"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
***
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.
A Salute To Three True
American Heroes
There are doubtless many more
erupting into their virtue all over, and all
are equally deserving of accolades. These
guys are right here in my backyard, though,
and so they get this special attention
today.
I HOPE EVERYONE WILL JOIN ME in
a loud, "Thank you for your service" to
three fine Michigan heroes who are standing
up to counteract the Whitmer Depression
which is currently ravaging the state and
sowing the seeds of hardship and strife for
the future. These heroes are MMA dojo-owner
James
Gray; barber
Karl Manke-- each of whom has re-opened
his business despite Governor Gretchen
Whitmer's executive orders to the contrary-- and Livingston County
Sheriff Mike
Murphy, who has refused to enforce Whitmer's
illegal orders against James Gray.
James, Karl and Mike are all
leading by example, showing everyone else in
America how to be proper inhabitants of the
Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave--
something too many no longer remember.
Well done, gentlemen!!
H/T to Darrin Newberry for
sharing this fine graphic.
AS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE IN MY
GREAT STATE OF MICHIGAN (and elsewhere, as
well), what are you waiting for?!
I showed you weeks ago that Michigan's
Constitution, like all other American
Constitutions, allows only the legislature
to make laws, with no "medical emergency"
exceptions. Governors cannot issue
executive orders with the effect of laws--
that is, orders to which anyone but
executive-branch workers must pay heed.
This is true even if a "law" is
on the books appearing to say otherwise.
To the extent that any law
purports to authorize a governor to issue
orders with the effect of laws, it is
unconstitutional and void on its face, as
are the orders themselves.
The Legislative cannot transfer
the power of making laws to any other hands.
For it being but a delegated power from the
People, they, who have it, cannot pass it
over to others. . . . And when the people
have said, We will submit to rules, and be
govern'd by laws made by such men, and in
such forms, nobody else can say other men
shall make laws for them; nor can the people
be bound by any laws but such as are enacted
by those, whom they have chosen, and
authorised to make laws for them. The power
of the Legislative being derived from the
People by a positive voluntary grant and
institution, can be no other, than what the
positive grant conveyed, which being only to
make laws, and not to make legislators, the
Legislative can have no power to transfer
their authority of making laws, and place it
in other hands.
-John Locke,
Second Treatise on Government
Indeed, the very issuing of
such orders is a criminal attempt to deprive
people of their rights under color of law.
Any attempt to enforce such orders is
likewise criminal.
The General rule is that an
unconstitutional statute, though having the
form and name of law is in reality no law,
but is wholly void, and ineffective for any
purpose; since unconstitutionality dates
from the time of it's enactment and not
merely from the date of the decision so
branding it. An unconstitutional law, in
legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if
it had never been passed. Such a statute
leaves the question that it purports to
settle just as it would be had the statute
not been enacted.
No repeal of an enactment is
necessary, since an unconstitutional law is
void. The general principles follow that it
imposes no duties, confers no rights,
creates no office, bestows no power or
authority on anyone, affords no protection,
and justifies no acts performed under it.
16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 256
"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
P.S. If interested,
click here to see WHY we don't allow
"emergency powers" to the state...
State-by-state CFRs reveal the
truth like nothing else!
ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, I POSTED Case Fatality Rates (CFRs) for
each of the fifty state (plus the District
of Columbia) as the latest update to my
Hysteria Supplement.
Find that new post here.
The new data make even more
unmistakable than ever
that C19 has been nothing but a
standard annual illness event, of no dire
consequence in and of itself. This
common-grade illness event has been
shamelessly misrepresented as panic-worthy
for the advancement of various agendas, in a
fashion indistinguishable in its malicious
criminality from
falsely yelling, "Fire!" in a crowded
theater.
