyramid consists of the
several million worker bees in government employment
slots who enjoy greater comfort and value than these
same folks could achieve in a competitive free
market (at least, for the level of effort they are
prepared to expend).
The broad categories just described
comprise the body of the Permanent State. The
"wings" of this bird consist of what has long since
been sorted into two purportedly adversarial
factions, one characterized by what is
colloquially-known as "leftist" inclinations, and
the other by colloquially-labeled "rightist"
inclinations.
Each of the two wings of the Permanent
State are used by the bird with ever-increasing
sophistication to threaten the American people as a
whole and within each of its insular political and
cultural divisions with an "Other" enemy on the
domestic front. These domestic threats serve as a
force-multiplier in the Leviathan-State-swelling
assault on the rule of law which is simultaneously
being made under the mantle of the "foreign Other"
hobgoblin threat.
FOR INSTANCE, right now there is
a ferocious demonization being fanned into flames by
the "left" wing against Western Civilization and the
folks who wrote and bequeathed to us the rule of law
embodied in the United States Constitution and the
Constitutions of the several states. "Dead white
males" (and live ones, too), along with the culture
and history with which they are associated have been
turned by Permanent State organs into dire
hobgoblins threatening the well-being of everyone
else.
The clamor arises for a strengthened
State and weakened individual liberties (of speech,
religious practice, economic behavior, and so on) in
order to protect the supposed victims of these
hobgoblins. Even within the ranks of what are
otherwise the alleged victims of white privilege,
divisive hobgoblin mongering is perpetrated, with
blacks and Hispanics being fanned in animus against
Asian-American competitors for slots in
universities.
AT THE SAME TIME, the "right" wing fans
its own hobgoblin threats. These include threats of
cultural subversion and religious war within our
shores at the hands of Muslims-- immigrant or
home-grown; predatory recreational-drug-addled
zombies; and various assaults on individual rights
liberties (i.e., 2nd Amendment rights and others,
which are ironically under attack in large part
under the mantle of the war on drugs which only
exists due to the support of the same
"conservatives" who decry its effects).
These "right"-oriented hobgoblins
generate a clamor of their own from much of the
remainder of the American people for the flinging
from the life-raft of meaningful privacy rights and
much of the substance of real due-process of law.
The end result of both wings beating is
a steady pressure from all sides of the American
political landscape for the erosion of the rule of
law generally. That, of course, which means the
strengthening of the arbitrary power and wealth of
the Permanent State and all its apparatchiks,
clients and cronies at the expense of all the rest
of us (who can be fairly characterized as members of
the productive class).
Now THAT'S a pretty grim picture, and
no mere hobgoblin. The very real evil effect of this
Permanent-State Hobgoblin-Mongery can be seen
illustrated here:
This explosion in the State's size (and
hence, it's power and significance relative to those
of The People) imposes an inevitable distortion of
citizen focus and resource-targeting away from
productive, general-prosperity-generating choices
and into subordination to the whims of those now
exercising all that power.
Rather than producing efficiently (and
enjoying, along with the rest of society, the
benefits of that wealth-generation) Americans are
increasingly forced into decision-making in their
businesses (and their lives in general) per the
diktats of petty functionaries with clipboards.
Inevitably, the interests of those petty
functionaries, and of those to whom they answer, are
their own, at bottom.
Individual liberty and the astonishing
wealth-generating capacity of an actual free market
are both left on the cutting-room floor of this
Hobgoblin-theater production. No problem for the
State-- while the sacrifice diminishes the wealth of
all the rest of us, the State's minority contingent
of the population still captures from the rest of us
a greater net benefit than it gets as common
participants in an un-afflicted economy (until the
sustained predation and distortion ends up killing
the golden goose and we all fall into darkness).
OF COURSE, THERE IS A REMEDY... But
there is only one, and the Permanent State is
struggling hard with focused disinformation and
other forms of official corruption to keep the
American people from learning about it.
