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November 24- In 1859, Charles Darwin
publishes 'On the Origin of Species'. In 1917, a bomb explodes in Police
headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing ten. In 1932, the FBI Crime Lab
opens its doors. In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of JFK, is shot
by Jack Ruby on live television; Lyndon Johnson declares his intention to
support the government of South Vietnam both militarily and economically. In
1971, D. B. Cooper parachutes from a hijacked airliner with $200,000.00 in
ransom money. Neither have been seen since. In 2015, a Russian fighter jet
cleaning up ISIS in Syria is shot down by Turkey after an accidental 17-second
incursion into Turkish airspace. Russian restraint from retaliation and possible
escalation (due to the fact that Turkey is a member of NATO) averted
thermonuclear destruction of the planet.
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), nod your head 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
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direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things,
especially in recognition of the fact
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if you don't get them out.
Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I
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***
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The Real Story Of
Thanksgiving
Do yourself and society a favor-- read
this to your kids.
THANKSGIVING DAY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE special days
of the year, and not because of the great food. The real virtues
of this unique American celebration lie in the lessons in
humility and maturity offered by its history.
The virtuous lessons to which I refer are offered
only by Thanksgiving's true history, however. That true history
is the exact opposite of the bogus, "Thank God (sorry...
politically incorrect... make that, "Thank Fortuitous Random
Chance") we were saved from starvation by the generosity of our
neighbors-- see how wonderful socialism can be!" nonsense which
too many Americans have been misled into imagining to be the
truth.
In fact, the feast we commemorate on the fourth
Thursday of November had nothing whatsoever to do with
"generosity". What we actually commemorate on Thanksgiving is
the Plymouth Rock colonists' recognition of the evils of
socialism and the goodness of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of
profit-motivation unleashed by security in property rights.
It was that 11th-hour epiphany after a disastrous
experiment with communitarian soulfulness that saved the colony
from starvation. Thanks be to God, indeed, for that merciful and
timely grant of wisdom.
IN VERY BRIEF SUMMARY, the Plymouth Rock colony
began as a commune, organized under the principle that the
proceeds of every individual's labors would be claimed of right
by the community as a whole, and then redistributed in equal
measure to every member. This system lasted for several years,
during which the colony grew ever more hungry and impoverished.
Unable to keep the fruit of their labors for
themselves, and with the unproductive receiving the same out of
the communal resources as those who worked hard, soon no one
worked hard. To do so was a fool's game.
The only competition un-smothered by the
communitarian rule was the race to the bottom in the avoidance
of labor. Every year the crops were thinner; every year the
shares distributed to each colonist were more meager.
Finally, in 1623 and on the verge of the colony's
failure (that is, the death of all the colonists), the feel-good
socialist lunacy was recognized as the deadly mental virus that
it is. The ruinous pretense that the community had a rightful
claim on the food produced by each member was abandoned, and the
colonist's rights to their own production was secured.
As it was recounted (in third-person format) in
1623 by William Bradford, Governor of the Colony:
...so they began to think how they might raise as
much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had
done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.
At length, after much debate of things, the
Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them) gave way
that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and
in that regard trust to themselves; in all other things to go on
in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a
parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for
that end, only for present use (but made no division for
inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family.
This had very good success, for it made all hands
very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than
otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other
could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far
better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and
took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would
allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have
been thought great tyranny and oppression.
Thus, the deadly madness of socialism was replaced
with a pragmatic expression of two natural laws: 1. no person
(and no group of persons, acting under whatever title or label
or pretense it may) can rightfully dictate the disposal of the
product of another's labor; and 2. no society can violate a
natural law without suffering the harmful consequences. It was
only then that the colony had its first bountiful harvest, for
which the members properly gave thanks.
