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.
November 4- In 1922, Howard Carter finds the entrance to the tomb of King
Tutankhamon in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. In 1924, Wyoming elects America's
first female governor. In 1952, the National Security Agency is established.
In 1956, Soviet troops enter Hungary to crush the October Revolution. In 1979,
Iranian students seize the United States Embassy in Tehran in reaction to the
Carter administration's decision to allow the despotic CIA-installed Shah of
Iran-- deposed just months earlier after 26 years of U.S.-supported tyrannical
rule-- to enter the United States for cancer treatment (despite warnings against
doing so by the embassy's diplomatic staff). 90 hostages are taken from the
embassy, including 53 Americans.
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
***
So, You're A "Tax
Professional" And You Come Face-To-Face With The
Truth...
What now?
I WAS ASKED, EARLIER THIS WEEK, how I
would explain the fact that
CtC's revelations have not swept through and
conquered the professional ranks of tax attorneys.
My interlocutor imagined that such folks would seize
upon the truth about the tax with great enthusiasm,
and yet this clearly hasn't happened.
My initial reply dwelt on the fact that
really, the vast majority of such professionals have
never really been exposed to
CtC
scholarship, because the suppression and smear
campaign by vested-interest government actors has
been so intense. And that is certainly true.
Even those to whom the truth about the
tax has been squarely presented one way or another
have been prepped to pooh-pooh it on sight, never
actually digging in to see what is really said.
They've been TOLD what to believe that it says, and
to save themselves a waste of time in looking for
themselves, by those to whom they have been trained
to defer.
BUT AS I MULLED THE QUESTION OVER
a bit further, I began composing this supplement to
that initial reply. I think it bears-- or will
foster-- some insights that many of you will find
important and useful in your own occasional but
inevitable navigation of the foggy banks of Denial.
That said, let's start again...
***
SO, YOU'RE A "TAX PROFESSIONAL" and you
come face-to-face with
the actual truth about the
income tax. Or, you're a judge, or an official high
up the chain in a tax agency or the DOJ (sic), or a
law professor, or a "tax honesty guru". Or you're in some other capacity in which you have been
dealing with people as regards the income tax
throughout your career.
What are you going to do
when you see the evidence that you've been misadvising
students or clients for
years? Or you learn that you've been authorizing or
conducting seizures of people's property (or
maybe even imprisonments) for years and years based on a misconception
of the law?
Let's keep in mind that this a misconception of the law that you
could have dispelled from your mind with just a
little bit of common sense investigation which you
never troubled yourself to undertake. It's a
misconception of law that all those people who have
suffered due to your ignorance will see as a product
of your own laziness or incompetence.
Odds are, you are not going to rend
your garments, put on sackcloth and ashes, and utter
mea culpas as you shuffle from victim to
victim giving all your worldly possessions away in a
vain effort to make things right for all the
people you have wronged.
Odds are, you won't even
take out an ad in the local paper, or make a post on
your blog or a profession-oriented website
announcing what you have discovered.
Odds are, in fact, that
you will do the exact
opposite of those things.
HERE IS WHAT YOU MOST LIKELY will do,
in my cynical but well-traveled view: You will do
everything you can to obscure and conceal that truth
in a fog of disparagement, derision, dismissal,
disinformation, misdirection and ad hominem attacks
on its messenger. You will do everything adverse and
discouraging that you can, short of outright,
uncomplicated (and thus easily-proven) lies.
You will circle the wagons with other
guilty parties, each covering the others backsides.
You will stonewall, and bluster, and bloviate.
You will even lie to yourself about the
truth, whether consciously or unconsciously, in
order to prevent you from feeling shame or guilt.
Sadly, it is only the rare man or woman
who has the moral fiber to honestly admit to having
been wrong. This is especially true when the "being
wrong" thing has involved a lot of "doing wrong".
Someone getting cleared up on what has
simply been a mistaken bit of "knowledge" accepts
the correction in stride-- no harm, no foul. But
someone who has a duty to be right, or
responsibility for harms if wrong, finds "getting
cleared up" a very serious threat on multiple
levels.
