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Current Events and Continuing Education for February 24, 2020

“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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There's more to the Constitution than the political class would like the rest of us to understand:

The Fourth Branch

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Back-door Barr; the assault on Assange; Anti-Israel versus Anti-Semitism; and no, the health of the Great Lakes is NOT a "national security" issue...

Observations And Comments On Current Events

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Those whose gravy-train is threatened by the truth are subtle and relentless...

About State Forums And Trolls Under The Bridge

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Wake Up, Senators!

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

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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

-Thomas Paine

 

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

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

February 24- In 1803, the United States Supreme Court issues its decision in Marbury v. Madison, asserting its power of "judicial review".  In 1839, William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.  In 1863, the western half of New Mexico Territory is carved off to become Arizona Territory.  In 1893, the American University is chartered by Congress.  In 1920, the German Worker's Party adds "National Socialist" to its name, thus becoming the "Nazi Party".  In 1970, National Public Radio is founded.  In 1989, a United Airlines flight from Hawaii to New Zealand suffers a fuselage breach over the Pacific.  9 passengers are sucked out of the plane.  In 2008, Fidel Castor retires after fifty years as dictator of Cuba.  During most of that period a United States embargo succeeded in contributing mightily to the impoverishment of the Cuban people, while also preventing the uplifting subversion that exposure to the prosperity of a free society would have engendered, and all without doing anything whatever to unseat the despotic Castro regime...

 

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

  

Fear nothing but God's judgment as to your honesty and your courage

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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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Hey, People!! Start making plans for the 13th (and perhaps last) Declaration Day Party, July 4, 2020!!

The Fourth Branch

...of government, that is-- which is to say, "the people".

AS HAPPENS WITH DISTURBING REGULARITY, a little wave of Constitution-bashing has recently erupted, especially within the minarchist- and anarchist-oriented "alt-media". Each such instance deploys or relies upon some version of Lysander Spooner's famous assertion in 'No Treason' that "[W]hether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it."

Each such instance of Constitution-bashing also displays or relies upon an astonishing ignorance of some inconveniently contrary historical facts, such as the fact that SOMETHING prevented the rise of the corrupt Leviathan state for some 140 years after the adoption of that Constitution, as shown in this graph reflecting the overall size of the federal government from 1792-- shortly after the adoption of the current version of the Constitution-- until 2004 (and to which can be added in the mind's eye a great deal more upward growth since that latter date):

This chart of the federal government's size over time shows a virtual flat-line history of a statelet small enough to be drowned in a bathtub (comparatively speaking) up until the early 1940s. That statelet is emphasized in its consistent insignificance by the couple of relatively tiny and brief expansions during the conquest of the southern states and World War I.

The chart also shows the dramatic change that occurred not coincident with the advent of any Constitutional event, but with the implementation of the "ignorance tax" scheme in the early 1940s--80 years after the inception of the income tax and 30 years after the 16th Amendment (which had done nothing but close an 1895 judicially-declared loophole shielding federally-privileged rent and dividends from the tax on what the 1916 Supreme Court properly called "a mistaken theory deduced from the origin or source of the income taxed"):

That dramatic change is, of course, the advent of the Leviathan decried by today's Constitution-bashers (who should look back at the time of Spooner's complaint--1867--as shown on this graph and realize that for all his virtues, Spooner may not be the fellow whose perspectives are to be relied upon in evaluating matters related to "runaway government"...).

THIS BRINGS US TO THE REALLY SIGNIFICANT IGNORANCE suffered by the punditry engaged in chronic Constitution-bashing: ignorance of the true nature of the income tax. What is misunderstood by those pundits, and what is reflected in the graphs above (and more-or-less spelled out in the second of those graphs) is that the income tax is an indirect excise tax, application of which is entirely in the control of the individual (natural or artificial) involved.

Liability for the tax hinges on the voluntary exercise of excisable activities. This is something no one is obliged to do (and doesn't include the mere making of money-- one can make $billions and live like a king while never doing anything subject to the tax).

Because the income tax is limited as it is, and because alternative methods of financing the state-- basically, apportioned direct taxes and revenue tariffs-- are themselves constrained by their own limited scope or political weaknesses, it has only been the widespread ignorance of those income tax limitations that has furnished the fuel by which the little drownable statelet has grown into the 8,000 lb. monster now terrorizing both liberty-and-rule-of-law-minded Americans and the rest of the world, as well.

