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I'm so tired of feeling like I'm stuck on the set of a low-budget horror film...
How about you?
May 18- In 1302, the militia of Bruges, a city in the Flemish
region of Belgium, massacre the troops of a French garrison quartered there to
to prevent "smuggling" and ensure that imported wool passed through the hands of
politically-connected favorites before reaching politically-UNconnected buyers
in the city. In 1631, John Winthrop becomes the first Governor of
Massachusetts. In 1917, after only 32,000 Americans had volunteered to
personally support the Wilson administration's desire to get involved in
Europe's "World War I", the "Selective Service Act" is passed. Despite a
complete lack of Constitutional authority (and a plain prohibition in the 13th
Amendment), the act purports to authorize conscription. Subsequently, 2,800,000
American men were impressed into the army under the auspices of the act over the
following two years. Of those sent into battle, more than 116,000 were killed,
and more than 205,000 sustained wounds but are categorized as survivors. In
1927, a Michigan school-board member who blames a school-funding property-tax
increase for foreclosure proceedings against his farm explodes bombs in and near
a local school, killing 45 and injuring 58. In 1974, India conducts its first
nuclear weapon test detonation.
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 REAL America Looks Like
I'm SO tired of feeling stuck on the set of a low-budget
horror film... or trapped in an insane asylum...
THE PHOTO ABOVE is of the excellent Jeremy Lee's picture
window, and what a picture it is! American as apple pie, and 1000%
healthier than the cramped and creepy little spider-hole that every
pearl-clutching idiot victimized by panic propaganda and the
opportunistic political hacks exploiting it have been pushing on this
great country.
Jeremy urges everyone to produce his or her own window sign
announcing their true feelings, and I heartily second that notion.
Statements like these should be everywhere-- in windows, on yard signs,
on vehicles and even on T-shirts. I don't know if Michael's or Joann's
are open, or if they have succumbed to the Blob, but even if the latter,
white T-shirts and magic markers can be gotten at any Meijer's or
Walmart...
THAT SAID, AND WITHOUT IN ANY WAY DIMINISHING my heartfelt
"Namaste" to Jeremy and everyone else making virtuous statements like
his, I have to take things a step further today. At the time of this
posting we are on the eve of the 60th day of "lockdown". That's 60 days
during which grossly-illegal edicts from "officials" in various posts
across America have been fastened upon us, and have been ferociously
eating away at our substance.
That "eating away" is being concealed somewhat by the
accompanying illegal acts of printing vast new deeply-inflationary
amounts of pretend money which is being passed out to people who have
been ordered to watch their businesses and jobs wither away into dust,
as though they (the people, the businesses and the jobs) belonged to the
state, which can therefore destroy them at its pleasure.
EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT is the eating-away at American
understanding of the rule of law. During the last 60 days millions of
younger Americans-- who have never been taught, in the government
schools to which they were delivered every day throughout their
formative years, a single valid thing about where "officials" get their
authority and how it is constrained-- have been being conditioned to
accept the notion that people and people's businesses belong to the
state, which can therefore destroy them at its pleasure.
The assault on America taking place today is as serious as
a heart attack, and it is worsening in the harm it is already doing and
the further harm it threatens for the future
each and every day you allow it to go on.
WHAT'S MORE, be aware that the little bits of "easing" of
the illegal oppressions that have lately taken place here and there are
actually worsening the situation.
Such "easings" reinforce the message that what is "locked
down" and what isn't, and to what degree in each case, is the rightful
decision of government officials. Further, the "easings" allow people to
delude themselves into concluding that the oppressions really aren't so
bad, and can be overlooked, 'cause it'll all turn out okay in the end.
In short, the "easings" acclimate even those who have been
chafing under the harness to usurpations by the state. They sow
confusion in many minds as to what is lawful under the Constitution.
They sow confusion as to what can or should be tolerated and what cannot
be, and should instead excite a good American's stern and unyielding
resistance.
The security of our liberties (such as we have left) won't
long survive such confusion becoming ingrained in much of the
population. Understanding what is and isn't lawful, and being free from
any confusion on the question, is really important for American republic
health.
Do so again, even if you have already seen it, or think you
have. It's REALLY important that you know plainly and confidently that
what is being done by every official who even merely threatens to arrest
anyone who exercises any of his or her rights is without authority and
that to submit to any of it is a violation of your duty as a good
American and a good person.
As Thomas Jefferson said, in no way whatever meaning it as
just a pithy turn of phrase, "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to
God."
After you've done that reading or re-reading, SEND AN EMAIL
OR TEXT SHARING THE LINK WITH EVERY SINGLE PERSON YOU CAN!! It's
important that you understand and are confident in your understanding of
the law. But is is DOUBLY important that you SHARE THAT KNOWLEDGE AND
CONFIDENCE WITH OTHERS, and encourage them to do the same.
