"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
***
With Considerable Regret I Must Announce That
The Seminar In Manchester Is Canceled Until Further Notice
IN AN EXPRESSION of the madness
gripping the nation in response to the Covid-19
outbreak, the governor of New Hampshire has decreed
that no restaurants may serve customers indoors
until at least April 7, including the one in which
this seminar was to take place. I'm terribly sorry
for any inconvenience this may cause.
...as
CtC's cleansing of the
8-decade "ignorance tax" stain rolls into
its 17th year.
IT'S ALWAYS NICE CRACKING OPEN
A NEW YEAR for which the truth-respecting
community has begun recovering amounts
improperly withheld as "income" tax when no
taxable activities were actually conducted.
Today, the first recoveries of amounts
withheld during 2019 are posted.
STARTING THINGS OFF TODAY is
Brian Swanson's federal refund of everything
withheld from him and given to Uncle Sam
during 2019 against normal federal income
tax and FICA surtaxes-- Brian's third
CtC-educated victory with the feds so
far. Brian proved to be not liable on the
better part of his earnings (his
private-sector earnings), with the modest
amount he would have owed on his federal
pension being zeroed out by the standard
deduction and dependent credits (as
shown on his return, here).
Here is Brian's refund notice
(about which more in a moment):
You'll note that this complete
refund has been diverted to alleged
"frivolous" penalties ascribed to earlier
years. There are two things worth mentioning
about that.
One thing worthy of mention is
that Brian is already in court strongly
challenging the validity of the "frivolous"
nonsense, meaning that the "diversion" is
almost certainly in violation of 26 U.S.C. §
6330(e) and should be reversed without any
fuss on Brian's motion. The other thing is
the interestingly-misleading/inaccurate
declaration on the lower left that, "As a
result, your refund has been reduced to
$0.00" (and the corresponding "Refund due"
declarations in a couple of other places.
Brian's refund has NOT been
reduced to $0.00-- it is $7,921.32. The only
thing "reduced to $0.00" (for the moment) is
the amount the IRS is sending back to Brian
as a check, rather than as a credit against
what it claims he owes for other years.
This may seem like a minor
semantic matter, and of course, it really
is. But at the same time, this apparently
deliberate misstatement suggests to my
cynical eye that it is meant to diminish the
significance of the "no tax owed for 2019
despite lots of money being earned"
admission being made by this notice.
BTW, you'll have noticed that
Lauren speaks of her federal victory for
2018-- let's get that one on the board, too:
This one is a
victory-in-progress. Lauren secured a
complete admission by the IRS that she had
no liability for 2018, and the return of
about half of what had been withheld from
her (plus interest!).
See the filed return here. At the same
time the agency is trying to intimidate
Lauren into letting it keep the other half
anyway,
as discussed here.
The transparency of the
agency's bad faith is even greater than
usual in Lauren's case, since
a false effort was made to challenge her
claims of amounts withheld (false,
because the agency had Lauren's sworn docs
attesting to the facts, PLUS the same from
the company that did the withholding-- that
is, agreement with Lauren's claims from
everyone with any first-hand knowledge).
Lauren
dispositively put to rest the agency's
purported uncertainty, and yet it went
ahead with its effort to steal the FICA
withholdings.
Some of those working at the
IRS can only be properly called
"creatures"... Btw, the Colorado refund for
2018 to which Lauren also refers in her
video can be seen
here (from when newly-married Lauren Cox
was Lauren Thompson, as shown above, but was
sharing that first victory as "Lauren in
Colorado").
***
WHILE WE'RE IN THE
VICTORY-CELEBRATING MODE, let's enjoy a
couple more, even though from last year...
Kevin &
Linda Seiler
This refund of everything
withheld during 2016 and given over to
Kentucky comes on
this amended return.
***
Kellon &
Megan Fisk
This complete refund of 2018
withholdings was issued on
this return/claim.
SO, HATS OFF TO ALL THESE
AMERICAN HEROES! Brian and Lauren and Kevin
& Linda and Kellon & Megan's victories 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?
BTW, DON'T YOU WISH
YOUR
INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted, too,
like Lauren's?
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.
Remember, it's all about
upholding the law, and that is YOUR
responsibility. Awakening others to this
high and honorable duty is the best way to
make it happen.
