So. It's "Tea Party" Day...

Have you thought about what that means?

BARRING SOME EXTRAORDINARY EVENT meriting a report or discussion, this Mid-Edition Update will be more-or-less my last newsletter post this year. That is, I'll see you again December 30 as we all gear up for the new year, and in the meantime I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

But I want to leave everyone with a few thoughts for consideration during next several weeks...

AS EVERYONE WILL HAVE SEEN in the Illuminating Anniversaries for this week, today, December 16, is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773. On that day an intrepid band of Americans, who were "woke" to the compromise and insecurity of their individual rights at the hands of an increasingly corrupt, law-defying and arrogant Leviathan state, stood up.

These patriots performed a critically-important task. They pointed to the emperor and exclaimed, "He's got no clothes!" in the only fashion that really gets the job done-- a positive act fraught with peril for being in defiance of "established authority".

The Tea Partiers, through their acts, announced that every official of Britain, up to and including the king himself (commonly argued to hold his office by divine dispensation)-- which amounted to the government to which they were then deemed subject by all and sundry, including themselves-- was wrong as to what that Leviathan state was properly able to do under the laws of Britain, fairly and honestly understood.

The acts of the British government, said the Tea Parties, were not clothed in legitimate authority, no matter whose name or title appeared upon them. The acts of the British government, said the Tea Parties, were not clothed in legitimate authority no matter how creatively that government's courts excused them or evaded their proper limits by resort to procedural gimmickry or by "misunderstanding" (or ignoring) arguments by targeted litigants or defendants.

THE TEA PARTIERS MADE THEIR JUDGMENTS based on their own study of the law, and clear understanding of the fact that THEY were the sovereign in their relationship with government, as concisely expressed by Thomas Jefferson:

"A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate"

Edmund Burke, addressing Britain's parliament in 1775 regarding the aspirations of the colonists for liberty, observed that,

“In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.”

Burke went on to further describe aspects of the American character, and the reasons why Britain cannot succeed in maintaining the subjugation of the colonies. His last argument, prior to dryly pointing out that three thousand miles of ocean hinder the British purpose, is this:

“Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use.”

Burke recognized that it was the Americans' knowledge of the law that made them a people impossible to hold under illegitimate power. Not because that study reveals a magic spell that makes tyrants and would-be tyrants dry up and blow away, but because a study of the law arms the student with the moral certainty needed to sustain the long-term commitment which the struggle for liberty against the ambitions of despotism always requires.

WITH ALL THE FOREGOING IN MIND, I urge everyone in this community to spend some time over the holidays thoroughly reading (or re-reading) the words of the law presented here (or more comprehensively here). Then re-read your CtC.

Here's the reason for the exercise: Too many-- of even folks solidly within this community-- fail to stand on the firm ground of confident knowledge when facing skepticism from friends and acquaintances or from those in the realm of "officialdom".

Indeed, too many-- of even folks within this community-- fail to achieve and maintain an appropriate sense of impatience and scorn, if not contempt and hostility, for those in denial of the truth about the income tax-- whether it be their friends and acquaintances or those in the realm of "officialdom".

This diffidence is severely hindering the liberation of America from the grip of the "ignorance tax" scam.

AS I HAVE SAID MANY TIMES BEFORE, this community should have the character of those in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and of the American Revolutionaries of the 1770s. Like those earlier bringers-of-the-storm, members of this CtC community should be 100% certain of the righteousness of their cause and 100% intolerant of the willful blindness of anyone who denies that righteousness.

Indeed, this community should be 150% certain, by comparison with those forebears. We have the advantage of the entire issue on behalf of which we stand having been long since acknowledged in black-and-white by every relevant authority even from among the ranks of those whose resistance we denounce and decry.

Unlike the Revolutionaries and civil rights activists, who were obliged to argue what ought to be, based on philosophical and moral reasoning, we in the CtC community needn't argue our case at all. Our arguments long since won the battles at that level. The laws were written accordingly. Every institution of our governmental structure signed off in agreement.

Unlike the challenge facing the Revolutionaries and civil rights activists, no one need be convinced that our cause is just. We need simply overcome a modern, utterly contemptible corrupt institutional effort to pretend the laws don't say what they plainly do, and a corresponding, deeply-embedded, utterly contemptible child-like reflex on the part of other Americans to defer their own examination and judgment of the law in favor of whatever appears to be the preferred view of their modern, utterly contemptible and corrupt "chief magistrates".

The fact is, this CtC-educated community should respond to skepticism of our message with the same degree of unadulterated scorn that is merited by "flat-earthers", defenders of the "single bullet" argument, and socialist utopians. At the very least, skeptics should be derided as apparent illiterates, since the relevant facts are all plainly written out and published by the government itself for any and all to read.