IT IS THE BENEFICIAL CONSEQUENCE of the Plymouth
Rock Colony's epiphany concerning the destructive follies of
socialism and the rewarding virtues of natural law that we have
celebrated on Thanksgiving over the years. Here is William
Bradford again, expressing the lesson taken by these ancestors
of the American revolutionaries of a century-and-a-half hence:
The experience that was had in this common course
and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and
sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's
and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the
taking away of property and bringing in community into a
commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they
were wiser than God.
Needless to say, the experience of the Plymouth
Rock Colony was firmly in the American memory at the time that
our founding principles were spelled out. It is unsurprising
that the colonists' hard-won wisdom deeply informs the
Declaration of Independence, the principles enshrined in which
are declared to be the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.
THE VIRTUOUS LESSONS LEARNED by the Plymouth Rock
Colony's near-disastrous experiment with a fancied and prideful
"alternative" to the basic reality of natural law is well-worth
the giving of thanks. So is the wisdom of our Founders in taking
those lessons to heart and hardwiring them into our American
legal structure.
With these things firmly in mind as the real
reasons for celebration, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. I
hope that it finds you all well, and leaves you all comfortably
stuffed with the good food and good cheer for which this holiday
is casually and warmly known.
But I also hope that you all dwell for a few
minutes on the more sober aspects of this commemoration. I
especially hope you see to it that your children understand the
truth (rather than the warm fuzzy fictions that they have been
taught in their government schools and through the mindless
popular culture).
The real lessons of Thanksgiving are very
important lessons. Our societal well-being depends on those
lessons remaining embedded in our American consciousness and
institutions.
It has been famously and wisely observed that those
who allow themselves to be ignorant of history lessons are
doomed to repeat them, and we don't want our children or
grandchildren to have to repeat this one. The good Lord might
not be so forgiving of their arrogance the second time around.
***
P.S. THANKSGIVING IS NOT ONLY A GOOD TIME to
reflect and instruct on the evils and delusions of socialism,
and the enormous virtues of well-secured liberty and property
rights of so, in an academic sense. It is also a great time to
think about these things from a practical and personal
perspective. Here's a picture-worth-a-thousand-words on that
point. Click on it for more:
Cheers!
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.
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someone else by that method.
...along with some thoughts about MTG's
ill-considered retirement (in light of Trump's
rapidly fading mojo) and the need for clarification
by the "Seditious" Six.
THOMAS MASSIE is the best person
holding public office today, bar none. And Massie's
discharge petition to force the release of Epstein
files is a virtuous project by this virtuous man.
Sadly, though, even Thomas Massie
appears to have fallen prey
to Leviathan's greatest weapon against what are
supposed to be the sovereign people-- the reflexive
(and generally mistaken)
assumption that virtue-- or, at least, good
intentions-- control the behavior of government
officers in general. Even while adopting an overall
demeanor in his petition suggesting otherwise in
many respects, Massie has nonetheless incorporated
provisions reflecting an expectation that Trump and
team will act in good faith in response to
the petition's object and specifics.
For example, the petition provides for
the withholding of anything deemed "classified".
This is an escape hatch big enough for the
concealment of anything at all that the Trump
administration wants to keep secret. Requirements
that "summaries" of materials deemed classified be
provided are meaningless-- without being able to see
the materials supposedly being "summarized", it will
be impossible to know if the "summaries" are
accurate or are simple gaslighting, a practice in
which the Trump team has already shown itself more
than willing to engage in this matter.
Additional provisions in the "PERMITTED
WITHHOLDINGS" section of the petition allow for
redactions or withholding of files in which victims
can be identified; in which crimes of child sexual
abuse are contained or depicted; the release of
which would jeopardize ongoing investigations or
prosecutions (with a requirement of narrow tailoring
and eventual release included, but with neither such
limitation defined with any specificity); or any in
which images of death, physical abuse or injury of
any person are depicted or contained.
There is even a "PERMITTED WITHHOLDING"
on the basis of "national defense of foreign
policy".