"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 FOLLOWING LETTER was found
by a friend in his attic some years ago. It
may vary rather a good bit from the tone of
21st Century St. Patrick's Day celebrations,
but I'm not sure that recent tone hits the
right note, anyway.
After all, St. Patrick is
honored for driving all the snakes out of
Ireland, not for the invention of beer,
green or otherwise.
IN ANY EVENT, THIS LETTER
offers a fascinating glimpse into a serious
reality of the recent past--
British-occupied Ireland-- from which can be
taken a lesson all liberty-loving people
should keep in their hearts.
Besides, the letter is
charming, in its own way, and a very
entertaining read. And it surely is Irish as
all get out...
A Few Stats To Help The
Pearl-Clutchers Let Them Go
...and to help the country recoil from
the "national emergency" madness that threatens
another permanent ratchet-up of Leviathan by
exploitation of what is really just a panic- or
propaganda-induced "crisis".
COVID-19 FIRST APPEARED as an already
broken-out (spreading) disease in China in December
of 2019. Source.
The incubation period for Covid-19 (time between
infection and appearance of symptoms) is around 14 days.
Source.
The world has experienced
roughly 90 days of mostly unhampered
transmission: the first quarantine outside
of China didn't begin until early February
and was just of one cruise-ship; all the
while until well into March potential
carriers arrived in airports throughout the
world by the millions (2017 total air travel
exceeded 4 billion passengers). After all
that, as of March 16 there have been only 167,515 known
infections with the disease, and 6,606 deaths (a 3.9% fatality
rate)-- worldwide.
Source.
In the USA, there have been a total of 3,487
symptomatic cases in the USA, with 68 resulting in death (a
1.95% fatality rate).
Source.
Many infected people never feel or display
symptoms, and even among symptomatic cases, 80% recover without
requiring any special treatment.
Source. This means the known infection number is anywhere from
somewhat to very much higher than the 167,515 figure above,
while the number of deaths remains the same.
In turn, this means the
death rate is a somewhat to very much smaller percentage of
persons infected than it appears without taking asymptomatic
cases into account.
TO PUT COVID-19 in perspective, then, in light of
the facts above, in 2017 (last year for
which stats are available), 8,561 people died in traffic
accidents in the USA on average during each 3-month period.
Source.
Comparing the 68 USA deaths
from Covid-19 to another current pandemic,
this season there have been 36 to 51 million
symptomatic cases of flu, with 22,000 to
55,000 deaths in
the USA alone, so far.
Source.
Worldwide, annual deaths
from flu average between 300,000 in a mild
year to 650,000 in a more severe one.
Source.
ALL TOLD, COVID-19 appears to
be only mildly virulent (millions of
exposures, yielding only a handful of
symptomatic cases) and mildly dangerous (1
in 51 symptomatic cases leading to death,
almost exclusively-- perhaps actually
exclusively-- within high-risk groups--
i.e., the elderly or those already
compromised with other serious illnesses.)
It is technically a "pandemic", but only
because "pandemic" means nothing more than
"appearing over a large area". It does NOT
mean "dangerous" or "panic-worthy".
The fact that there is no cure
for Covid-19 is no excuse for hysterical
response to the disease. There is no cure
for the flu, either, and the flu is FAR
deadlier than Covid-19, even despite the
existence and widespread deployment of a
vaccine against the disease. But there are
no panics being prompted by the flu.
It is time for America, to take
a deep breath and STOP BOUNCING OFF THE
WALLS!
WASHING HANDS and staying home
when feeling ill are good practices, and
frankly, should be done just to keep the
common cold in check. Seeing a doctor if
experiencing severe symptoms of Covid-19 is
a good idea, just as is doing the same if
experiencing severe symptoms of the flu (or
tonsillitis, or the clap, or whatever).
But shutting down your business
(or tolerating government pretenses of
authority to shut down private businesses by
decree), or panic-tanking the stock-market,
are NOT good practices or good ideas.
Instead, they are irrational and
self-destructive panic reactions more suited
to whiny children.
MY WISE AND WELL-READ FRIEND
JONESY sent around a wonderful quote from
the always excellent C.S. Lewis earlier
today that, as Jonesy observed, speaks well
to all this panicky nonsense. Here it is
(from the 1948 essay, 'On Living in an
Atomic Age', but Jonesy and I trust everyone
will recognize the fit and just substitute
"Coronavirus" for "atomic bomb"):
"In one way we
think a great deal too much of the atomic
bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?”
