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Ours is a Constitutional system in which, by nature, there can be no "emergency
government powers" over individual citizens.
April 20- In 1861, Robert E. Lee resigns his United States Army
commission and devotes himself to the defense of his native country, Virginia.
In 1912, Tiger Stadium in Detroit and Fenway Park in Boston open for business.
In 1916, the Chicago Cubs play their first game at Wrigley Field. In 1918, the
Red Baron shoots down his 79th and 80th dogfight opponents, his last before
being killed himself the next day. In 1999, two students kill or wound 37
unarmed students and teachers at Columbine High School in Colorado. Arriving on
the scene halfway through the carnage, police wait outside the building doing
nothing until long after the gunfire has ended.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Hey, People!! Start making plans
(and get your RSVPs in)
for the 13th (and perhaps last)
Declaration Day Party, July 4,
2020!!
***
And, HEY, II! Please don't just
read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or
approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order
to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with
perspectives and arguments with which to
educate others, and in the
expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or
direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things.
We won't win by YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
What Is, And What Is Not, Within The Power Of
The State
A legal debunk of "emergency powers" pretenses, followed by
some commentary on what must-- and what must not-- change in the
"post-Covid-19 world".
AMERICANS DON'T CREATE GOVERNMENTS in order to have their lives
micromanaged. Americans don't WANT their lives micromanaged.
Nor do Americans empower governments to compel
their
obedience in any regard, other than per authority expressly and deliberately
delegated-- by super-majorities of the population as a whole, after due
consideration and debate-- concerning the relevant area or issue.
Further, such authority is always circumscribed by rules as to its scope and the manner in which, and purposes for
which, it can be exercised.
IN FACT, WE AMERICANS CREATE GOVERNMENTS solely to accomplish a small
number of things which the super-majority agrees in advance are needed,
and feel cannot be properly accomplished by individuals acting alone, or by reliance
on the natural and spontaneous dynamics of society.
The state (by which
is meant here both the federal entity operating out of Washington, DC and each
of the several states) has no
authority to do anything else, and can
command nothing except as necessary to the accomplishment of that small
number of things (and while keeping within the limits of all
Constitutional prescriptions and proscriptions on its behavior).
Everything beyond that small number of things delegated to
the state (on good behavior, and subject to all the rules and
restrictions imposed) is left to society and the people as individuals.
And that small number of delegated things can be withdrawn from the
state's portfolio at any time by the people, to whom complete authority
over all of it actually belongs.
In no regard and under no circumstances has the state been
authorized to
act simply as its officeholders see fit, and to compel our participation and
cooperation with those decisions. Indeed, the state cannot be
so authorized, under a Constitutional system.
HERE'S THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 101 PROBLEM with state
officeholders "exercising discretion": Any provision (or
doctrine) purporting to authorize any such thing would have those officeholders
determining the scope and limits of their authority for themselves. This
necessarily and inescapably would mean that such officeholders would be
exercising "authority" which has not been delegated to them.
Under such provisions or doctrine, our elected officials
would thereby really be rulers-- kings and queens, in fact,
even if each only in a designated sphere-- rather than servants chosen
to accomplish specified tasks to which we had set them.
Such a provision or doctrine would be inherently violative
of the sovereignty of the people (and thus void ab initio). It
would also be at war with every principle of Constitutional government,
in which the state's powers are spelled out for the very
purpose of precluding the exercise of indeterminate "autoritah", and the
Constitution doesn't simply provide for the selection of
officers, leaving all further decisions as to what powers to exercise,
and how, to the wisdom and good character of the angels who would then
be chosen by the prescribed methods.
Needless to say, however much the chief skill of politicians
is the misrepresentation of his or her character, angels are not
available to be chosen for these offices. As James Madison dryly put it
in Federalist No. 51, observing that limits and controls on the scope of
the state's power must therefore be imposed Constitutionally:
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If
angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on
government would be necessary.”
Jefferson put it more bluntly:
"[L]et no more be heard of confidence in man, but
bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
IN LIGHT OF ALL THE FOREGOING, it is clear that there is,
and can be, no such thing as an "emergency" power possessed by the state in a
Constitutional system. Even our current state's own grand pooh-bahs of
presumed authority to determine the state's authority says so:
"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers
and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of
its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all
circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was
ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be
suspended during any of the great exigencies of government."
