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 29- In 1588, the English navy defeats the Spanish Armada off the
coast of Gravelines, France. In 1847, Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon,
Tennessee, becomes the 11th law school in America. In 1958, NASA is created.
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!!
Wally Tree shares solid patriotism from
where a whiff of Lexington and Concord is still in
the air.
"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
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.
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).
July 30- In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland is
founded. In 1932, Disney's 'Flowers and Trees' becomes the first animated short
film (cartoon) presented in Technicolor, and the first to win an Academy Award.
In 1956, "In God We Trust" is adopted as the United States motto. In 1965, the
Social Security Act of 1965 is signed into law, establishing Medicare and
Medicaid. In 1974, Richard Nixon releases the Whitehouse Tapes (recordings of
Oval Office discussions of the Watergate burglary cover-up) in response to a
Congressional subpoena. In 1975, Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
When, in his farewell address in 1961,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers
of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the
“military-industrial complex,” he could never have
dreamed of an arms-making corporation of the size
and political clout of Lockheed Martin. In a good
year, it now receives up to $50 billion in
government contracts, a sum larger than the
operating budget of the State Department. And now
it’s about to have company.
Raytheon, already one of the top five
U.S. defense contractors, is planning to merge with
United Technologies. That company is a major
contractor in its own right, producing, among other
things, the engine for the F-35 combat aircraft, the
most expensive Pentagon weapons program ever. The
new firm will be second only to Lockheed Martin when
it comes to consuming your tax dollars -- and it may
end up even more powerful politically, thanks to
President Trump’s fondness for hiring arms industry
executives to run the national security state.
Just as Boeing benefited from its
former Senior Vice President Patrick Shanahan’s
stint as acting secretary of defense, so Raytheon is
likely to cash in on the nomination of its former
top lobbyist, Mike Esper, as his successor. Esper’s
elevation comes shortly after another former
Raytheon lobbyist, Charles Faulkner, left the State
Department amid charges that he had improperly
influenced decisions to sell Raytheon-produced
guided bombs to Saudi Arabia for its brutal air war
in Yemen. John Rood, third-in-charge at the
Pentagon, has worked for both Lockheed Martin and
Raytheon, while Ryan McCarthy, Mike Esper’s
replacement as secretary of the Army, worked for
Lockheed on the F-35, which the Project on
Government Oversight (POGO) has determined may never
be ready for combat.
And so it goes. There was a time when
Donald Trump was enamored of “his” generals --
Secretary of Defense James Mattis (a former board
member of the weapons-maker General Dynamics),
National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, and White
House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Now, he seems to
have a crush on personnel from the industrial side
of the military-industrial complex.
I HOPE YOU READ ALL of Hartung's article.
It's a highly-important and very articulate and informed wake-up call to America
explaining the tricks by which Congress is made to put the power of the state
behind a massive and sustained picking of everyone else's pockets for the
benefit of the military-industrial complex and the public officials that play
along.
Hartung ends on a cautiously-hopeful
note about a handful of new grass-roots activist
groups purportedly rising in opposition to this
decades-old institutional fleecing. But his in-depth
illumination of the well-practiced and long-proven
manner in which the arms manufacturers manipulate
the political process makes clear that even if
Hartung's optimism as to the focus and resolution of
these emerging groups is well-placed, they will be
unable to accomplish anything at other than a
glacial pace. Further, such groups are or will
themselves become vulnerable to the wiles of those
they rise to oppose.
The fact is, the only real solution to
the corruption Hartung lays bare (the
real history of which is helpfully summarized here) is the Founders'
prescient remedy, embodied in the truth revealed in
CtC. Nothing else will do the job.
Unlike any other approach to shrinking
the swollen and recalcitrant state,
CtC's revelations:
invoke every single productive
American's personal interests in his or her own
well-being, prompting actions in support of that
interest which have the inescapable side effect
of shrinking the state;
invoke every single American's love
and respect for the rule of law and the intent
and sacrifices of the Founders in support of his
or her state-shrinking actions; and
invoke every single American's
disdain for political and institutional
corruption in support of his or her
state-shrinking actions.
