"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
***
“Cowardice asks the question: is it
safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political?
Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But
conscience asks the question: is it right? And there
comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, nor political, nor popular – but one
must take it simply because it is right.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
***
Time To Post A Few More
Victories
...'cause it's always a pleasure to
honor more real American heroes!
LET'S START THE CELEBRATION
WITH DAVID AND VALERIE DENNING, who have secured refunds of
everything which had been withheld from them and given over
to California on the pretext that they were
engaged in "income-taxable" activities
during 2015 and 2016. Both of these
victories were secured by way of amended
returns correcting originals filed as
"ignorance tax" copper-tops prior to
discovering
CtC and learning the liberating truth.
Here is David and Valerie's
refund of 2015 withholdings (to which
$539.09 in interest has been added):
FINALLY, (FOR TODAY) LET'S
ENJOY W. LOCH'S two newly-shared federal
victories. The first is a
victory-in-progress for 2016 (issued just a
few weeks ago in response to
an original return filed this past October),
in which the feds have admitted that there
was no "income" and no tax due (see the
whole CP12 notice
here):
But Uncle Sam has only
returned the normal tax withholding so far
(plus interest):
...apparently hoping his duty
to also return the surtax withholdings will
be misunderstood (as discussed
here, for instance).
LOCH'S 2018 CLAIM has been
handled with more government respect for the
law-- being a complete refund right out of
the gate (though not issued until this past
December), plus interest:
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID &
VALERIE, CHARLOTTE AND W. LOCH for their
fine victories on behalf of the rule of law,
which join 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, too?
This is easy to do, and very important (plus
it can get you some great losthorizons
swag!). See (and carefully read in their
entirety)
these guidelines and encouragements.
"It does not take a majority to
prevail... but rather an irate, tireless
minority, keen on setting brushfires of
freedom in the minds of men."
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.
CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
An "unpublished" evasion by the
Ninth Circuit after an initial evasion by a
tax court judge prompts a worthy response.
AS I HAVE SAID MANY TIMES, when
bad guys slam the
castle
gates and hunker down in hope of outlasting
the good guys (which some will inevitably do
when knowledge of the truth is not yet
widespread, and they can therefore tell
themselves that they might get away with
it), the good guys simply have to pound on
those gates, over and over, in ever-growing
numbers and with ever-growing force. We have
one such hunker-down and one such pounding
in progress.
Accomplished and stalwart
warrior Brian Harriss (meet Brian
here,
here and
here) got an, "I can't hear
you" evasion by a tax court judge in
response to his petition over two completely
unsupported "deficiency" allegations. Then
he got another from the Ninth Circuit issued
as an "unpublished ruling" (read: "We can't
risk having to conform to this indefensible
piece of crap it in the future, so we're
designating it as non-precedential..."). Brian is
now shaming both devils with a powerful
petition to the Supreme Court.
BRIAN'S PETITION REFLECTS an
exceptional grasp of
CtC's revelations and the voluminous
supplemental scholarship I've published in
'Was Grandpa Really
A Moron?' and here at
losthorizons.com
over the years. It also does a great job of
parsing out and holding up for easy viewing
the corrupt ploys, gimmicks and evasions
resorted-to by a sweaty tax court intent on
kneeling and serving Leviathan but faced
with an educated litigant.
I recommend Brian's petition as
very worthwhile reading for every
CtC warrior.
Find it here.
I ALSO STRONGLY SUGGEST that
all
CtC-educated lawyers consider amicus
filings on behalf of this petition. An
overview of the petitioning process can be
found
here; more on filing an amicus brief can
be found
here.
Will the Supremes have the
integrity to stand up and vindicate their
own well-settled jurisprudence in the face
of Leviathan's corrupt "workaround"?
Probably not.
The high court will likely take
the escape hatch offered by the Ninth, whose
"unpublished" ploy makes Brian and his wife
and children the only victims of the bogus
ruling. Allowing an injustice to be suffered
by only one American family for the sake of
avoiding a ruling which would upset a lot of
well-connected apple-carts is a no-brainer
for jurists who are themselves sporting some
pretty heavily-vested apple-carts.
But amicus filings
might help change that dynamic.