I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would
have lived in the sixteenth century when the
plague visited London almost every year, or
as you would have lived in a Viking age when
raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut
your throat any night; or indeed, as you are
already living in an age of cancer, an age
of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of
air raids, an age of railway accidents, an
age of motor accidents.
"In other words, do
not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty
of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or
madam, you and all whom you love were
already sentenced to death before the atomic
bomb was invented: and quite a high
percentage of us were going to die in
unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very
great advantage over our ancestors;
anesthetics; but we have that still. It is
perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering
and drawing long faces because the
scientists have added one more chance of
painful and premature death to a world which
already bristled with such chances and in
which death itself was not a chance at all,
but a certainty.
"This is the first
point to be made: and the first action to be
taken is to pull ourselves together. If we
are all going to be destroyed by an atomic
bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us
doing sensible and human things; praying,
working, teaching, reading, listening to
music, bathing the children, playing tennis,
chatting to our friends over a pint and a
game of darts, not huddled together like
frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.
They may break our bodies (a microbe can do
that) but they need not dominate our minds."
Friday, March 20: A
FRENCH CLINICAL TRIAL APPEARS TO HAVE
IDENTIFIED A CURE for Covid-19 this past
Monday (March 16, 2020), using a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin.
As reported, the results of the
tested six-day treatment are quite
unambiguous:
"At day 6 post-inclusion,
100% of patients treated with
hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
combination were virologicaly cured
comparing with 57.1% in patients treated
with hydroxychloroquine only, and 12.5% in
the control group (p<0.001). These results
are summarized in Figures 1 and 2. Drug
effect was significantly higher in patients
with symptoms of URTI and LRTI, as compared
to asymptomatic patients with p<0.05 (data
not show)."
It is to be noted that the
Chinese had already been experimenting with
chloroquine for some time, with what must be
assumed to have also been positive results.
The innovation by the French clinicians of
adding the azithromycin to the mix is what
appears to have taken a very good outcome to
a spectacular one.
Everyone in the world needs to
learn of this hugely-important discovery
right away, so that the increasingly lunatic
and draconian responses to Covid-19 can be
stopped dead in their tracks and rolled back
immediately before they cause further
political and economic harm.
GOING FORWARD, let's not miss
the lesson offered here in regard to all the excess of
media-fanned hysteria and all the huffing
and puffing and despotic experiments in government
overreach by the political class over the last six weeks or so...
As usual (and as usually
unremembered at the onset of every "crisis"
appearing capable of selling advertising and
justifying tyrannical measures), the
"Covid-19 crisis" has proven to be just
another problem susceptible to conquest by
unfettered human ingenuity. As is also so
often the case, the "take charge" behavior
of governments (and the "yapping it all up"
by the hyenas of the mainstream media) just
made things worse for everyone else.
Thanks to all the "take charge"
usurpations made possible by all the yapping
and the resultant hysteria in certain
quarters, America (and much of the rest of
the world) has a great deal from which it
must now recover. But this painful recovery
is not needed from the ill effects of a real
plague. Rather, we must recover from the
economic damage, societal disruption and
political distortions occasioned by media
and political-class efforts to exploit the
Covid-19 situation good and hard, and for
their own benefit.
Maybe we can remember how this
all goes when the next "crisis" appears.
...focused on a major theft
suffered by every copper-top, but seldom
considered...
RICK CUNNINGHAM AND HIS WIFE
ANN operate a small business out of the
home. Both used to pay a horrendous
"compliance cost" every year: two weeks of
tedious slogging through a ton of records
and paperwork as unwitting slaves to the
"ignorance tax". Then they found the "red
pill" exit from the Matrix--
CtC...
FOLKS, WATCH THIS FILM
THROUGH and enjoy every minute. Then share
it as widely as possible, accompanied by a
copy of
this document.
That document will help your
correspondents understand that in addition
to the money being taken from them
improperly, and the time being taken from
them improperly, their
Constitutionally-limited republic and the
rule of law are also being stolen away by
the persistence of the "ignorance tax". It
will also help them understand that stopping
these crimes is entirely within their
power.
Those with whom you do will
thank you from the bottom of their hearts.
