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.
May 6- In 1536, King Henry VIII commands that English-language Bibles are
to be placed in every church. In 1861, Arkansas secedes from the union. In
1877, after twelve years of war, Sioux Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to the U.S.
Cavalry. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower opens to the public. In 1935, an FDR
executive order creates the Works Progress Administration. In 1937, the German
zeppelin 'Hindenburg' (filled with hydrogen due to a United States-imposed
embargo of helium shipments to Germany), burst into flames while docking in
Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of 97 persons aboard, and one person on the
ground below. In 1954, Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile. In 1994,
Paula Jones files a sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter mid-edition update
below.
"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
***
Cincinnati, Sunshine!! May 18th!
Be there for the next CtC Seminar, on the
north bank of the
mighty Ohio!!
The Country Is "America";
"The United States" Is Just A Tool
...or to make it a bit more earthy:
America is the owner; the United States is the dog.
ANOTHER
CtC SEMINAR IS QUEUING UP in
less than two weeks. As is the practice at these
affairs, we will begin with the Pledge of
Allegiance.
But no, not that dog-worshipping
flag-chant that was drummed into your brain when you
were five years old...
We will stand as a body of genuine,
woken-up American men and women and join together in
reciting the proper American pledge of allegiance--
a pledge of allegiance to the founding
principles around which the American states united,
and of which the Washington, DC-based "United States"
they created is merely a guard dog:
The Proper American Pledge
of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the
principles of the United States of America,
holding that all men are
created equal,
that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
and that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I hold further that it is
to secure these rights that Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers
from the consent of the governed,
and that whenever any Form
of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I MENTION THIS TODAY in order to remind
everyone of the very critical distinction between
us-- "America", and it-- "the United
States". WE are the "men" among which IT
"government" is instituted-- by our hand and our
consent, and valid only while on good behavior.
This isn't rocket-science stuff, of
course. But I believe it needs to be spelled out and
looked-at regularly, because "IT" really wants "US"
to forget the distinction. "It" constantly spends a
whole lot of resources trying to make that happen
(see a discussion of one example
here).
So, quite contrary to carrying out
impartial programmed purposes, "it" operates broadly
at the direction and in service to the self-serving
agenda of those 17 million men and women. At a
granular level "it" operates in service to the
agendas of the relative handful of people
whose
quid-pro-quo financing of the elections of key
officials determines who those officials (and their
appointees) will be, and/or have other means of
wielding significant influence.
Service to the agenda of those pipers
is modestly salted, as necessary, with
lowest-common-denominator side-show pandering and
bone-throws to broad swaths of voters. The pandering
and bone-throws sustain a modern childish fancy,
born of decades of sly propaganda and
consent-engineering, that those agenda-wielding
officials are faithfully implementing OUR agenda,
rather than their own.
The last thing anyone in, or
benefitting from, the "it" contingent wants is for
"us" to be actively conscious of whose interests
"it" is really looking-after. Hence, the snow-job
effort about "it" and "us" being one and the same.
OBVIOUSLY, KEEPING THE DISTINCTION
between "us" and "it" (read put as, "them") firmly
in mind is always important to good citizenship. But
there are times when doing so is more along the
lines of a moral and practical imperative than
merely a wise practice. I believe we are in such a
time right now.
As I write this, and as you read it,
lunatics holding office in Washington are laboring
hard and relentlessly to provoke or launch a war
with Iran, and to propagandize the American public
("us") into going along with this. (A big part of
this propaganda attack consists of the risible
charge that Iran is a "leading state sponsor of
terrorism", when it is an easily-checked fact that
the vast majority of what are called terrorist acts
are committed by Sunni Muslims-- such as those
of Saudi Arabia-- and Iran is Shia.)
The only immediate practical
consequence for Americans would probably be a big
jump in gasoline prices here at home (and maybe the
loss of a few ships and sailors from shore-to-ship
missile strikes, against
modern versions of which there is no practical
defense). But there would likely be a monstrous
immediate moral consequence in the deaths of many
innocent Iranians.
Further,
Iran is a long-time traditional ally of Russia.
While the endless claims about Iran and nuclear
weapons are as false as
the "state sponsor of
terrorism" nonsense that has been blowing out of the
wrong end of "it's" State Department and National
Security nutcases,
Russia
definitely has them.