THE FACT IS, the tax structure set up and hard-wired into the US Constitution by the Founding generation puts control over resources available to the state directly and entirely in the hands of the people. The exercise of that control requires no cooperation by any state official, inconveniences the individual exercising it in no way whatsoever, and cannot lawfully be thwarted.

The American people thus comprise a fourth branch of government, just as expressly recognized in the Constitution as are the legislature, the executive and the judiciary instituted by way of that instrument. That fourth branch goes unnamed therein because the people of which it is composed-- being the sovereign creators of the other branches-- stand before, above and outside of that subordinate chartering instrument, even while having built into it tools exclusively for their own use in their capacity as the master branch.

Succinctly put, the people, through the tax provision limitations, provided themselves with a regulatory dial by which they can control the size of the state, up to and including a full-stop "kill switch", to enable the bloodless prevention or correction of a runaway state, just as would any forethoughtful creator of any kind of otherwise powerful and potentially-dangerous mechanism. (Other fourth-branch tools helping to illustrate the principle include the jury power, prohibitions of state interference with speech and assembly and the provision of the Second Amendment as a fall-back against the possible insufficiency of the others.)

IN LIGHT OF THE FOREGOING, it becomes clear that the problem has never been the Constitution. On the contrary, the Constitution, properly understood, should be recognized as the brilliant, liberty-respecting, Leviathan-preventing instrument that it really is, the knowledgeable implementation of which produced that first 140 years of tiny, relatively-harmless statelet shown in the graphs above.

The problem is simple ignorance-- ignorance, in particular, of the true nature of the income tax. It is not the Constitution that has proven inadequate. It is the preservation of the people's knowledge that has failed us, and sadly, every pundit that bashes the Constitution is also guilty of helping perpetuate and cement into place widespread public ignorance of the tax.

The remedy is still at hand, though. Ignorance of the tax hasn't changed its true nature.

All we need do is spread the truth about that true nature and the significance it has in the Founders' Constitutional plan. If we can get those misinformed pundits to help, we can get all that done real quickly, too.

Contact some of them. Share this article. Let's see what can happen when the Constitution is not being bashed but is being celebrated with real understanding of its design by their voices as well as ours.

It might be transformational.

"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?…the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it....It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free."

-James Madison

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

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The Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES.

Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money for their own uses.

If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that use.

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Observations And Comments On Current Events

Back-door Barr; the assault on Assange; Anti-Israel versus Anti-Semitism; and no, the health of the Great Lakes is NOT a "national security" issue.

Privacy v. Policing, or, AG William Barr Wants To Be America's "Back-Door" Man

WORD TO ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR (who is once again thumping the drum for back-doors into otherwise secure devices and communications): The solid security of individual privacy is FAR more important a public good than a robust ability of the law enforcement apparatus to penetrate that privacy. After all, a robust law enforcement ability to penetrate privacy could (and surely would) be turned to the foul purpose of thwarting any design of the People to exercise their authority-- indeed, their duty-- to throw off and abolish the current state, should it come to be widely enough seen as adverse to our well-being.

Such a critically-important design would rest heavily on the ability of individuals to communicate privately with each other, as well as their ability to assemble and otherwise coordinate activities free from any prying eyes of the state. In today's world, this makes uncompromised encryption capability in the hands of every American a critically-important civic good.

Uncompromised privacy is also the norm, here in America, especially. Contrary to the Nazi-like notions of AG Barr, the government has no more proper authority or valid need to pry into every conversation recorded on a cell-phone than it does to listen in to every conversation between two people sitting on a park bench.

AS FOR THE MATTER of other kinds of data stored on a device, no effort to access that data could be valid or lawful without law enforcement already being in possession of meaningful evidence from other sources which is sufficient by itself to establish probable cause that the allegedly-stored material constituted evidence of a crime. That prior evidence would have to be compelling to justify a warrant.

Couple that prior compelling evidence with a then-persistent refusal of the target to yield access and a competent prosecutor should have enough to take into a courtroom and present to a jury. That jury could itself order the target to grant access or face conviction on the reasonable suspicion engendered by the refusal.