Journalists, judges, friends, family members and acquaintances at the workplace and online should be presented with the facts, and then slapped with them as if across the face with a dead fish should denial persist.

The fact is that this is all personal, and it should be viewed that way. Denial of the plain and printed-out truth about the income tax has been used to drain your treasure chest and effectively enslave you to the state and its beneficiaries for your entire life.

The effort to persist in those crimes remains in high gear, and will do so until you get pissed and get noisy about it-- like the civil rights marchers of the '60s and the tea partiers of the '70s. As Frederick Douglass put it well,

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

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SO, FOR THOSE WHO ARE WILLING, there is my homework assignment for the holidays. Undertake to gain full ownership of the law underlying CtC's revelations, and get that sure knowledge running hot in your veins in 2020.

It is past time for America to shake off the sleepiness and sheepishness that have left too many waiting on the dispensation of a "chief magistrate" for their understanding of our own laws.

It is past time for America to recognize that sometimes, the "chief magistrates" become our competitors and our adversaries, when they have found a way to improve their lot at the expense of ours.

It is past time for America to recognize that in the case of the income tax, nothing could be more true, or more easily shown than exactly that kind of entrenched, corrupt exploitation by the "magistrate" class and its cronies and clients. All that is needed is simple resort to the plain, black-and-white words of the law.

“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

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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.

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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).

Inarguable (and nowhere disputed) proof of the first two statements above can be found concisely spelled-out in this little 7-page document. Whether the third is true for any particular person can be determined by consulting this guide to understanding "income-taxable privilege".

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What I Want For Christmas

...in recognition that more traditional and context-appropriate wishes like peace on Earth and goodwill toward men are only possible when sociopaths are no longer running the show.

HERE'S MY LIST:

I WANT ALL FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING cut off from every school, college and university whose policies and practices don't 100% conform to and respect the freedom of expression embodied in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and the corresponding provisions of the relevant state Constitutions. (Snow for Christmas? Yes, please. Snowflakes? No thanks.)

I WANT TO SEE EVERY CURRENT AND FORMER FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIAL who has knowingly participated in-- or allowed or facilitated-- violations of the Fourth Amendment, by way of warrantless electronic communications surveillance or otherwise, prosecuted for these offenses and imprisoned if found guilty as provided for by law.

I WANT EVERY FEDERAL OFFICIAL who has participated in, facilitated, or agitated on behalf of executive branch war-making without a Congressional declaration of war impeached, dishonored and removed from office.

I WANT EVERY OFFICIAL with a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning cashiered by the voters or their superiors; the immediate release of these two heroes of transparency and the exposure of government malfeasance; and the setting of the stage for their lawsuits against those corrupt, lawless and self-serving persecutors. Same thing, more-or-less, for Edward Snowden and a number of other heroic whistle-blowers.

I WANT EVERY FEDERAL CASE-- and any affirming appeal thereof-- with the United States as a litigant, in which a jury trial was denied over the objection of other party by a judge who construed the claims and evidence so as to find that no "material fact" was in dispute and who then issued "summary judgment", studied by a sharp-eyed congressional committee with an eye toward recommending impeachments, dishonor and removals from office when appropriate.

I WANT... Wow! I could go on and on.

Let me just sum it all up with this:

I WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE pissed off and on their feet, fully awake to the evils that have been fastened upon them over the last 80 years and to the peril of continued somnolence or complacency.

Oh... And a nice grey sweater-vest. Cardigan, please.

"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

-Frederick Douglass,

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Daft And Despicable Deniers

What the hell is wrong with these people?!

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?

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"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

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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

-Ezra Pound

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A Few Words About The Brilliance Of The Founders

I fear that this observation has somehow escaped the attention of some folks, since I rarely see it being discussed or expanded upon or shared around as I think it should be...

IN HIS 1776 MASTERPIECE 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations', (and other of his writings, as well) Adam Smith explains the concept of the "invisible hand" by which each individual looking out solely for his or her own self-interest nonetheless organically supports and improves the well-being and prosperity of the whole community. America's founders and the framers of the United States Constitution, who were close students of Smith's work and wisdom, employed the same principle in their establishment of the federal tax structure.

That structure, which makes the imposition of capitations and other direct taxes politically-difficult, is designed to ensure that federal revenue reliance would necessarily be upon excises, the incidences of which are entirely within the control of each individual citizen. Because each citizen naturally attends to his or her own financial well being by limiting such incidences, the Founders' structure, like a mighty invisible hand energized by hundreds of millions of individual self-interests, relentlessly keeps the state lean and on the leash-- when that structure is functioning as intended and is not nobbled by ignorance and Leviathan-serving mythology and disinformation.