Everyone whose email address or text number that you have
needs to be reminded or awakened to the fact that the whole idea of
Constitutions is that even if huge majorities decide that something is
now a great-- or even critically-important-- idea, it still can't
lawfully be done if it violates any Constitutional
prohibition. Each such prohibition was put in place after deep,
highly-educated and sober consideration, in light of long experience
with despots and demagogues, and in recognition that the principles and
powers thus secured are more critical to the well-being of the people
than any momentary threat which might arguably be addressed by the
prohibition's disregard.
OK, THAT COVERS THE LAW. Now, let's talk about the science.
I know you've all seen-- to the point of vomiting-- the
same smarmy officials who are guilty of promoting or committing the
illegal "lockdown" decrees making noises with their mouths about the
importance of decision-making being driven by "the science". Well, ok...
Let's leave aside the absurdity of treating someone else's
notion (or theory or computer model) of what is or is not "wise" or
"prudent" as the determinant of whether the government must respect your
rights. Let's look at what "the science"-- that is, the actual factual
record-- shows us.
What we see in the actual fact record-- shown
here,
here and especially
here, for instance-- is
that C19 is just a particularly mild version of the seasonal flu. The
actual death rate, corrected for the
officially-encouraged
rampant figure-padding by which it is plagued (pun intended), is
very low, and is far-and-away concentrated exclusively in an elderly
demographic which is at all times in a state of vulnerability whether
C19 is about or not.
What we see in the actual fact record is a disease we are
well-accustomed to handling as a matter of routine, without "lockdowns",
"social distancing", "mandatory masking" or "contact tracing", and
without massive money-printings or bailouts.
We see in the actual fact record a minor disease for which
there is no imperative for the development of a vaccine. This is true
both because the disease is not a threat of any kind to 90% of the
population, and in light of the fact that even when coronavirus vaccines
have been developed and encouraged for other variants, few people
consider them worth taking and they have proven to be only
marginally-to-somewhat effective even in those who get them,
as admitted even by the CDC:
To sum up, "the science"-- never a proper metric by which
government's obligation of respect for Americans' rights can be measured
even if it plausibly predicted we all would die unless we do as we're
told in any event-- says that everything that has been done by
hobgoblin-flogging "officials" has been irrational and unjustified and
even bat-shit crazy anyway, even without consideration of the fact that
those "officials" lacked valid authority for doing any of it.
NOW, TO RETURN TO MY MAIN POINT from those needed debunks
of the lame and lying pretenses by which the bad actors in this drama
attempt to justify themselves: What is going on in America today has
passed the point of forbearance. Being vocal and otherwise expressive
(as in Jeremy Lee's excellent signage, above) is good and proper. But it
is no longer enough.
It is time for Americans to stop playing along with the
idea that what is going on is a benign and acceptable usurpation that
either is meant to be for our own good or is accomplishing anything
which is, on balance good at all. It is certainly NOT accomplishing
anything good, on balance-- rather, it is doing HUGE HARM each and every
moment. And there is plenty of evidence that it is not even really
intended to do anything but serve certain narrow agendas against the
contrary interests of most Americans, if not simply to set up pretexts
for huge handovers of public money to favored clients of Leviathan.
It is time for Americans to stop putting up with this.
Sadly, Americans with brains in their heads have been cowed
into ruinous quiescence, waiting endlessly for the personal abuses and
the economic and legal destruction to end of their own accord. But the
record of world history tells us that they will not. As Frederick
Douglass wisely observed many years ago:
"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."
The quiescence must end.
I CAN'T SAY WHAT ANYONE SHOULD DO (other than really,
really, really
spread the
word on how each weary-of-tyranny American can act to shrink the
Leviathans that have imposed these harms upon us all). But I can point
out the wrongness of snowflake accusations that people who don't "social
distance" or mask themselves are "selfish", when it is those who support
throwing others out of work and out of their businesses in hope of
protecting themselves from getting sick that are really the selfish
ones.
Such selfishness should be called-out, in my opinion.
I can point out that businesses impose "mask" requirements
and "social distancing" nonsense on their own call, at least in many
places. Even here in Michigan, which has become a poster-child for how
deep and broad oppressive and irrational government decrees can get, a
refusal to abide by these demands merely gives the store owner the
state's permission to throw out a noncompliant customer.
It might accomplish a lot for such store owners to be told
in no uncertain terms that the first of their category to no longer make
such demands will be the new shopping destination of the aggrieved
customer, who will never return thereafter.
I can point out that one of the most heartwarming things I
have seen over the last few weeks has been a video of perhaps 150
Californians milling about in discontent on the boardwalk of a closed
beach swarm onto the shingle (and in many cases into the forbidden
water, too) as soon as one brave woman defied the considerable police
presence on the scene, took her protest sign out onto the sand, and
began to be arrested by three cops.
THIS COMMENTARY HAS BECOME LONG, and though I could go on
and on, thanks to the subject matter and my passion about it, I will
bring it to a close. But I will do so with an invitation to everyone to
read just a little more.
