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.
July 15- In 1799, the Rosetta Stone is found in Rosetta, Egypt by members
of Napoleon's army. In 1959, 500,000 American steelworkers begin a 119-day
strike, leading to the first, and ongoing, significant importation of foreign
steel into the country. In 2002,
John Walker Lindh
makes a coerced "guilty" plea as part of one of the first of a series of
criminal acts related to the neocon "War on Terrorism" for which the Bush
administration attempted to
retroactively immunize its operatives and office-holders as part of the 2006
Military Commissions Act.
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
***
Middletown, Moonbeam!! August 3rd!
Be there for the next CtC Seminar, in New
York's beautiful Hudson Valley!!
... and a newly posted model of a
response with which to address these
particularly-lame ploys.
THE IRS IS INCREASINGLY DESPERATE in
recent years to discourage
CtC-educated filers, to
whose proper and accurate filings and claims it has
no legal recourse but surrender, and the resulting
loss of revenue for the ravenous maw of Leviathan.
The famous
"fake list" "frivolous return penalty"
hoax has been the agency's ploy of choice over most
of that time.
However, in a truly remarkable
escalation in frantic corruption the "fake list" ploy has
mutated, in some cases, into a fake "fake list"
hoax.
Here, "fake list" penalty threats are made
against events in which not only is there nothing
"frivolous" involved, but there is not even a filing involved!
Instead, these fake "fake list" penalty threats
are made against response letters sent by educated
Americans to the IRS. Often the targeted response
letters are those sent in
response and rebuttal to the "fake list" penalty
threats made against actual filings.
Let's take a look at how this works; at
the newly-posted prophylactic to the ploy; and at
the happy take-away.
HERE'S A TYPICAL EXAMPLE of the "fake
list" hoax:
Educated American "John Smith" files an
accurate and proper return reclaiming everything
withheld from him during 2018. Either before or
after John receives his refund, the frustrated IRS
takes a (grossly
illegal) shot at frightening John into reversing
himself and replacing his inconvenient filing with
one more to the liking of the tax agency by sending
him a letter threatening to charge him a $5,000
penalty if he doesn't do so.
The threat is based on the pretense of
an agency "determination" that
John's filing is based on a "position" identified by the
Secretary of the Treasury as "frivolous". (Filing a
return which manifests a desire to delay or impede
the administration of the tax laws can also draw the
penalty, but is never alleged in these cases.) The alleged
"position" is never identified on the threatening
letter.
Internal agency documents subsequently
secured by John show that no actual listed
"frivolous position to which the penalty can apply
has ever been alleged, and that the whole thing has
been a hoax involving the use of a fake "frivolous
positions" list.
Okay, so that's the standard "fake
list" penalty hoax.
Btw, let me share a very
important background fact before we proceed: By law, the
IRS
is allowed to allege a penalty for each
filing of a return
that is allegedly based on a listed "frivolous"
position-- not "submission" of a return, or
"mailing" of a return, or anything other than "filing"
of a return. (The penalty is also permitted when
frivolous-position-based requests for certain kinds
of hearings or applications are submitted, but these
alternative pretexts don't enter into the picture,
as will be seen.)
NOW, ON TO THE FAKE "fake list" hoax
escalation...
John fires off a response and rebuttal
to the "fake list" hoax threat. In an effort to make
sure the response and rebuttal are properly
understood and that relevant evidence is and will be
in the record if push comes to shove, John includes
a reference copy of his filed return (the details of
which he is describing in his rebuttal affidavit).
Eight months later, John finds another
"fake list" frivolous return penalty threat in his
mailbox. This new one also declares itself to be in
regard to John's filing for 2018, even though John
already got such a threat concerning his 2018
filing, and the IRS is only allowed to do this once
per filing incident.
When John deploys
the "Pushback
Project" document request to see what's going on,
he
discovers that the new "fake list" threat concerns a (supposedly frivolous) filing for 2018
which the agency says it received on or about the
date of John's response and rebuttal to the first
"fake list" penalty threat.
What is revealed is an IRS pretense
that the reference copy attached to John's response
and rebuttal to the first threat is a new filing, in
regard to which it is legally able to make another penalty
allegation!
PLAINLY, THE FAKE "FAKE LIST" HOAX is
nothing but rank bs on stilts. I have now posted an
example of a response letter and rebutting affidavit
for the benefit of anyone victimized by this
ridiculous and corrupt ploy alongside the
long-posted examples of response letter and
rebutting affidavit in regard to the simple "Fake
List" FRP hoax.
Find this new posted .pdf among the
other FRP hoax-related links
here.
As will be noted in the introductory observations in
that .pdf, the affidavit also has utility-- both in
terms of mental organization of the issue and as a
direct evidentiary artifact-- in any judicial
contest concerning the penalty allegations (whether
at an administrative or higher level) as well as for
purposes of a preemptive roadblock upon first
receipt of the penalty threat.