This remedy is one put into place by
the far-seeing Founders at the time of America's
infancy. You can learn about it
here,
or if you already know of this remedy, you can
spread this critically-important knowledge by
sharing
this article.
Understand, the Founders' preferred
remedy, as shown in the link above, is peaceful and
proven-- a tried-and-true solution completely
respectful and harmonious of all our foundational
political and legal traditions and principles. It is
the only solution to today's looming Leviathan
problem of which those things can all be said.
(And because it is the only solution
about which all those good things can be said the
Founders' solution discussed at the link above is
the only one able to really engage the interest of
enough Americans to actually effect the shrinkage of
the State into its proper size. This is why the
State has been engaging in unprecedented efforts to
suppress public knowledge of this solution, as
discussed
here.)
We owe it to ourselves and our children
to use it and to vigorously encourage every other American to do
the same.
More American heroes stand up and
brighten the landscape.
Preston Taylor
Keith Lee
Dean Malone
Ian Connors
WOW! How can you not love and respect
every one of these heroes!! These good folks,
stepping foursquare into the sunlight, speaking
their truth loud and proud in the public square,
truly know how to,
...friendly, informative, and, we can
hope, eye-opening; and with a follow-up brain
teaser!
LAST WEEK
CtC WARRIOR ROD SCHMIDT
shared with me a letter he had written to
prominently-outside-the-box thinker Elon Musk,
of Tesla and SpaceX fame. Liking Rod's outreach
effort very much, I am pleased to post it here, for
the appreciation and inspiration of others.
Elon Musk
Corporate Secretary, Tesla,
Inc.
3500 Deer Creek Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Summary: The income tax is
a bubble and it is in the process of crashing, as
more and more people learn about the Big Lie we were
told in 1942. The Lie is that the income tax is a
direct tax and that all profits are “income.” The
truth is that the income tax is an excise and that
“income” means only profits acquired as a result of
exercising a government-granted privilege. The man
who is best measuring this crash is Pete
Hendrickson,
phendrickson@losthorizons.com
1. According to the
Constitution, all taxes must fit into one of the
mutually exclusive “two great classes,” namely:
direct taxes and indirect taxes. [Pollock v.
Farmers Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 39 L.Ed.
759, 158 U.S. 101, 39 L.E. 1108]
2. According to the U.S.
Supreme Court, an income tax is an excise and not a
direct tax. [Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co.,
240 U.S. 1 (1916) (“…the conclusion reached in the
Pollock Case did not in any degree involve holding
that income taxes generically and necessarily came
within the class of direct taxes on property, but,
on the contrary, recognized the fact that taxation
on income was in its nature an excise…”)]
3. In 1942, amid wartime
pressures and patriotism, somehow the government
convinced all U.S. companies that the money they
were paying workers (as well as their own earnings)
was taxable “income,” starting the familiar rituals
around W-2s and withholding. See:
losthorizons.com/The16th.htm
4. In each instance where
money earned IS the result of the exercise of a
government-granted privilege (e.g. administering
labor law, or profitably extracting ore from
government land), that money qualifies as “income”
under the Internal Revenue Code. [1][2]
5. In each instance where
the money earned is NOT the result of the excise of
a government-granted privilege, that money does not
qualify as “income” and it is actually a crime
(perjury, etc.) to withhold taxes on that money and
to sign any kind of form declaring that money to be
taxable “income.”
6. In 2003, Pete
Hendrickson discovered the Big Lie and the proper
way for people to accurately report earnings and
withholdings, and to recover money incorrectly
withheld or paid-in.
7. Hendrickson himself was
the first American in history to obtain a complete
refund of all taxes withheld, including FICA. See:
losthorizons.com/overpay.htm.
8. Making use of
Hendrickson’s research, an exponentially growing
number of Americans have been obtaining similar
refunds since 2003. See:
losthorizons.com/BulletinBoard.htm.