-US Supreme Court, Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866)
(Unanimous decision)
Actions outside the provisions of the Constitution amount
to a suspension of the Constitution, in which it is specified that the
state may exercise no power not expressly delegated to it by the people:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people.
Tenth Article of Amendment, U.S. Constitution
The Constitutions of the several states contain the
same provisions limiting those states to delegated authority. In
Michigan's, for instance, we find this as the very first provision of
the very first Article:
§ 1 Political power.
All political power is inherent in the people. Government
is instituted for their equal benefit, security and protection.
All power being inherent in the people, the state has none
which is not delegated to it by way of the people's Constitution. As
observed above, open-ended, unspecific "emergency powers", or other
provisions by which the state's officers determine for themselves the
scope and limits of their authority cannot co-exist with a structure of
delegated authority and powers.
You can have a king or you can have a
Constitution-- you can't have both. Since state officials only have
offices to hold at all by virtue of the Constitution, they cannot
exercise the power of kings, even if fires rage and floods follow.
FURTHER, AND PARTICULARLY RELEVANT to the matter of alleged
"emergency powers", in the US Constitution, the very first section of
Article I specifies that:
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in
a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.
Michigan's Constitution lays down the same rule, as section
1 of Article IV (bracketed clarifications are mine):
§ 1 Legislative power.
Sec. 1. Except to the extent limited or abrogated by
article IV, section 6 [providing for an Independent citizens
redistricting commission] or article V, section 2 [allowing the
governor to rearrange or reassign functions with the
legislatively-established executive branch, subject to approval by
the legislature where having the character of law], the legislative
power of the State of Michigan is vested in a senate and a house of
representatives.
...with the exclusivity aspect expressly declared in
section 2 of Article III:
§ 2 Separation of powers of government.
The powers of government are divided into three branches:
legislative, executive and judicial. No person exercising powers of one
branch shall exercise powers properly belonging to another branch except
as expressly provided in this constitution.
So-called "emergency powers" invariably amount to
autocratic powers-- that is, decrees purporting to have the effect and
authority of general laws, despite being delivered by something other than the
legislature. Per the foregoing express provisions of both the US and
(again as an example of a state Constitution) Michigan Constitutions,
this is illegal.
It doesn't matter why such powers are usurped; there are no
exceptions-- "emergency" or otherwise-- making the usurpations legal.
Indeed, the US Constitution lacks the word "emergency"
completely.
Michigan's Constitution does contain the term, but only in
sections allowing the
legislature to make certain provisions to deal with "disasters
occurring in this state caused by enemy attack on the United States"
at Art. IV, § 39, and providing for abrogation of certain tax caps in
cases of revenue emergencies at Art. IX, §§ 25 & 27. Thus, no
autocratic "emergency exceptions" to the rule exist.
In short, not even the legislatures, federal or state, can
provide or "redelegate" law-making power-- for emergency purposes or any
other-- to any autocrat, whether in the executive branch or elsewhere.
In relying on such measures (such as Michigan's governor resorting to
the 1945 "Emergency Powers Of Governor" act or the 1976 "Emergency
Management Act") autocrats turn to legislation that is flatly
unconstitutional.
Executives can be authorized by "emergency" legislation to
shuffle workers and assignments in their own branch about, and to create
or reorganize or dissolve executive departments, and so forth, by
"executive orders" and other such autocratic decrees. But they can't be
authorized to dictate to the general public as though their declaration
of an "emergency"-- or even the legislature's declaration of an
"emergency"-- works as an "off" switch to the Constitution and
legitimizes their assumption-- or even the legislature's assumption-- of
the power wielded by Josef Stalin in the 1930s USSR.
NONE OF THIS MEANS that there is no way for America-- or
portions thereof-- to
respond to emergencies, of course. It just means that such responses
are left in the hands of individuals.
Individuals responding to emergencies, or exercising any
other authority not delegated to any institution, may very well choose to act
in exactly the way that an authorized state might ordain. Or, they may
not. Either way they are
free to look out for their individual interests in whatever ways
seem best to them.
Either way, the state can in no way hinder those individual
decisions or dictate others, in any way outside the normal,
Constitutionally-prescribed procedures. Either way, there can be no
citizen-affecting laws other than as enacted by the legislature and
signed by the executive in the normal fashion.
Beyond just the requirement for "normalcy" in the enactment
process, laws enacted during "emergencies" cannot exceed the normal
limits of scope and character to which state power is confined. There
can be no "special emergency law" exceptions.