I WANT TO FINISH by pointing out to
everyone just how deeply-revealing of three
important facts this fake "fake list" ploy really
is. Please pay close attention.
The first of these important and
revealed facts is the increasingly-frantic
desperation of the tax agency in the face of
CtC-educated Americans, which is manifest in the
agency's resort to a ploy so utterly, 100% devoid of
plausible deniability.
Consider: Some agency bad behavior
enjoys a bit of cover
(such as being able to claim
reliance on "information returns" for asserting
liabilities even in the face of rebuttals and
contrary claims, or being able to pretend innocence
in making standard "fake list" FRP threats due to
having been deceived by the fake "positions" list in
the IRM). But here there
is absolutely no cover at all.
The reference copies of returns
targeted by the fake "fake list" hoax threats are
not sent to the IRS offices at which returns are
filed. They are almost always expressly described as
"copies" in the response letters to which they are
attached (and often have "COPY" written upon their
faces). They are always literal copies of
already-filed returns, dates and all and therefore
could not possibly be-- or be misunderstood to be--
replacements for those actual returns (and thus,
filings in their own right).
There is no "innocent mistake"
escape-hatch for this tax agency fraud,
and
it can only be deployed in the kind of utter
desperation which is fueled by recognition that
CtCIS the
sharpened stake suspended over the breast of the
"ignorance tax" scheme.
THE SECOND IMPORTANT FACT revealed by
the fake "fake list" hoax will not be a revelation
to this community, but will be to anyone not yet
CtC-educated: The IRS (and any other tax agency
engaged in this sort of resistance ) is playing a
hand with no cards supporting their positions (no
pun intended).
The deployment of this pretense-- and
the implications of its use-- should be used to
condemn everything done by the agency in regard to
CtC-educated filings. When one thing is shown to
be a lie, everything else must be seen as
presumptively suspect, by default. In judicial
contests, this fraud eviscerates what otherwise
would be an habitual judicial presumption of
correctness extended to IRS determinations.
THE THIRD IMPORTANT FACT revealed by
the indefensible, easily-shown fraud of the fake
"fake list" hoax is that the article below
(excerpted to the beginning of the relevant portion)
remains precisely correct, and should be guiding
everyone made a victim of this kind of agency bad
behavior:
The Best Response To Tax
Agency Bad Behavior
This simple step will make
a world of difference in how things end up.
...
IN ADDITION TO THE
PREDICTABLE TARGETS of tax agency resistance
described above, there are also a small number of
folks being treated to pretenses of tax agency
resistance which have no underlying basis of
possible legitimacy. These are folks who came to
CtC without baggage from the past (other than
the no-problem variety of having been taken in by,
and having cooperated with, the "ignorance tax"
scheme in all previous years).
Others in this category
include those whose past issues have either already
been put to rest, or are the sort easily fixed once
a complete and accurate understanding of the tax is
finally in hand.
The "resistance" pretenses
deployed against these uncompromised filers are
generally of two types:
the "frivolous return penalty" hoax and the
(federal-exclusive) absurd effort to under-refund a
claim by a no-explanation-attempted reservation of
FICA withholdings from an issued refund, such as is
documented and discussed
here.
It is these folks for whom
a hugely-effective response opportunity exists, and
here it is: GO TO THE MEDIA WITH YOUR STORY!!
THOSE OF YOU IN THE LATTER
CATEGORY of uncompromised resistance targets, who
are simply and unequivocally being jerked around by
a tax agency which just doesn't want to surrender to
the law without a fight, have everything you need to
present a great story to the press. This can be the
mainstream press or otherwise.
And you have your personal
story of transparently-invalid, bad-faith tax agency
efforts to violate the law by exploiting the fact
that no one in the press has known any of this or
has been paying attention.
July 16- In 1790, the District of Columbia is
established as the capital of the United States. In 1935, the world's first
parking meter is installed Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1945, the first nuclear
weapon is exploded in a test at Trinity, New Mexico. In 1957, John Glenn sets a
transcontinental speed record, flying from California to New York in 3 hours, 23
minutes and 8 seconds. In 1969, Apollo 11 is launched from the Kennedy Space
Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. In 1999, JFK Jr., is killed in a plane crash
in the Atlantic with his wife and sister-in-law.
*****
Want to get these Lost Horizons
newsletters delivered to your inbox?
Click here and subscribe to the group. Leave all
options at their default settings. Done!
*****
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).
Don't be fooled: those attacking him
want censorship powers not seen since the Nixon
administration.