9. The government has used
a variety of ineffective methods (some of them
tyrannical, some ridiculous) to try to stop this
exponentially growing flood. See
losthorizons.com/A/CrimeOfTheCentury.htm. The
government has NEVER used any of the methods that
are available and that would be lawful to use IF
Hendrickson had been wrong about the excise nature
of the tax, the Big Lie, and his method of filing
1040 and 4852 returns. See for example:
youtube.com/watch?v=105GKdmJ9HU. See also:
losthorizons.com/FRP/IRSFRPFraud.htm
Rod Schmidt
[1] To help obscure this
fact, the Internal Revenue Code does not define
“income.” If you ask a CPA or tax attorney for the
definition of “income” you will often be given 26
U.S.C. § 61 which is instead the definition of a
different term, “gross income” – and, if it HAD been
the definition of “income,” would have been a
circular definition as the definition basically says
“gross income means all income,” and no more defines
"income" than the expression, "Gross floogle means
all floogle from whatever source derived" defines "floogle".
[2] Instead, the definition
of “income” is established by its statutory and
Constitutional usage, with the Supreme Court having
declared the "income" tax to be an excise, and
excise taxes to be "privilege taxes": "[T]axation on
income [is] in its nature an excise, entitled to be
enforced as such..." Brushaber v. Union Pacific
R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916), a unanimous court
re-iterating its conclusion in Pollock v. Farmer's Loan &
Trust,
157 U.S. 429 and 158 U.S. 601 (1895); "As was said
in the Thomas case, 192 U. S. 363, supra, the
requirement to pay [excise] taxes involves the
exercise of privileges..." Flint v. Stone Tracy
Co., 220
U.S. 107 (1911).
GREAT JOB, Rod! I dearly hope that Musk
sees the letter and reads it. The only thing I might
do to improve this in a next go 'round is include
early on, maybe in the "summary" at the beginning, a
caution to the effect of,
"NOTE: the government has
been struggling to suppress the information I am
revealing to you here ever since these revelations
were first published in 2003. This has included a
series of pretended legal attacks directed at the
author of these revelations-- and eventually even
his wife-- in a corrupt effort to shut him up, or at
least create the false impression that his material
has been officially disputed.
When you carefully read the
material below, you will see that this is not so,
and that government claims to the contrary are no
more trustworthy than U.S. National Intelligence
Director James Clapper's March 12, 2013 testimony
under oath to Congress that the NSA doesn't
wittingly spy on any Americans."
Give it a moment's thought. It's
obvious that this is done in order to PRETEND that
there is a flawed argument in the book.
Equally obvious is the fact that this
embarrassing lie would only be committed because
there actually ARE no flawed arguments in the book
by which it can be validly disputed or disparaged!
I'm sure everyone sees the power in the
point...
USE THIS, people!
This and other overt and easily-proven
lies (see
a collection here) are wonderful outreach tools!
Reach out with them!!
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DON DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior
and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring
testimonial on what
CtC has done for him for over nine years now:
*****
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain
is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,
legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
““When principles that run against your
deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle
is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must,
at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions
bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your
faith.
Looking For A Litigator Who
Wants To Do Well While Doing Good
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT presents details
of a long-running (and still-ongoing) violation of the
speech, conscience and due-process rights of two Americans.
The offenses, in a nutshell, involve a federal district
court attempting to dictate to these two folks-- word
for word-- sworn "testimony" they are ordered to make
in a legal contest with the government.
Click the link below to read the brief.
You'll find it thoroughly supported with relevant testimony
by the chief perpetrator and other similarly unambiguous
exhibits.
"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
"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
*****
"A slave is one who waits
for someone to come and free him."
…The US may be
the only country in the world where people working
in the non-federal private sector must commit
perjury in order to owe and pay ‘God’s things
to Caesar’?
If you work in the
private sector, stop falsely swearing that your
private-sector earnings are federal “income”1.