We had the benefit of that disciplinary dynamic during our first 140 years or so. Then, in the early 1940s, we blew it.

Under the influence of the strange mass psychology of wartime, the residual effects of a decade of depression, the increasingly sophisticated "consent-engineering" begun during World War I, a relentless and unscrupulous disinformation and propaganda campaign by progressives in academia and the media and other factors, Americans succumbed to a bold subterfuge by an ambitious power-and-revenue-hungry Washington. The subterfuge involved the exploitation of what had, thanks to all those factors mentioned above in conjunction with Congressional adoption of a couple of statutes cleverly-designed to maximize confusion, become a very widespread misunderstanding of the true nature of the income tax.

As can be seen by tracking the size of the federal government over the years, the success of this subterfuge was the most significant event in American history:

Rolling things back to the pre-subterfuge status quo will be the second most significant event in American history-- this time a positive one.

Here is how it will play out again once enough Americans have recovered an accurate understanding of US Constitutional tax provisions and the actual statutory structure of the income tax, which fully conforms to those provisions and their state-disciplining purpose:

THE STATE IS ONCE AGAIN RESTRAINED. Forced to operate on an actual budget, the federal government has to pick and choose what activities are most critically important and of genuine near-universal interest to the people. There is no expensive army of two million arrogant bureaucrats justifying their fat paychecks by contriving rationalizations for interfering in the lives of the rest of us, backed by another hugely expensive army of 100,000 attorneys with the leisure and funding to figure out ways to evade the law on behalf of every ambition of an unrestrained State.

Washington is unable to evade the fiscal discipline of a tax structure confined to its actual subjects and its Constitutional limitations. It cannot and will not turn to inflation because that gimmick is too unavoidably noticeable and too guaranteed to arouse ire, even when fiat money is being otherwise tolerated-- something which itself is a good deal less likely among a population with an understanding of the "income" tax.

Nor is Washington able to borrow excessively. Its restrained circumstances are widely recognized, and it is known to be a sketchy credit risk, having already been forced to repudiate or drastically restructure its previous debt.

Efforts to expand federal revenues by heavier reliance on obnoxious and legally-dubious mechanisms like "asset forfeiture" or excessive fees or fines backfire. Increased resort to these draws correspondingly increased public attention to them, as well, resulting in the welcome reform or repeal of the abused and abusive processes long before the abuse has any chance of meaningfully re-energizing Leviathan.

Instead, the federal government has resumed reliance in large part on an across-the-board (non-protectionist) revenue tariff for financing its activities. Because of the State's need to maximize the take from this practice, even imports by American-based companies from their own "off-shore" production facilities are subjected to the tax. The incentives for off-shoring jobs has thus been re-balanced in favor of keeping those jobs local.

At the same time the cost of manufacturing locally (and therefore the price-point required for locally-made products) has been dramatically reduced by the melting away of the hugely expensive, stifling and petty regulatory state by which American operations had been burdened. More jobs are staying in this country, and many are returning here.

ALL IN ALL, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are back to dealing with, and enjoying the benefits of, a lean federal government once again constrained to its core Constitutional purposes as WE meant (and mean) them to be understood-- if only because it hasn't got the resources to misbehave. We are back to the government of the turn of the twentieth century, when government at all levels combined consumed less than 10% of our wealth, and when it was observed that an American could go his entire life without any contact with a federal official other than the guy who delivered his mail.

At this point the federal government takes in-- and spends no more than-- around $1 trillion or so annually. The amount is rising as the overall economy grows ever-more vigorous since being freed of the enormous drag of a bloated non-productive sector and the crippling distortions of constant political interference, but it's proportion of the GDP is falling toward an historical average of 4% or so. (This federal revenue figure could and would adjust as needed if America suffered a disaster of some kind, or got invaded by a foreign power-- something so unlikely as to be laughable, but which theoretically could happen. In such a case the American people can be relied upon to contribute whatever is necessary in blood, sweat and treasure to deal with the situation-- before once again closing their purses).

Perhaps $150 billion of that notional $1 trillion is being spent on maintaining our already enormous strategic deterrent/response capability and keeping up an appropriately-sized rapid-deployment defense force. This is still more than any other country on the planet spends on its military-- indeed, it's more than double what Russia spent this year.

The tight-belted United States has ended the expensive practice of garrisoning troops all over the world by which you and I subsidize the economies of foreigners by sparing them the costs of defending themselves. We're also done delivering enormous subsidies to the munitions manufacturers simply to acquire a gross excess of killing capability which ends up used to murder people in other countries and generate massive hatred toward you and I, the folks who had allowed and paid for all of this.

