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The News Current Events and Continuing Education for May 27, 2019 “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy! If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying 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!)
Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fifteenth) edition of CtC!
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*** -Samuel Adams PEOPLE: This year's Declaration Day Party will be held on Saturday, July 6. Mark your calendars and get your RSVPs in!! And speaking of upcoming events: Middletown, Moonbeam! The next CtC Seminar will be in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley, Saturday, August 3! Get more info here, and get your RSVPs in EARLY, please!! *** Meet Matthew, Kevin, Justin & Brianna, And Scott ...more American heroes, bringing on the 1776 storm! LAST FEBRUARY I first heard from newly-minted CtC warrior Matthew Bossard. Matthew emailed me with a rather tentative tone, then. Matthew was confident that what he had learned in CtC, and what he had consequently done with the knowledge, were correct. But Matthew had let years chasing "tax honesty" will o' the wisps deep into the weeds-- including years of non-filing-- get him into what he now knew to be a serious hole. Matthew was manfully squaring-up. But he had a lot to overcome or undo, and knew it. Hence, that tone back at the beginning of the year when he wrote to introduce himself. Last week, I heard from a rather differently-demeanored Matthew (into whose message I am inserting links to mentioned documents): Hello Pete, At long last, it is my pleasure to share a definitive victory for 2004! After the last docs I sent you for 2004, in April I received a scary Letter 525 "we're auditing you", which threatened a potential "Notice of Deficiency". I'd already received same for 2003 (still fighting that one), so I was ready and quickly sent a well-tuned and thorough response, including (for the first time) the affidavit, which I now understand is extremely important (I didn't yet know about this for my 2003 Letter 525 response, and they blew off my response and are now claiming I must file a petition with the Tax Court. Coincidence?) Then on May 13, I received a "we're reviewing your response" letter. Then today, I received a "No Change Letter"!!! Ha!
My situation of idiotically not filing for so many years is probably more unique, but hopefully this documented victory for 2004 might be encouraging and instructive to anyone else out there in a similar position. So... one down, multiple to go. Thanks, -Matthew Here is the return Matthew had filed for 2004-- more than 13 years belated, but thoroughly educated. Btw, Matthew's filing had not just had the focused attention of the audit/examination which had ended in that abandoned proposed tax due and threat of Deficiency litigation. The agency attention to his return had begun with a flat-out challenge to Matthew's "income" figures, a pointless (and flatly wrong) dispute of his withholding figures, and a disallowance of his refund claim. Only after all that came the notice of an audit and proposed $27,014.40 tax due, making clear that Matthew's filing received a lot of attention before that nice, polite standing-down letter displayed above. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Here is what I got from Matthew a few days later: Just got Notice CP24 for 2015 in the mail today! This one is special, as it's my first year of actually being eligible to get back what they took, according to the 3 year rule. No check expected yet though, as they'll likely apply it to what they think I owe for previous years (which I am still working on). But, it's progress nevertheless, and I am optimistic for getting it back eventually. A few interesting bits of commentary on this one. As you can see, they sent me the infamous LTR 4883C identity verification (also for 2014, 2016, and 2017). So, I readied all my documents according to their instructions, expecting I would need them. After calling the number and waiting on hold for an hour, they didn't ask me a single question having to do with my identity. All they asked was one single very conspicuous question - if I had income for 2015! I answered "no". They actually asked it several times in different ways, and each time I answered that I had no income. They finally said, "please hold", then 15 minutes later they came back on and said, "We will not be able to verify your identity at this time. Please make an appointment with your local IRS branch office." Several weeks later I went to my appointment. The woman that helped me was friendly, but when she started looking at my returns, she was scratching her head and telling me I had made mistakes, and that I couldn't have zero income if I had withholdings. She started lightly penciling in some corrections on my returns, probably just trying to be helpful! I politely told her I appreciated her help, but that it was my understanding that I was only there to verify my identity, and that I also needed to get back to work. She acquiesced, and after about 30 seconds on her computer, she said I was verified, handed me back all my paperwork, and I was out of there. You may also notice that I had tried to carry forward my 2014 overpayment to year 2015. This was actually a mistake, as 2014 was past the 3 year mark, and they did adjust that. However, they also did acknowledge that I had zero wages/income, and credited a refund of all 2015 withholdings! Plus interest! Thanks! HERE IS MATTHEW'S filing for 2015; and here is his refund notice (with interest added on):
Here are the agency calculations from the second page of the notice, acknowledging that Matthew had had no "income" and owed no tax, while having had $8,589.29 withheld in error from the money he was being paid for his work during 2015:
WELL DONE, Matthew! *** Kevin in North Carolina KEVIN IS ANOTHER FIRST TIME VICTOR, and this week shares a complete refund, as a result of an educated filing, of everything withheld from him and given to North Carolina during 2018:
WELL DONE, Kevin! *** Justin & Brianna (Osnain) Gilmore JUSTIN & BRIANNA ARE SHARING THEIR SECOND educated victory in enforcing the law and restoring the republic. This one is a complete refund of everything withheld from the couple and given to the feds during 2017, plus interest for the year's delay in issuing this check just a few weeks ago in response to a return filed in April of 2018:
WELL DONE, Justin & Brianna! *** Scott Hannon SCOTT ALSO SHARES HIS SECOND VICTORY this week-- a complete refund of everything withheld from his pay and given to Alabama against the possibility that anything he had done in earning his money was taxable, which the state has now agreed was not the case:
Here is the educated filing that produced this victory for the rule of law, though only after something I had yet to see before now-- an identity challenge by a state tax agency. (Federal ID challenges are not uncommon, of course-- see them discussed here, and in fact, in Matthew Bossard's 2015 victory posted above.) WELL DONE, Scott! MATTHEW AND KEVIN AND JUSTIN & BRIANNA AND SCOTT'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? It's easy. Stand up on behalf of the law, and then share the evidence. That's all there is to it! 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." -Samuel Adams CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here. Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's? Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you.
No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do. *** Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter Notes And Tips For Educated Filers
Regarding the Power Of Impeachment It's not what many folks like to imagine or argue... The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. United States Constitution, Article II, Section IV PRETTY SIMPLE WORDS, in that section above. But a lot of folks misunderstand them nonetheless, and incorrectly imagine that some kind of crime needs to be proven in order to validly impeach a federal office-holder. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reason for the misunderstanding is that people typically translate old language styles into modern meanings, when those styles incorporate words still in use today. In such cases we easily forget that 232 years ago, the words, though spelled and pronounced the same, had different or more nuanced meanings. "Misdemeanor" is a good example. Today "misdemeanor" is a term endlessly put in front of modern Americans as simply the lesser category of criminal offense than its "felony" counterpart. Any other meaning of the word-- such as the one in use when the Constitution was written and ratified-- is pushed out of the modern mind. "High crimes" is quirkier, in that we don't formally call felonies "high crimes". But we think of them that way, in part because of the relevance of "felonies" in modern criminal law practice to "misdemeanors". Because the latter is an actual criminal category which, in that context, means what might well be called "low crimes", it is easy to translate "high crimes" as being another way of saying "felonies". Under the influence of these modern usages and associations, then, today's eyes can readily imagine "high Crimes and misdemeanors" in the Constitution to mean (and be confined to) actual criminal offenses. But it is not so. AS A MATTER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, "misdemeanor" simply means "bad behavior", with no inherent criminal aspect at all. The first definition of "misdemeanor" in the Random House College Dictionary, Revised Edition, reads, "1. misbehavior, or an instance of it.." No more does "high Crimes" mean merely "felonies". Rather, the phrase-- though certainly embracing such conduct as would qualify for any and all felony indictments today-- refers also, and more particularly in the Constitutional context, to the class of offense of which only those in high office are capable. That is, to offenses against the public trust and public weal. You needn't take my word for it. Though as odious a figure as ever disgraced a public office in American history, and a horrendously evil influence on the choice of path taken by the United States down through the centuries, Alexander Hamilton, like the other authors of the Federalist Papers, nonetheless stands as a valid and authoritative source for the meaning and intent of many provisions in the pre-Bill of Rights Constitution. Like them or not, the Federalist Papers had a great and inarguable
influence on what was understood by Constitutional language in the minds
Hence, we can resort to Hamilton's words in Federalist 65 to discern the meaning of "high Crimes and Misdemeanors", and there we find this: "The subjects of [the impeachment power's] jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself." Going on, and arguing for the propriety of the trial being conducted by the Senate, "What, it may be asked, is the true spirit of the [impeachment] institution itself? Is it not designed as a method of NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men? If this be the design of it, who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?" Further, Hamilton points out, the several state governments which have incorporated impeachment as a legislative prerogative, and Great Britain, "...seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the government. Is not this the true light in which it ought to be regarded?" Taking the subject up again in Federalist 