Perjury is a crime. Exercise the law’s
provision for protecting your private-sector
earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect
excise known as the federal income tax.
Rebut fraudulent allegations made by your payers
regarding the legal nature of your work and
the earnings derived therefrom, so that you
pay only your fair share. Join the hundreds
of thousands of honest, law-abiding Americans
who have been doing so for more than a decade.
Learn how for free at losthorizons.com.
1--“We must reject…
…the broad contention submitted in behalf of
the government that all receipts—everything
that comes in—are income…”.
United States Supreme
Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)
2—The income tax in
the United States was first instituted into
law on July 1, 1862, during Lincoln’s presidency
under the excise laws of the United States.
The preamble to the 1939 Internal Revenue Code
traces its roots to this original income tax
law.
Trolls Against The Truth: A
Dis-Information Campaign
UNLESS YOU'VE LOOKED, you can have no idea
of the volume, intensity and mendacity deployed in the
government's efforts to discourage Americans from learning
what is revealed in
CtC. It's truly astonishing.
A lot of folks are aware of the show-trial
events in which my wife and I have received state-engineered
public beatings meant to scare people away from the
truth about the "ignorance tax" scam. But many are unaware
of the overall campaign. This is a shame, really, because
a focused propaganda effort like this one is a very
powerful acknowledgement of the significance of
CtC's revelations.
While the majority of Americans do not
yet know how
CtC protects them from the vampire state, the vampire
itself certainly does. Dis-information campaigns like
this one make that very clear.
FORMER CBS REPORTER SHERYL ATKISSON describes
some aspects of this sort of dis-information campaign
in the following video. Despite the annoying preliminary
15 seconds or so of advertising, her presentation is
very much worth watching:
(H/T to Greg Belcher for finding
and forwarding this great presentation.)
Losthorizons.com is one of those websites specifically-targeted
by the corrupt interests at Wikipedia described by Atkisson.
The behind-the-scenes folks at that site won't allow
links on their pages to anything posted at
losthorizons.com, nor even just text corrections
of misinformation in their pages about the income tax.
That's the least of it. Click
here for some specific discussion of the enormous
scare campaign that's been actively spreading false
information in hope of discouraging legitimate media
attention, as well as men and women simply seeking the
truth about the tax and liberty from the scourge of
the "ignorance tax".
PLEASE GIVE SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT to the
fact that YOU being secure in your own freedom rests
on others learning the truth as well, and recognize
that it falls to you to help overcome the dis-information
campaign. Post and share
your videos;
share your victories; help silence the agents-provocateur
and distraction-injectors whose nonsense is discussed
and debunked
here; and widely (and frankly, impatiently) share
this page,
this page and
this page, challenging everyone in your address
book to disconnect the phone and the TV for an afternoon
and get educated.
Doing these things will be what makes it
happen, Cap'n.
Please Help losthorizons.com
Be As Effective As Possible!
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from
a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo"
blocks access to this website. This is apparently a
glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be
seen by going
here.
Please share this info with others in your
own address book so it gets around-- obviously those
suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't
be able to see it here themselves until they go into
their firewall settings and manually whitelist
losthorizons.com.
I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country
to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored
hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood
and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor
at that kind of work.
When I have asked all of you for what I
firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball
downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice
and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple
testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you
but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking
from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people
answer my call.
I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to
be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive
or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and
toward research, analysis and educational presentations
that will benefit everyone already in this community.
I need time to do some suing, and to bring together
the resources and talent toward that end.
As said, it is my firm belief that your
testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make
big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing
I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying
to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have
led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all
in your own different ways, will do that better than
anything I write possibly could.
And yet, you are not providing them. This,
despite my having been asking you for them for many
years now.
Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I
am making portions of this website restricted access
only. People have been urging me to do this for years
now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my
work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.
I have never been inclined to charge fees
for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to
do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude
that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close
shop.