FURTHER, THE REMEDY PROVIDED by
CtC's revelations:
is uniquely invulnerable to the
manipulations and erosions of the political
process which are routinely brought to bear
against all other remedies to the metastasizing
state;
is uniquely invulnerable to
ideology-- even the most ardent socialist will
act vigorously to reduce his or her tax burden
to the maximum extent possible under the law;
and
is uniquely and
long-since thoroughly proven to furnish
Americans with enormous prosperity and at the
same time a fully-functional but
minimally-harmful state apparatus truly-focused
on its real mission: securing the rights of all
Americans.
WE THE PEOPLE (you and me) have to do as the Founders meant for us to do, and
resume control over what is
properly ours, both as money and as power. There is no other way to reign in
Leviathan. We must make ourselves once again strong
and in charge of our own lives and choices!
Do all you can to help others
understand this, or doom your children to perpetual
serfdom (which is to say, perpetual until the
massive armament accumulation and the bellicose
behavior practiced in its support
results in the end of life on Earth...).
July 31- In 1777, the Continental Congress
resolves to accept the services of the Marquis de Lafayette, making him a
Major-General of the United States. In 1930, 'The Shadow' airs on radio for the
first time. In 1941, Nazi SS General Reinhard Heydrich is ordered to devise a
plan for carrying out the "final solution of the Jewish question." In 1948, the
New York International Airport (later, JFK) is dedicated. In 1970, official
daily rum rations come to an end in the Royal Navy (Black Tot Day). In 1972,
Northeast Airlines flies its last flight.
*****
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 help a few others deal
with trollish propaganda and artifacts with which
they may have been targeted.
I GOT AN EMAIL THE OTHER DAY from a
proud CtC Warrior
whose acquaintance I was happy to make. This good
American woman, Tammy Blaszak, had written to share
her story of a particularly pleasing federal
victory, coupled with a more mundane complete refund
from Michigan-- both for 2017.
Let's start by
enjoying Tammy's refund checks:
Pretty nice batch of refunds, even
looking no further, yes? But there is a great story
here.
BEING NEW TO HER
CtC-education when she made the first of the
federal claims resulting in the first federal check
above, Tammy made a mistake a number of others have
made, as well, over the years-- reclaiming only the
amounts withheld from her under the provisions of
Chapter 24 of the IRC. This easy mistake results
from the confusing labels used on "information
returns" like W-2s (and Forms 4852, as well), by
which Chapter 24 withholdings are called "federal
income tax withheld" and those under Chapter 21 are
labeled as "Social security tax withheld" and
"Medicare tax withheld".
The different labels make the three tax
impositions with which the withholding is associated
appear to be different classes of taxes. Falling
prey to this misunderstanding is made easier by the
fact that a 1040 has a single entry field for
"federal income tax withheld".
SO, TO BEGIN WITH, while having gotten
back everything withheld under Chapter 24 from the
feds, and everything withheld from Michigan, Tammy
was short the considerable amount withheld as income
surtaxes under Chapter 21. That remained in the
possession of Uncle Sam.
Tammy might well have been in a tough
spot. Prying such additional amounts loose from that
always-hungry Uncle's vulture-claw has proven to be
difficult sometimes-- even for folks who have
properly claimed the whole aggregate amount in their
first filing but have been subjected to IRS
shenanigans meant to persuade them to just let that
money go (as
in the example here)
BUT TAMMY-- American grown-up and
real-life hero that she is-- didn't hesitate for a
moment upon realizing her mistake. She promptly
cranked out a federal amended return correcting her
original filing by adding the previously-unclaimed
Chapter 21 amounts to the total federal income tax
withheld figure.