“Many a man stumbles across the truth,
then picks himself up and hurries on as though
nothing had happened.”
-Winston Churchill
FURTHER, THERE IS the simple, crass,
financial aspect of the issue. Everyone being
discussed in our little model here has been making a
good living already rolling along with the
misconception about the tax.
The spread of the truth about the tax
will change that, and more than just a bit. In
fact, the "tax professions" (and the bureaucracies)
are certain to diminish enormously in significance--
which means in prestige and power and rewards-- as
the truth about the tax spreads and most Americans
discover that they have no use for "tax
professionals" and move themselves out of tax
bureaucracy inventory.
In light of even just these more modest
considerations, it is easy to see that even the "tax
professionals" not of high-enough wattage to
perceive and be misguided by the frightening
prospect of guilt and rectification have strong
motivation to hurry past the truth, kicking upon it
some concealing sand as they go.
"It is difficult to get a man to
understand something when his salary depends on him
not understanding it."
-Upton Sinclair
ALL TOLD, there are a multitude of
reasons why many of those in tax-related positions
of influence and respect haven't yet acknowledged
CtC's correctness. As noted above, most have
never seen
the
scholarship. Those that do are powerfully
incentivized to misunderstand it or actively seek to
obscure or "disappear" it.
Anyone waiting for the assurances of
"professionals" or "officials" before venturing to
study the scholarship for themselves has set that
prospect up for failure.
Anyone who HAS done that study but is
for some reason waiting for "confirmation" by way of
the endorsement of "professionals" or
"officials" before spreading (or acting on) the good
news needs to first of all, put on their grown-up
pants.
Then they need to stop presenting
themselves with the hoary old idiot-challenge,
"Who you going to believe, me, or your own lyin'
eyes?!"
November 5- In 1605, Guy Fawkes is caught preparing to blow up
the British parliament during its opening session. In 1949, Franklin
Roosevelt, having arrogantly scorned the wise and humble tradition
established by George Washington, is elected to an unprecedented third
term as president. In all, Roosevelt's administration was afterward
seen as so much of a disaster as to prompt the adoption of the 22nd
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, limiting presidents to two terms,
just 11 years later. In 2013, India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission,
its first interplanetary probe.
Denunciation of bad behavior is of
little substance or virtue when you keep on
financing it, people.
MY RESPECT, APPRECIATION, SYMPATHY AND
CONCERN for Julian Assange knows no bounds, so I am
not to be taken as wanting the expressions of others
outraged and horrified by his slow murder by the UK
and US to stop. But I can't help but sneer in
contempt at most of them, voiced as they are by
people who, despite their indications of grave concern,
are nonetheless financing the torturers whom they so
stridently denounce.
What the hell is wrong with Karen
Kwiatkowsky, Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Paul
Craig Roberts, Jacob Hornberger and so
many others who decry the crimes against Julian and
yet steadily fork over money to pay the bills for
the abuse?
Why are they not AT MINIMUM shouting
about
CtC from their bully pulpits, so that at least
other Americans who really mean it can learn
why and
how they can stop feeding the dungeon-masters, even
if they can't muster the sand to personally cut off
the gas for the bad guys?
I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE to share this
observation with these
folks, right away, and in the most strident possible
terms. Maybe it will bump them into finally
putting their money where their mouths are, and
sharing
the liberating truth
about the income tax.
Perhaps we could see
Julian out of prison before he is dead (and Chelsea
Manning, too). Maybe Edward Snowden can be home for
Christmas next year.
November 6- In 1861, Jefferson Davis is elected
president of the Confederate States of America. In 1913, Mohandas Gandhi is
arrested in South Africa for leading a march protesting the treatment of Indian
"guest" workers. In 1935, Parker Brothers acquires the rights to 'Monopoly'.
In 1962, the UN passes a resolution condemning the South African practice of
apartheid, and calling on member nations to cease military and economic
relations with the country.
*****
Remember 'War Games'?
THIS VIDEO PROJECTS THE PROGRESS of a nuclear exchange between Russia and
the United States. It's frightening, as it should
be, as well as sobering and instructive. My only
criticisms are, first of all, that it fails to
account for the imbalance that will now be present
in any such exchange due to
the new Russian
hypersonic weapons.