No such law can compromise the citizen's right to travel as
he/she sees fit; to assemble as he/she sees fit; to worship as he/she
sees fit; or to conduct a business or engage in other honest economic
activity as he/she sees fit. In short, no law, even in emergencies, can
hinder a citizen in his or her exercise and enjoyment of all rights and
liberties unless and until convicted of a "normal times" crime.
SIMILARLY, JUST AS THERE IS NO indeterminate "emergency
power" in the state, there is no such thing as a valid "continuity of
government" protocol outside of what is prescribed in the Constitution.
If a situation arises in which Constitutional prescriptions for the
transfer of power cannot be followed, then the state becomes entirely
void-- entirely without authority in any regard or any office.
Indeed, in such circumstances the state is no longer in
existence at all. Whatever happens next will be up to the people writing
on a tabula rosa.
What follows could, and likely would, model or recreate in
large part the prior Constitutional structure (though with such
modifications as would guard against the insufficiencies that led to its
dissolution-- such as, perhaps, a clearer rendering of the "express
powers" doctrine embodied in its design than is currently provided by
the Ninth and Tenth Amendments). But in the meantime, the prior
structure and all its works are dust.
Any actor coming forth in the interim on the basis of some
"continuity of government" plan (or purporting to
exercise any other kind of "emergency power") would be as illegitimate as
your neighbor Joe's attempt to exploit the situation and declare
himself king.
Indeed, it would be the duty of every American to arrest
as a would-be tyrant anyone alleging him- or herself to be cloaked in
authority under some act of the former state. That former state would no longer exists and
was never authorized to appoint or establish a post- or
extra-Constitutional "continuity government" in the first place.
SPEAKING OF DUTIES, let's take in the words of one man
whose reasoning and spirit were among the chief guides and inspirations
for the American enlightenment reflected in the Declaration of
Independence and the various American Constitutions. This particular
admonition is especially apropos as we consider how to respond to the
current situation here in the "land of the free and the home of the
brave":
"Any single man must judge for himself whether
circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the
civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to
evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover,
is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty
to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to
the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable
rights without which we can preserve no other"
-John Locke
Thomas Jefferson, again, puts it more succinctly:
"A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws
of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate"
Heed these words. THESE WORDS summarize the law, and most
especially the law in times of "emergency".
Every "emergency" decree is unlawful, and tolerating them
establishes a hugely dangerous precedent, habituating the American
people to allowing themselves to be bound and made helpless, and
inviting more and worse experiments upon our liberty. Let it not be so.
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our
liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of
Citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution.
The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened
itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw
all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences
by denying the principle."
-James Madison
(NOTE: "Emergency powers" acts have long been on the books
in both the United States and in various of the several states. They
have occasionally been upheld by courts-- usually under manifestly
specious "reasoning" well-represented by the absurd rationale of certain
jurists in various cases to the effect that "the Constitution is not a
suicide pact".
This pompous declaration proposes that the means truly
needed for dealing successfully with various exigencies cannot be
accomplished in any manner whatever without violation of Constitutional
provisions. In reality, the matter is simply that adhering to
Constitutional provisions-- as the state must do, or be bereft of
authority entirely-- is less convenient than some preferred alternative.
I mention this to forearm everyone with the open-eyed
expectation of some pushback citing to such judicial decisions when
presenting the arguments above in the public fora, and with a weapon
against it which just requires confidence and resolve to be wielded
effectively.
This might help, too.)
We don't need any change in our society or political
structure-- we just need to resume enforcing our political structure.
THE ONLY THING THAT MUST CHANGE (or should be allowed to
change) post-Covid-19 hysteria is the size of the state. As it has done
so many times before, the overgrown state has just subjected America to a ferocious
hobgoblin-flogging in
service of the agendas of its operators and their cronies and clients.
It is that hobgoblin-flogging that has done all the harm and it is that
against which we must protect ourselves.
In this day and age of potentially-unlimited
journalistic diffusion-- in which there are no natural bottlenecks,
gatekeepers and filters--the state's operators were only able to subject
the country to the panic and the resulting opportunistic oppression,
destruction and looting by virtue of its massive size and influence.
There is only one solution to that problem:
AMERICA MUST LEARN AND EMBRACE
THE CtC REMEDY,
and shrink this bitch into relative harmlessness.