Everyone else should do all
that is possible to get legal professionals
and journalists to read Brian's petition. A
strong buzz is even better than a strong
amicus brief.
Btw, while I'm in a
"recommendations" mode, let me recommend
Antonin Scalia's excellent book
'Making Your Case'to the attention
of anyone queuing up to do an amicus brief
(and to anyone at all with an interest in
persuasive brief-writing). A good friend
gave me a copy years ago and I found it very
useful. You will, too.
A small adjustment in
presentation that might hit the bullseye a
bit more reliably...
I HAVE RECONFIGURED a short, tight
and-- I had thought-- compelling paper which is
meant to serve up a good dose of "wake-up" for a
very small investment of reading time. The original
piece is titled, 'Feeding Leviathan', and I
now have a somewhat rewritten version titled, 'On Shrinking
Leviathan'.
Though I prefer to think that a
title like 'Feeding Leviathan'
bears no risk of ambiguity about being an
explanation of how that feeding is done--
and thus how to stop it-- I could be wrong.
Certainly I have seen no evidence that
anyone has leapt up and vigorously shared
the document.
IN ANY EVENT, I'm hoping that
'On
Shrinking Leviathan' is so
unmistakable that it can't suffer from any
such weakness. Hence, the change.
I very much hope that I will
see evidence of this new version being
vigorously shared around. I think that when
you read it you will agree that it is
very compelling and about as low as the
"introductory material" bar can go.
Sending/sharing/posting/tweeting this one
with a short "Here's why you should read
this, bro..." accompaniment could get a
whole lot done at no cost but a few pixels.
This could be a good item to work into a
billboard message, too.
Huge swaths of Americans are
sick of the monster (however much you will
never learn that by way of the mainstream
media). This isn't just a matter of taxes
and bullet-buying and orphan-making, either.
See today's "Other Voices" article below for
an example of another area where rubbing
shoulders with the 800 lb. gorilla in the
living room is raising blisters and voices.
SO, FIND THE NEW PAPER AT
THIS LINK
(or the others above, of course). Send it
around. It's tax season right now, and
everyone in this community should be
word-spreading like there's no tomorrow.
Don't be the one that figures
someone else will do it; instead, be the one
that challenges everyone else to keep up.
"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.
Important guest observations
and commentary with an important afterword
by Yours Truly
The New Totalitarians
by Richard M. Ebeling
This year marks the 75th
anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The
defeat of Nazism in Europe was seen as not only a
victory over tyranny, terror, and mass murder, but a
triumph for the preservation of many of the most
cherished human freedoms, including freedom of
speech and the press, and free association. Such
freedoms seem to be under attack again, and often on
American college and university campuses.
A new tyranny over the mind
has arisen at some institutions of higher learning
where open, diverse, and competing ideas across the
spectrum of human interest is supposed to be the
ideal. The last several years have been filled with
numerous instances in which mobs of students and
groups of professors have pressured university
administrators to either prevent or revoke an
invitation for an outside speaker to come to that
campus because the vocal critics oppose the proposed
speaker’s social, political or economic views.
When such an outside
speaker has still appeared on such a campus, they
have been greeted with crowds condemning their
viewpoint even before the visitor has had the
opportunity to express it, or has been drowned out
by derogatory chants and slogans, or in a few cases
they have been physically threatened and even
assaulted.
Identity Politics
and the Closing of the Academic Mind
GREAT ARTICLE BY EBELING, dealing well
with a truly important issue. And hey! Unlike most
punditry in which a problem is identified and
decried, Ebeling actually offers a prescription:
take public money away from these nests of
totalitarian conditioning.
HOWEVER... Ebeling doesn't know
that the only way to make that
defunding happen-- even in the face of what
would otherwise be insurmountable resistance
by a very influential community
heavily-invested in the status quo-- is
through
the CtC remedy. Maybe some of you can help
rectify that ignorance, and encourage
Ebeling
to share this knowledge with his many
readers?
C'mon, people. This is your
chance to be a real-life superhero and make
things right for you and your kids.
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--
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. Don't get
into details-- your audience is going to have no
idea what a "LTR3176" is, and you will NOT be
capable of explaining it adequately. This is an
subject area concerning which you should speak from
the heart, not the head.