These allowances for the withholding of
material have an air of formality to them; a certain
decorousness, as it were, and their appearance is
unsurprising. In a normal case, in which the party
being instructed to make the disclosures can be
safely presumed to have the same interest in
exposing wrong-doing as the one doing the
instructing, these provisions would be fit and of no
concern. But all of them-- ALL of them-- are
completely improper in this case.
The fact is, the Trump team must be
presumed to act in bad faith in this matter. No
discretion of any kind should be afforded it.
The fact is, these provisions will
ensure that, at the very least, no
sensibly-skeptical person will be able to have the
least bit of confidence that he or she sees
everything there is to be seen in connection with
what the Trump administration has made perfectly
clear it desperately wants to keep hidden from the
American people.
FURTHER, IT MUST BE REMEMBERED that We,
the People, don't hire government employees to have
them protect us from seeing nasty or disturbing
things. This is always true, and especially so in
this case. Here, we are taking on our sovereign
roles of both judge and jury, as must always be so
when we seek to supervise our staff of public
servants.
In any trial on allegations of
wrongdoing, the judge and jury not only get
to see EVERYTHING, but they must see
everything, in order to properly perform those
offices. Here, that principle is especially
important, since those involved in the multi-year
cover-up of Epstein's crimes, both those known and
those as yet merely suspected with good cause, are
legion, and come from all parties and all offices of
(at least) the federal government. Until all has
been made public, every past and current US
office-holder, including both those to whom Massie's
petition is directed and those who belatedly or
reluctantly signed on to the order, are potential
perps-- along with the entire "mover and shaker"
class here in America and elsewhere.
The discharge petition could have and
should have been written with these things in mind.
Speaking as the sovereign People, we are perfectly
within our rights to waive concerns about ongoing
investigations or prosecutions, since revelations
such as we hope to see cannot prejudice an active or
potential defendant's rights. Such revelations can
only make a prosecution more difficult, and we can
and should accept that possible downside in the
interest of ensuring full disclosure.
Similarly, were there to be any
"national security" or "foreign policy" implications
in what could be revealed in connection with
Epstein, we should especially see those revelations.
Only a completely unacceptable national security
structure or foreign policy could be such that it is
threatened by exposure of its connection with a
figure such as Jeffrey Epstein, based on all that we
already know about the man and his activities.
Finally, in that vein, concern for the
victims is misplaced and will serve only as a fig
leaf for massive redaction of materials and the
consequent protection of many evil persons. Many of
Epstein's victims are already known, and have queued
up to clamor for the release of all information
concerning themselves and what was done to them, and
by way of them. Their privacy is not a valid
concern.
Those victims that have not stepped up
and demanded like recognition are, sadly and
sympathetically but also unacceptably, thereby
making themselves complicit in the crimes. Claims
for privacy on their behalf, especially when
proffered or administered by possible perps whose
interests would be served by honoring those claims,
must be denied.
THE EXCELLENT THOMAS MASSIE has done a
good thing with his discharge petition. But, alas,
not a perfect thing. The American people must watch
with a jaundiced eye as the Trump team purports to
comply with the petition (which also notably suffers
for lack of an enforcement provision, such as making
violation of its terms a 20-year felony).
It is, indeed, clear enough from
Trump's sudden reversal from fighting against the
petition to calling for its enactment that his crack
team of legal weasels let him know that as written,
the petition offers enough holes and work-around
opportunities as to be not at all the danger it
first seemed.
Be ready to resume pressure when the
dodgy compliance package goes public, and be ready
to oppose, denounce and reject the distraction
likely to be trotted out just beforehand.
***
I HAVE SUNG THE PRAISES of Thomas
Massie in the comments above, but their is another
member of Congress to whom much appreciation is
owed, especially over the last six months or so. I
speak of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene began as just a fervent "America
First" adherent who mistakenly imagined Donald Trump
and crew to share that fervor and hence, was a
strong and very outspoken Trump supporter. Over the
course of 2025, though, Greene has learned that
Trump's "MAGA" is primarily theatrical, with his
true interests being those of the oligarchy and
certain foreign parties.