BTW, at the same time that we act to spread
CtC's
revelations and empower our brothers and sisters across the land to
begin downsizing the DCvers (and their counterparts in the several
statehouses), YOU, and everyone you can
reach-- MUST also study and learn
the
fascinating truth about the Fourth Amendment. This is the means by
which we can be spared another massive ratchet-up of the surveillance
state.
That surveillance-state ratchet-up is surely among the primary purposes for the inflation of
the Covid-19 nothing-burger into the Blob that ate West Texas (or
into Godzilla, or the zombie apocalypse, or whatever is your favorite
sky-is-falling, dogs-and-cats-living-together nightmare scenario). The
ratchet-up must be prevented, and the existing panopticon must be
blinded.
The knowledge of the true meaning of the terms in the
Fourth Amendment will accomplish both those things, when widely enough
known. Make it so.
***
ANOTHER KEY GOAL of those trying to exploit the latest
convenient "crisis" is the elimination of money. Perhaps I should say,
the completion of the elimination of money.
Here the idea is to be rid of physical trade tokens--
tokens which people can keep in their own hands and therefore preserve,
protect and always have available to facilitate autonomous freedom of
action. These physical objects-- be they gold and silver coins or even
just pieces of paper-- are to be "replaced" with a mere digital record
of credit, the availability and use of which rests on the good graces of
whoever has the power to access the account on the backend.
The pretext, of course, is that physical tokens are disease
vectors, going from one hand to another. Unremarked is the fact that
every single product that changes hands in the marketplace is exactly
the same in this regard, and thus, eliminating physical money offers no
meaningful benefit vis a vis viral transmission...
THE POINTLESSNESS OF THE DISEASE-VECTOR THING goes
unremarked because it is irrelevant. The real point of the elimination
of physical money is to put control over the availability, use and
debiting of everyone's wealth-- which means control over everyone
generally-- in the hands of the state.
Imagine how simple it will become to suppress dissent or
thwart efforts to abolish an existing intolerable state when the ability
of any dissenter to purchase gas, food, electricity, etc.-- once he or
she has been revealed by speaking up-- can simply be turned off with a
keystroke. Such folks won't even be able to be supported at a
subsistence-level by sympathizers, whose deviations from their own
normal consumption will expose them in turn.
The result will soon be that no dissenting word is spoken
to begin with-- or, at least, not by way of any medium capable of
reaching more than a few eyes or ears, all of which are monitored 24/7.
And, of course, that monitoring will be enormously enhanced
by a switch to digital currency. Not only will everyone's access to his
or her purchasing power be put within the control of others, but from
that point forward every purchase will be recorded-- place, item or
service, buyer and seller.
DO THESE FEARS SOUND FANCIFUL? To a greater or lesser
degree, they are already being realized.
Here, so far, the toe is in the water with private-sector
deplatforming of those with disfavored views, and just a bit of
state-operated control, so far, in the form of laws against so-called
"hate-speech" and
disfavored political and policy-related behavior. In China,
state-imposed
"social credit" structures already control access to goods,
services, platforms and facilities, punishing with debilitating limits
those who act in ways displeasing to the state.
There is a great deal more that could be said about this
"digital currency" plan, but what is already discussed should be more
than enough to make clear its complete unacceptability. Stand firm with
the Constitution, which prescribes the state's ability to coin money,
only, and prohibits the several states from making anything but gold and
silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
***
THE FOREGOING WILL HAVE TO BE ENOUGH FOR NOW, I suppose.
But it IS enough to make clear the dire threats we face right now--
which can be said with no exaggeration involved.
Some mean to use
this contrived "Covid-19
crisis" to complete the ongoing destruction of the American
experiment of individual sovereignty and liberty under the true rule of
law-- an assault begun early in the 20th Century and actually capturing
ground at an increasingly rapid pace since the 1940s. These evil actors
(and their merely ignorant and deluded tools) mean to transform America
into just a "modern" version of the ancient nightmares from which our
founding ancestors managed to awaken not all that long ago.
I hope everyone will rise to this very immediately-dire
occasion and crush all efforts to embed in the American consciousness
the habit of subordination to unconstitutional edicts from the state
based on alleged "emergency" circumstances, or expansion (or political
rehabilitation) of the
panopticon, or the elimination or undermining of freedom-favoring
physical currency and the habit of its use.