On the other hand, if that prior evidence were not compelling enough for the foregoing to play out as described, then it likely isn't sufficient to justify looking into the target's papers and effects at all.

Back under your rock, Back-Door Barr.

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The Outrageous Assault On Julian Assange

LET'S BE STRAIGHT, HERE: The assault on Julian Assange is for the express and exclusive purpose of deterring anyone from exposing criminal acts by United States officials to the eyes of the American people to whom those officials answer.

This assault is indistinguishable from that of a mob boss ordering a hit on a witness who has threatened to go to the police and expose HIS crimes. It is indefensible, and blackly corrupt.

Anyone with a hint of brain-power should recognize that this crime is the über-crime-- the crime meant to mid-wife into place a completely unaccountable criminal state. The people can't exercise their power of oversight when they can be kept from knowing what their servants have done (or are doing). It must be strenuously opposed in every possible way.

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Anti-Israel-Policy Is Not Anti-Semitism

THERE'S BEEN A VERY VIGOROUS EFFORT UNDERWAY by Israeli propagandists and their counterparts in Britain and the US (at least) to suppress critics of Israeli policies and behaviors under the pretense that such criticism is actually an expression of Anti-Semitism. Frankly, the resort to this absurd conflation simply underscores the indefensibility of the denounced policies-- after all, why engage in any kind of dodge, manifestly absurd or not, rather than just defend the policies, if that is possible?

This false equivalency effort invites the question of whether those who oppose Russian policies should be deemed guilty of Anti-Slavism, or critics of Chinese policies or practices as guilty of Anti-Asiaticism (or whatever the proper term would be...)? Obviously all such efforts are ridiculous and false, and those who promote them should be shamed and denounced.

In any event, let me put the title issue to bed: I would criticize Israeli behaviors toward the Palestinians and in being a major and full-time war-monger in the Middle East (among other things) even if the entire Jewish population of the country moved out and was replaced by Swedes, or New England WASPs, or Saudi Arabians.

"Semitism" has nothing to do with it. It's the nature of the crimes that matters.

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The Condition Of The Great Lakes Is Not A National Security Issue

THE SWAMP-CREATURE SOCIOPATH (redundant, I know) calling itself "Madeline Albright" (who famously said during its tenure as Secretary of State that 500,000 dead Iraqi children in the '90s thanks to US infrastructure bombings followed by murderous sanctions was "[W]orth it...") has lately characterized "environmental issues" affecting the Great Lakes a "matter of national security".

No, Maddy, and obviously no. Our national well-being might be arguably at stake in the environmental health of the Great Lakes, but not our national security.

But let me explain why this absurd language is being deployed.

THROUGHOUT THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20th Century, an increasingly junior-varsity Congress delegated vast discretionary powers to the presidency available for unconstrained exercise whenever "national security" was allegedly at stake. Most of these powers are of the "PATRIOT Act section 215" variety-- baldly violative of the Constitution, under the excuse that they are "keeping us safe" (from whatever has been trotted onstage as the hobgoblin of the day).

The delegations were/are unconstitutional for reasons beyond the nature of the powers they purport to grant, since they amount to giving legislative power to the executive. However, the judges that might say so are all appointed by the president, and are not selected for their august offices for their inclination to thwart the ambitions of their appointer.

At the same time, repealing the delegations would require a veto-proof solidarity on the part of a super-majority in Congress. This is something as hard to come by as an honest politician.

Thus, until the CtC remedy is deployed by the Fourth Branch, such delegations-- illegal as they are-- stand as the statist quo, putting vast power to act without constraint into the hands of executive officers sharing the power madness of creatures like Albright.

Because of the terms of these illegal delegations, a preliminary step to using them to exercise power unauthorized by the Constitution is pitching the proposition that the exercise is a "matter of national security".

Hoot and holler such contrivances into oblivion whenever they are encountered.

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Regarding Trolleries

(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")

 

 

FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.

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About State Forums And Trolls Under The Bridge

Efforts to suppress truth are necessarily subtle, and exploit truth-lovers' natural virtues.

THE TROLL UNDER THE BRIDGE from the fairy tale 'The Billy Goats Gruff' is a great metaphor for the efforts of selfish interests to hamper or discourage the crossing of consciousness from ignorance to knowledge, or the crossing of knowledge from one to many. Or so it seems to me.

