Home | News | Site Map | Search | Contact

The News

Current Events and Continuing Education for December 9, 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

 

Please Start Here

 

(Get the pledge text here.)

 

Features in this edition:

(Click on the underlined text to jump to each feature. To return, use your browser's "back" button or the provided "Return to Contents" links. Please keep in mind that many more items of interest are to be found between featured articles, so your most profitable course is to scroll through the whole page...)

 

Real American grown-ups are at work (and Samuel Adams is smiling down on them):

The Day The Lights Went On In Georgia!

***

Ruben Varela shares some good news:

A Nice Tax Court Victory Over A Fake "Frivolous Return Penalty"

***

And let's not stop with billboards...

Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

***

Already?! Yes!!

It's 'Christmas Special' Time Again!

***

Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist'

***

Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present:

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

***

 

Click here for the current Mid-Edition Update posts

(Refresh the page if you don't see the appropriate date when it loads.)

"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes."

- Thomas Paine

 

You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past...

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

December 9- In 1835, revolutionary forces of what would become the Republic of Texas capture San Antonio from Mexico.  In 1946, the trial of Nazi "doctors" who had engaged in human experimentation begins in Nuremberg.  In 1958, the John Birch Society is founded.  In 1979 the eradication of smallpox is declared by the World Health Organization.  This is untrue, as both the United States and the then-Soviet Union (and perhaps other states) retain supplies of the virus for possible "use" at a future time.  In 2016, the president of South Korea is impeached and removed from office (largely for being a nutcase, although ostensibly for abuse of power).

 

Anniversaries of interest for each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter below.

  

Fear nothing but God

***

"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

***** 

"Hey, did someone say, 'CtC Christmas Special'?!"

*****

And The Lights Go On In Georgia!!

...as the Georgia Warriors begin sharing the keys to freedom on a wholesale basis.

WITH THIS MESSAGE ON DISPLAY, you just gotta love the name of the billboard company: Revelation. Isn't that perfect?!

And isn't what the Georgia Warriors have gotten started just perfect, too? I hope you all agree, and I hope you all find it inspiring.

Seriously. Find it inspiring, please! As in: Be inspired to do the same in your own neck of the woods.

I'M GOING TO HELP with the inspiration by sharing some rather jaw-dropping information. For only $11.87 per day, with no start-up cost, the billboard you see above-- and four others, as well, in different locations around Georgia-- display this message for eight to ten seconds at a time 324 times per day (in the aggregate) during morning and evening rush hour.

Together these intriguing CtC messages are taken in-- that is, actually read with interest-- by 691 drivers each day, according to the billboard industry's research on the rate at which these ads are actually absorbed by drivers.

SO, INSPIRING, yes?

YES!!

EVERY state group can and should be doing this!!

And roadside billboards aren't the only kind to be had. These digital displays can be rented in shopping centers, sports arenas, and on the sides of city buildings, among other places. Take a little initiative and do a little research, like the Georgia heroes did.

Get some truth and some guidance to your neighbors out there, and start swelling the ranks of educated Americans-- that is, swelling the ranks allies who will stand shoulder to shoulder with you on behalf of the rule of law.

I know a number of you have kicked around the idea of launching this kind of campaign since I first brought it up more than a year ago. But with no one stepping up to do the necessary research, everyone assumed the costs would be high. That assumption was enough to keep the notion just a notion.

But now everyone knows that assumption was wrong. So, rock and roll, people!!

YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH the "butterfly effect", right? That's the social/political action metaphor for the potential of effective activism. In brief, a butterfly flapping its wings can put a stir into the air which, through the astonishing complexity of variables on which it can impinge, eventually becomes a mighty gale.

The Georgia Warriors are being "the butterfly" here (ok, more like "the eagle", really). They have thrown down a powerful wing-clap.

Now you add some flaps of your own. The Georgia wing-clap becomes a hint of thunder in the air.

More good folks learn the truth from your combined efforts. They start adding their own energy to the growing dynamo.

Pretty soon, there is a serious cleansing storm at work.

Nice thought, yes?

Do I hear, "Challenge accepted!"?

"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.

Aren't able to do so? Click here to learn how to earn that privilege.

Twitter  Facebook Digg Reddit LinkedIn StumbleUpon

Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend

Return to contents

*****

A Nice Tax Court Victory Over A Fake "Frivolous Return Penalty"

Accomplished warrior Ruben Varela shares the good news!