Once again, all that should change as a result of what has
been learned from the "Covid-19 crisis" is the shrinkage of the
ever-more-nakedly dangerous unbridled and Leviathan state.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas graced us with
this very effective bon mot many years ago:
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does
oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything
remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be
aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness."
The words resonate, do they not? They give their reader a
chill, and a healthy bit of raised consciousness to go with it.
And yet, their measure was better-suited to the time, more
than forty years ago, in which they were composed.
Today, we're not really being warned of darkness creeping
forward by merely a slight change in the air. Rather, we are being
treated to a stiff, cold and unmistakable wind of warning, by which the
wise will be given a good deal more than simply a chill.
Woe, as well as shame, will be ours should we not take heed
and rise up in action against the danger.
Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most
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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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More Points Of Light Amidst The Despotic
"Lockdown" Darkness
Three real American heroes share a bunch of inspiring new
victories in pouring water on the witch.
THREE WEEKS AGO VICTOR SWOPE secured his first
CtC-educated
victory in reminding Uncle Sam who works for whom in America. Victor saw
to the complete refund of the more than $27K that had been paid-in to
the feds against the possibility that anything he had done during 2018
qualified for the income tax:
Victor's return,
which can be seen here,
very plainly informed the IRS of what he was doing and why, where it
mattered-- and did so (mostly) without inappropriate explanations,
assertions or "arguments". His refund was in his mailbox a mere six
weeks after the filing.
***
YOUNG BUT NONETHELESS SEASONED VETERAN WARRIOR JACOB PARK
shares his latest two victories, consisting of complete refunds from
both Utah and the feds for 2019:
Here is the Utah filing, which was subject to a bit of delay in the
processing when the state first insisted on seeing Jacob's federal return.
***
WE'LL WRAP UP FOR TODAY with Jon Golden's inspiring
testimonial video. Jon shares six victories secured over the last several years and
totaling more than $52K.
These serial victories have been won even while
this good American has had to deal with obnoxious desperation-dodges by
the IRS in regard to Jon's first educated filing, by which the agency
has wasted its time and Jon's with fruitless attempts to scare or
confuse him back into the barn.
I'll let Jon tell the story and show the docs:
***
SO, WELL DONE, Victor, Jacob and Jon! These great 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 Jon'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
(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.
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.
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.
*****
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...
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."
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take
a wild guess who won.
I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t the Russians,
or the white supremacists, or the gilets jaunes, or Jeremy Corbyn’s Nazi
Death Cult, or the misogynist Bernie Bros, or the MAGA-hat terrorists,
or any of the other real or fictional “populist” forces that global
capitalism has been waging war on for the last four years.
What? You weren’t aware that global capitalism
was fighting a
War
on Populism? That’s OK, most other folks weren’t. It wasn’t
officially announced or anything. It was launched in the summer of 2016,
just as the War on Terror was ending, as a sequel to the War on Terror,
or a variation on the War on Terror, or continuation of the War on
Terror, or … whatever, it doesn’t really matter anymore, because now
we’re fighting the
War on
Death, or the War on Minor Cold-like Symptoms, depending on your age
and general state of health.
That’s right, folks, once again, global
capitalism (a/k/a “the world”) is under attack by an evil enemy.
GloboCap just can’t catch a break. From the moment it defeated communism
and became a global ideological hegemon, it has been one evil enemy
after another.
No sooner had it celebrated winning the Cold
War and started ruthlessly restructuring and privatizing everything than
it was savagely attacked by “Islamic terrorists,” and so was forced to
invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and kill and torture a lot of people, and
destabilize the entire Middle East, and illegally surveil everybody, and
… well, you remember the War on Terror.
Then, just as the War on Terror seemed to be
finally winding down, and the only terrorists left were the
“self-radicalized” terrorists (many of whom
weren’t even actual terrorists), and it looked like GloboCap was
finally going to be able to finish privatizing and debt-enslaving
everything and everyone in peace, wouldn’t you know it, we were attacked
again, this time by the global conspiracy of Russian-backed, neo-fascist
“populists” that caused the Brexit and elected Trump, and tried to elect
Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, and loosed the gilets jaunes on
France, and who’ve been threatening the “fabric of Western democracy”
with dissension-sowing Facebook memes.