True to form, Greene has become
outspoken against Trump's misplaced interests,
breaking of his campaign promises and betrayal of
his base (which he grotesquely accuses of betraying
him as it increasingly withdraws its
support). True to form, Trump has become a vicious
disparager of Greene, has withdrawn his endorsement
of her candidacy for another term next year, and
vows to support a primary challenger for her seat.
Fearing an ugly spring next year in
light of the foregoing, Greene has announce her
intention to resign her seat this coming January.
Part of her given reason is a disinterest in serving
as a member of a minority party in the House even if
successful in her run.
THOUGH I FEAR SHE WILL NEVER see these
words, I have to say that I think Greene is making a
bad call. Donald Trump's mojo is evaporating
rapidly, while Greene's is swelling, despite her
present sense of being opposed and oppressed. As the
Epstein affair plays out over the next month or two
I think both of these trends will strengthen
dramatically.
In fact, I suspect that Greene can
expect to be increasingly lionized by the real
America First base as it all plays out-- she is
sensible and well-spoken, and has been on the right
side of everything lately. Further, I suspect that
fears of minority status in Congress next year are
equally unfounded.
My expectation is that many Republican
incumbents will be replaced next year, but not by
Democrats (the distaste for whom among the broader
electorate remains as sharp as it was last November,
and for much the same reasons now as then). I think
a large number of AIPAC-beholden (or otherwise MIGA)
Republicans will be primaried next year by actual
America First candidates. While the number of such
challenges that arise and are successful might not
be enough to control the House outright, they will
be enough to make Greene's next term a lot more
pleasant than she currently fears.
Stick it out, Marjorie! I might be
right, and you being in the race as an example to
others will help make it happen.
***
FINALLY, I WANT TO KNOW WHICH of Trump
and Co.'s illegal orders are on the minds of the
lately famous "Seditious Six"! Especially with
increasingly express threats of retributions in the
air, I think these outspoken Democrats owe it to
themselves to speak more plainly. There IS a
discourse on all this going on, and their being
vague denies those who might take the side of the
Six any
properly firm ground on which to do so.
Is it the ordered murders on the high
seas? A lot of people will get behind that charge--
indeed, the entire body of honest legal scholars
will do so.
Maybe it's the escalating aggressions
against the Palestinians, of which the US is
increasingly a party, on Trump administration policy
and orders? Again, lots of solid legal backing for
that charge of illegality, and a massive body of
activists who will rally round.
What about the orders to stonewall, lie
about or secretly withhold Epstein files which
obviously has been going on for quite a long time
and must be suspected to be expanding right now?
MASSIVE backing to be had on behalf of that charge,
if that's among the "illegal orders" alluded to by
the Six in their video.
Then there are the carpet-bomb First
Amendment violations committed by the Trump team
against anti-Israel protestors throughout the year
so far... And let's not forget the even larger-scale
Fourth Amendment violations being committed against
EVERY American by the NSA.
I could go on, but I think I've made
the point. There are plenty of orders currently in
play against which every oath-taker should be
cautioned. I just think the Seditious Six need to
get explicit, for their own good, and for the sake
of the rest of us who might like to offer them a tip
of the hat.
***
P.S. SURGERY UPDATE
This past Friday marked the close of
week twenty-seven since my May 16 operation. Four weeks in a
sling, sixteen weeks of physical therapy, and seven
weeks of at-home PT exercises, so far. A
little better each day (mostly, save for a setback
now and then due to my less-than-perfect patience
and consequent overexertion in the weightroom...).
Thank you all very much
for your patience. Things will get back to normal
eventually.
Please continue to
share victories as usual (though my responses
may be belated). Those seeking guidance on CtC-related
matters are directed to
the
site map. You really will find
everything anyone could need there, with just a bit
of poking around required.