CALIFORNIA CtC Warrior Ruben Varela (meet him here) has just shared a fine victory secured in Tax Court last month over a corrupt IRS attempt to collect a fake "frivolous return penalty" from him, ostensibly over his return for 2005, filed four years ago after Ruben found his way to CtC.

Ruben's actual return was never threatened with a penalty directly. Instead, the IRS attempted an intimidation and harassment by asserting the penalty against a reference copy of the return which Ruben included with a letter responding to an IRS "disallowance notice" in regard to the refund Ruben had claimed.

(That refund was not claimed in the expectation of receiving it, of course-- it being way too late for that. But an accurate completion of the 1040 per the instructions called for listing the amounts withheld as overpayments and therefore only appropriate to be listed for refund.)

SO, THE FRP ASSERTION was one of the "fake" fake "ARG44" FRPs discussed here-- and thus one even more egregiously invalid than the usual variety. Nonetheless, the completely corrupt IRS Office of Chief Counsel fought to get the thing upheld for well over a year before finally facing the fact that it was up against a solid, confident litigant who had the law and the facts on his side and was not backing down.

In the end the OCC conceded the battle, stipulating to the emptiness of the IRS case. Here is the ruling by the court accompanied by the related stipulations.

Hats off to Ruben for a fine drubbing of an agency that deserves it in spades. I hope he popped a cork on some bubbly when he got that ruling.

And no pressure, but I hope Ruben goes on to consider my exhortation here...

 CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here.

Aren't able to do so? Click here to learn how to earn that privilege.

Twitter  Facebook Digg Reddit LinkedIn StumbleUpon

Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend

Return to contents

*****

Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

You've got magic in your hands, if you will use it...

I HAVE LATELY BURNED A LOT OF PIXELS encouraging people to take advantage of CtC's status as the singular solution to concerns of privacy activists, transparency activists, 9/11 truth activists and opponents of the increasingly authoritarian, expensive, immoral and dangerous security state generally. That solution-status is a superpower whose wielder can pull large numbers from these activist communities into ours and move us much closer to final-victory critical mass.

Unfortunately, having never been copied on anything sent into any of these activist communities, I fear that my encouragements in this regard are falling on deaf ears. Perhaps folks are failing to grasp that anyone facing harassment, resistance or grief from a tax agency-- now or in the future-- who hasn't vigorously pursued this sort of being-the-storm project has or will have only himself to blame.

But I live in hope, so...

BELOW YOU WILL SEE a handful of "memes" I've put together in order to facilitate this activist-community outreach project. I hope that with the thing being made as simple as just attaching these images to tweets and GABs with suitable messages and hashtags, or posting them on facebook walls or newsgroup pages, maybe you all will get going with this zero-cost, high-payback play?

Here are the first batch of memes (to which I might add more, and you certainly can do so as well):

MOST OF YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE contacts in one or more of the communities addressed with these messages. If not direct contacts, you will regularly see tweets, GABs and posts from those folks or about these issues.

All that is necessary is to post/tweet/GAB these memes as original expressions or as replies (or as illustrations accompanying original or reply expressions). Especially post them on websites of the related activists, whether directly (if possible) or as comments or replies to articles and so forth on those webpages.

Finding places to post is easy. Just google "privacy activists" or "wikileaks supporters" (or "save Julian Assange") or "the truth about 9/11" or "the truth about Russia hacking the DNC". Each such search will bring up a great starting line-up of pages and activist-enclaves dedicated to each of these issues.

Every participant in each of the pages and enclaves is a self-selected enthusiast for the one means by which the evil they decry can be vanquished. They just don't know it yet.

SO, C'MON, PEOPLE! This is EASY.

And the payoff could be huge-- and the best thing you ever did for yourself.

But nothing will happen unless YOU get to work.

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

-Thomas Jefferson

CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here.

Aren't able to do so? Click here to learn how to earn that privilege.

Twitter  Facebook Digg Reddit LinkedIn StumbleUpon

Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend

Return to contents

*****

The Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

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!!!

IF YOU'RE NOT ALREADY GETTING THE NEWSLETTER delivered to your email inbox every Monday, go to this page and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.

YOU CAN ALSO usually find (and share and retweet and repost) links to new articles on the following platforms:

  • Twitter (click here to follow me and receive the announcement posts);

  • Facebook (click here to "like" the losthorizons page and receive the announcement posts);

  • GAB (click here to follow me and receive the announcement posts).