In any event, the term "troll" has been broadly adopted in the internet age to label and condemn participants in a dialogue whose purpose is destructive rather than constructive. Generally speaking, "trolls" are uninvited participants, or participants who secure invitations under false pretenses.

All of these things are pretty well-understood by most everyone engaging in dialogues, newsgroups and fora on the net. Less well-understood is that trolls which appear in certain circumstances are not driven by purely nihilistic, "want to watch the world burn" impulses.

Instead these trolls are working an agenda. These trolls take up residence under certain bridges in order to hobble the productivity of the other participants-- the efforts of which threaten the troll's interests or those of his clients and cronies.

CtC state fora are prime targets for such agenda-driven trolleries.

IN ADDITION TO BEING UNUSUAL for acting on behalf of a deliberate agenda, trolls targeting CtC-educated dialogues (or comments or tweets or other free-standing posts, as well as fora) are compelled to act overtly in ways a bit unusual for the species. This is due to the fact that there is no credible means of disputing or disparaging CtC's teachings.

Even the most highly-paid and best-respected legal specialists the state is able to muster in its efforts to resist those teachings are forced into outright and ridiculous lies and evasions in their efforts to do so, as disturbingly shown here and here (to pick just two of many available examples).

So, although there has been plenty of nonsense injected into the "tax honesty" community over the decades, anyone weighing in to a CtC-educated forum with stubborn insistence that the world is flat would be immediately and scornfully rejected, and would not hinder constructive dialogue in any meaningful way. Necessarily, then, the troll-assault on CtC-educated groups (or posts) must take a subtler approach.

Because agenda-driven troll-work is inherently deceptive, it is impossible to do more than speculate as to its forms. But a great deal of observation over many years of 48 state groups which are basically available to any applicant (and the national forum when membership qualifications were much looser than today) has led me to conclude that one primary approach taken by trolls to hobble the CtC community is to join state groups pretending to be CtC "newbies" and then encumber the other members with endless questions or statements reflecting misunderstanding of one thing or another.

The questions can be about what to do, or how to do it, or can seek clarification of parts of CtC. Mis-statements can involve persistent misuse of terms (such as referring to their earnings as "wages" despite representing themselves as not being in "wage"-earning positions).

The, "I don't understand(s)..." can be about anything, but will either concern things which ARE thoroughly-explained in the book (and often with further material on the FAQ pages or the Digital Appendix or other resource pages on losthorizons.com) or things which anyone who actually has read the book would know are irrelevant at best, if not outright incorrect.

The goal is the exploitation of the natural generosity of the legitimate group membership. That generosity will prompt the legitimate group members to let themselves be distracted from the outreach efforts for which these groups exist in order to lend a helping hand in response to what they imagine is an honest need, without the least suspicion or impatience.

OF COURSE, NOT EVERY QUESTION or initial error of expression, or presentation of mistaken notions is the mendacious work of trolls. Applicants for state group membership are often "newbies", who do come in knowing little or nothing (or hampered in their own minds by "tax honesty" nonsense gotten elsewhere).

Often enough, new members come in with varyingly complicated situations from past bad practices regarding the tax (again, usually due to "tax honesty" nonsense).

In these legitimate newbie cases neither the questions described above, or any of the other distractions, are ill-meant. Initial questions and misstatements should prompt courteous and generous corrections and/or directions to the relevant resources in CtC, while prompting no suspicions.

BUT... ONCE A MEMBER HAS BEEN DIRECTED to where he or she can find the answers to questions, guidance on particular subjects, or debunks of erroneous notions, any repeat of the same distractions should cause antennae to go up. Repeated questions or misstatements-- whether identical to the first ones or not-- are no longer entitled to forgiveness, and should be viewed as burdens being deliberately placed on the group.

Understand that whether these burdens are outright agenda-driven troll-work or not will remain an open question at all times (in the absence of an admission or other such evidence). But it is also an irrelevant question.

Even if repeated distractions are not actual suppression-agenda trolleries, they are at least an effort at free-riding, whereby someone seeks to save themselves the trouble of study by consuming someone else's steam. (Or, though far less likely than some might believe, they are the product of an ineducable mind. These folks may mean well, but are incapable of learning how to fish, as it were. They must await the transformation which is being driven by their more capable fellows, after which there will be no more "ignorance tax" scheme to overwhelm them.)