And speaking of Russia, the same
nutcases foaming at the mouth about Iran (and
Venezuela, and Cuba, and soon more stridently about
Turkey and possibly Italy and Germany, as each of
the last three continue to shed vassal status) have
been poking that very dangerous bear in the eye at
every opportunity, while doing the same to an
increasingly pissed-off Chinese dragon.
THE POINT IS THAT THE one-time faithful
and safe guard dog our ancestors instructed and
installed for the sole purpose of protecting our
individual liberties from dangerous dogs at home and
abroad has rather changed. What we now have is the
worst kind of junk-yard dog-- one which threatens even
its owner.
Where the guard dog once wagged its
tail and begged for its meals,
and stayed lean and trim and in its place, the
junk-yard dog that has taken its place snarls at us for the food off our own plates. At the
same time the ugly beast roams at will outside the
fence, terrorizing the countryside, making enemies
to whom we will one day have to answer, and bringing
upon our beloved America-- in whose name it acts and
by whom it is empowered-- a deep moral stain.
SO, WHAT DO YOU DO when your dog has
forgotten its place and gotten too big for its
britches? You cut back on its victuals.
A strict diet shrinking 200-lb. Kujo
back down to 50-lb. Fido does wonders for a dog's
demeanor. It resumes following all the rules, sticks
to its own back yard, and starts remembering that if
it wants to go on being welcome in the house it has
to be the kind of dog at which the master and the
mistress smile with fondness and view as a valuable
asset, not one that brings to mind
that old musket over the fireplace.
In
short, with a little focused, sensible attention and
a well-tuned understanding on our part of who is
what in the relationship, the dangerous junk-yard
dog can be turned back into the faithful and humble
guard dog "we" called for at the very beginning of
our story. All we need to do is put an end to the
eat-as-much-red-meat-as-you-want diet.
Click on the link below to acquaint yourself
with how this can be done.
May 7- In 1429, Joan of Arc wins her first major
military victory, ending the Siege of Orleans. In 1824, Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony premiers in Vienna. In 1915, the British ship Lusitania is sunk by a
German U-boat with Americans on board. The fact that the ship, which was
purportedly a passenger and non-military cargo ship, was actually carrying a
large load of munitions from the U.S. to Britain was kept from the civilians
encouraged to take passage by U.S. and British officials, despite specific
warnings from the German government that the ship would be viewed as a military
target. The expected sinking and loss of American lives were then used to
encourage popular and Congressional support for American entry into World War
I. In 1992, Michigan gets around to ratifying what then becomes the 27th
Amendment to the United States Constitution (barring mid-term Congressional pay
raises)-- 203 years after it was first submitted to the several states for
approval. In 1998, Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion. In 2017, after
7 years of grossly-unjust imprisonment, United States war-crime whistleblower
Chelsea Manning was released from federal prison on a qualified commutation of
the remaining 28 years of her sentence by outgoing President Barak Obama 5
months before.
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Erik Clark Is Making The
World A Better Place
...and invites every American to help
him rein in the dangerous Leviathan state.
***
Carmen Park Is Doing Her
Part
CARMEN SHARES HER LATEST VICTORY on
behalf of the rule of law-- a complete refund of
everything improperly withheld from her by the
ravenous federal Leviathan during 2018:
The filing that meant Carmen's labors
during last year served her purposes rather
than those of the swamp creatures in Washington can
be seen
here.
***
Tim Lafferty, Too
TIM SHARES HIS FIRST VICTORY--
everything withheld from him during 2018 and given
over to the feds has been returned, all the more
gratifyingly for Tim than most as it is a 100%
turn-around in his relations with the IRS. The
agency has been dunning Tim for old balances that
arose prior to him learning of
CtC, which his most recent withholdings have now
begun to pay down:
Tim's educated put-the-dog-on-a-diet
filing can be seen
here.
***
And
Jeff Rische
Is Very Much On The Field, As Well.
JEFF SHARES A REALLY SPECIAL VICTORY
(as you will see).