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!!

  • My RSS feed:

(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!!

*****

Hey, People! It's Time For A 16th Anniversary Christmas Special!!

Any excuse for a party, right? How about a free CtC to help you celebrate?!

I THINK WE'D ALL AGREE that sometimes the truth can be a pesky thing-- demanding, disturbing, and seriously inconvenient. The fact is, when you know the truth, you have to act on it, or be party to a lie; and when that lie is old, entrenched, vigorously defended and comfortingly familiar, the correcting truth can be very hard to learn, and even harder to act upon.

That's why one of the most challenging gifts to receive this holiday season is a copy of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.

Learning the truth about the income tax means setting aside misconceptions nurtured for a lifetime. Acting on that truth means abandoning lifelong servility to the state through the offices of the IRS-- the one organization whose carefully cultivated reputation as a rabid junkyard dog is feared by everyone in America.

Both of those things are really hard!

However, those very same challenges also make 'Cracking the Code-...' the most rewarding gift to get or give this holiday season.

After all, how better could you communicate to those you love the high degree of esteem in which you hold them? How more certain of your high regard could they be made, after such a display of your faith in their character?

(Helping them stop unnecessary losses of up to 40% or more of their earnings each year goes over pretty well, too, by the way...)

So, pass out a little panic this year.

Then stand back and watch your special someone stand tall, like the real American he or she was born to be.

Oh, and by the way...

It being the season for giving, I'm gifting YOU with a free CtC to give to that special someone!

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: Order two items at full price on a single order postmarked between now and December 31, 2019-- books or Companion CDs-- and I'll throw in a fresh and shiny new copy of CtC at no charge. All you have to do is write, "Send me CtC for free, Pete!" on the printed form or note you send with your order. It's that simple!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here.

Aren't able to do so? Click here to learn how to earn that privilege.

Twitter  Facebook Digg Reddit LinkedIn StumbleUpon

Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend

Return to contents

*****

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.

*****

How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

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.

*****

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...

*****

The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool families and community groups, your neighbors, your family members, your pastors and co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs, members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth movement, other activist movements and everyone else, you have only yourself to blame for your troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which you might complain. It's on you.

WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI (weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.

Remember: 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

*****

Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

 

Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist

by C.J. Hopkins

OK, we need to talk about fascism. Not just any kind of fascism. A particularly insidious kind of fascism. No, not the fascism of the early 20th Century. Not Mussolini’s National Fascist Party. Not Hitler’s NSDAP. Not Francoist fascism or any other kind of organized fascist movement or party. Not even the dreaded Tiki-torch Nazis.

It’s the other kind of fascism we need to talk about. The kind that doesn’t come goose-stepping up the street waving big neo-Nazi flags. The kind we don’t recognize when we’re looking right at it.

It’s like that joke about the fish and the water … we don’t recognize it because we’re swimming in it. We’re surrounded by it. We are inseparable from it. From the moment we are born, we breathe it in.

We are taught it by our parents, who were taught it by their parents. We are taught it again by our teachers in school. It is reinforced on a daily basis at work, in conversations with friends, in our families and our romantic relationships. We imbibe it in books, movies, TV shows, advertisements, pop songs, the nightly news, in our cars, at the mall, the stadium, the opera … everywhere, because it is literally everywhere.

It doesn’t look like fascism to us. Fascism only looks like fascism when you’re standing outside of it, or looking back at it. When you are in it, fascism just looks like “normality,” like “reality,” like “just the way it is.”

Continued...

Click here to read the rest of this article

...and then proceed to the afterword below...

 

Afterword

I'VE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING C.J. HOPKINS since first encountering one of his articles on Ron Unz's website earlier this year. The guy is witty and insightful, and has proven to be an equal opportunity "pox on all their houses" enemy of statist evil from whatever quarter is oozes. My kind of guy.

Anyway, the piece above is one of the best Hopkins articles I've had the pleasure of enjoying so far. I hope you liked it, too.

My one critique is that while Hopkins does an outstanding job of limning the sordid realities of modern Western political culture (and the blithe immersion within it of most sleepwalking Americans), he fails to share with his readers the solution to the really quite serious threat dwelling within the statist quo he so ably describes and skewers.