However, actual "free-riding" behavior being inherently selfish, and the material about which we are speaking being far from rocket-science, neither of these alternative explanations for the persistent injection of distractions is very credible, in my mind. Thus (and because in any event, the distractions are destructive of the purposes for the fora, and hence intolerable), all distraction-injection behavior should be treated as deliberate and ill-meant, insofar as the nature of the response it receives.

That response should be increasingly sharp reminders that each person must do his or her own diligent research and study (i.e., "Read the book." ... "Re-read the book." ... "Visit the sitemap on losthorizons.com and read." ... "Read the FAQs." ... "Read the "Misunderstandings" page." ... etc.), and must seek to own the material by virtue of such practices. Continued offenses should result in overt denunciation and then an ignoring of the offender's posts.

I KNOW ALL OF THIS SEEMS HARSH. That is largely because of the natural generosity and courteous of legitimate members which the troll-work (whether agenda-driven, free-riding or incompetence) exploits against the productive interests of those members.

But this community must focus on winning the war (which will benefit even free-riders and incompetents as much as anyone). That means leading as many horses as possible to the watering hole as quickly as possible.*

Nothing must be allowed to distract from that effort. Understand that anyone in legitimate need of help will get more benefit from 1,000 other Americans being exposed to the truth about the tax than from being nursed along individually at the expense of that broad exposure. The trolls know this, and it is why they play the "questions" game.

Are you unfamiliar with the enormous, decade-and-a-half-plus effort to suppress CtC? Read this, every word and every linked document, and become familiar. Recognize that this has been done because the bad guys know that the truth getting in front of enough American eyes is all that it takes for their house of cards to collapse.

You've got to know that, too, and stop letting yourselves get played by the distractions.

“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

-Thomas Paine

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*The "drinking" of the water must be left to what "horses" have the wit to do so. You don't have to explain the tax to anyone. You just have to get people to have material like this or this or this or this open on their screens.

Early on, many will get through a paragraph or two at most and then snort and move back to politics, cute kitty videos or other squirrel-bait. This is NOT YOUR PROBLEM.

1%, or 5%, or 10% will read it all. 1% or 5% or 10% or 50% of that fraction will become intrigued and dig deeper (or have the light bulb pop right then). As time goes on (but very quickly) the influence of that x% of x% will ratchet up all the percentages.

Before you know it, the world will have changed.

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Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?

Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way.

But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback.

Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION

TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC

All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.

Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it.

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word??

SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance:

Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same?

Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

Remember: Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

OUTREACH!!!

JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.

ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself.

"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Wake Up, Senators!

by Eric Margolis

The US Senate, long the lap dog of the man who would be king, President Donald Trump, appears to have finally remembered its proper constitutional role.

Last week, the Senate voted 55/45 for a new bipartisan War Powers Act to constrain military action against Iran. The Congress voted a similar act. Both are designed to start returning the right to make war to Congress, as the Constitution clearly intended. The president is not the Warlord-in-chief in spite of what he thinks.

The Senate has been supine until now, intimidated by an unholy alliance of pro-war Christian evangelists and the Israel lobby, and over $100 million given to the Republican Party by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Senators who dare oppose this powerful special interest risk their political futures. The lifting of limits on political contributions has given Adelson enormous power over Trump and his friend, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump has been very successful in intimidating and punishing those who deviate from his party line. All he lacks so far is a KGB-style secret police to enforce his demands. The current fracas over Trump’s efforts to undermine the prosecution of his ally, political low-life Roger Stone, is yet the latest example of the steady erosion of our democratic system.

Yet even Trump went too far with the murder of senior Iranian officer, Maj. Gen Qasem Soleimani, who had been invited to visit Iraq for peace talks by its US-installed regime. Americans, besotted by too many violent TV programs, saw this as a plus, but the rest of the world was horrified by the gangster act. It appears Trump & Co. were convinced to commit this murder by Israel, which had been stalking Soleimani for years.

Continued...

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

 

Afterword

GOOD STUFF FROM MARGOLIS, lacking only one important ingredient: a link to the actual remedy for the conundrum he recognizes and against which he warns in his final paragraph. Here is that link.

The happy fact is, Americans need never place their hopes for a constrained and relatively harmless state on the thin reed of elected official integrity. There ARE good elected officials, sometimes. But rarely are there enough of them at any one time to rein in Leviathan, as the historical record has made clear.

