The News Current Events and Continuing Education for September 30, 2019 “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine
C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy! If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying the truth for years on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen... (Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)
Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fifteenth) edition of CtC!
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Most Of You Deserve To Be Squashed Like Cockroaches Hate to say it, but it's true... HOW DO YOU THINK the civil rights movement on the early 1960s would have fared if Rosa Parks hadn't very, very visibly said, "NO!" on that bus? How about if only a handful had turned out to march in the various prominent and highly-publicized protest marches, in the face of police dogs and fire-hoses? Or if only a couple of folks had followed Parks' lead and parked it (sorry...) on stools at lunch counters, at risk of being yanked off and beaten for their temerity? How would it have gone for that movement if most of its advocates had stayed out of sight and relied on "someone else" to step up and act, even though its cause of equality under the law was plainly just and all opposition to it was manifestly corrupt? Here's the answer: Poorly. I ASK THESE RHETORICAL QUESTIONS because here we are, a full half-year since I posted another in a disturbingly years-long and unanswered series of heart-attack-serious calls for some escalated outreach, this time complete with ready-to-print artwork. I have re-iterated and re-emphasized that call many times since (here, for example). No one has risen to my call. No one has done squat, even though I go to a huge amount of trouble and sacrifice to get thousands of you together in state groups, so that you can easily join together to engage in these projects at minimal personal expense and with the benefit of many helping hands. EVEN MY MORE-THAN-DECADE-OLD CALL for videos with which to inspire others has only prompted a few score of virtuous men and women to step up and stand out. This, though many, many, many of you were yourselves inspired by the videos posted already by others for YOUR benefit before you first began learning the truth about the tax. I don't understand this insanity. Do so many of you somehow not grasp the fact that if you don't capture the attention of large numbers of other Americans you will never be secure in your enjoyment of your rights? Do you not understand that you MUST sit at the metaphorical lunch-counters, and in the front of the bus, and on the street? You want to take $2.5 trillion a year away from a deeply-entrenched, broadly-corrupt empire, and you think you can do so without getting busy in the biggest possible way??!! Get real. LET ME SAY YET AGAIN what I have said so many times before: You will NEVER secure your right to stop feathering the nests of the state and its cronies and clients by application to the state's courts. You will NEVER secure your right to stop feathering the nests of the state and its cronies and clients by application to the state's apparatchiks and beneficiaries in government service and political offices. You might have individual victories by those means-- maybe lots of them-- while the state casts about for satisfactory means of evading the newly-emergent and hugely problematic truth. But such efforts will never change the landscape as it needs to be changed for you to be secure in your rights, and in time they will increasingly fail to deliver victories as the corrupt state recovers its balance. THE PERHAPS INCONVENIENT FACT IS, you can ONLY secure your right to stop feathering the nests of the state and its cronies and clients by awakening the state's competitors-- productive, liberty-loving Americans-- to the fact that they've been being fooled into feathering the nests of the state and its cronies and clients, and they don't have to continue doing so. And you can ONLY succeed in managing that ONLY solution to your dire need if you GET THE LEAD OUT. NOW! You have in your hands the solution to the corrupt state. You KNOW it is the truth. You have a narrow window of opportunity to cement that truth into its proper place as your shield against a ravenous, unscrupulous state which struggles ceaselessly to bury it and go on exploiting you, your children and their children, in perpetuity. And you are DITHERING. I'M GOING TO BE AS BLUNT, hard and cold as a pelf-swollen police-state truncheon against an uppity, "Hey, stop! You can't do that! I know my rights! Hey, STOP!!" wool-stuffed delusional head: If you continue to sit on your hands NOT making a clamor and NOT telling every fellow American whom you can figure out some way of reaching-- wholesale-- nothing more complex than where to go find the truth, and why they ought to do so, you will, one by one, be squashed like cockroaches. And you, being long-since equipped with every tool and resource needed to raise that clamor and spare yourself that fate, will deserve it. "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." -Edmund Burke Copy and paste this meme everywhere, people... CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here. Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
Brenna Wright Shares Her Tax Truth Odyssey ...and proves she DOESN'T deserve to be squashed like a cockroach. "NO ONE CAN HELP YOU fill out your W-4." Having learned the truth about the tax, Brenna now understands why this was said to her when starting her first job... In this little video, Brenna will tell you about that epiphany, and show you her concrete proof-of-the-pudding, as well. Once you've heard Brenna's uplifting story, follow her good advice and her good example, and get busy! *** BTW, let's look a little more closely at the IRS admission concerning 2018 which Brenna displays in her video. Here is the first page:
I want to start by pointing everyone's attention to the careful language in the little explanatory blurb to the left of the "SUMMARY" statement on this first page of the CP12: "We believe there are miscalculations on your 2018 Form 1040..." Now let me ask you, have you ever sat down across the desk from an IRS examiner during an audit? If so, think about that experience. If not, find someone who has and ask. What you'll remember or be told is that the IRS is an agency which, when it REALLY "believes" there are errors, doesn't speak of what it "believes". Instead, it just dictates outcomes, with an legendary arrogance. But here, it just "believes". NOW LET'S LOOK at the "admissions" section of the notice Brenna received:
Plainly, Brenna's conclusions about not having had any tax-relevant "income" are not "miscalculations" in the tax agency's eyes-- it agrees with those conclusions/calculations and says so flatly. The only thing the IRS purports to be a "miscalculation" is the amount withheld from Brenna. Take note of the fact that while the tax calculations portion of this table-- the portion in which no "miscalculations" are alleged-- includes Brenna's calculations and the IRS's calculations. But the part concerning what the agency alleges Brenna "miscalculated"-- the part where Brenna's calculations are actually relevant to the substance of the notice-- omits her calculations. All we see is what the agency says it "believes" true. LOOKING A BIT DEEPER, at the "explanatory" note which precede the "calculations" table, we see this:
"We changed the amount claimed as federal income tax withheld on your tax return to reflect the amounts shown on Form(s) W-2, 1099 or other supporting documents." Now here's the thing about that statement: By its reference to "supporting documents", the IRS is saying that the references used to "calculate" Brenna's amount of federal income tax withheld are the documents Brenna had attached to her 1040 in support, not documents the agency had received elsewhere. Those documents, as can be seen by looking at Brenna's filing, only support a "calculation" of $7,439.54 withheld as federal income tax. Further, the agency admission that Brenna had no Chapter 24 "wages" on the basis of which any associated liability and agency claim to what had been withheld under that chapter could arise is also an admission that Brenna had no Chapter 21 "wages" on the basis of which any associated liability and agency claim to what had been withheld under that chapter could arise (see this and this). Thus, the ONLY proper calculation of amount withheld-- in the context of what is due Brenna as a refund-- is the $7,439.54 Brenna claimed, no matter what labels are put on any of it. So, the reasons for the careful use of "believe" in the notice's first-page declaration, and the omission of Brenna's "calculation" of the total amount withheld in the table, suddenly become a bit more clear. The "belief" has to be put that way because really, it's simply a flat-out lie, completely contradicted by the documents on which the agency purports to rely, and completely contradicted by its own admissions. The agency "belief" is simply an invitation to Brenna to buy in to the lie, in the hope, apparently, that she is unfamiliar with the authorities cited in the materials linked above. Or, maybe the agency hopes to simply intimidate Brenna into letting it keep what is far and away the lion's share of her withheld property with this display of corruption (although any amount would be just as wrong). IN FACT, the questions implied in the paragraph above have already been settled. Prior to the IRS making its admissions that Brenna had no "wages" and no "income", it took an early shot at confusing or intimidating Brenna by way of this LTR12C, pretending that her supporting documents had been found wanting. Here is Brenna's response. As we have seen, the agency then relied upon Brenna's challenged supporting documents-- as stated in its "explanatory" note-- but simply lied about the "withheld amounts". Brenna shot back this tart and cogent response, making clear that she is in no way confused, ignorant or intimidated, and that's where things stand today. Plainly, this victory story (which, btw, mirrors that of Steve and Kristin Stackelhouse posted here just a few weeks ago) is to be continued... IN THE MEANTIME, GOTTA LOVE THIS HERO!! Brenna Wright stands tall in the ranks of all the good American men and women who are doing the Founders' work by binding down an out-of-control state with the chains of the Constitution. Brenna'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? It's easy. Stand up on behalf of the law, and then share the evidence. That's all there is to it! AND, HEY! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted, like Brenna's? This is easy to do, and very important (plus it can get you some great losthorizons swag!). See (and carefully read in their entirety) these guidelines and encouragements. "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." -Samuel Adams CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here. Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty. Watch this fascinating 12 minute video on how climate data are misrepresented. Then share this link with everyone you can H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link. CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here. Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's? Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you. No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do. *** Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter Notes And Tips For Educated Filers ***** A Two-Minute Review Of CtC David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or there isn't. HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! 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. ***** Some Good Perspective From The Delightfully Sardonic John Prine Another guy who's always had his head screwed on pretty straight, even though with a decidedly whimsical tilt. ***** ***** Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial
FIND AND SHARE this video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/4UKUs9ErBDU. Learn how (and why) to share YOUR testimony, here. ***** The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up. ***** IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up. ***** Cognitive dissonance in action. ***** Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium? Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda. ***** The Law, In Seven Pages Really. HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES. HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES. Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money for their own uses. If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that use. A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EVERYONE!!! DUE TO CHRONIC AND ESCALATING interferences by ISPs (or others) which have made direct newsletter emails an extremely time-consuming and increasingly unreliable announcement mechanism, I have transitioned to alternative announcement methods. These include:
If you choose one of these social media options (or use them in addition to other means, as I wish you would), PLEASE get the full value out of them by diligently "liking" and "retweeting" or "sharing" or "reposting" my posts! That will significantly improve their visibility to others, and very much help the cause!! (Members of the state CtC Warrior forums in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MI, MN, MO, NE, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA or WI, will continue to get the regular announcements if the membership is set to receive email updates.) NOTE: I will still not be engaging in correspondence by any of these alternative means-- those wishing to correspond with me should continue to use direct email for this purpose. NOTE II: PLEASE help ensure that others in the CtC community know about this change in newsletter delivery!!
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Thank goodness the sun is now shining...
****** Regarding Trolleries (Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior. Click here for the rest of this article ***** Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you? Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way. But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback. Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.
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***** How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community It's simple:: KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership. Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it. ***** The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment' If you're not talking this one up everywhere and helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the rule of law... *****
Do you have a victory to share? Click here to learn how to do so.
If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go here to learn what to do. Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD on request containing six informative and inspiring videos-- 112 minutes in all. Click here for the details. ***** Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries? Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.
Copy and post this one around, people!le!
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists class
***** Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?? SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance: Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same? Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort... *****
Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured. "Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." -Thomas Paine
OUTREACH!!! JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD. ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself. "In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell *****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison How About You? Are You Governing Yourself? Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated..
***** Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing
Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution? IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.
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'Don't Tread On Me' Polo Shirts Say It All!
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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes." -Thomas Paine Where To Find Things On This Site Law Professor James Duane Says: "Don't Talk To The Police. Period." ***** Films That Belong In Every Home Library ***** Ever Wonder How Much An Unrestrained FedState Would Like To Tap You For? ****** Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost'?"
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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****** Last Word "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution
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***** About The Author Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students. Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country. Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm. Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website. On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years. Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his next book. © All written and graphic material on this page and website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed. |