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.
June 30- In 1805, Michigan is organized as a United States Territory. In
1859, Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. In 1882, Charles
Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of President James
Garfield. In 1934, Hitler purges Germany of his political rivals on the 'Night
of the Long Knives'. In 1953, the first Corvette rolls off the assembly line in
Flint, Michigan. In 1997, Britain turns Hong Kong over to The People's Republic
of China.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter 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
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Middletown, Moonbeam!! August 3rd!
Be there for the next CtC Seminar, in New
York's beautiful Hudson Valley!!
The Twelfth Annual
Declaration Day Partyis THIS SATURDAY, July 6. Get your RSVPs in!!
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Three Cognitive
Groundings and Food for Further Thought
...US v. USA; the frivolous "person";
and geese teaching ganders how to turn the worm.
Explaining "the United
States"
EVER HAD TROUBLE GETTING SOMEONE TO
UNDERSTAND the limits on what is known as the United
States in certain contexts? Here's a helpful tip:
Use the presidential "pardon" power as your
cognitive touchstone.
"[H]e shall have power to
grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the
United States..."
United States
Constitution, Article II, Sec. 2
This "pardon" subject is very current
right now. There's a lot of talk amongst the pundits
lately about the fact that Paul Manafort, Donald
Trump's one-time campaign manager, would still do
extended prison time on New York charges even if
Trump pardons him of all offenses against the United
States.
In these commentaries and discussions,
everyone recognizes that a "pardon for all offenses
against the United States" doesn't pardon anyone for
offenses against New York, or any other state of the
union. But few follow the cognitive path that leads
away from that starting point.
Anyone who DID follow the path would
recognize, consider and learn from the fact that
this is (and can only be) true because "the United
States" sometimes has a legal meaning that is separate and apart from those union states...
P.S. Don't forget about the additional
helpful material on this point found
here and on pp. 5-7 and 60 of
CtC.
***
On The "Person" Subject To
6702 Penalties
A DETAILED DISCUSSION ON THE "PERSON"
limitations imposed at 26 U.S.C. § 6671(b) in
regard to "frivolous return" penalties has been
posted for a number of years
here. And fascinating limits they are,
especially in the manner in which those limits
synchronize so harmoniously and and in a
mutually-supporting, mutually-illuminating fashion
with the specifications of 26 U.S.C. § 6020(b)!
Elsewhere
can be found discussion of the fact that
imposition of the "frivolous return penalty" would
constitute an impermissible speech and due process
violation if threatened or imposed against
individual Americans simply filing for their own
purposes of declaring amounts of "income"; rebutting
erroneous "information return" allegations; and/or
claiming the return of moneys improperly or
excessively withheld, paid-in or collected.
Together, these two presentations on
the intertwining of related statutory (and in the
one case, Constitutional) provisions produce a very
powerful body of authority concerning a subject of
considerable interest to some. I've added links
between my two posts mentioned above, and encourage
anyone concerned with these penalties-- whether the
common
hoax variety or otherwise-- to take note and
make good use of both together.
I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH MANY of the
filings made by the "United States" in faux-legal
attacks upon me over the years since
CtC was first published. In doing so I have been
reminded of a contrivance regularly used by the bad
guys from which those of us in the good guys column
could learn a useful lesson.
The attacks I'm studying have all been
intended to accomplish the suppression of
CtC by one means or another, as chronicled and
discussed
here. All of them, of course, are distinguished
by their reliance on falsehoods and frauds (as
in the example discussed and documented here)
since the folks responsible have no truths available
to support their purposes.
Over the years I have seen other
filings by the same kennel of attack dogs in cases
involving other folks. Though not as acute in
rabidity as those directed at me (and later at
Doreen when the suppression effort got really
desperate and abandoned even a pretense of
legitimacy), the objects of these other filings have
also been at odds with the facts and the law, and so
also relied on craft and spin and lies.
WHAT IS NOTICEABLE ABOUT THESE FILINGS
is their very consistent tendency to incorporate
ad hominem smears, slanders and calumnies
directed at the litigant-target. Needless to say,
none of these shots at character assassinations are
actually relevant to the legal issues with which the
filings are purportedly concerned.
Early on, when I was first being faced
with this stuff myself, I actually believed it to be
innocent. I thought it was the product of folks who
simply hadn't yet had, or taken, the time to do the
reading and discover that no, I'm not actually a
"tax protestor" or someone just trying to work an
angle by which I would pay less.
Of course, these personal attacks are
really not the least bit innocent. They are, rather,
a form of cheating by the corrupt officials
responsible-- something that becomes impossible to
misunderstand when you see the same lies appear even
in rulings by courts co-opted into the process.
While aggressive spin and even personal
attacks by one's nominal adversary in a legal battle
may be unseemly and cheap, they are not unexpected--
especially when deployed by an adversary who hasn't
any real cards to play. It IS, after all, a
legal battle.