Thank goodness the Founders' were skeptical of angelic tendencies in those who strive for political power and provided the People with controls not dependent on anyone in that class. In fact, the Founders provided the People with controls that can't even be thwarted by anyone or any cabal in the political class.

Those controls only work when enough Americans know about them, though... So, spread the word.

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A Little Extra

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

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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

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

-Mark C. Phillips, JD

 

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

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"Your book is a masterpiece!"

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

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

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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

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

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And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

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

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Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?

 

 I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?

 

Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fifteenth) edition of CtC!

C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy!

If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying and suppressing the truth for years on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...

(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)

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Resources:

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

From when the rot was less advanced,

A Welcome Tartness From A Chief Judge Of The Fifth Circuit

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Heart-felt inspiration and encouragement from a real American grown-up:

Patrick Malloy Shares His Journey To The Liberating Truth

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Modern Feminism's Hated Enemy: Womanhood'

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More very welcome thunder in the air...

The Lights Go On In Colorado!

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Been holding your nose on election day?

This Year, Nobody Has To Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils

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Delivering this debunk can have a big payoff, folks:

A History Lesson For Pundits And Professionals

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Latest And Most Reckless US Imperial Act?'

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There's a really good reason...

Why I Write About Politics And Public Policy

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Folks, you really need to read this one all the way to the end:

The Virtual Certainty Of Foreign Interference In The 2020 Election

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An enrichment of the resource pool:

2015 And 2016 Editions Have Been Added To The Online Newsletter Archive

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Blood On Whose Hands?'

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We've all been victims of a monstrous subterfuge:

The Cowbird State

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Nick Audette has shared video and documents concerning...

A Nice Victory For A New Warrior

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Decades of systematic corruption of the American political class leave us facing:

The Virtual Certainty Of Foreign Interference In The 2020 Election

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'On Rogues And Rogue States'

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

The Day The Lights Went On In Georgia!

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Ruben Varela shares some good news:

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

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And let's not stop with billboards...

Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist'

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

Leviathan Takes More Hits

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And yet, it moves...

The Galileo Factor

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Already?! Yes!!

It's 'Christmas Special' Time Again!

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

The Biggest Snow Job In World History

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

What Is Going On Here, People?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Deep-State, Redefined'

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

The Main Chance That Everyone Is Missing

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

Every Which Way But Loose

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I hate to say it, but...

Most Of You Deserve To Be Squashed Like Cockroaches

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

Brenna Wright Shares Her Tax Truth Odyssey

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Fascinating material on a pernicious effort to destroy liberty:

A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

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

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

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This really is a simple enough thing...

Hendrickson's Axiom of Special Definitions

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From the 'Garbage In Yields Garbage Out' Department:

Debunking The '1870s Income Tax Repeal' Myth

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

A Few Words About The Constitution

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At least these "ladies" are honest...

A Word From The United Bitches Of America

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

Why Donald Trump Should Be Impeached

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It is so easy to prove that...

The Government Knows Perfectly Well That CtC Is 100% Correct

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An updated and ever-more important commentary:

What America Really Gets From The "Ignorance Tax"

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See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

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Get All Newsletters As They Are Published:

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

Find my YouTube channel here.

 

The upgraded Fifteenth Edition of CtC is Now Available!

Btw, a copy of CtC from anywhere except the link above may not be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for free-- any such thing.

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

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

February 25- In 1836, Samuel Colt receives a patent for his six-gun.  In 1862, the fiat currency known as "greenbacks" are first issued by the United States.  In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first black member of the United States Congress.  In 1901, J. P. Morgan incorporates U. S. Steel.  In 1919, Oregon institutes the first gasoline tax.  In 1932, Adolph Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, allowing him to seek public office.  In 1933, the first custom-designed United States aircraft carrier (the USS Ranger) is launched.

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.

Watch this fascinating 12 minute video on how climate data are misrepresented.

Then share this link with everyone you can

H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.

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Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's?

Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you.

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No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do.