But I now WILL charge a special something
for access to some key portions of that work-- testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily
"legal resources" pages now require passwords for
access, and to get a password, I need your video.
Similarly, if an email comes my way asking for
guidance or assistance, I had better have your video
posted.
I hate to play it this way, but I want
to win.
I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching
my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age
in their careers had run into a wall common to all but
the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good,
and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard
work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with
a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to
risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging
back from seizing the main chance when it appeared,
and driving for the goal.
My solution was to post on the wall of
our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline,
the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if
you don't take a shot.
That's how it is here, too. If you don't
stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score
that goal.
Here is what my kids live by now, in their
own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all
the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of
a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard,
or go home.
You, too. Go hard, or go home.
Send those videos.
Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories
to post, your financial support, your efforts at spreading
the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words,
too. It IS a lot.
But I'll let Thomas Paine explain:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows
how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would
be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom
should not be highly rated.”
We each have our reasons, and our story.
It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with
the world.
"The day we see truth and do not speak
is the day we begin to die."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What does it for you?
Is it simply because no moral and upstanding
person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth
over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere
else?
Is it recognition of the critical importance
of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody
leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon
be lost to us completely?
Is it the money?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your
own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be
not involuntarily subordinated to others?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your
general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and
enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature
of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised
teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose
on the road to wreak havoc?
Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety
that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly,
it'll soon burn down the house around us all?
What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens
your resolve?
It's time to take off the bushel and
share your light!
I would like you to think about what it
is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day,
if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want
to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't
yet understand what this is all about.
In this day and age, the most effective
way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of
others is to video-record yourself talking about how
you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates
YOU.
All you need is a webcam or cell-phone
equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how
to use, one of these, have a friend help. (And if
you use a cell-phone, please have the orientation
horizontal, not vertical-- that is, so that the
screen of the phone on which you are watching
yourself while taping looks like a TV or movie
screen.)
If needed, write a little script for yourself.
Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after
spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and
getting down into your heart. Perhaps make it a video
of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing
you.
Dress "business casual". Be well-groomed.
Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3
minutes, and keep in mind that the purpose is not to
educate, but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE.
Your video will be one of many to be shared. If you
need to go longer to really say your piece, go
for it (but long or short I may edit if something
strikes me as wandering or off-key).
You needn't feel any obligation to be profound,
and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the
law, other than to say that you have read it and you
know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere,
and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience
want to have what you have, and to be where you are
in your heart.
Don't talk to ME, or to others in the
CtC-educated community. Make remarks that are suited
to the NON-CtC-educated community, and at the same
time, be mindful that you're speaking to an
audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject,
and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal;
this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true."
You want to pull that audience right past such things,
and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our
American heritage of liberty and the rule of law.
Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.
Speak about rights. Speak about morality,
and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person
to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution.
Speak about everyone's duty
to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar
only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation
to respect yourself, and to look out for the current
and future well-being of your children and your fellow
citizens. Speak of
CtC, and what its information has done for your
understanding and resolve. Show the book.
If you have had victories, describe them.
Better still, show them, if possible.
Be clear about just what you accomplished:
EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all;
a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper
agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't
subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in
was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s;
or whatever happened.
When you speak of state victories, name
the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax
agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!
If you're in a battle now, speak of your
resolve to uphold the law, come what may. If you haven't
yet begun to act, speak of your decision to do so, and
your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE
and ENERGIZE.
If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness,
describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain
why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing
down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing
to endorse the lies.
Identify yourself. Anonymity is for
criminals and those plagued by self-doubt, not for
CtC warriors.
Mention what you do for a living, whether
you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy
or gal, or a retiree or student. Help people understand
that the company of grown-up activist Americans they
are being invited to join cuts across all demographics
and all interests-- with the common denominator being
respect for the law and love of the principles on which
this great country was founded.
This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.
We've all had frustrating occasions of
trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family
member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall
of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is
your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks
who have themselves decided that it's time for them
to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your
testimonial for exactly that reason.