A few short weeks after submitting her
amended return, Tammy had been made whole, with the
receipt of the remainder of the amounts improperly
withheld from her during 2017. Tammy's second check
was fortified with a bit of interest, because even
though the brief delay in receiving the additional
amount for which the interest accounted was really
Tammy's own fault, the IRS recognized that Uncle Sam
had never had any right to that money in the first
place.
THERE IS ONE MORE CHAPTER to this tale,
though. It's a little less happy, so far, but has a
lot of promise for an overall grander ending than
even just Tammy's extra-step recovery of everything
belonging to her and withheld during 2017.
Let's set the stage for this next
scene.
To begin with, although she hasn't
assembled the docs to send to me yet for posting,
Tammy tells me she has already gotten her federal
victory for 2018.
This time Tammy made her claim complete
to begin with... and this time the feds just
unilaterally held back Tammy's properly-claimed
Chapter 21 withheld amounts!
Of course, despite the bad behavior of
that holdback effort, the refund of the Chapter 24
amounts is an admission by Uncle Sam that Tammy did
nothing taxable and is entitled to everything
back. The IRS is apparently just hoping she'll be
confused or intimidated and will let hungry uncle
keep what doesn't belong to him.
SO, TAMMY HAS NOW HAD three filings go
through
the deep IRS vetting gauntlet and been found
correct in each case by the law-abiding section of
the federal tax agency-- with the latter two
particularly certain to have gotten a great deal of
scrutiny
At the same time, the holdback on
Tammy's 2018 claim reveals that sometime recently a
troll operating in the illegal (or at least
corrupt), "Let's see if we can recoup some of our
losses through craft and cunning" division of the
agency has begun thoughtfully masticating Tammy's
"account" while dreaming up scams to run.
Now, with all that in mind, take a look
at the transparently bogus intimidation nonsense
sent to Tammy from Auntie IRiS on May 13:
LET'S QUICKLY TAKE THIS APART:
To begin with, look at the ridiculous
assertion about the IRS having "received information
from third parties ... that doesn't match the
information you reported on your tax return."
Now, remember, this "proposal" was sent
to Tammy on May 13, 2019. That's well over a year
and a half since the "third parties" to which the
notice refers were required by law (as they imagine,
anyway) to send their information to the IRS for
comparison against claims like Tammy's. That
comparison is done as a routine part of the vetting
process involved in processing any return claiming a
refund (and especially one reporting $0 "income" and
yet claiming a refund of amounts withheld). You all
clicked on that "gauntlet" link above, right?
Plainly, this assertion on the notice--
which is meant to be understood as an, "Oops! We
just got around to noticing that your [multiple]
returns don't agree with W-2s that were sent to us
by the folks who had withheld from you (and who you
had identified for us on your Forms 4852, and who
had sent in their competing allegations to us by
February, 2018)-- is nonsense on stilts.
NEXT, LOOK AT THE MATH. This notice
"proposes" that Tammy actually owes $5,495 in income
tax for 2017, credits her with $3,848 in withheld
amounts-- which would leave $1,647 outstanding. The
notice then asserts a $1,859 "substantial tax
understatement penalty" and $690 in interest.
All told, these numbers add up to
$4,196-- but Auntie IRiS proposes a total of $11,902
instead!
This must be that new, "Common Core"
math...
Further, don't overlook the fact that the $3,848
Tammy is said to have had withheld in this notice,
and which is being credited against the alleged
liability, is actually the amount withheld from her
under the Chapter 21 provisions.
So, not only is the "math" nonsense on
its face, but this "proposal" would give Tammy
credit against the alleged tax liability of the
withheld amounts that are explicitly NOT those for
which such credit is provided in the law.
That credit against income tax
liability is provided only for Chapter 24
withholding (as you can see in the presentation of
the relevant law on p. 175 of your
CtC). The FICA surtaxes are actually parallel
taxes that arise simultaneously with the conduct of
the same type of taxable activity upon which arises the liability against which
Chapter 24 withholdings are taken.