***
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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."
The title of this column is
a quote from 25-year retired Army Green Beret
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar. Colonel
Aguilar’s missions took him to Iraq, Afghanistan,
Tajikistan, Jordan, and the Philippines. He received
the Purple Heart for wounds he received in combat.
After retiring from the Army, he served as a
security contractor in Gaza for UG Solutions, which
was contracted to provide security at aid
distribution sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian
Foundation. He resigned from his position after
approximately two months, citing human rights
violations and crimes against humanity being
committed by the security agency at the behest of
the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
What Colonel Aguilar
witnessed in Gaza by the Israeli military (and the
U.S. private contractors under the direction of the
IDF) is further evidence of just how vile and wicked
the Israel government and its military really are.
Anthony Aguilar: Never
in my life did I think that an army could be so evil
as to use food to lure a starving population through
a battlefield, killing women and children and the
elderly on purpose.
Dena Takruri: I
wanted to hear more about how he went from believing
he was going to Gaza to help feed Palestinians to
realizing the United States was complicit in
Israel’s genocide, particularly as a 25-year veteran
of the U.S. Army.
So, what did you understand
to be the mandate of your mission? What exactly were
you going to be doing on the ground there?
Aguilar: What
we were told in kind of a general overview briefing
before we got on the plane out of Dulles is that the
United States stepped forward to take over the
United Nations mission because Israel would no
longer allow the United Nations in and that Israel
will allow the United States to work with them to do
it and that we were going in to take over that
mission to deliver food.
I envisioned that we would
be going in, occupying and securing, or securing at
least, 400 distribution sites and securing 500 to
550 trucks a day going in because that’s what the UN
did. That was my mindset going in. And I believed
that until the very first day I got there, and I
realized that that was not the case.
Takruri: Describe
to me what you first saw and felt when you arrived
to the Gaza Strip.
Aguilar: What
I witnessed in that first look as we came in was the
most devastating, destructive, beyond war
annihilation, apocalyptic thing I’d ever seen in my
life. Something that I couldn’t even imagine in a
nightmare. Rubble, dogs eating remains of bodies,
smoke in the horizon from bombs being dropped, not a
building left in sight and everything leveled. It
was a landscape of destruction and horror, which
I’ve never witnessed before. And honestly, it made
me feel sick.
The Israel Defense Forces
were leading us, and they gave us this briefing.
They pulled out a giant map that showed operations
that were going on. First of all, I didn’t see 400
distribution sites; I saw 4. All of them were in the
south, away from the areas that people needed the
food. And no one north of the Netzarim Corridor from
Gaza could reach these sites. That started to paint
a picture to me that this is either horribly planned
or there’s something else going on here.
Then when I looked at the
sites and I saw the operational graphics on their
map—this is an Israeli map that showed that
offensive combat operations going on around these
sites—these sites were behind the forward line of
contact, the front line, if you will, which means
the civilians have to cross, have to travel through
the fighting to get there. It’s a violation of the
Geneva Convention.
Takruri: Why
do you think it was designed that way?
Aguilar: It
became clear to me that it was designed that way
when we got to site one, and I walked up to the berm
to stand up on top of the berm to look, and there’s Merkava battle tanks driving through and firing at
positions. There’s a battle going on. There’s mortar
rounds, there’s artillery rounds. There’s people,
thousands of Palestinians lined up along the coastal
corridor, the coastal road, because they have
nowhere else to go; they live on the beach. They
live there in shanty tarp shacks because there’s
nowhere else to live because their homes have been
destroyed. And there’s this battle going on.
And I look at my map, and I
look at that, and I go back, and I talk to the IDF
and to the guy in charge, the GHF guy in charge. And
I said, “We can’t distribute aid from these sites.
We’re going to get a lot of people killed, and it
violates Geneva Conventions. We cannot do this.”