Please share this new post
widely. If we want to prevent being victims
of a "new normal" in which Leviathan (at
both the federal and state level) gains
much more capacity for harm (and entirely at the
expense of our liberties and our real
security), we must help the general American
public understand that there never has been any
real out-of-the-ordinary danger from this
virus.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE A VIGOROUS
REMEDY-VECTOR, or you will be a
victim of the bullshit!!
BY THE WAY, AS WE GO FORWARD
through this madness, understand that every
act and pose by every official and talking
head who has participated in the
panic-fanning of the last several months
will be of a cover-your-ass character. These
folks, from Donald Trump to the "shutdown"
state governors to the local network news
anchors, all have a desperate interest in
keeping from being held accountable for
needlessly destroying the American economy
and inflicting harms small and large on
millions of individual Americans.
In service to this interest,
these folks are going to do everything they
can to prevent the American people from
realizing that all the assaults on your
rights and well-being were never called-for
by the facts (much less within their lawful
authority to inflict). Don't let them get
away with this.
AS PART OF THAT DEFENSIVE
EFFORT, these folks will be compelled to
push for more harms. These will include
"contact tracing" (which is really just
escalated mass surveillance), forcible
vaccinations (which is to say, insisting or
establishing a "norm" that you are unable to
act in public without proof of having been
vaccinated with whatever someone comes up
with for that purpose); continued
restrictions on your ability to assemble;
and so forth.
Remember, the perps must
maintain the fiction that the virus was a
plague, and doing so requires these
continuing extreme reactions. They can't
just now say, "Never mind..." and still
perpetuate the notion that the things they
have already done were defensible.
We will also see a variety of
efforts to reset the alleged nature of the
alleged plague, in hope of countering the
agenda-threatening low mortality rates by
pretending C19 is a factor in unrelated
maladies and broadening the scare-base.
We're already being treated to the suddenly-hotflogged
proposition that though unnoticed for the
past five months, it turns out that C19
actually threatens kids, and with with
mysterious new ailments, as well.
"Abandon your new-found
skepticism! It's after the children now! Run
Away! Run Away!! Don't stop running away!!"
Sure.
If you want to protect your
future, you have to counterbalance the
perps'
superior visibility. You have to beat the "bulliness"
of their pulpits with your vigor and
persistence in calling them out, speaking
the truth and denouncing the lies.
"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."
These good Americans are upholding the
law and spreading the word, in order to help shrink
the ambitious Leviathans.
Mike Lowe
MIKE WAS SHOCKED AND SHAKEN to
discover the degree to which he had been
misled about a tax by which he had been
stripped of 30% of this earnings every year.
Then he straightened up, recognized his own
responsibility to know and uphold the law,
and has walked tall ever since. Mike leads
by example, and everyone should hear what he
has to say.
***
Jack Supinger
JACK SHARES HIS STORY AND HIS
VICTORIES from invoking the actual law
regarding the income tax. Enjoy, admire and
appreciate!
***
Josh Haney
JOSH LEARNED ABOUT
CtC SIX
YEARS AGO, and never looked back. In this
video Josh shares his multi-year history of
applying what he learned to secure refund
after refund of what had been improperly
withheld from his unprivileged earnings.
Josh's story includes having to
deal with a bit of transparently-invalid
pushback from the IRS, as well as his
ultimate slap-down of a false claim pursued
against him for 16 months by the California
Franchise Tax Board. Watching this
fully-documented presentation is 13+ minutes
very well spent.
***
NOW, 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
LHC 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.
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
What Happened to the Land of the Free?
by David S. D'Amato
We live in a country where
one may be arrested for opening her store or having
too many friends at her house for a social
gathering. Whiling away the hours under a modified
house arrest, we wait for a relative handful of
megalomaniacs in government to tell us when we might
hope to return to normal life.
Strangely, the American
people seem to have swallowed this new reality
whole—no questioning, no scrutiny, but complete,
embarrassing credulousness at the claims of
politicians, bureaucrats, and pundits frantically
waving around little more than shoddy, dubious
models and barely hiding a lust for tyrannizing
innocent people.
