"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
***
Is It Getting Serious Enough
Yet?
Is it finally time to really start
humping to spread the state-restraining,
individual-empowering truth about the tax?
A WEEK AND A HALF AGO, Iran conducts
joint naval drills with partners Russia and China,
indicating the solidifying of its alliance with
these two nuclear powers. Less than a week later,
Donald Trump assassinates an extremely high and
hugely-popular Iranian official after setting up a
series of provocations based on the pretense that US
invaders in Iraq (who have no right to be there in
the first place-- and, in fact, are there
illegally-- and who could, after all, make
themselves completely safe by simply leaving
at any time) represent an "interest" the United
States has a right to violently and even
pre-emptively "defend".
The murder, and the lead-up to
its commission (involving, among other
things, protests outside an occupation
fortress absurdly described as an "embassy" in a
fine illustration of the fundamental mendacity of
every US pretense by which it attempts to
tack a fig-leaf over its naked and
indefensible aggressions) represent the continuation
of a deliberately provocative United States (and
especially Trumpian) bellicosity against
Iran which has been steadily on display for
the last three years.
That bellicosity toward Iran is
itself just the increasingly unvarnished
point and purpose behind the last 19 years
of
economically ruinous, grossly immoral
United States
widow-and-orphan production in the
Middle East. The preceding death and
destruction has just been stage-setting for
the main act. As they have plainly told us
over and over, all neo-con roads have always
led to Tehran.
OVERALL, THE BEHAVIOR OF EVERY
administration in Washington throughout the last
19 years has been like a scripted
representation of P.J. O'Rourke's
wonderfully apt and expressive bon mot:
“Giving money and power to
government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
Stampeded by
the theatrics of
9/11, the American people have been pouring
money and power on the swamp creatures of
the District of Columbia in a torrent for
all those 19 years. The swamp has grown deep
and the creatures have grown big. To return
to O'Rourke's model, the drunken teen-agers
are careening down the road at top speed,
with the rest of us locked in the back.
That behavior by the DCvers
over the last 19 years is also a fine
enactment of Thomas Paine's deeply-important
insight:
“Taxes are not raised to carry
on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes.”
-Thomas Paine
Demonstrating Paine's wisdom,
the swamp-creatures' war-mongering has taken
us from
a year 2000 federal budget of $1.78
trillion (with $294 billion as the defense
portion of that figure) to
a 2020 figure of $4.75 trillion, of
which $989 billion is devoted to "defense".
All that hobgoblin-flogging has been
feathering a lot of swamp-creature nests...
SO, IN LIGHT OF ALL THE
FOREGOING, the question--
suitable for presentation to any and every
American (and which I am urging every one of
you to ask every other American)-- arises:
"Are you okay with whoever is
running the Trump administration launching
WW III and incinerating the Earth (whether
because they are mindlessly and
hubristically reckless in their pursuit of
public money, have deep bunkers
carved out for themselves and figure they
will survive even though you won't, or
actually want to bring on what they think of
as biblical Armageddon)?
"If not, how about joining with
tens of thousands of your fellow grown-up
Americans who are in the process of shutting
down this madness by shutting off the fuel
that has been making it possible, as
intended by the Founders in a situation such
as this? Together, we can change the world.
"See
FeedingLeviathan.pdf to learn the
empowering truth about the income tax that
makes this solution possible, and has
resulted in $billions being kept from the
nutcases and in the hands of those who
earned it, where it belongs."
PEOPLE, THE BAD GUYS ALWAYS
push the envelope. That fact is one of the
inflexible natural laws most strongly on the
side of the good guys. But it means that the
good guys have to make use of the
opportunities presented by that inescapable
bad-guy defect.
Last week's madness is a big,
big push, and it offers a big opportunity to
steer lots of Americans onto the road of
awakening, even without "awakening" being
the least bit on their agenda. Those folks
just want to prevent war.
Your message of the truth about
the tax, by which those folks can legally
and morally stop putting gas into that
careening car will be welcome. It will be
welcome even to folks who have never
harbored the least interest in that truth
for any other reason, and had never imagined
that there was any such truth to be
discovered.
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.
GOTTA LOVE THESE HEROES!! Mark
and his wife Michelle stand tall, doing the Founders'
work by binding down an out-of-control state
with the chains of the Constitution.
Mark and Michelle's victories
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?
AND, HEY! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR
INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted, like
Mark's? This is easy to do, and very
important, and btw, though it's great if you
do, these videos do NOT require that you
have checks to show. See (and carefully read
in their entirety)
these guidelines and encouragements.
"It does not take a majority to
prevail... but rather an irate, tireless
minority, keen on setting brushfires of
freedom in the minds of men."
CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
"A slave is one who waits
for someone to come and free him."
-Ezra Pound
*****
Did you know…
…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.
The double murder of senior Iranian and
Iraqi military commanders on the orders of President
Trump is an act of war against two nations. It’s
hard to imagine a more reckless act of aggression in
a region already primed for all-out conflict.
On early Friday, January 3, a U.S.
drone strike reportedly killed Iranian General Qasem
Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
as they were being driven away from the
international airport in Baghdad. Several other
military officials in the convoy were also killed.