But when aggressive spin and personal
attacks appear in court judgments, which are NOT
supposed to be part of any legal battle, but are
supposed to be impartial, dispassionate and entirely
disengaged applications of the law to the facts...
well, you know you're not in Kansas anymore,
Dorothy.
SO, WHAT'S TO BE LEARNED FROM THIS?
Well, first let's recognize that these ad hominem
attacks have a purpose. They are not just
fulminations by foamy-mouthed junk-yard-snarlers
that can't help spewing bile. Instead, they are PR
projects.
The attacks are meant to influence the
perceptions of anyone who might read the filings or
rulings. They are meant to instill hostility or
contempt toward the targeted litigant. The chief
perceptions meant to be influenced are those of the
next court in which an adverse decision will be
challenged (with journalists and possible honest
souls in the ranks of government attorneys being the
second tier of targeted readers).
If fully effective, the ad hominem
attacks will preclude that higher court (and those
others) from ever looking beyond the smears and
going through the considerable trouble of closely
reading and fairly considering the filings of the
smeared litigant. After all, why bother to read
closely-- if at all-- through the sort of nonsense
one would expect to encounter in the filings of what
you have been told by a presumptively-respectable
colleague is just an odious tax-evader? Who's got
time for that, right?
Second, let's recognize that the
good guys could benefit from the same practice, with
the significant difference in application being that
the good guys use of the technique would not involve
"smears, slanders and calumnies" at all. The good
guys would just be reciting indisputable facts, and
if done right off the bat, would be directing those
possibly-influential facts at the first court that
will be dealing with the matter and at least setting
the stage for better odds of an actually-impartial
proceeding and outcome.
For instance, consider a Response or
Reply brief-- in a matter that shouldn't have to be
litigated in the first place, and only is because of
government malfeasance-- in which is deployed
language like this:
"Our opponents in this
matter, the United States and its agent, the IRS,
are well-established law-breakers and dissemblers,
especially where the subject of taxes are concerned.
As this Honorable Court is doubtless well aware,
only a few short years ago their long-running "phone
tax" scam, by which Americans were illegally bilked
for 100 years based on an outrageous IRS distortion
of statutory language, was recognized and denounced
by every Court of Appeals to finally pay attention
to aggrieved litigants on the subject (after many
years of failing to do so). SeeAm.
Bankers Ins. Group v. United States, 408 F.3d
1328 (11th Cir. 2005) (ABIG); OfficeMax, Inc. v.
United States, 428 F.3d 583 (6th Cir. 2005);
Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. United States, 431
F.3d 374 (D.C. Cir. 2005) (Amtrak); Fortis v.
United States, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 10749 (2d
Cir. Apr. 27, 2006); and Reese Bros. v. United
States, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 11468 (3d Cir. May
9, 2006). Attorneys from the same DoJ arguing on
behalf of the United States and IRS in the instant
case persistently and shamelessly argued on behalf
of the phone-tax scheme, all in obvious bad faith or on behalf of
bogus arguments.
Not long before that, in
1998, Congress was compelled to enact sweeping
constraints and reforms on the United States and its
IRS in response to massive systematic abuse of the
law by the agency, for which victims were finding no
relief in United States courts (The IRS
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998). Just a very
few short years ago, in 2013, the IRS was caught
abusing tax-exemption rules in service to the
criminal purposes of other United State officials,
and eventually even going so far as to destroy
evidence in the case despite it being under a
Congressional subpoena (the "Lois Lerner" affair).
Sadly, it is clear that in
the instant proceedings these serial malefactors
continue in their corrupt ways. For instance..."
At the very least, such background
reminders/information should help ensure that
debunks of the government's inapt, inaccurate,
incomplete and/or out-of-context case citations get
actually read, and that counter-arguments get
respectfully considered.
I THINK IT'S BEEN FAR TOO LONG that
liars and cheats have had free run of the playground
because their honest opponents (read: victims) are
by nature more polite and respectful. And frankly,
while ranting or red-eyed anger would be improper
and counter-productive even when done by one's
"official" opponents, I would think that generally
the propriety of politeness and respect in a contest
can be fairly gauged by the degree to which each is
or is not on display in the government's own
filings.
What's good for the goose is good for
the gander, and turnabout is fair play, especially
when all you're telling is the truth.
July 1- In 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg
begins. In 1870, the United States Department of Justice (sic) begins official
operations. In 1921, the Communist Party of China is founded. In 1931, United
Airlines begins to do business (as Boeing Air Transport). In 1963, United
States Postal Service ZIP codes are introduced. In 1968, the CIA's 'Phoenix
Program' of terrorism and assassination begins its first campaign, in South
Vietnam. In 1979, Sony introduces the 'Walkman' portable, personal CD player.
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The Entire Legal And
Practical Truth About The Income Tax In Three Short
Sentences
Focus on these simple points and
you can teach anyone the truth about the tax.
1. The income tax is an
excise.
2. Excise taxes are taxes
on the gainful exercise of privileges.
3. You probably didn't earn your
money by exercising any taxable privilege (or earned very
little that way).
In fact, some people do want war,
including a certain New York Times columnist.