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Trump administration officials were
enthusiastic when Ecuador decided to expel Julian
Assange from its embassy in London, where he had
received sanctuary for nearly seven years. British
authorities promptly jailed him for jumping bail on
sexual assault charges in Sweden, and U.S. officials
began plans to have Assange extradited to face
espionage charges in this country. He just turned 48
in prison on July 3.
Last month, the Department of Justice
added 17 counts to the one-count indictment that it
had filed years earlier. His current imprisonment in
Britain and the probability of a lengthy extradition
battle have delayed the prospect of a high-profile
trial in the United States, but that outcome remains
Washington’s goal. The United States reportedly
submitted a formal extradition request on June 6.
The issues at stake go far beyond
whether Assange is an admirable (or even a
reasonably likeable) person. He symbolizes a crucial
fight over freedom of the press and the ability of
journalists to expose government misconduct without
fear of criminal prosecution. Unfortunately, a
disturbing number of “establishment” journalists in
the United States seem willing—indeed, eager—to
throw him to the government wolves.
Official Washington’s hatred of Assange
borders on rabid. The website WikiLeaks, which he
and his colleagues founded in 2006, has published
voluminous quantities of leaked documents—in some
cases highly classified documents. Those revelations
have embarrassed, even discredited, powerful
government officials and political factions in the
United States and other countries. Among WikiLeaks’s
revelations were specifics about the torture of
terrorist suspects at CIA “black sites” in the
United States and allied countries, and evidence of
U.S. war crimes, notably brazen killings of
civilians, including two Reuters reporters, in Iraq.
Some of the most spectacular news accounts emerged
because of leaked documents that a young Army
private, Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning had given
to WikiLeaks.
U.S. officials were furious about such
information becoming public. They not only
prosecuted Manning for espionage—eventually imposing
a draconian 35-year prison sentence—but they filed
an espionage charge against Assange. The ongoing
attacks on him are a bid for censorship powers not
seen since the Nixon administration sought to
prevent The New York Times and The Washington Post
from publishing the Pentagon Papers. In that case,
the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the government’s bid
for prior restraint. The ruling did not explicitly
address the question of whether authorities could
prosecute journalists once a story using classified
documents was published. However, a succession of
administrations have refrained from pursuing that
option, and the prevailing assumption was that
post-publication attempts at prosecution might run
afoul of the courts as well. Individuals who leak
items to the press remained as vulnerable as ever to
prosecution for espionage, but members of the press
have enjoyed de facto immunity. With the Assange
case, that situation threatens to change.
I HOPE YOU READ ALL of Carpenter's article.
It's a highly-important call to America to wake up and recognize that our rights
are under corrupt attack in order to better conceal myriad other crimes carried
out by the same corrupt actors.
All of these crimes are made possible-- even
inevitable-- by the bloated size of the federal government, and this causal element highlights the one thing Carpenter fails to
include in his alarm: a
remedy to the problem. Simply drawing attention to systemic corruption
won't prevent it happening.
July 17- In 1794, sixteen Carmelite nuns are
guillotined by the Jacobins during the waning days of the Reign of Terror in
revolutionary France. In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family and retainers
are murdered by the Bolsheviks. In 1955, Disneyland opens. In 1996, TWA flight
800 mysteriously explodes off the coast of Log Island, resulting in the deaths
of all 230 aboard. In 1997, Woolworth's closes its last store, after 117 years
in business. In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over eastern
Ukraine, apparently by the leaders of the United States-fomented coup which
overthrew the elected government of Ukraine the previous February. The attack
may have been a hit on the wrong plane in an effort to assassinate Russian
leader Vladimir Putin, who was travelling the same route around the same time.
*****
A Wise Warrior With An
Uplifting Message
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."
...which should have a fair number of
folks steaming and stirring.
I HAD LUNCH THE OTHER DAY with a good
and virtuous warrior who, along with his wife, had
just received a nice, complete federal victory for
2017:
Here's the return Steve and Daisy
filed. You'll notice that the refund claim was for
$33,046.01. And the fact is, that's the amount Steve
and Daisy had refunded to them-- plus the interest
shown on the check, above. The total-- overpayment
plus interest-- was $34,848.71.
Here is the refund notice the couple
received a few weeks prior to the check, which
acknowledges that complete refund total (when the
accrued interest is added):
BUT, OF COURSE, the check Steve and
Daisy received is $10,000 short of the refunded
amount.
Why? Because that $10K was diverted by the
IRS to "frivolous return penalties" (one against
Steve and one against Daisy) allegedly arising on
the amended return they filed for 2014.
Here is
the first diversion notice, and
here
is the second.
That diversion was a criminal act, in
my opinion. But right now I'm not talking about the
crime of making bogus "frivolous" allegations.
Right now, I'm referring to the fact that in
this case Steve and Daisy had never been given the
due process required by law prior to the seizure of
their property:
(a) Requirement of notice before levy
(1) In general No
levy may be made on any property or right to
property of any person unless the Secretary has
notified such person in writing of their right to a
hearing under this section before such levy is made.