And, at the same time that
you're thereby being a great neighbor, you
will also be doing your duty as a great
American. By sharing this video and that
document widely
you'll be helping to put into effect
the Founders' plan for the proper regulation
of the state!
Well done, Rick and Ann!
***
BTW, 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?
"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
Where's The Liberal Outrage Now That Tulsi Gabbard
Has Been Silenced Yet Again?
by Robert Bridge
Call someone by the wrong
pronoun, or deny a biological male the right to use
the women’s toilet and a person will feel the
unbridled wrath of the Liberal inquisition. Ban an
anti-war candidate in your own ranks, however, and
that’s just par for course in the Democratic club.
‘Bad publicity is better
than no publicity,’ as any marketer worth his salt
understands. Yet Tulsi Gabbard, the anti-war,
anti-interventionist Democratic presidential
candidate, who should be the darling of every
progressive, has virtually disappeared not only from
the debate stage, but from the news cycle as well.
During Super Tuesday, the
Iraq War veteran managed to pick up two delegates,
which, under previous terms would have qualified her
to participate, alongside Bernie Sanders and Joe
Biden, in future Democratic debates on the road to
the November elections. As predicted, however, the
DNC changed the rules mid-game.
The DNC has banned
the only woman left from the next Democrat
debate. I don’t hear any complaints from the
same women — Warren, Harris, Pelosi, et al —
accusing “the country” of sexism. https://t.co/0DMVbMeLYp
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow)
March 7, 2020
Xochitl Hinojosa,
head of communications for the Democratic
Party, apparently in a preemptive strike
against the hope that Gabbard would be given
a podium at the upcoming debates, tweeted on
Super Tuesday: “We have two more debates –
of course the threshold will go up. By the
time we have the March debate, almost 2,000
delegates will be allocated. The threshold
will reflect where we are in the race, as it
always has.”
Since then, the DNC
has ruled that candidates must get at least
20 percent of the delegates as of March 15.
Gabbard’s two delegates don’t meet this
requirement.
Had Hinojosa and
the Democratic Party elite reflected a bit
longer about “where we are in the race,”
however, they may have come around to a
different conclusion. Like, for example, is
it really the best optics to have two
geriatric white male contenders steal the
show from an upstart female who, having
witnessed the atrocities of war firsthand,
has acquired a soft spot for peace in the
Middle East.
BRIDGE DOES A NICE JOB laying out
modern-day liberal hypocrisy, doesn't he? I fear,
though, that perhaps he leaves too much to mere
implication the even more important fact that not
only does modern-day liberalism no longer stand for
its 20th Century traditional causes, but it now is
wholly-owned by the
Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex (and
Israel) just as much as those who go by the
label "conservatives".
I'm going to shore Bridge's
article up by saying flatly what he says
more obliquely: Tulsi Gabbard has been
marginalized, excluded, and as much as
possible dropped in the memory hole because
she advocates a non-interventionist foreign
policy-- that is, a REAL "America First"
foreign policy. As a consequence, she has
been treated just as Ron Paul was treated in
2008 and 2012 for just the same reason,
despite being not only a woman, but a woman
"of color"-- two supposed Democratic Party
qualifications for high office (as
ridiculous and childish as is such a view).
SO, THE REAL TAKEAWAY from the
Tulsi Gabbard story is that neither major
party, no matter the
oppositional/adversarial pretenses of each,
is going to shut down Leviathan. Both are in
a symbiotic relationship with the beast; and
the leadership of both comprise the
creatures which make Washington, DC into the
swamp against which demagogues from each
party rail.
And why should this surprise
anyone? Leviathans always seek control of
the political process; and political
machines always glom on to (and defend and
exploit) whatever power structure has
arisen.
There is only one way of
shrinking Leviathan and restoring power to
the American people, and that is by
individual action on behalf of the law.
HAPPILY, THIS RESTORATIVE
RESORT has been made easy for us by our
prescient Founders. It needs only to be
known by enough brave liberty-loving men and
women to have its transformational effect.
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.