Secondly, the video fails to account
for China's contribution to the exchange against the
US, which is a virtual certainty. China knows that
if Russia goes, and the US survives, it goes soon
after. So, that will not be allowed to happen.
Want to get these Lost Horizons
newsletters delivered to your inbox?
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*****
The Entire Legal And
Practical Truth About The Income Tax In Three Short
Sentences
Focus on these simple points and
you can teach anyone the truth about the tax.
1. The income tax is an
excise.
2. Excise taxes are taxes
on the gainful exercise of privileges.
3. You probably didn't earn your
money by exercising any taxable privilege (or earned very
little that way).
Wikileaks Exposes Falsifications In The OPCW Douma
Report
The reports were falsified to blame
Syria for attacks carried out by Western-backed
Jihadis. The revelations – studiously ignored by the
mainstream media – shed a light on the tangled web
weaved by the complicit media and the West’s
shameless hypocrisy, involving the OPCW, Wikileaks
and Julian Assange’s illegal detention.
by Federico Pieraccini
A whistleblower from the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
delivered to Wikileaks
authentic documents to do with investigations
into the Douma bombing in Syria in 2018.
These documents confirmed what many had
been writing about for months, namely, that the
OPCW’s investigations and conclusions were
manufactured to reach a premeditated result that was
unfavorable to the Syrian Arab Army and in line with
the foreign-policy objectives of Washington, Tel
Aviv, Riyadh, Paris, Ankara, Doha and London.
The US has previously used just this
same formula, under the pretext of R2P
(Responsibility to Protect), to justify the bombing
of a country.
A chemical attack to be blamed on the
Syrian army seemed like the most straightforward
means to trigger R2P and achieve the desired
foreign-policy objectives. However, what we now know
from the documents published by Wikileaks is that
the international organization supposed to ensure
impartiality and objectivity falsified reports and
procedures.
AS PIERACCINI OBSERVES, no wonder the
neo-con psychopaths in the US and
their bitches in the UK, Australia and elsewhere
fear and hate Julian Assange and the uniquely honest
and potent news organization for which he is
responsible.
It's a shame that no mention is made in
his article of the salvation for Julian and the rest
of us that is to be had by spreading the good news
about
CtC's Leviathan-crushing power. That spreading
of the word is the only thing needed to transform
reality as this second decade of the 21st century
comes to a close.
People like Pieraccini are equipped
with a bully pulpit from which his voice can reach
many ears (if you will). They have the power to
reverse the famous demented declaration attributed
to Karl Rove by journalist Ron Suskind in 2004 in
which Rove, archly describes Suskind as being in
what Rove and crew call the "reality-based
community" of people who "believe that solutions
emerge from your judicious study of discernible
reality", whereas:
"That's not the way the
world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and
when we act, we create our own reality. And while
you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you
will—we'll act again, creating other new realities,
which you can study too, and that's how things will
sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of
you, will be left to just study what we do."
People like Pieraccini have the power
to return control to the "reality-based community"--
that is, to you and me. All they need is
knowledge of the mechanism by which this can be
accomplished and the encouragement to share that
knowledge around.
Of course, you have that power, too.
You can work this fix on an individual basis, of
course. And you can even help spread it around
wholesale. More, you can employ a force multiplier
by contacting Pierraccini and getting him woken up
and on the job.
Uphold the law. Teach it to everyone
else you can reach.
Then, close your eyes and click your
heels together!
November 7- In 1893, the right of women to vote
is recognized in Colorado. In 1916, Jeanette Rankin of Montana becomes the
first woman in the U.S. Congress. In 1921, Italy's National Fascist Party is
founded. In 1931, the Chinese Soviet Republic-- Mao Zedong's regional precursor
to the People's Republic of China, is proclaimed in Jiangxi province. In 1967,
Carl Stokes becomes the first black mayor of a major American city, winning that
post in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1967, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is
established. In 1973, Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the
'War Powers Resolution', which limits the president's power to conduct military
activities without congressional approval. In 1983 a bomb is detonated in the
U.S. Senate in protest over United States military adventures in Grenada and
Lebanon. In 1989, Virginian Douglas Wilder becomes the first black elected
governor of an American state. In 2000, the contested election resulting in a
United States Supreme Court intervention and the eventual declaration of George
W. Bush as the President of the United States takes place.
I hadn't meant to do any victory posts
this week, but...