Soleimani was internationally
recognized as the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force
who had been instrumental in helping Syria win its
war against foreign-backed terror groups. Al-Muhandis
was second in command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization
Forces (PMF) which are an essential part of Iraq’s
national army in its campaign to defeat similar
terror groups that have plagued Syria.
The Pentagon blamed Soleimani for
orchestrating attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq
over recent months, and more recently for the
violent protests at the American embassy in Baghdad.
Those protests earlier this week came after U.S. air
strikes killed at least 25 members of Iranian-backed
PMF militia in Iraq and Syria on December 29.
President Trump on New Year’s Eve
threatened that Iran would pay a “very big price”
for violence against its embassy and forces in the
region. Pentagon chief Mark Esper also warned of
“pre-emptive strikes” against Iran.
What the Americans have done by
assassinating two senior Iranian and Iraqi
commanders is tantamount to lighting the
fuse for war in the Middle East – a war
which many have feared has been building
steadily since Trump became president and
embarked on his “maximum pressure” campaign
against Iran, most clearly evidenced by his
ditching of the international nuclear accord
in 2018 and the subsequent ratcheting up of
ever-harsher economic sanctions on Tehran.
THE GOOD FOLKS AT STRATEGIC CULTURE put
it about as plainly as it can be put, I think. All I
can say to follow-up is to point out that, as
painful as may be to admit, responsibility for the
rogue-state now terrorizing the world can be laid at
our collective feet.
It is the American people that
have let things get where they are, and it
is the American people that must fix this
situation.
We just have to devote
ourselves to the task. We must not be
daunted by whines and growls from the
junk-yard dog whose meals we cut until it
has shrunk back down from its current
Hell-hound girth to the good and faithful
guard-dog it is meant to be.
Remember, 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 awaken your
friends, family members and acquaintances to
the fact that they have that power, too.
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.”
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:
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.
*****
Do You Know What Happens When
YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?
NOTHING.
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can
do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God,
I will do."
-Everett
Hale
(...and
every other person who ever really deserved liberty)
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always
ready to guard and defend it."
-Daniel
Webster
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
-Edward
R. Murrow
*****
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.
January 6- In 1553, Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru. In
1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests his 'telegraph'. In 1907, Maria
Montessori opens her first school in Rome. In 1912, New Mexico is admitted to
the union as the 47th of the several states. In 1929, Mother Teresa arrives in
Calcutta. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Roosevelt's 'New Deal'
Agriculture Adjustment Act is unconstitutional.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter mid-edition update
below.
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*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
January 7- In 1782, the Bank of North America, the
first United States national bank, opens for business (it continues
today as Wachovia Bank). In 1927, the first trans-Atlantic telephone
call is made. In 1953, Truman announces the development of the hydrogen
bomb. In 1980, Jimmy Carter signs off on a $1.5 billion dollar federal
loan to the Chrysler Corporation. Constitutional scholars are still
scratching their heads and searching for the authority for that... In
1999, the impeachment of Bill Clinton begins. In 2015, shootings of
curious character in the details suggesting false-flag possibilities but
ascribed to Islamic extremists enraged by what they viewed as
sacrilegious cartoons about Mohammed take place in Paris, France, and
lead to a massive re-affirmation throughout the Western world of the
unequivocal sacredness of unconstrained speech rights.
*****
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
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
January 8- In 1790, George Washington
delivers the first State of the Union speech. In 1835, the United States
national debt hit $0 for the only time, after Andrew Jackson succeeded in
shutting down the Second Bank of the United States (an early version of the
Federal reserve). In 1973, the trial of the Watergate burglars begins.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
January 9- In 1788, Connecticut becomes
the fifth of the several states to ratify the United States Constitution and
authorize the new version of the federal government. In 1861, Mississippi
becomes the second of the several states to secede from the Union. In 1951, the
United Nations headquarters in New York City opens for business. In 1968, snow
begins falling for the first (and so far only) time in Mexico City, continuing
off and on for the next two days. In 2015, the alleged perpetrators of the
shootings in Paris two days previously (the "Charlie Hebdo" shootings) are
silenced by police gunfire.
*****
““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."
January 10- In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar
crosses the Rubicon. In 1776, Tom Paine's 'Common Sense' is published. In
1861, Florida becomes the third of the several states to secede from the Union.
In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. In 1920, the League of
Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, which
ends World War I under terms which set the stage for World War II.
January 11- In 1787, William Herschel
discovers Oberon and Titania-- two moons of Uranus. In 1805, Michigan is carved
out of the Northwest Territory. In 1861, Alabama becomes the fourth of the
several states to secede from the Union. In 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the
first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. In 1943, the United States
and the United Kingdom relinquish imperial holdings in mainland China. In 1964,
the United States Surgeon General announces that smoking may be hazardous to the
smoker's health.
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."
-Ex-Exodus 23:1-3
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
January 12- In 1932, Hattie Caraway
becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate (Democrat from Arkansas).
In 1967, Dr. James Bedford becomes the first cryogenic corpsicle. In 1971, the
Reverend Philip Berrigan and five compatriots are indicted on charges of
plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger and also do a "Guy Fawkes" in steam tunnels
under federal buildings as a protest against the U.S. activities in Vietnam.
In 1991, Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of
Kuwait.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