26 U.S. Code § 6330. Notice and
opportunity for hearing before levy
Steve and Daisy had gotten the
frivolous threat by way of a LTR3176C. They had even
gotten CP15s alleging that the threatened
penalties had been "charged".
See this one for Steve, for instance:
But note the date on this mere initial
assertion of a charge. These starting-point notices
were sent to Steve and Daisy less than three weeks
before their money was seized and the short refund
check issued.
Steve and Daisy had never gotten any
mandated
notice that levy was impending. Nor any mandated
notice of their right to
a hearing (along with a schedule of their mandated
30-day "hearing request" window) in which the levy
could be challenged before it is carried out.
I KNOW THAT A NUMBER OF OTHERS have
also been subjected to this same illegal behavior by
the IRS in recent months-- the diversion of refund
money to alleged "frivolous penalties" for which no
"collections due process hearing" opportunities have
been provided. The tax agency dreads those hearings, of course, because it knows it
cannot defend the penalty allegations.
I think anyone subject to this flatly
illegal treatment should be furious, and I suggest
that any such victim consider raising hell with
someone in the agency on an administrative level;
with his or her congressperson; and with a federal
district court if no satisfaction in the way of the
prompt return of this illegally-diverted money--
plus interest-- is quickly secured.
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE AND DAISY for their fine
victory on behalf of the rule of law, and not least
for the fact that in
securing it they exposed a crime by the IRS. Well
done, Steve and Daisy!!
Steve and Daisy's victory joins 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."
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 18- In 1925, Adolph Hitler publishes 'Mein
Kampf'. In 1942, the German military test flies the first jet-engine aircraft.
In 1962, Intel is founded. In 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy takes a drunken drive
off a bridge. Freeing himself from the sinking vehicle, he leaves his
passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, to drown.
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 19- In 1588, the Spanish Armada is sighted
in the English Channel. In 1979, the Sandinistas overthrow the U.S.-backed
Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. In 1990, Pete Rose is sentenced to five
months imprisonment for tax evasion. In 2007, the Dow Jones closes above 14,000
for the first time ever.
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 20- In 1903, Ford Motor Co. ships its first
car. In 1945, Congress ratifies the Bretton Woods agreement, making the U.S.
dollar (still redeemable on demand in gold for foreign holders at $35 to the
ounce) the reserve currency of the modern world. In 2003, two bombs explode
outside a tax office in Nice, France. In 2012, a gunman opens fire in a theater
in Aurora, Colorado during a showing of 'The Dark Knight Rises', killing 12 and
injuring 58. The theater chosen was
the only one in the area with a posted policy prohibiting weapons, thereby
ensuring that unlike people in other theaters in the area, several of which were
closer to the gunman's home, and were showing the same film, the victims of the
attack would be unable to defend themselves. (The gunman entered through an
emergency exit, thus evading the detection of his weapons.) In 2015, The United
States abandoned its 50-year-long campaign to oust the government of Fidel
Castro from Cuba by embargo, a policy which trampled on the rights of Americans
and impoverished generations of Cubans, all for nothing (actually, not quite for
nothing-- the policy prevented the kind of engagement between Cubans and
Americans that would have prompted organic change within Cuba and almost
certainly helped perpetuate the Castro regime for many more years then it would
have otherwise lasted).
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 21- In 1865, Wild Bill Hickock and Davis
Tutt inaugurate the "showdown". Hickock is the one that walks away. In 1925,
John Scopes is found guilty in a Dayton, Tennessee courtroom of teaching
evolution, and is fined $100. In 1931, television begins assaulting Americans
on a seven-days-a-week schedule in New York City. In 1954, Vietnam is
partitioned into North and South by the Geneva Accords. In 1969, Neil Armstrong
takes "one small step". In 2005, four terrorist bombings were allegedly
attempted in the London subway system two weeks after those discussed
here.
No bombs actually went off... In 2011, the final Space Shuttle flight landed.
*****
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.
Here, "fake list" penalty threats are made
against events in which not only is there nothing
"frivolous" involved, but there is not even a filing involved!
he
discovers that the new "fake list" threat concerns a (supposedly frivolous) filing for 2018
which the agency says it received on or about the
date of John's response and rebuttal to the first
"fake list" penalty threat.
(such as being able to claim
reliance on "information returns" for asserting
liabilities even in the face of rebuttals and
contrary claims, or being able to pretend innocence
in making standard "fake list" FRP threats due to
having been deceived by the fake "positions" list in
the IRM). 
There is no "innocent mistake"
escape-hatch for this tax agency fraud,
and
it can only be deployed in the kind of utter
desperation which is fueled by recognition that
.jpg){kind=link}