Further, think about this: You want judges,
bureaucrats, CPAs, lawyers, the HR people where you
work, your pastors, your neighbors and everyone else
to acknowledge the truth about the tax openly and straightforwardly.
How and why would these folks do this if YOU won't?
You want these folks to learn the truth.
Why would they even recognize that there is a truth
to be learned if you won't attest to having learned
it yourself? You've got to stand up, face forward and
chin up and tell these folks that you have studied and
checked and verified and seen the evidence and seen
the government evasions and you know that the tax is
not the capitation that the beneficiary government wants
everyone to think it is but a benign, but strictly limited
thing, and that they need to study and learn that, too.
Again, if you have victories to show, that's
nice, and powerful, too. But you don't have to have
victories to display in order to declare your knowledge
of what the law says. I've never flown around the world,
but I've seen the evidence and considered the arguments,
and I'm not hesitant to declare it a sphere...
Even those of you who haven't yet studied
CtC have surely read
this short document, and have verified everything
in it for yourself. You should therefore be declaring
its veracity and its message, loud and proud. Again,
if you won't say it, how can you hope that others will
ever even bother to look at the facts?
Be the change you want to see in the world,
or there won't be any change.
So, please make and send those videos
right away! You can share them with me via a cloud-based
drive space like OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive, or
mail DVDs to me at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan
48382, or even email to me if each file is no more than
20 megs (and you can break a video up if need be-- I
can reassemble them). Render as .mpg or mp4, if possible;
if not, send them how you have them and I'll make them
work.
Remember, the restoration of institutional
respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends
on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part
to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes
know that there is a community already waiting for their
fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining
spirits.
See how some of your fellow warriors for
the truth have done their parts in videos sent over
the years, many of which are posted
here.
"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."
Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As
Falling Off A Bike
To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works,
try this little exercise:
Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob,
who lives down the street from you in a town that is
really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting,
deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking,
bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in
your town.
Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting
business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and
away the biggest business in town.
Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract
business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders
who have signed an agreement with him, or even just
those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time
anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd
combination of circumstances that took many years to
come together.
Here's how it happened...
Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather
of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started
out not only with a main location for his contract business--
he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around
town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the
more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone
could take and use one of these bikes, but they were
expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob
a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate
rent), periodically. The initial design of the form
was like this:
I, ______________,
rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles
this year.
At Bob's rental
rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______
I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these
occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's
true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to
miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up
the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around
handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms"
to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied
by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone
riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he
would sue the company involved-- said:
You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know
What You’re Fighting About
If you are having an argument
with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate
profit”.
You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign
income”.
You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion
contract”.
You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject
is never identified.
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists
that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply--
even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect,
and CAN be corrected.
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!!
"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands
with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must
thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many
voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must
not sway thee when judgment is to be given."
-Exodus 23:1-3
Doing A Little High-Payoff Math
IF EACH PERSON receiving this newsletter each week distributed as
few as 100 of any of
the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends,
neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in
the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans
suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!
Just like that! In one week!
C'mon, people, let's roll on this!
“Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.”
When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.
I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention
and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write
as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend
my time...
Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated
with, the text you are reading, follow it!
It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered
with hyperlinks. Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions
or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original
material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't
understand. Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent
to the original text.
It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are
confident that they are familiar with language or references within
the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over
included links. I do it all the time, myself!
However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory
purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is
generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative
material. These other pages contain material the clear understanding
of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding
of the original page. (Links to
CtC, the
Victories pages,
CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general
rule. On the other hand, a link to the victory
Highlights or 'Every
Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions,
are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, and
the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith,
themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful
attention. Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)
Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least
looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which
you are completely familiar from another study session.
Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at
first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak
material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every
page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed
to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again
if it's been a while since your last having done so.