This suggests that
Americans, thought to be freedom-loving people, will
now believe almost anything, conditioned to be
fearful and obedient. Even those who had long since
abandoned belief in this myth of America as the Land
of the Free might have expected at least some
resistance in the face of such open attacks on basic
freedoms.
The
St. Louis Fed estimates that the
economic losses associated with the lockdown
orders amount to $25 billion every day, a
staggering figure given that in places like
Chicago, for example, the lockdown order has
been extended through at least the end of
May. The severity of these policies was
supposed to be justified by the necessity of
preserving hospital capacity, spreading out
the volume of cases over time and thus
preventing a tidal wave that would overwhelm
the medical system, resulting in further
loss of life.
As a matter of
fact, however, hospitals are now so empty of
patients that their healthcare professionals
and other staff have been sent home by the
tens of thousands. In a recent survey
conducted by Merritt Hawkins, a company that
recruits physicians, more than one in five
of the responding doctors “said
they’ve experienced pay cuts or have been
furloughed as a result of the crisis.”
D'AMATO'S TITLE QUESTION RESONATES,
does it not? And it is one that is echoed in a
thousand commentaries and observations over the last
few weeks and months.
I'm going to answer that
question: Americans over the last several
generations have turned their children over
to government schools by the millions for 12
years or more of conditioning into blind
faith in the good intentions and competence
of state institutions and the folks who run
them. Accompanying and proceeding from this
faith-conditioning has been the stunting of
any natural inclinations toward independent
thought and the sense of oneself as an
individual whose relationship with the state
is that of an owner and user with a civic
inferior and subordinate existing in office
solely to serve that individuals purposes in
harmony with its service of the purposes of
other sovereign individuals.
In short, Americans have been
trained to view themselves as subordinates
and the state as the master, and to expect
and accept being told what to do.
THIS PROCESS OF CONDITIONING
has been accompanied, and made possible--
and even made inevitable-- by the growth of
the state into an 8,000 lb. gorilla
lumbering about the American landscape with
all the freedom of action that comes with
unlimited resources, thanks to successful
implementation of the "ignorance
tax". I model that dynamic in my
little piece, 'Bob's
Bicycles', as those familiar with that
story will recall.
Letting a state get really,
really big makes a lot of bad things
possible. There's a certain threshold of
size at which a Leviathan gains the ability
to influence perceptions and control the
manner and degree to which it interacts with
the community in which it looms.
Once that point of Leviathan
becoming the master of its own limits is
reached, everything done by anyone within
the beast's reach becomes whatever serves
the agenda of whoever controls the beast--
the campaign financiers; the demagogues; the
special interests. Liberty is largely dead
then, with only some care taken by the
situation's management to ensure that a
perception of liberty persists, as
necessary to keep the sheep quietly penned.
America under the sway of such
a Leviathan state (or states) is hardly the
Land of the Free; hence D'Amato's question,
and its echo from so many others.
OF COURSE, THE SOLUTION TO THAT
PROBLEM is obvious. Downsize the state(s).
We need to shrink the state(s)
from today's perception-controlling and
society-dominating Leviathan-size back down
to Constitutionally-intended size, a
dimension which can be derived from looking
at the size at which we maintained all our
American governments, combined-- federal,
state and local-- for about our first 140
years. That responsive and safe governmental
size was so lean as to consume less than 10%
of GDP on average-- and yet Americans during
that time became the most prosperous society
in the history of the world, while America
remained a real Land of the Free.
Can you imagine what a
difference it would make today to shrink
Washington down to less than a fifth of its
current size and influence? And to shrink
the state governments down by 50% or so?
Well, don't just close your
eyes and dreamily smile at the thought. Get
up and make it happen.
Spread the knowledge you
already have about the true nature of the
income tax. The simplest way to do this is
to share
this little document with everyone you
can, in every way that you can.