The teaser for a recent
Bret Stephens column in The New York Times
accurately summarizes its contents: “If Iran won’t
change its behavior we should sink its navy."
We’ve done it before and, by golly, we
can do it again. Stephens offers his readers this
sanitized version of history to make his case: “On
April 14, 1988, the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts, a
frigate, hit an Iranian naval mine while sailing in
the Persian Gulf. The explosion injured 10 of her
crew and nearly sank the ship. Four days later, the
U.S. Navy destroyed half the Iranian fleet in a
matter of hours. Iran did not molest the Navy or
international shipping for many years thereafter.”
Stripped bare of context, that
paragraph is factually correct. But stripping it of
context, as Stephens does, transforms it into a form
of untruth, not a blatant lie perhaps, but an
exercise in sleight of hand. Indeed, the very
purpose of his column is not to enlighten, but to
deceive and manipulate.
Americans are susceptible to this sort
of argument. We like to think that the Pearl Harbor
attack came out of the blue, ignoring the years of
escalating antagonism between the United States and
Japan that preceded it. Our version of the 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis portrays it as an unprovoked
act of aggression, conveniently forgetting U.S.
efforts over the previous two years to overthrow or
assassinate Fidel Castro. And we prefer to divorce
decades of muddled U.S. policies in the Middle East
from the heinous crime of 9/11, pretending that the
former played no role in inspiring the latter.
Yet bad history leads to bad policy.
Stephens implicitly suggests that the incident
involving the Samuel B. Roberts was itself an
unprovoked attack. In fact, the story is a bit more
complicated and those complications deserve
reflection today.
Here is just some of the context that
Stephens chooses to leave out.
I hope you read all of Bacevich's article.
It's a highly-important call to America to wake up and recognize that we're
being subjected to a steady snow-job by interested parties wanting war on Iran
for purposes of their own and who won't hesitate to dissemble their way to that
goal.
The only problem with the article is its failure to provide a
better remedy than just announcing the danger. Simply drawing attention to systemic corruption
trying hard to sucker Americans into the commission of war crimes
on OUR part, in Iran, at the expense of American blood and treasure and
reputation and moral stature, won't prevent it happening.
July 2- In 1776, the Continental Congress adopts
a resolution of independence from Great Britain. In 1937, Amelia Earhart and
Fred Noonan make their last radio transmission from somewhere over the Pacific.
In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opens. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. In 1976, North and South Vietnam merge to form the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In 2002, Steve Fossett flies solo and nonstop
around the world in a balloon.
*****
A Wise Warrior On What's Really
At Stake
*****
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.
July 3- In 1775, George Washington takes command
of the Continental Army. In 1778, British Loyalists massacre 360 American
patriots in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. In 1884, the Dow Jones publishes its
first stock average. In 1890, Idaho is admitted to the union as the 43rd of the
several states. In 1952, the United States Congress approves what passes for
Puerto Rico's Constitution. In 1988, the USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air
flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 aboard. In 2013, the first
legitimately-elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi-- the democratic choice
of Egyptians after their ouster of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak-- is
overthrown in a coup by Mubarak's still-entrenched military and judicial
apparatus. The US promptly announced its approval, bizarrely describing the
event as a "restoration of democracy".
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.
July 4- In 1776, the Declaration of Independence
is formally adopted by the Second Continental Congress. In 1826, Thomas
Jefferson and John Adams both pass from among us. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau
begins his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond. In 1862, Lewis Carroll spins a yarn
for Alice Liddell. In 1934, the engineering for an atomic bomb is patented by
Leo Szilard. In 1946, 48 years after the United States claimed ownership of the
Philippines and crushed resistance to its occupation at the cost of a million
dead Filipinos, the country is granted independence.
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. Names must be shown in
full.
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.”
July 5- In 1687, Isaac Newton publishes his 'Philosophiæ
Naturalis Principia Mathematica', laying out the foundation of his revolution in
human understanding of the natural world. In 1865, the Salvation Army is
founded in East London. In 1937, the highest temperature ever recorded in
Canada-- 113 O F-- is reached. In 1946, the bikini is introduced in France. In
1954, Rock 'n' Roll is born, with Elvis Presley's first commercial recording
session. In 1996, Dolly the sheep is produced by cloning. In 1999, President
Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban government of
Afghanistan.
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. Naming yourself is a requirement, and your
name will appear as a subtitle on the video when I
prepare it for posting, in any event.
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:
July 6- In 1415, early Protestant reformer John
Huss is burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1535, Sir Thomas
More is executed by English King Henry VIII for refusing to countenance Henry's
decision to formally transform the Church of England into a Protestant church.
In 1785, the dollar of silver-- 27 grams-- is chosen as the official American
currency. In 1854, the first Republican Party convention is held. In 1887, the
King of Hawaii is forced at gunpoint to sign a new Constitution written by
Americans living in the islands which transferred power to the foreigners and
set the stage for Hawaii's annexation by the United States.
*****
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.