I RECEIVED AN EMAIL WHILE PREPARING this
Mid-Edition Update from Ryan Andersen, who had, more
than a bit belatedly, sent in his first victory for
sharing about two weeks ago (and also just joined
the excellent Georgia
CtC Warriors). The victory, a complete
refund from the feds for 2017, plus interest,
happened in June of 2018.
In most cases, unless there's
something unusually instructive about a victory that
old (or it's associated with
a good video) I won't post it at all. Among other things,
doing so throws off the symmetry of the victory
stack and its evidence of the steady flow of
government acknowledgements over the last 16 years.
However, Ryan's email the other day was
to ask when he'd be able
to see his refund posted. Ryan went on to say he has
been reaching out to people sharing the good news
about
CtC's liberating revelations for two years now,
and is eager to be able to point to his posted
victory to aid him in those good efforts.
For some reason of tone and timing,
Ryan managed to hit a button, and so...
GOTTA LOVE THIS ENTHUSIASTIC HERO (who,
I'm sure, will share the next victory more
promptly... ;>) )!! Ryan'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?
DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior
and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring
testimonial on what
CtC has done for him for over nine years now:
*****
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain
is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,
legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
““When principles that run against your
deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle
is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must,
at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions
bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your
faith.
"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.
November 8- In 1889, Montana becomes the 41st
sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such. In 1895, Wilhelm
Rontgen discovers the X-ray. In 1923, Adolph Hitler and his Nazis attempt the
unsuccessful 'Beer Hall Putsch' to overthrow the German government. In 1933,
Franklin Roosevelt unveils his 'Civil Works Administration' plan-- a expression
of economic illiteracy ostensibly intended to fight the Great Depression by
relieving unemployment, and projected (by the administration) to cost only $400
million. After five months of having 4 million Americans essentially dig holes
and fill them in again at a cost to the productive sector of a billion dollars,
this boondoggle was abandoned, and the Roosevelt central planners moved on to
others ways of prolonging the depression. In 1966, former Massachusetts
Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first black United States Senator.
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 qualifying 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.”
November 9- In 1620, Pilgrims aboard the
Mayflower have their first sight of the New World. In 1688, William of Orange
captures Exeter, a major step forward in the course of the 'Glorious
Revolution'. In 1872, a fire breaks out in Boston which goes on to consume 776
buildings over the next twelve hours. Unhindered by FEMA, the citizens quickly
rebuild. In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt takes the first official trip outside the
USA of any sitting president (he travels to Panama to inspect progress on the
Canal). In 1918, the German Revolution forces the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm
II and declares a republic (ultimately, the Weimar Republic). In 1938, 'Kristallnacht'--
a Nazi rampage against Germany's by-then-largely-disarmed Jewish population
begins. In 1965, Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the
United Nations building in protest of the Vietnam war. In 1970, the U.S.
Supreme Court refuses to hear a suit by Massachusetts against the U.S. Secretary
of Defense over the drafting of citizens for service in an undeclared war
(Vietnam). In 1989, East Germany abandons efforts to prevent crossings into
West Berlin.
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 or unacceptable).
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, 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). I will be the
judge of whether your submissions qualify
for access, but if you do your best you should do
fine.
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:
November 10- In 1871, Stanley finds Livingstone
near Lake Tanganyika. In 1928, Knute Rockne asks the Notre Dame squad to "Win
one for the Gipper!". They do. In 1940, Walt Disney begins serving as an FBI
informant against "subversives" in Hollywood, according to at least one
biographer-- the family disputes this, but he does go on to testify against some
associates before the House Unamerican Activities Committee. In 1969, 'Sesame
Street' debuts.
*****
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.