To begin with, this is a nearly complete refund of what was withheld
from Jeff and given to the feds in 2015-- along with
a big dollop of interest (which is great, but keep
reading...):
Here's the thing: These withheld
amounts (secured by
this filing) had been made the object
of a purported IRS "notice of deficiency" late last year. The
matter had just made it into the earliest stage of
litigation, with Jeff making clear that he wasn't
having any of it, when these refunds suddenly
issued.
(BTW, don't fail to notice that more than $10,000 of
the refund was ridiculously diverted to a purported
"frivolous return penalty" for the very same return
by which this refund was claimed.)
CARMEN, TIM AND JEFF'S VICTORIES join those of
the tens of thousands of other awakened and
activated Americans represented
here. Each constitutes another critical step
toward the restoration of
the Founders republic and the true rule of law.
Don't you wish your victories were
proudly posted, too?
AND, HEY! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important
(plus it can get you some great losthorizons swag!). See
(and carefully read in their entirety)
these guidelines and encouragements.
"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."
May 8- In 1886, John Pemberton invents
Coca-Cola. In 1945, combat in Europe ends with an unconditional German
surrender in World War II. In 1973, the American Indian Movement occupation of
Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee ends. In 1980, the World Health
Organization declares smallpox eradicated (except for the supplies being kept
for possible future deployment by the United States military, and possibly the
Russian Federation, as well...)
Other Voices: 'The Path To War With Iran Is Paved
With Sanctions'
by Joseph Cirincione and Mary Kaszynski
The Trump administration is laying
siege to Iran. Taking pages from the Iraq War
playbook, senior officials paint a picture of a
rogue, outlaw, terrorist regime bent on acquiring
nuclear weapons and whose “malign activities” are
the cause of all the chaos in the Middle East. They
know what they are doing. They have done it before.
They are building a case for war.
The “maximum pressure” campaign by the
White House, Treasury Department, and State
Department accelerated this week with the
announcement that the United States would force
China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey to
cease all imports of Iranian oil or face severe U.S.
sanctions. The goal is to cut to zero all of Iran’s
oil exports, which account for some 40 percent of
its national income. This strategy is unlikely to
force the capitulation or collapse of the regime,
but it very likely could lead to war.
The United States has already reimposed
all the nuclear-related sanctions lifted by the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that
successfully rolled back and effectively froze
Iran’s nuclear program and put it under the most
stringent inspections ever negotiated. The goals of
the sanctions announced April 22, however, go way
beyond nuclear issues.
“We have made our demands very clear to
the ayatollah and his cronies,” Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo
said in remarks to the press Monday morning.
“End your pursuit of nuclear weapons. Stop testing
and proliferating ballistic missiles. Stop
sponsoring and committing terrorism. Halt the
arbitrary detention of U.S. citizens.”
All are worthy policy goals. The first,
of course, has been met. The National Intelligence
Estimate on Iran concluded that Iran ended its
nuclear weapons program in 2003. There is no
evidence that the program has restarted. Instead, in
true Trumpian fashion, the administration simply
asserts the counterfactual. It claims that the
program has restarted, with slippery phrases about
seeking weapons or references to long-ended
activities. The media, overloaded with the Mueller
report and a daily cascade of lies, does not
challenge these claims.
I hope you read all of Cirincione and Kaszynski's article.
It's a cogent warning of a very real and ongoing threat.
The only problem with the article is its failure to provide
a real remedy to the problem, because drawing attention alone isn't going to do
anything. When was the last time Washington abandoned a corrupt and criminal
practice, policy or program just because fingers were pointed and wagged?
But I'll fill in that blank:
Dangerous and corrupt practices, policies and programs will stop
only when there's not enough money in the hands of the criminal actors to pay
for them, because the rest of us cease sending them that money. Thus, as with so many other matters of the swamp, the only
solution is the CtC solution,
which is to say, the Founders' solution.
In short, We the People (you and me) have to do as the Founders meant for us to do, and
stop fueling bad behavior
by people in power. We must make ourselves once again strong-- at their
expense-- just as they have made themselves strong at our expense over the last 80 years!
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.