That was wholly ignored [by the IDF commander]:
“We’re going to do it anyway. We’re doing it. It
doesn’t matter. We’re fighting Hamas. The Geneva
Convention doesn’t apply.”
But then when I saw all the
sites, how all the sites were designed this way, it
became very clear to me then from seeing the way the
sites were designed and how they functioned, that
this is forced displacement. The Israeli government,
through the Israel defense forces in Gaza, are using
food to bait Palestinians to forcefully displace
them to the south en masse. And I don’t mean just a
couple hundred. I mean, everybody, the entire
population.
Takruri: Did
it strike you as wrong that the same people that
were deliberately starving Palestinians, the
Israelis, are now tasked with feeding them?
Aguilar: Morally,
ethically, legally, humanitarianly: wrong, wrong,
wrong. Yes, it was shockingly wrong to me, which is
why in the beginning I thought, “Do these people
just not know what they’re doing? Or this can’t be
intentional.” But what came to my realization, and
it came to me very hard, is that this is
intentional.
Takruri: Why
did you initially think it’s not intentional?
Aguilar:
Because I
didn’t think anybody could be that evil.
[Emphasis added]
Takruri: So,
in your interactions with personnel from the IDF,
how did they describe what they were doing? Or how
did they talk about the Palestinians that they were
purportedly feeding?
Aguilar: The
Israelis did not want to feed the Palestinians. From
the very bottom level, IDF soldiers in Gaza that I
talked to that are in Gaza, in the war, they asked
me flat out one day, clearly, “Why are you feeding
our enemy?” I was like, “Well, we’re feeding the
civilians.” “No, they’re all our enemy. You are
feeding our enemy.” I was like, “Women, children,
old men and women?” “Yeah, they’re all the enemy.
Every Palestinian is our enemy.” That’s how they saw
it.
But they also referred to
them as animals. They called them zombies. They
referred to the groups of the Palestinians where
they’d come to the sites as “the zombie horde,”
dehumanizing them, not providing them water,
shooting at them to get them to move a certain way
like they’re animals in a cage. It’s horrible.
Takruri: And
was this perspective of dehumanization also evident
in the GHF members that you were working with as
well, your colleagues?
Aguilar: Absolutely.
The American contractor who’s in charge of the
entire security plan for armed Americans being in
Gaza is the national president of the Infidels
Motorcycle Club, a US-based veterans motorcycle
club. The charter of their organization is to fight
jihad and the elimination of all Muslims from the
earth. This is the guy in charge of the armed
security for delivering food into Gaza to a
predominantly Arab Muslim population.
Takruri: Other
than these sort of ideological motivations for going
to Gaza, were contractors with GHF well compensated?
Aguilar: Well,
this type of work is very lucrative. So, for all of
us and what we were getting paid: $1,320 a day. So,
if you’re there making that much money…and that was
just the run-of-the-mill person. If you’re in a
leadership position, site leader, mobile leader,
you’re making $1,600 a day.
[For that much money] you
can just look the other way, say, “This isn’t my
problem. No one’s going to know.”
These guys are going to go
there, and they’re going to get rich, and they’re
going to come home with $300,000 after four or five
months of work. Can you imagine only having to work
five months out of the year and being rich doing it?
It’s a lot of money.
Not to mention the people
that run the contract, they’re making millions.
Millions. This future Gaza Riviera resort plan is
going to make people billions.
This is about money, which
is really the sickening, sickening part of this.
This isn’t about Hamas. This isn’t about religion.
This isn’t about who owns the land. This is about
money. And it’s disgusting.
Takruri: I
did want to ask you, what is your reaction to the
leaked Trump Gaza Riviera plan, which calls for the
reconstruction of Gaza as an investment and
manufacturing hub? And Boston Consulting Group,
which also worked on the plan for deploying GHF, is
involved. Do you think GHF should be involved in
this plan to turn Gaza into a U.S. territory?