If you haven't
yet begun to act, share the reasons for your decision to do so, and
your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE
and ENERGIZE.
Watch your own video after you
record it and ask yourself: Putting yourself
in the place of someone completely immersed
in "the matrix"-- oblivious to any notions
that you might have been a victim of an
"ignorance tax", and comfortable with the
status quo-- would the video you just made
encourage you to push aside your comforting
illusions and learn the liberating truth? If
not, try again.
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, 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
(if you do GoogleDrive you MUST 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.
February 17- In 1621, Myles Standish is appointed commander of
the Plymouth Colony. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson is elected President of the
United States. In 1819, the U.S. House passes the Missouri Compromise. In
1865, the Union army burns Columbia, South Carolina to the ground. In 1867, the
first ship passes through the newly-opened Suez Canal. In 1996, after losing to
the machine a week earlier, Garry Kasparov beats Deep Blue at chess.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter mid-edition update
below.
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
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*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 18- In 1841, the first filibuster begins in
the United States Senate. It will last until March 11. In 1885, 'The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is published. In 1930, Pluto is
discovered. In 1930, a cow named Elm Farm Ollie makes the first bovine
flight in a fixed-wing aircraft. In 1943, the members of the White Rose
anti-Nazi movement are arrested in Germany. In 1979, snow falls in the
Southern Algerian portion of the Sahara Desert. In 1991, the IRA
explodes bombs in Paddington Station and Victoria Station in London. In
2014, the US-instigated coup by neo-Nazi factions in Ukraine against the
existing elected government, which was balking at following a US-charted
foreign-policy course calling for distancing itself from Russia, began
to boil into its final days. Mysterious sniper fire indiscriminately
killed both police officers defending the government and rioters whipped
up by the plotters of the coup amidst steady, increasingly violent
clashes between the two sides. Scores are killed and hundreds wounded.
*****
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:
February 19- In 1674, England and the
Netherlands make peace in their third war, a provision of which hands New
Amsterdam over to the British, who rename it "New York". In 1807, former
vice-president Aaron Burr is arrested for treason. In 1846, the Republic of
Texas government relinquishes power in favor of the new government of the state
of Texas. In 1878, Edison patents the phonograph. In 1881, Kansas goes "dry".
In 1942, FDR asserts the authority to confine Americans of Japanese descent to
prison camps.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 20- In 1792, the United States
Post Office is established. In 1872, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
opens its doors. In 1933, Congress proposes the Twenty-first Amendment, which
will undo prohibition. In 1962, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit
the Earth. In 1976, SEATO-- the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization-- disbands.
*****
““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."
February 21- In 1804, the first
functional steam locomotive hits the rails in Wales. In 1848, the 'Communist
Manifesto' is published. In 1878, the first telephone directory is published
(in New Haven, Connecticut). In 1885, the Washington Monument is dedicated. In
1952, the British government abandons its wartime policy of compulsory "identity
cards" as an affront to the liberties of a free people. In 1960, Fidel Castro
nationalizes all businesses in Cuba. In 1975, former Attorney General John
Mitchell, and White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced
to prison for their parts in the Watergate affair.
February 22- In 1732, George Washington
is born. In 1819, Spain sells Florida to the United States for $5 million. In
1856, the Republican Party opens its first national convention. In 1879, the
first Woolworth's 5-and-Dime opens. In 1943, captured members of the Nazi
resistance movement in Germany-- the White Rose-- are executed after a
show-trial in Hitler's "People's Court". In 1997, a team of Scottish
scientists announce the successful cloning of an adult sheep.
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:
February 23- In 1836, the Battle of the
Alamo begins. In 1903, the puppet-government installed by the U.S. Marines in
Cuba agrees to lease Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". In
1904, the United States buys the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million. In 1954,
mass inoculations of children with the Salk Polio vaccine begin. In 1955, SEATO
meets for the first time.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
castle
gates and hunker down in hope of outlasting
the good guys (which some will inevitably do
when knowledge of the truth is not yet
widespread, and they can therefore tell
themselves that they might get away with
it), the good guys simply have to pound on
those gates, over and over, in ever-growing
numbers and with ever-growing force. We have
one such hunker-down and one such pounding
in progress.