May 9- In 1941, the British navy captures a
German submarine containing an 'Enigma' cryptography machine, allowing the
Allies to decrypt coded German messages. In 1945, Vidkun Quisling, who had been
installed as Premier of Norway after the country had been invaded and occupied
by Germany, is arrested. He would later be executed for treason. In 1960, the
US Food and Drug Administration approves the first oral contraceptive. In 1970,
between 75,000 and 100,000 Americans gather in front of the White House
protesting the war in Vietnam. In 1974, formal impeachment proceedings against
Richard Nixon for offenses stemming from a warrantless surveillance scheme begin
in the House of Representatives. In 2004, Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is
assassinated during a World War II memorial parade.
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.
May 10- In 1768, John Wilkes is imprisoned for
writing an article critical of King George III. The arrest prompts a riot by
his supporters. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convenes in
Philadelphia. In 1801, the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United
States of America after newly-inaugurated President Thomas Jefferson decided to
stop paying them the tribute they had been receiving from previous
administrations. In 1869, the Lincoln administration's transcontinental
railroad is completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad lines
meet in Promontory Summit, Utah. The Union Pacific organization had built west
from Council Bluffs, Iowa (a spot which was, at the time of selection, 150 miles
from the nearest existing rail line, but which offered Lincoln personal
political and financial benefits); Central had built east from Sacramento. Both
rail lines were heavily subsidized with land grants and were made subject to
permanent significant federal control, as were a number of other smaller lines
contracted to construct feeders from major terminal cities along the way. In
1994, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as president of South Africa after spending
27 years in prison for "crimes against the state", which included a campaign of
sabotage against military and civilian government targets, and the making of
plans for a guerilla war against the government. In 2012, terrorists supported
by the United States detonated two suicide car bombs outside government
buildings in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 and injuring 400. Some voices
challenge that assignment of responsibility, claiming that the Assad regime
carried out the bombings itself as a false-flag operation designed to justify
the regime's past and future actions. But everyone knows THAT kind of thing
never happens, right?
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.
Opening selected pages on
losthorizons.com comprising higher level legal
resources now requires the submission of testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
The videos must be accompanied by scans of a recent
educated filing along with responsive documents from
the IRS, whether in the form of a check, a notice
identifying and reflecting the filed return, or
"return" and "account" transcripts for the year for
which the return was filed.
Similarly, if
an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance,
I had better already 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 it's not too much. 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.”
May 11- In 1310, 54 members of the Knights
Templar are burned at the stake as heretics, having been tortured into
confessions to this effect by on the orders of King Philip IV of France, who was
deeply in debt to the order, and saw the charges as a way of eliminating this
problem and allowing the seizure of Templar assets, to boot . In 1858,
Minnesota becomes the 32nd of the several states, and is admitted into the union
as such. In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing "the Pentagon
Papers", a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report about the
history of the Government's internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam
War, are dismissed.
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 self-doubters, not
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
(give access permission to
stategroups@losthorizons.com), 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.
BTW: An encouraging and inspiring
video will earn you access to the restricted pages
on losthorizons.com and membership in the National
Forum if you have also sent me a recent educated
federal filing and IRS response (or relevant
"return" or "account" transcript).
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:
May 12- In 1780, Charleston, South Carolina is
captured by the British army. In 1862, Baton Rouge, Louisiana is captured by
the Union army. In 1941, the first fully-programmable, fully-automatic
computer, the Z3, was introduced by inventor Konrad Zuse, in Berlin, Germany.
In 1965, the Soviet Union's 'Luna 5' spacecraft crash-lands on the Moon. In
1967, Pink Floyd stages the first quadraphonic rock concert.
*****
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.
Further,
Iran is a long-time traditional ally of Russia.
While the endless claims about Iran and nuclear
weapons are as false as
and stayed lean and trim and in its place, the
junk-yard dog that has taken its place snarls at us for the food off our own plates. At the
same time the ugly beast roams at will outside the
fence, terrorizing the countryside, making enemies
to whom we will one day have to answer, and bringing
upon our beloved America-- in whose name it acts and
by whom it is empowered-- a deep moral stain.
In
short, with a little focused, sensible attention and
a well-tuned understanding on our part of who is
what in the relationship, the dangerous junk-yard
dog can be turned back into the faithful and humble
guard dog "we" called for at the very beginning of
our story. All we need to do is put an end to the
eat-as-much-red-meat-as-you-want diet.