The CIA has reverted from being a secret parallel war department and returned to intelligence-gathering and evaluation. Valueless, expensive and obnoxious gestures like the TSA (which demonstrably protects no one from anything except convenience, comfort and courtesy when traveling) have fallen by the wayside. Police departments are no longer being militarized by donations from the federal war machine of tanks, assault rifles, grenades, drones, and other equipment.

THE REST OF WHAT WASHINGTON TAKES IN goes to maintaining the courts and the government infrastructure, delivering the mail, and other Constitutionally-mandated responsibilities. Nothing is left over for gratuitous or politically-motivated messing-about with the average Americans' pursuit of happiness.

Organic food and "alternate medicine" producers and consumers are no longer prosecuted. People using their own property in ways that produce no demonstrable harm to anyone are no longer victimized for merely offending some bureaucratic purpose and edict.

The financial affairs of most Americans are no longer subject to constant intrusive scrutiny and reporting; you can throw a stone in Washington DC without hitting twenty lobbyists; ministers no longer feel obliged to censor themselves politically in order to preserve a tax-related status about which no one cares anymore. Journalists no longer wish to be courtiers to what is no longer an imperial immensity and which no longer has something to say or do about everything under the sun.

As in the case of the "income" tax generally, only a small fraction of the American people are subjected to "Obamacare"-style taxes and burdens, where key application definitions invoke strictly-limited terms direct from the Internal Revenue Code. Indeed, the health-care industry, no longer wildly distorted from market disciplines due to misunderstood "pre-tax" compensation structures in the workplace and a massive federal involvement as a third-party-payer, has seen prices plummet and service and innovation skyrocket. It is no longer possible to manage even a pretense that any but the country's tiny handful of outright "safety-net" dependents are unable to afford health care on their own...

I COULD GO ON AND ON. But really, you can do so yourself. All you have to do to get a good sense of how this plays out is consider a federal government with strict limits on its resources, allowing for a total of about one-fifth as much as it has now. Keep in mind that people are going to continue to push for expenditures on what is important to them, so the things that get done are going to very much be the fairly small number of truly important things on which majorities of the American people actually agree-- functional courts; adequate and rational defense; a compassionate but disciplined "safety net"; and a few others.

DO think about it, please. The picture you bring to mind will NOT be a 'pie-in-the-sky' vision. Instead it will actually be a photograph of how this country was just a few decades ago, and how it easily can be again. All that is necessary is for understanding of the truth about the tax to spread, and all that is necessary for that to happen at this point is for everyone who already knows that truth to stand up loud and proud in word and deed.

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

-Mohandas Gandhi

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Other Voices:

Five Infuriating Takeaways From The 'Afghanistan Papers'

Lies, spin, over a trillion dollars wasted, and no strategy. They knew for 18 years and no one said a thing.

by Barbara Boland

After an extensive investigation and a three-year long Freedom of Information Act legal battle, The Washington Post released a trove of documents entitled the Afghanistan Papers Monday, and there’s a staggering amount of infuriating information contained therein.

The trove comes from a project entitled “Lessons Learned” commissioned by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR.) As part of the project, SIGAR staff interviewed over 600 people with firsthand knowledge of the war, including generals, diplomats, aid workers, and Afghan officials.

There’s over two thousand pages of previously unpublished documents and notes from interviews showing that the U.S. government deliberately misled Americans about the progress of the war in Afghanistan and proffered misleading and dishonest claims that senior officials knew were untrue. The title “Afghanistan Papers” is an unflattering nod by The Washington Post to the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the lies by the government in the Vietnam War.

1) The government suppressed its own “Lessons Learned”

Probably the biggest unintentional irony is the Pentagon’s title for the project: “Lessons Learned.” “The $11 million project was meant to diagnose policy failures in Afghanistan so the United States would not repeat the mistakes the next time it invaded a country or tried to rebuild a shattered one,” reports The Washington Post.

Instead, the witnesses’ first-hand accounts and unvarnished truths were suppressed for years. SIGAR instead published documents “written in dense bureaucratic prose and focused on an alphabet soup of government initiatives” leaving “out the harshest and most frank criticisms from the interviews.” The only reason these accounts are seeing the light of day is because the Post was able to withstand years of legal battle—which continues—as the U.S. District Court has yet to rule that the public has a right to know which public officials misled the American people on the war. The paper decided to publish in the meantime.