HERE IS A BIT MORE ANALYSIS of that threat, and its solution. That solution is simple, is entirely in the hands of individual Americans with no "official" cooperation required, and is incapable of being thwarted by those against whom it will be deployed.

It's a shame that Hopkins doesn't know of that solution. I am sure that if he did he would be broadcasting this liberating, Leviathan-crushing news as loudly as his big voice can manage.

Maybe someone will figure out a way to tell him.

CARE TO COMMENT on this article? Click here.

Aren't able to do so? Click here to learn how to earn that privilege.

Twitter  Facebook Digg Reddit LinkedIn StumbleUpon

Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend

Return to contents

*****

A Little Extra

EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means..."

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

*****

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

*****

Return to contents

*****

Lawyers: It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!

[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."

-Mark C. Phillips, JD

 

"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."

-J-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

 

"Your book is a masterpiece!"

-Michael Carver, JD

 

"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11 PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16' 4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a million of them."

-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice.”

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering making this my new avenue of law practice."

-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD

Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that needs doing right now.

Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials? Send me an email.

*****

Are You Ready For More Power?

"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable truth!"

-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado

Click here for more information

And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

picks up where 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax' leaves off.

Click here for more information

*****

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.

*****

*****

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!

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 and suppressing 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!)

*****

Resources:

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

Matthew Bossard tacks up some more victories; and he's not alone, of course.

Leviathan Takes More Hits

***

And yet, it moves...

The Galileo Factor

***

Already?! Yes!!

It's 'Christmas Special' Time Again!

***

Having just had our first snowfall of the year, let's revisit:

The Biggest Snow Job In World History

***

I'm getting sick of being a broken record, but...

What Is Going On Here, People?

***

Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Deep-State, Redefined'

***

Important opportunities abound, but are being overlooked and going unused. This has to stop!

The Main Chance That Everyone Is Missing

***

A great victory after years of IRS harassment, threats and intimidation by an educated American who turned the corrupt agency...

Every Which Way But Loose

***

I hate to say it, but...

Most Of You Deserve To Be Squashed Like Cockroaches

***

One person who DOESN'T deserve to be squashed like a cockroach:

Brenna Wright Shares Her Tax Truth Odyssey

***

Fascinating material on a pernicious effort to destroy liberty:

A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

***

The ice continues to crack, and it won't last much longer if enough people jump on it all at once.

A Recent Win In Tax Court, And More Remedies For Bogus NODs

***

This really is a simple enough thing...

Hendrickson's Axiom of Special Definitions

***

From the 'Garbage In Yields Garbage Out' Department:

Debunking The '1870s Income Tax Repeal' Myth

***

In the hope of countering long-running government efforts to sow confusion on the subject:

A Few Words About The Constitution

***

At least these "ladies" are honest...

A Word From The United Bitches Of America

***

Let's look at a wildly misunderstood (or misrepresented) issue:

Why Donald Trump Should Be Impeached

***

It is so easy to prove that...

The Government Knows Perfectly Well That CtC Is 100% Correct

***

An updated and ever-more important commentary:

What America Really Gets From The Ignorance Tax"

***

See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

***

Get All Newsletters As They Are Published:

Newsletter Delivery Options

***

 

My interview by Lana Lotkeff for Radio 3Fourteen can be found here.

Find my YouTube channel here.

 

The upgraded Fifteenth Edition of CtC is Now Available!

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.

Get The Short, Easy Intro To The Liberating Truth About The Tax

*****

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

December 10- In 1817, Mississippi becomes the 20th sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such.  In 1869, Wyoming grants women the right to vote.  In 1936, Edward VIII abdicates the British throne.  In 1949, the People's Liberation Army of of China begins its siege of Chengdu, forcing Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.  In 1981, the UN General Assembly approves a Pakistani proposal to make South Asia a nuclear-free zone.  In 1995, 37.9" of snow fall in Buffalo, New York.

*****

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.

*****

Hey! If you're not getting the newsletter delivered to your email inbox every Monday, go to this link and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.

*****

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

*****

Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 11- In 1792, King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the revolutionaries.  In 1816, Indiana becomes the 19th sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such.  In 1971, the Libertarian Party of America is founded.  In 1975, the price of first-class postage rises from 10 to 13 cents.  In 1985, General Electric acquires NBC.  In 1997, a federal judge orders Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from its "Windows" operating systems.  In 2008, Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged in connection with an alleged $50 billion "Ponzi" scheme, even while the perpetrators of the "Social Security" Ponzi scheme remain at large.