Aguilar: So,
in the main control center, where the operations
are, on the wall in that main control center, is a
large poster of a Boston Consulting Group rendering
of the future industrial complex resort. That
rendering is on the wall in the control center at Kerem Shalom for the GHF. The GHF is not a
humanitarian organization. And they don’t care. They
are there to stake property.
Takruri: At
what point did you decide that you could no longer
have any part to do with it?
Aguilar: On
the 8th of June, I was in the control center and
outside of Kerem Shalom, and we were distributing at
site number two. And I’m in the control room
watching it on the screen. The crowd was very, very
packed in there, very packed. And people were being
crushed up against concrete walls inside of the
sites that were lined with barbed wire, this razor
wire, and people were getting crushed up against it.
So, there was a Palestinian
man in the crowd who lifted these children up
because they were getting trampled and crushed; they
were small. And the Israel Defense Force liaison
officer, a senior ranking officer in the Israel
Defense Force who is in our operations center, looks
at the screen, and he says, “Get them off of there
right now.” And so, I’m looking at the same thing
he’s looking at. I’m like, “Well, the security on
the ground there, they’re addressing it. They’re
dealing with it. But I mean, these are children.
Calm down. These are children.”
“Get them off of there.
That’s not secure. Get them off,” the IDF officer
said.
I was like, “They’re
children. They have no shoes on. They don’t have any
weapons. There’s nothing in their hands at all. One
of the children doesn’t even have a shirt. Calm
down.”
He walks back to his desk,
gets on the radio with his forces, and then he comes
back over to where I’m standing, and there was an
American in our operations center that understood
and could speak Hebrew a little bit. And he says to
me, “He just said on the radio for his snipers to
shoot them down.”
So, when this officer came
back, I asked, “Did you just order your snipers at
site number two to shoot these kids?” He said,
“Well, if you’re not going to take care of it, I
will.” And I said, “We’re not shooting children.”
As we were having this
dialogue, the children had run off to the edge of
this wall, and they jumped down so they could run
away. They were scared. They didn’t want to be
there. Thank God we didn’t have to see what would
have come.
But in that moment, the
Safe Reach Solutions contract lead, the boss if you
will, who was in the operations center, called me
over and he said, “Tony, never say no to the
client.” And I said, “What do you mean don’t say no
to the client?” He said, “The IDF are our client. We
work for them. They’re in charge.” And I was like,
“Even when they say to kill children?” He said,
“What decisions they make and how they want to fight
this war, who they decide to kill or not is not our
decision. This is a contract. This is business.
Don’t say no to our client.”
Takruri: And
did you step down at that point?
Aguilar: I
told him at that point, I said, “I’m done.”
Takruri: How
many people do you understand to have been killed at
these GHF sites up until now?
Aguilar: From
the beginning of operations, 26 May, until today,
thousands. Not only the hundreds and hundreds into
the magnitude of thousands that have been reported
by the U.N. and Médecins Sans Frontières and others
at the Nasser Hospital and the Khan Younis hospitals
directly near these sites receiving about MCI, or
mass casualty incidents, on the days that correlate
to the same times and dates of distribution. But
there are hundreds of bodies buried outside of these
sites that have just been buried in the rubble,
bulldozed and buried in the ground.
Takruri: So,
what do you want Americans to know as one of the few
Americans who has been to Gaza during this genocide?
Aguilar: The
United States is hand in glove with the Israeli
government in committing a genocide. What is
happening in Gaza is not a misfortune of war. It is
designed: the displacement, the removal, the
destruction, the ethnic cleansing, the genocide. It
is by design.
Wake up, America. If we
stand by and we allow it to happen there, it’s going
to happen here.