March 16- In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
In 1751, James Madison is born. In 1792, King Gustav III of Sweden is fatally
shot in an assassination (though he won't die for almost two weeks). In 1861,
Edward Clark replaces Sam Houston as Governor of Texas after Houston is evicted
from office by the people for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the
Confederacy. In 1867, Joseph Lister publishes an article introducing the
concept of antiseptic surgery. In 1926, Robert Goddard launches the first
liquid-propellant rocket. In 1958, Ford produces its 50 millionth car (a
T-bird). In 1968, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese men, women and children are
massacred by United States soldiers at My Lai. In 1968, GM produces its 100
millionth car (an Olds Toronado). Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North and Vice
Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the
United States in connection with the Iran-Contra scheme. In 2014, Crimea
overwhelmingly votes to secede from Ukraine and re-join Russia.
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
CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to
sell you-- or even give you for free-- any
such thing.
Want to get these Lost Horizons
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Click here and subscribe to the group. Leave all
options at their default settings. Done!
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
March 17- In 1780, George Washington gives the
Continental Army a holiday in a show of solidarity with the Irish and
their struggle for independence. In 1845, the rubber band is patented.
In 1910, Camp Fire Girls is founded. In 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower
signs a covert-ops directive that ultimately results in the Bay of Pigs
fiasco. In 1970, the US Army charges 14 officers with concealing
information about the My Lai massacre. In 2008, New York Governor
Elliot Spitzer resigns after being caught using expensive prostitutes.
*****
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:
March 18- In 1766, the British
Parliament repeals the Stamp Act after relentless American opposition to the
tax. In 1834, six farm laborers in Dorset, England, are sentenced to exile in
Australia for joining together as a trade union. In 1850, American Express is
founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. In 1874, the government of Hawaii
signs a treaty granting exclusive trading rights with the islands to the United
States. In 1938, Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil assets within the
national borders. In 1940, Hitler and Mussolini agree to an alliance against
Britain and France. In 1965, cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes the first
space-walk. In 1968, the U.S. Congress repeals the law requiring the
maintenance of a gold reserve to back its money. In 2014, the Russian and
Crimean parliaments sign a formal accession treaty providing for re-absorption
of Crimea into Russia in accord with an overwhelming expression of popular
Crimean will by referendum.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
March 19- In 1920, the U.S. Senate
rejects the League of Nations (and the rest of the Treaty of Versailles) for the
second time. In 1931, gambling is legalized in Nevada. In 1954, Willie Mosconi
runs 526 balls off a pool table without a miss (the record still stands). In
1987, Jim Bakker resigns as head of PTL as his sex scandal grows more
inescapable and hands control of the enterprise over to Jerry Falwell. In 2011,
the French Air Force begins open assault on the Libyan government of Moammar
Gaddafhi.
*****
““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."
March 20- In 1760, Boston's "Great
Fire" destroys 349 buildings. Unhindered by FEMA, the city is quickly rebuilt.
In 1852, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is published. In 1916, Einstein publishes his
'General Theory of Relativity'. In 1922, the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier
is commissioned. In 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, who had attempted to assassinate
FDR but accidentally shot the man standing with Roosevelt instead, is executed.
In 1942, MacArthur promises to return. In 1969, Lennon and Ono are married. In
1985, Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the Iditarod. In 2003, the
United States invades Iraq.
March 21- In 1788, two thirds of New
Orleans is destroyed by fire. Unhindered by FEMA, the city is quickly rebuilt.
In 1857, an earthquake in Tokyo kills over 100,000 Japanese. In 1871, Otto von
Bismarck, the Godfather of Social Security, is appointed Chancellor of the
German Empire. In 1871, Stanley sets off to find Livingstone. In 1913, 20,000
homes are destroyed by flood in Dayton, Ohio. Unhindered by FEMA, the city is
quickly rebuilt. In 1952, Alan Freed hosts the first rock-'n-roll concert, the
Moondog Coronation Ball, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr.
leads a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. In 1980,
President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980
Summer Olympics to protest the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
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:
March 22- In 1765, the British
Parliament passes the "Stamp Act" imposing a tax on all legal papers in the
American Colonies. In 1871, William Woods Holden, the Republican governor of
North Carolina, is impeached and removed from office by the Democratic
legislature for his vigorous efforts to suppress the activities of the Ku Klux
Klan. In 1946, Jordan gains its independence from Britain. In 1954, the first
"shopping mall" opens in Southfield, Michigan. In 1960, the first patent for a
laser is issued. In 1981, U.S. first-class postage rises from 15 cents to 18
cents per ounce.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