And of course, that Chapter 24
withholding to which Tammy was subject, and which
the IRS has already acknowledged very concretely in
its processing of both of her federal filings for
2017 and the issuance of those nice checks, is
nowhere to be seen on this notice.
All-in-all, it's clear that there's a
real good reason this ridiculous notice is just a
"proposal"...
THE BOTTOM LINE HERE is that this
"proposal" vomited up to Tammy from the troll
division at the IRS is a plain indication of the
fictional character of every, "Oops! We made a big
mistake!! You really owe taxes, contrary to what we
concluded before and acknowledged by sending you
that check a while ago!"
Whether the pretenses are as obvious as
those here, or more subtle, after-the-fact nonsense
is just nonsense. No one should be intimidated by
it.
RATHER, EVERYONE SHOULD RECOGNIZE the
evidence of bs that even
just the sequence of such events constitutes.
More, everyone should recognize the opportunity that
such bs offers for making productive wake-up calls
to the neighbors and the family and the media.
Further, everyone should recognize the
opportunity that such bs offers for exposing to the
law-abiding folks at the IRS the bad apple trolls
that lurk among them and give all the others a bad
name.
I love the idea of housecleaning in
that agency being an in-house affair. I LOVE the
idea of the law-defying and corrupt minority in the
IRS being exposed and then denounced and drummed out
(or ridden out on a rail) by their disgusted
law-respecting colleagues, who have been made to
realize that THAT'S where that nasty bad smell in
the office has been coming from...
It's the way this kind of thing ought
to go in America, don't you think?
Anyway...
CONGRATULATIONS TO TAMMY for her fine
victories on behalf of the rule of law, and for the
opportunity she has been handed to return the favor
and hand some corrupt actor in the IRS his or her
head.
Well
done, Tammy, and we look forward to celebrating your
next victory.
Tammy's victories join those
of the tens of thousands of other awakened and
activated Americans represented
here. Each constitutes another critical step
toward the restoration of
the Founders republic and the true rule of law.
Don't you wish your victories were
proudly posted, too?
AND, HEY! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important
(plus it can get you some great losthorizons swag!). See
(and carefully read in their entirety)
these guidelines and encouragements.
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate,
tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
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.
August 1- In 1291, the Swiss Confederation is
formed. In 1619, the first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. In
1834, slavery is abolished in most of the British Empire by act of Parliament
(but the emancipation won't be completed until six years later). In 1876,
Colorado is admitted to the union as the 38th of the several states. In 1902,
the Unites States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. In 1944,
Anne Frank makes her last diary entry. In 1957, the United States and Canada
form NORAD. In 1960, Islamabad is named the capital of Pakistan's federal
government. In 1967, Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
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.
August 2- In 1610, Henry Hudson sails into the
Hudson Bay. In 1790, the first census of the USA is conducted. In 1934, Adolph
Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. In 1937, the Marihuana Tax Act is passed,
effectively criminalizing marijuana possession and consumption. In 1964, the
Johnson administration deploys the 'Gulf of Tonkin Incident' as a pretext for
the escalation of US military activities in Vietnam. In 1990, Iraq invades
Kuwait.
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.”
August 3- In 1492, Christopher Columbus sets
sail. In 1914, Germany declares war on France. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers
accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and spy for the Soviet Union. In 1977,
the US Senate holds hearings on the CIA's MK-ULTRA involuntary mind-control and
drugging project, which the agency claims has been abandoned, though at least
one former operative in the program has disputed this claim.
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:
August 4- In 1790, a tariff act creates the
'Revenue Cutter Service' (now known as The Coast Guard). In 1821, 'The Saturday
Evening Post' begins publication as a weekly newspaper. In 1873, George
Custer's 7th Cavalry has its first clash with the Sioux. In 1977, the US
Department of Energy is created. In 1987, the FCC rescinds the 'Fairness
Doctrine'.
*****
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.