Folks, there you have it: a
first-hand eyewitness account of not only the
brutality and sheer wanton genocidal murder of the
Palestinian people by the Israelis but also the
direct, on-the-ground complicity of U.S. private
contractors. Of course, this is in addition to the
billions of dollars of U.S. technology, surveillance
systems, military equipment, intelligence, naval
battle groups, bombs, missiles, jets and other
munitions, along with direct CIA support and
assistance.
HOW DO YOU FEEL about being the source
of funding for the atrocities Israel commits on a
daily basis in Palestine and in so many other places
off and on, as well (i.e., Lebanon, Syria, Iraq,
Iran, Yemen, on the high seas)? Why, then, do you
continue to be that source, when for the most part,
you don't have to do so?
This is the question every
right-thinking American should be asking themselves,
or, if
CtC-educated and -activated, should be asking
every other person they know.
We MUST sever our shameful connection
with this beast of the Middle East. In fact, our
only related action in the region should be the use
of our military might to defend Israeli victims
against the ugly little apartheid and genocidal
state's onslaughts (such
as this recent one in Lebanon).
Until that severing can be made to
happen by reclaiming control over our politics and
policy from the amoral and lunatic Zionists whose
hands are currently on the levers of power, each
right-thinking American should personally step up
and do what he or she can to reduce the harm being
done.
All that is needed to accomplish that righteous
and critically-important regulation is that those who have already received
CtC's
liberating and empowering revelations help the rest of the
American population quickly understand
the
truth about the tax and discover that even though Washington
may at present be a Leviathan in the grip of
the
wicked, this need not remain the case.
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
having
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.
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
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do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
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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..."
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Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
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edition of
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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.
November 25- In 1783, the last British
troops leave New York City. In 1867, Alfred Nobel patents dynamite. In 1874,
the "Greenback Party"-- a pro-inflation political organization-- is
established. Ten years later it is dis-established, but not before occupying 25
seats in the U.S. House, in the aggregate, over that decade. In 1950, the
People's Republic of China commits troops to the Korean War on the side of the
North Koreans. In 1952, Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens at the
Ambassadors Theatre in London. It goes on to become the longest-running play in
history. In 1986, Edwin Meese announces that money from arms sales to Iran were
illegally diverted to the "Contra" rebels in Nicaragua.
*****
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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November 26- In 1778, Captain James Cook becomes the first
European to visit Maui, Hawaii. In 1789, a national Thanksgiving Day is
celebrated in America upon the recommendation of George Washington. In 2021,
the COVID-19 theatrical gets revived with the WHO's declaration of the "Omicron
variant".
*****
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
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Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
Hey, Gamers!
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You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
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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
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
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:
November 27- In 1870, the New York Times dubs baseball
America's National Game. 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
in New York City. In 1965, Pentagon officials inform the Johnson administration
that a "surge" is necessary for success in Vietnam.
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!!
November 28- In 1895, the first American automobile
race is run-- 54 miles of thunder and speed. The winner hit the finish
line after approximately 10 hours of hard driving. In 1907, scrap-metal
dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. In 1979, an Air
New Zealand DC 10 crashes at full speed into Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, due
to a navigation error, killing all 257 on board. As can be plainly seen
from the image below, actual high-speed large-commercial-aircraft
crashes leave a whole lot of obvious wreckage:
"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
November 29- In 1947, the UN General Assembly votes to
partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states. In 1963,
the Warren Commission is established to investigate the assassination of
JFK. In 1967, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara resigns. In 1972,
'Pong' makes its first appearance, in a tavern in California. In 1983, the
UN General Assembly resolves that the Soviet Union should end its occupation
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:
November 30- In 1782, Representatives
of the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary articles of peace as the
first step toward the 1783 Treaty of Paris in which Britain relinquishes all
claim to each of the 13 sovereign and independent American states. In 1804,
impeachment proceedings are begun against United States Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Chase for allowing political bias to influence his judicial decisions.
In 1872, the first-ever international football (soccer) match takes place,
between Scotland and England. In 1999, large-scale protests against a WTO
meeting in Seattle force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
*****
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.