Unfortunately, unlike the War on Terror, the
War on Populism didn’t go that well. After four years of fighting,
GloboCap (a/k/a the neoliberal Resistance) had … OK, they had snuffed
both Corbyn and Sanders, but they had totally blown the Russiagate psyop,
and so were looking at four more years of Trump, and Lord knows how many
of Johnson in the U.K. (which had actually left the European Union), and
the gilets jaunes weren’t going away, and, basically,
“populism” was still on the rise (if not in reality, in hearts and
minds).
And so, just as the War on Populism had
replaced (or redefined) the War on Terror, the War on Death has been
officially launched to replace (or redefine) the War on Populism … which
means (you guessed it), once again, it’s time to roll out another “brave
new normal.”
The character of this brave new normal is, at
this point, unmistakably clear … so clear that most people cannot see
it, because their minds are not prepared to accept it, so they do not
recognize it, though they are looking right at it. Like Dolores in the
Westworld series, “it doesn’t look like anything” to them. To
the rest of us, it looks rather totalitarian.
In the span of approximately 100 days, the
entire global capitalist empire has been transformed into a de facto
police state. Constitutional rights have been suspended. Most of us are
under house arrest. Police are
rounding up anyone not cooperating with the new emergency measures.
They are
pulling riders off of public transportation, arresting people whose
papers aren’t in order, harassing,
beating,
intimidating, and
arbitrarily detaining anyone they decide is “a danger to public
health.”
“The counterterrorism analogy is useful because
it shows the direction of travel of pandemic policy. Imagine a new
coronavirus patient is detected. Once he or she tests positive, the
government could use cell-phone data to trace everyone he or she has
been in close proximity to, perhaps focusing on those people who were in
contact for more than a few minutes. Your cell-phone signal could then
be used to enforce quarantine decisions. Leave your apartment and the
authorities will know. Leave your phone behind and they will call you.
Run the battery down and a police car will be at your door in a manner
of minutes …”
I could go on, but I think you get the picture,
or … well, you either do or you don’t.
SO, THERE'S A(NOTHER) GREAT ARTICLE by C.J. Hopkins. It starts out
with an entertaining wittiness, which then carries the reader along to its actually very grave and important message.
This is the very best kind of "opinion writing"-- as long as the smile at the
beginning is successfully replaced with the frown that is meant to be found at
the end, and the frown is what sticks for the take-away.
Of course, from that opener, you can guess that I'm hoping
you did read Hopkins' article through... I account it a fine seconding
of the message I'm trying to share in the lead article of this
newsletter edition, and am counting on it to have done that
job effectively.
To reiterate that message in a nutshell, we've got a
deadly-serious situation facing us, people. Speaking as a very bright
and well-educated guy who has devoted the last 40 years or so to close
study and analysis of American law, policy and politics (with a pretty
close eye on world affairs, as well), I am telling you that this
country, and all that makes it special, are under an unprecedentedly
intense and dangerous attack, RIGHT NOW.
Enemies of individual autonomy-- individual sovereignty--
are striving hard RIGHT NOW to set the stage for a fundamental
restructuring of our principle-based political system into a
centrally-dictated-outcome-oriented contrivance. In that contrivance
meaningful freedom will be extinguished, each person's life will become
subordinated to the fancies of whoever is running the hive at any given
time (whether overtly or from behind the scene), and escape from, or
overthrow of, this disaster as its evils become manifest will be
well-nigh impossible.
It is RIGHT NOW that those who cherish anything at all
about individual liberty, natural rights and the real rule of law must
stand up and defend those treasures, or lose them.
I WILL CONFESS THAT AS MUCH AS ANYONE, I am astonished at
the speed and effectiveness with which this coup-attempt-in-progress has
been rolled out. It leaves one practically breathless.
The ploy of making the average person more afraid of the
hobgoblin du jour than of the ratcheted-up Leviathan state which is
offered as its remedy is old, tried and true. And elements of the
press-- the unfortunately-relied-upon counterweight to the ambitious
state-- have always been stenographers and co-conspirators of the
hobgoblin-floggers.
But there have almost always also been elements of the
press which stand on the other side and keep the attacks a bit tentative
and ultimately incremental in the harm that they do. In this "Covid-19"
affair, however, the press has been nearly monolithic as participants in
the resistance-draining insanity.
Certainly that surprising and hugely-harmful singularity of
insidious voice has been every bit the case in the mainstream media. But
the same pernicious panic-mongering has manifested to a very unexpected
and disturbing degree even among voices which previously could be
counted upon to actually merit the sobriquet of "alt-media".