And share this prescription
with the David D'Amatos of the world, as
well.
We have a surfeit of "shocked and
dismayed". Now we need a lot of,
"Here is what everyone should do..."
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.
May 11- In 1310, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned
at the stake as heretics, having been tortured into confessions to this effect
by on the orders of King Philip IV of France, who was deeply in debt to the
order, and saw the charges as a way of eliminating this problem and allowing the
seizure of Templar assets, to boot . In 1858, Minnesota becomes the 32nd of the
several states, and is admitted into the union as such. In 1973, charges
against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing "the Pentagon Papers", a 7,000-page
top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's
internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam War, are dismissed.
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.
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*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
May 12- In 1780, Charleston, South Carolina is captured
by the British army. In 1862, Baton Rouge, Louisiana is captured by the
Union army. In 1941, the first fully-programmable, fully-automatic
computer, the Z3, was introduced by inventor Konrad Zuse, in Berlin,
Germany. In 1965, the Soviet Union's 'Luna 5' spacecraft crash-lands on
the Moon. In 1967, Pink Floyd stages the first quadraphonic rock
concert.
*****
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:
May 13- In 1787, Captain Arthur Philip
leaves Portsmouth, England with an 11-ship fleet carrying the first convicts
bound for Australia. In 1846, the United States declares war on Mexico. In
1939, the first commercial FM radio station in America begins broadcasting
(WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut, originally designated W1XPW). In 1967,
Zakir Hussain becomes the first Muslim president of India. In 1981, Mehmet Ali
Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II. In 1989, students gathered in
Tiananmen Square in Beijing begin a hunger strike. In 1998, India conducts two
nuclear weapons tests. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on
India in response.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
May 14- In 1796, the world's first
smallpox vaccination is administered. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition
sets off. 1948, Jewish residents in the British "Mandate of Palestine" (who
comprised about one third of the total population at the time, and owned less
than 15% of the land) reject a United Nations plan to divide the mandate into
equal-sized Jewish and Palestinian states (with Jerusalem under international
administration) and declare the independent state of Israel, one day before the
formal expiration of the mandate. In 1961 the "Freedom Riders" bus is
fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil-rights protestors are beaten
by an angry mob. In 1998, the final episode of 'Seinfeld' airs.
*****
““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."
May 15- In 1252, Pope Innocent IV
authorizes the torture of accused heretics in order to secure confessions and
information about others. In 1776, the Virginia Convention declares the
colony's independence from Great Britain, and instructs its delegation to the
Continental Congress to propose a joint declaration on behalf of all of the
American colonies. In 1862, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is created. In 1911,
the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be too successful and
orders its breakup under the auspices of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. In 1940,
the first McDonald's restaurant opens. In 1948, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack the Jewish partisans who had just seized
control of Palestine the day before the intended partitioning of that territory
into equally-sized Jewish and Arab Palestinian states under a UN mandate
intended to peacefully provide for a Jewish homeland.
May 16- In 1866, Charles Hires invents
root beer. In 1918, Congress passes the Sedition Act, criminalizing criticism
of the federal government. In 1969, the Soviet probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.
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:
May 17- In 1902, the 2,000-year-old
Antikythera astronomical computer is discovered. In 1954, the United States
Supreme Court unanimously acknowledges that its 1896 decision in Plessy v.
Ferguson-- and numerous subsequent supporting rulings-- were bogus judicial
sophistries constructed and maintained in service to the then-existing political
power structure (the rulings had upheld the forcible denial of access to certain
state-funded facilities by certain state citizens). In 1973, televised hearings
in the Senate on the Watergate affair begin. In 2018, the US Senate confirmed
as head of the CIA Gina Haspel, despite her being known to have overseen
systematic torture of "black-site" CIA prisoners and to have destroyed 96 video
tapes of the torture sessions even while they were under a Congressional
subpoena.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