2) Staggering Amount of Money Wasted

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Afterword

SO, I THINK I HARDLY NEED SAY MUCH as a follow-up to Boland's observations in the article above... This little will suffice:

As usual, you and I and everyone else except the recipients of that trillion dollars which was pissed away making widows and orphans and lifelong enemies of America in Afghanistan HAVE BEEN GETTING SCREWED. Even those of us who haven't been directly paying out all that money are living in an economy impoverished by its having been left as brass and bodies and blown-up infrastructure elsewhere rather than spent on worthwhile things here at home.

And that's not to mention the poignant tragedy of American lives lost or ruined in this creepy sociopathic exploitation of power, which were in harm's way as pathetic victims of a state-nurtured delusion that they were sacrificing themselves for some noble and worthwhile purpose. It's enough to make your skin crawl.

Hopefully, it is also enough to make you resolute in rising to the challenge of spreading the truth about the income tax so as to strip the lunatic warmongers responsible for the Afghanistan fraud of the ability to do any such thing ever again.

You, as a CtC-educated American reading these words, are possessed of a huge power to make things right for you and your kids. Heck, you're a super-hero.

You just have to really get up on your feet, and really start acting like one.

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A New Policy

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.”

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What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth?

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?

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How We Get To Real Victory-- An Outstanding State Group Shows The Way

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Another Fine Victory For An Excellent Warrior Couple

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Keep Your Eyes Clear

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Other Voices: 'Media Looks Away As House Approves Warrantless Spying'

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Only One Thing Can Prevent CtC's Revelations From Crushing Leviathan

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Have You Encountered A Commentary (Or Commentator) Criticizing US Involvement In Ukraine (Or In Bolivia; Or Its Abuse Of Julian Assange; Or...)?

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A Nice Story From An Old Email And From A New One

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Regarding The Power Of Impeachment

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Other Voices: 'The Blob: Still Chasing After Pax Americana'

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So, You're A "Tax Professional" And You Come Face-To-Face With The Truth...

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A Few Words About Hypocrites For Assange

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Other Voices: 'Wikileaks Exposes OPCW Falsifications Of Evidence'

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A Victory Post By Special Request

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Some Further Comments On The 'Kestin' Ruling

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Steven Miranda Shares Victories And Inspiring Words

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Snowden Is The Man... But He's Wrong

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The Art Of The Squirrel

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Overcoming The Roadblocks To Getting A Real Person On The Phone At The IRS

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Other Voices: 'Impeach All The Presidents'

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Remember 'War Games'?

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An Especially Pleasing Victory

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Steve Stackelhouse On Learning And Using The Liberating Truth

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Dealing With "Frivolous" Threats

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Bringing The Cleansing Storm

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A Great Set Of Victories-- With A Message

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Fake "Fake List" FRP Hoax Assaults

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Another Criminal Practice By The IRS

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A Very Serious Question For Everyone

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Why CtC Is The Only Remedy To Leviathan

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Thwarting Judicial Corruption With 'Constitutional Avoidance' Doctrine

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Why Congress Will Never "Just Pass A Law" Enacting The "Ignorance Tax"

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Regarding State Group Membership

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The Educated American's Tax Filing Flow Chart

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Why Are You Not Doing This?

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Project Paradigm-Shift

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law

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And Hey! Don't miss the great stuff in the main page of this edition!

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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.

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A Very Serious Question For Everyone

One that is very hazardously going unanswered...

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A Wise Warrior With An Uplifting Message

DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring testimonial on what CtC has done for him for over nine years now:

"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."

-Proverbs 25:26

"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

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See Who's Been Lying About The Tax

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How Do You Know When The State Is Lying?

An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver, not a laughing matter at all.

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““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.

-Abraham Kuyper

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Assessing The Damage From The Misapplication Of The Income Tax

Man, are young Americans getting ripped off...!

"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

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A Michigan Version Of The "Watching The Watchmen" Amendment Has Been Proposed

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Poisonous Pieties

Now click here to learn the truth about the myths that have kept you from knowing the truth about the income tax

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Trolls Against The Truth: A Dis-Information Campaign

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A Few Good Folks With Good and Important Things To Say:

Find this film on YouTube at youtu.be/K0CYo57I3ks

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WANTED! Your Article!!

Sharpen those quills, people!

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Why Aren't People Suing?

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Give Yourself A 30% Raise: A New Flyer

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The Crime of the Misapplied Income Tax

There IS "A Law" By Which You Can Be Made Liable, And This Is How It Works

Now Learn How To Be Master Of The Situation

See the Proof

Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri. America is waking up.

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Get this graphic as a printable/postable/mailable .pdf

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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

Find more quizzes here

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CtC Videos And Audio Resources

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"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."

-Ex-Exodus 23:1-3

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