79, Hamilton describes impeachment as the intended mechanism to address "malconduct". Plainly, "crime" as such, as thought of in modern terms, is at most just a subclass of the larger class of impeachable conduct. UNFORTUNATELY, (though unsurprisingly), those who wish to shield from the process any particular target of impeachment considerations do their very best to play upon the misunderstanding of the institution to which modern sensibilities are prone. In doing so they shamelessly invoke and exploit the fallacies discussed in the beginning of this commentary. But those ARE fallacies, and the shielding effort is spin. It is itself a misdemeanor, in the generic sense of the word; and if committed by one in a position of public trust and honor, who must be imagined to know the truth (or is responsible, by virtue of office and the oath under which it is held, to have sought out and learned the truth), is even a high Crime. IN THE END, THIS IS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER: Impeachment is appropriate whenever one in public office in the United States acts in a manner unfit for the office, such as by disgracing it, failing to carry out the duties it imposes, exercising it in such a way as to cause harm to the public weal, exercising it in violation of any provision or principle of the Constitution, whether codified as a specific crime by Congress or not, or in any other way which the House of Representatives finds suited to the remedy. Neither, murder or its like, nor obstruction of justice, or even jaywalking need be alleged. The simple dissatisfaction of the House with the conduct, performance or demeanor of the office-holder is enough. FINALLY, let us also rebut and correct the absurd propaganda that somehow impeachment is a dread and dire tool, the use of which is monumental in gravity and consequence, and only proper to be hauled out of a dank and dusty toolbox in extremity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Impeachment, even of presidents, is of little greater moment than is a "vote of no confidence" in the British parliament (or any other). Nearly two dozen British Prime Ministers have been put out of office this way over about the same period of time that we have had presidents. During the better part of that span Britain puttered along in high cotton (even while not so much in high honor). Impeachment is not a dramatic remedy-- it is just Constitutional penicillin. At the same time, it is the one and only tool in the toolbox meant to keep office-holders on guard against their baser instincts and honest and respectful of the People. It should be used often, because let's face it, power corrupts. I WOULD LOOK FONDLY on an amendment to the Constitution requiring the legislature to impeach and remove from office the lowest-scoring 5% of all life-tenured federal judges each year, on the advice of a congressional committee established to assess the fidelity of the judiciary to the express specifications of the laws as written (as opposed to creative "interpretations" or the resort to convenient case-law precedents, aka, "stare decisis"). Likewise, I think America would be profoundly healthier, safer, freer, and more prosperous had Harry Truman been impeached for any one of his many offenses (but especially his violation of the war powers provision of the Constitution), just to pick one low-hanging example. In fact, we'd be dramatically better off-- both for the immediate cessation of harm and the deterrent message sent to successors-- had the remedy been applied to either or both of the Roosevelts, or LBJ, or Wilson. On a better late than never basis, we would have benefitted from the application of the remedy and the deterrent to Clinton, W., and Obama. All three should have been impeached for their war powers violations and their violation of 22 U.S.C. §§ 2799aa and 2799aa-1. W. and Obama, at least, should have also been impeached for the massive Fourth Amendment violations they have instituted or perpetuated (but that's just my opinion, of course, and not really relevant-- the important thing for purposes of this commentary is understanding what qualifies for impeachment, not how I think those qualifications should be applied...). SO, REMEMBER, PLEASE-- no "criminal offense" need be alleged or proven to impeach a president (or any other office-holder). Criminal offenses will do, but all that is really necessary is behavior (or incompetence) that displeases a majority of the People. And no worries. Even a Constitutionally-specified but unsatisfactory replacement for an impeached office-holder can be broomed-out just as easily and properly-- so, no smirking, Pence... CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here. Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Some Good Perspective From The Delightfully Sardonic John Prine Another guy who's always had his head screwed on pretty straight, even though with a decidedly whimsical tilt. Tweets, Gabs And Posts For Everyone To Use A handy collection of Thought-Provokers and Dialogue-Starters sized for use on any platform. THE FOLLOWING SHORT POSTS are all under 300 characters (with spaces), and so can be used as-is on Twitter, Gab, Facebook, or wherever. Please post them all widely and often!! BTW, this list may get additions and updates throughout the week, so check back now and then! Here are the posts: *** If ever proof was needed that the Iranian regime is not the mindless monster portrayed by its enemies, simply consider all the years over which it has patiently refrained from quietly and anonymously putting down junk-yard-dog John Bolton. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/16/john-bolton-trump-iran-nuclear-deal-danger *** Want to save Julian Assange? Put on your grown-up pants at long last and trumpet the state-restraining truth about the income tax. Shrink Leviathan back down to law-respecting size. See-- and g*d*mnit, read-- http://losthorizons.com/N/41.htm#Remedy *** Want to know what Trump administration aggression against Iran is really all about? Enabling Israeli seizure of water resources from Lebanon. See the documentation at http://losthorizons.com/A/MBJCPOA.htm *** Never before seen in America: Outright govt. misrepresentations of what would be seen by reading a disfavored, whistle-blowing book, in an effort to discourage that reading and keep the govt. crime covered-up a little longer. See the documentation at http://losthorizons.com/Documents/FalseAscriptions.pdf *** Whatever may be in the Mueller report, Trump should be impeached for perpetuating warrantless surveillance in violation of the 4th amendment; for violation of the war powers provisions of the Constitution; and for violating 22 USC 2799: http://losthorizons.com/N/20.htm#PageOne *** Do you suspect that the $billions in 100% refunds secured by CtC-educated Americans over the last 16 years have been just the most amazing, sustained tax agency screw-up in history? Not hardly. See the truth about that at http://losthorizons.com/tax/Gauntlet.pdf *** Want to meet a few of the tens of thousands of CtC-educated American heroes who are busy restoring the republic for everyone? Visit http://losthorizons.com/BulletinBoard.htm#Videos and just start watching these short and fascinating films. *** A CtC-educated American shuts down an IRS effort to collect an alleged $457,000 liability dating back to 2003 after learning the truth about the tax and filing knowledgeably in 2015: https://youtu.be/m29KL-JRLlo *** WANT TO GUT the Military-Industrial Complex before it wreaks more havoc and creates more orphans and refugees? Learn and spread the truth about the income tax at http://losthorizons.com/A/TheNatureOfTheTax.pdf. See what will happen, at http://losthorizons.com/CtCLife.htm. *** WANT TO SEE the Military-Industrial Complex, and all its harm, shut down? Urge ______ to shelve the ego and start spreading the state-restraining truth about the income tax at http://losthorizons.com/A/TheNatureOfTheTax.pdf. See what will happen, at http://losthorizons.com/CtCLife.htm. [Fill in the blank from the following list of big-voice pundits who have gotten my newsletters for years apparently without ever personally reading any of them, and in any event without ever sharing anything: Lew Rockwell, Paul Craig Roberts, Chuck Baldwin, Bruce Fein, Ray McGovern, G. Edward Griffin, Glenn Greenwald, Robert Higgs, Tom DiLorenzo, Tom Woods, KrisAnne Hall, Sheryl Attkisson, John Whitehead, Radley Balko, William Anderson, Stephen Lendman, Philip Giraldi, Kim Strassel, and William Binney.] *** ON BEHALF ON JULIAN ASSANGE, and all of those to whom he has delivered truth at great personal expense, I denounce in the strongest terms every American who needlessly finances the thugs who persecute that good man but should know better, as shown here. *** @Wikileaks, why are you not spreading the state-restraining truth about the American income tax?! You have a big voice, and could make all that is described at http://losthorizons.com/CtCLife.htm happen-- fast enough, even, to spare Julian Assange what otherwise lies before him. *** A Word From The United Bitches of America
NOTE: If you share this video around (and I know you will), keep in mind that some viewers will fool themselves into thinking that just forwarding such things around is the same as actually doing something to fix the problem of the criminal state. Be sure to preemptively correct this misunderstanding, and provide links and an admonition to get CtC-educated and CtC-activated. *** DO YOU WANT TO PREVENT the imminent crimes against the Iranian people? Learn the truth about the income tax at http://losthorizons.com/TheNatureOfTheTax.pdf and put it to use as shown at http://losthorizons.com/CtCLife.htm. *** AN UNMISTAKABLE, INDISPUTABLE subordination of American law and interests to the purposes of a foreign state is being committed by President Trump and others in public office: http://losthorizons.com/N/20.htm#PageOne. Why is no one speaking of this? *** YOU'VE BEEN SCREWED HARD your entire adult life by the biggest Deep State scheme in American history. See it exposed in just a few pages of documentation at http://losthorizons.com/A/TheNatureOfTheTax.pdf. *** AND HERE IS SOMETHING TO POST anywhere possible as a response to righteous-- but thus far toothless- expressions of outrage at what is being done to Julian Assange and our right to know what our servant government is really up to: So, Friend, you rightly raise hell about the outrages being perpetrated on the heroic Julian Assange. And yet, you continue to personally finance every one of those outrages, and have made no effort to inform your readers of the fact that the odds are neither they, nor you, need be doing so under the law. I challenge and implore you to visit http://losthorizons.com/The16th.htm. Learn the liberating and empowering truth about the American income tax that has led tens of thousands of American men and women to cease paying for the war crimes and other offenses Julian Assange has exposed, and also to be spared the moral taint for financing the "official" street crimes of the kind by which Assange is being victimized. These educated Americans have taken back $billions (with a "b") from the United States-- see about 1,300 examples of these complete recoveries of amounts withheld or paid-in as tax at http://losthorizons.com/BulletinBoard.htm. See what it would mean if more Americans knew what these good folks know, at http://losthorizons.com/CtCLife.htm. Spread this critically-important information and become a big part of the solution, rather than continuing to be a small but definite part of the problem. (NOTE: A little customization as needed will make this a suitable post in response to griping about any number of government offenses...) ++++ BTW, if you do tweets, gabs and posts of your own composition (as I hope you do), PLEASE make a point of including links to the material on losthorizons that you want your readers to see! Find them all here and here (a newsfeed reader will be needed to see the links at that latter resource, which lists and links to all newsletter articles of the last year or so...). CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here. Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend *****
Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial
FIND AND SHARE this video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/4UKUs9ErBDU. Learn how (and why) to share YOUR testimony, here. ***** The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up. ***** IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up. ***** Cognitive dissonance in action. ***** Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium? Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda. The Law, In Seven Pages Really. HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES. HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES. Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money for their own uses. If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that use.
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EVERYONE!!! DUE TO CHRONIC AND ESCALATING interferences by ISPs (or others) which have made direct newsletter emails an extremely time-consuming and increasingly unreliable announcement mechanism, I have transitioned to alternative announcement methods. These include:
If you choose one of these social media options (or use them in addition to other means, as I wish you would), PLEASE get the full value out of them by diligently "liking" and "retweeting" or "sharing" or "reposting" my posts! That will significantly improve their visibility to others, and very much help the cause!!
(Members of the state CtC Warrior forums in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MI, MN, MO, NE, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA or WI, will continue to get the regular announcements if the membership is set to receive email updates.) NOTE: I will still not be engaging in correspondence by any of these alternative means-- those wishing to correspond with me should continue to use direct email for this purpose. NOTE II: PLEASE help ensure that others in the CtC community know about this change in newsletter delivery!!
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Thank goodness the sun is now shining...
Regarding Trolleries (Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")
FFOR 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. Click here for the rest of this article
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** 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.
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***** How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community It's simple:: KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC 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. ***** The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment' 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... *****
Do you have a victory to share? Click here to learn how to do so.
If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go here to learn what to do. Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD on request containing six informative and inspiring videos-- 112 minutes in all. Click here for the details. ***** 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.
Copy and post this one around, people!le!
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists class
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... *****
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." -George Orwell *****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison How About You? Are You Governing Yourself? Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated..
***** Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing
Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution? IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.
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'Don't Tread On Me' Polo Shirts Say It All!
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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “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
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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost'?"
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***** About The Author Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students. Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country. Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm. Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website. On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years. Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his next book. © All written and graphic material on this page and website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed. |
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those who ratified the instrument, and thus can be looked-to for clarification of the ratifier's intent. Only the expressions of and during the actual ratification
proceedings in the various legislatures of the states carry more weight in this
regard (with due respect to be given in some case to Madison's Notes on the
Constitutional Convention, in which are sometimes to be found expressions on the
intent of the Framers concerning items not discussed elsewhere).