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

February 26- In 1797, the Bank of England issues its first irredeemable banknotes after war expenses had depleted England's gold reserves.  Redemption of its notes in real money resumed 24 years or so later.  In 1863, Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law, establishing a series of national banks in competition with private and state banks (1,644 of them by the end of 1866).  This was the first step in a process by which non-federal currency was driven out of circulation, and which culminated eventually in the establishment of the Federal Reserve system.  In 1993, a truck-bomb explodes in the underground garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

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A Two-Minute Review Of CtC

David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or there isn't.

HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important (plus it can get you some great losthorizons swag!). See (and carefully read) these guidelines and encouragements.

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Some Good Perspective From The Delightfully Sardonic John Prine

Another guy who's always had his head screwed on pretty straight, even though with a decidedly whimsical tilt.

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Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

Learn how (and why) to share YOUR testimony, here.

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The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior

This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up.

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IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward

A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up.

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

Cognitive dissonance in action.

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Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium?

Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda.

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Hey, Gamers!

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

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

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

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

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

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

February 27- In 1801, the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 places the district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress (within Constitutional constraints).  In 1844, the Dominican Republic declares independence from Haiti.  In 1900, the British Labour Party is founded.  In 1933, Nazi false-flag operators ignite fires in the German Reichstag (Parliament), using the "crisis" as a pretext for expanding government power.  In 1945, Lebanon declares independence from France.  In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution-- limiting the president to two terms, in disgusted reaction to the socialist excesses fastened upon the people during FDR's twelve-year reign-- is ratified.  In 1973, the American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

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The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment'

If you're not talking this one up everywhere and helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the rule of law...

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

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

Set Your Church Free

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

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

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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

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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now

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

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

February 28- In 1784, John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.  In 1827, the B&O Railroad is incorporated.  In 1922, Egypt gains its independence from Britain.  In 1935, nylon is invented.  In 1985, the Provisional IRA attacks the Royal Ulster Constabulary station at Newry with mortars.  In 1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden is assassinated in Stockholm.  In 1993, the BATF attempts to execute a bogus "firearms violation" warrant by way of a massive, no-knock raid on the home of the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas, as a publicity stunt.  In 1998, the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft makes its first flight.  In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI becomes the first holding his office to resign in nearly six centuries.

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

How About You?

Are You Governing Yourself?

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

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There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated...

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

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

Renew Your Promise

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IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.

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

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

The Choice Is This Stark

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

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

February 29- In 1504, Christopher Columbus leverages his knowledge of a lunar eclipse due that night to awe the Native Americans with whom he found himself into giving him needed supplies.  In 1864, an attempt by Union forces to free 15,000 prisoners of war being held by the Confederate Army, known as the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, fails.  In 1916, the minimum age acceptable to the government of South Carolina for work in factories, mines and mills is raised from twelve to fourteen.  In 1940, Hattie McDowell becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award, for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind.  In 1972, United States ally South Korea withdraws just under a quarter of its 48,000 troops fighting in the Vietnam war, as part of the "Vietnamization" policy.  In 1980, Gordie Howe scores his 800th goal.  In 2012, the 2,080.052493 foot Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower and second-tallest manmade structure, is completed.

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

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

Regarding "Tax Reform"

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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

March 1- In 1781, the Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.  This day in 1803 is designated as that of Ohio's admission to the union as the 17th of the several states, but the actual congressional action on the admission didn't take place until August 7, 1953.  In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returns to France after escaping his imprisonment on Elba.  In 1867, Nebraska is admitted to the union as the 37th of the several states (36th, really-- see the Ohio entry above).  In 1872, Yellowstone becomes the first United States park.  In 1912, Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from an aircraft in flight.  In 1932, the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped.  In 1941, the first FM radio station in America begins broadcasting (WSM-FM in Nashville, Tennessee).  In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists open fire on United States representatives from the visitor's gallery during a session of Congress, wounding five.  In 1966, the Soviet Venera 3 space craft becomes the first to land (by crashing) on the surface of another planet.  In 1971, the Weather Underground sets off a bomb in a men's room in the U.S. Capitol building.  In 1974, seven suspects are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in.  In 2014, eight assailants armed with knives massacred 29 people and left another 140 wounded in an attack in the Chinese city of Kumming.  Predictable calls for strengthened "knife control" laws echoed throughout statist lairs across America.

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Last Word

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

-Samuel Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution

 

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About The Author

Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students.

Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country.

Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm.

Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website.

On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years.

Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his next book.

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