*****

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) 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

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

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.

*****

JFK conspiracy? No problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't be silly! How could that ever happen?!

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.

*****

Hey, Gamers!

WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and listen!

You are surrounded by an actual battle between villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed from you by sophisticated spells which also keep you from engaging in the fight.

There are real great deeds to be done, and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and frankly, your real future is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to penetrate the illusions.

Visit losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto the real field of battle!

*****

PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to discourage people from rebutting allegations that they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I would salt the "tax honesty" community with passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a 1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...

*****

Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 12- In 1787, Pennsylvania becomes the second of the several states to ratify the United States Constitution and authorize the new version of the federal government.  In 1812, the French army turns back from its invasion of Russia.  In 1870, Joseph Rainey, the first black elected to the U.S. House, begins the first of four terms.  In 1901, Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal.  In 1963, Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.  In 2000, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling in Bush v. Gore, overruling the Florida Supreme Court's decision concerning the certification of voting results in the presidential election.  In 2012, North Korea successfully launches its first satellite into orbit around Earth.

*****

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...

*****

In light of the actual evidence, those who doubt or deny the accuracy and correctness of CtC just because some government officials denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who were mystified by Copernicus getting all those astronomical predictions right even though the church had said he was wrong.

*****

Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries?

Set Your Church Free

Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.

*****

You're a passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular contributions of fuel from the passengers to keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable waterfall ahead, and note a soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger each day. What does common sense suggest?

*****

Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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!!

Click here to take the test

Click here for more Tax IQ tests

Twitter  Facebook Digg Reddit LinkedIn StumbleUpon

*****

Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now

Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists class

*****

Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 13- In 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes the first American militia regiments.  In 1862, Robert E. Lee defeats Ambrose E. Burnside in the Battle of Fredericksburg.  In 1937, the Japanese army begins the Rape of Nanjing, China.  In 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts begin the final traversing of the lunar surface by human beings (so far).  In 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland in response to Solidarity's threat to the security of the existing communist regime.  In 2003, Saddam Hussein of Iraq is captured by units of the United States occupation.  In 2004, former Chilean Decider Augusto Pinochet is arrested over crimes committed while in office years earlier.

*****

“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...

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

*****

Want to get on the Newsletter mailing list? Just click here and subscribe to the group, leaving all options at their defaults!

*****

Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

*****

Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution?

Renew Your Promise

*****

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.

*****

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

The Choice Is This Stark

Wear this new T-Shirt proudly, and tell the enemies of the law that if they don't like Constitutional limits, they should find someplace else to live!

*****

Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 14- In 1819, Alabama becomes the 22nd sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such.  In 1902, the first Pacific telegraph cable is laid, from California to Hawaii.  In 1903, the Wright brothers make their first attempt in Kitty Hawk.  In 1911, Roald Amundsen and his team become the first to reach the South Pole.  In 1947, NASCAR is founded.  In 2008, an Iraqi journalist hurls his shoes at George W. Bush in a gesture of contempt and defiance during a news conference in Baghdad.

*****

*****

The Newsletter is interested in your work! If you are a writer, scholar, or just a dedicated Warrior with a good story to tell, please consider sharing your words and your wisdom with our thousands of readers! Click here to learn how.

*****

'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)

*****

The willingness of some people to trade liberty for convenience is without limit...

Regarding "Tax Reform"

*****

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

*****

Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 15- In 1791, ratification by Virginia effects the first ten Articles of Amendment to the Unites States Constitution: The Bill of Rights.  In 1891, basketball is born, with the nailing of peach baskets on opposite walls of a gymnasium at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.  In 1960, Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for an effort to assassinate newly-elected president John F. Kennedy by car-bomb four days earlier, which was aborted at the last minute due to the unexpected presence of Jacqueline Kennedy.  In 2011, the bulk of US regular military forces withdraw from a devastated Iraq after 9 years of invasion and occupation.

*****

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

 

OK, Now Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Programming:

Is this newsletter of any value to you? If so, please consider a donation to help keep it available, or it soon won't be. Donations can be sent to:

Peter Hendrickson

232 Oriole St.

Commerce Twp., MI 48382

Order Books, Warrior-Wear, or The CtC Companion CD

An "Income" Tax Related Site Map

E-mail this Newsletter to a friend

*****

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.