ANYWAY, HOWEVER IT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, the fact is that
a dagger is now at Lady Liberty's throat. Every American who cares about
that great and beautiful Lady-- or even any who simply value the prosperity that
can only be achieved and sustained by individuals free to seek their own
most productive and rewarding places in the immensely complex
spontaneous order by which an economy is optimized and produces great and
widespread wealth-- should be upstanding, angry, and on the battlefield.
I can't tell anyone what to do (except to learn and spread
and act upon
this remedy
and this
remedy, and
this insight). But I can tell you that now is the time to do
whatever you are going to. Remember the wise words of Frederick
Douglass:
"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."
P.S. For more thoughts and facts regarding the Covid-Craziness,
see this supplement.
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..."
Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
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-Mark C. Phillips, JD
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“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
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knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
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*****
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*****
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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!
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!)
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.
April 21- In 1836, Republic of Texas
forces under Sam Houston defeat Mexican General Santa Anna in the Battle of San
Jacinto. In 1944, France recognizes the right of women to vote. In 1975,
Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, flees Saigon. In 1989, 100,000
students fill Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
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April 22- In 1509, Henry VIII takes the throne of England. In
1898, the United States Navy initiates a blockade of Cuban ports in an opening
move of the Spanish-American War. In 1912, Pravda begins publication in St.
Petersburg, Russia. In 2000, federal agents seize six-year-old Cuban refugee
Elian Gonzalez from his relatives in Miami in order to return him to the island
prison.
******
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
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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.
Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
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
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the real field of battle!
*****
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...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
April 23- In 1968, students protesting the Viet Nam war take
over the administration buildings at Columbia University. In 1985, Coca-Cola
changes to the "New Coke". The fit of madness passes within a few months and
use of the old formula is resumed. In 1988, Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the
Moon' is bumped from the Billboard 200 for the first time after 741 consecutive
weeks on the chart. In 2018, an attacker wielding a van, not a gun, kills 10
and wounds 16 in Toronto.
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...
*****
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.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
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?
*****
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!!
Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the
well-funded disinformation specialists class
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
April 24- In 1184 BC, the people of Troy are fooled by avarice
into being the means of their own undoing. Presented with a magnificent giant
wooden statue of a horse, the Trojans bring it within their city's walls. When
night falls, Greek warriors hidden within the statue slip out and open the gates
of their enemy's stronghold, allowing their fellows who waited outside to pour
in and conquer formerly impregnable Troy. In 1800, President John Adams signs
legislation appropriating $5,000 to establish a library of "such books as may be
necessary for the use of Congress". Now occupying three large buildings holding
well over 32 million books and counting-- none of which circulate to the public,
and the vast, vast majority of which never have been used by any Congressman and
never will be-- and with an annual budget of over $600 million and a staff of
more than 3,600, the Library of Congress is a fine example of a cancerous
federal boondoggle... In 1916, the phase of the Irish rebellion known as "The
Easter Risings" begins. In 1970, China puts its first satellite into orbit. In
1990, the Hubble Space telescope is launched into orbit; and Gruinard Island,
Scotland, the test site of weaponized anthrax by the British government during
World War II, is declared safe after 48 years of quarantine.
*****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives.”
"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
April 25- In 1846, a U.S. patrol excursion across the Texas
border into Mexico precipitates the Mexican-American War. In 1859, ground
is broken for the Suez Canal. In 1898, the United States declares war on
Spain, using the pretext of the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine in a
Cuban harbor. The war resulted in U.S. claims of ownership of the
Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico, and a more limited sovereignty over
Cuba. In 1916, Britain declares martial law in Ireland in response to the
Easter Uprisings. In 1953, the structure of DNA is described. In 1961, the
integrated circuit is patented. In 1983, Pioneer 10, launched March 2,
1972, passes the orbit of Pluto.
*****
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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"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
“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
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
April 26- In 1607, English colonists
make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia before going on to establish Jamestown.
In 1865, Confederate General Joseph Johnson surrenders to Union General William
Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina; and John Wilkes Booth is
reportedly found and killed by Union cavalry troops in North Virginia. In 1933,
the Gestapo is established in Germany. In 1982, a South Korean police officer
spends eight hours using his department-issued weapons (and a few others
selected from the police armory) systematically killing 57 civilians-- most in
their homes, but the first three being the local telephone exchange operators.
*****
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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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.