What I offer now are the words of the great 20th Century
thinker C.S. Lewis (to which I have added a few at the end related to
the subject of the tax but which are in their essence just as apt to the
currently raging C19 scam). I think you will enjoy it and I think that
perhaps you will find much of value to be taken from it.
Click on the image below to access the document, and bless
you all:
Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most
creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make
gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been
better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money
for their own uses.
If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to
apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you
can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having
the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your
own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that
use.
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FRIENDS, THE BIT OF EASING of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected this spring should not be
allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing.
The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.
And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if
they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and
Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you
can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):
[Name], over the last several months you've
watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy
classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No
dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.
YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant
state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in
size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an
opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has
been nurturing in the average mind for decades).
Those things having not yet happened, you
should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.
Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to
begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take
place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a
who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to
show it to you.
When you're done with that reading, you'll know
what to do next.
"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.
The Ongoing Effort To Leverage Months of
Conditioning Into Residual Despotism
Persistent number-fudging keeps the panic alive and the
populace largely compliant as the chains are fastened in place.
Saturday, May 16, 2020:
AS OF THIS MORNING, THE CDC IS REPORTING 85,990 total deaths from C19 in
the USA:
...but note the asterisk below that big scary number
(which is actually a typical figure for seasonal flu mortality) and
alongside the "2,043 New Deaths" assertion. Clicking on the "About the
Data" link below that asterisk takes us to this:
"As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts
include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths." How about that?
And let's look at the definitions. "Probable" includes
cases in which no testing has been done to actually confirm that C19 was
even present, much less that it was the cause-- or even just among the
causes-- of a fatality. But that fatality is added to the scary
death count anyway.
In fact, these merely "probable" C19 fatalities have
actually been being added since March 4, per
this CDC instruction, which was then emphasized a few weeks later
with
this follow-up (perhaps because we didn't see quite a satisfactory
bounce in the panic-fanning "C19-is-the-PLAGUE!!"
numbers, which may also explain the re-iteration in the April 5
"position statement" summarized in the screenshot above). (Highlighting
in those two notices is mine.)
So, the frightening figure of 85,990 deaths is NOT the
number of actual known C19 fatalities. Instead it includes not only
folks who had tested positive for having the disease-- which by itself
doesn't mean that they died from it, only that it was present-- but also
folks for whom there is no evidence that they were infected with C19 at
all.
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."
There comes a point in the introduction of every new
official narrative when people no longer remember how it started. Or, rather,
they remember how it started, but not the propaganda that started it. Or,
rather, they remember all that (or are able to, if you press them on it), but it
doesn’t make any difference anymore, because the official narrative has
supplanted reality.
You’ll remember this point from the War on
Terror, and specifically the occupation of Iraq. By the latter half of
2004, most Westerners had completely forgotten the propaganda that
launched the invasion, and thus regarded the Iraqi resistance as
“terrorists,” despite the fact that the United States had invaded and
was occupying their country for no legitimate reason whatsoever. By that
time, it was abundantly clear that there were no “weapons of mass
destruction,” and that the U.S.A. had invaded a nation that had not
attacked it, and posed no threat to it, and so was perpetrating a
textbook war of aggression.
These facts did not matter, not in the
slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally immersed in the
official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective
reality. Herd mentality had taken over. It’s difficult to describe how
this works; it’s a state of functional dissociation. It wasn’t that
people didn’t know the facts, or that they didn’t understand the facts.
They knew the Iraqis weren’t “terrorists.” At the same time, they knew
they were definitely “terrorists,” despite the fact that they knew that
they weren’t. They knew there were no WMDs, that there had never been
any WMDs, and still they were certain there were WMDs, which would be
found, although they clearly did not exist.
The same thing happened in Nazi Germany. The
majority of the German people were never fanatical anti-Semites like the
hardcore N.S.D.A.P. members. If they had been, there would have been no
need for Goebbels and his monstrous propaganda machine. No, the Germans
during the Nazi period, like the Americans during the War on Terror,
knew that their victims posed no threat to them, and at the same time
they believed exactly the opposite, and thus did not protest as their
neighbors were hauled out of their homes and sent off to death camps,
camps which, in their dissociative state, simultaneously did and did not
exist.
I'VE SAID IT BEFORE and I can't help but say it again-- I'm so very
happy to have found C.J. Hopkins! The guy has such a good touch with his
clear-eyed presentation!!
Normally, Hopkins starts off with well-tuned satire before
moving into the more serious darkness of his real message. In this case
he starts pretty dark and stays there, with the satire coming later and
with much more a worried air than a whimsical one.
The fact is, the provocation for this piece is pretty damn
dark. Hopkins, an astute observer, is very aware that America is getting
very far down a very dangerous path right now, and it shows, as it
should.
I HOPE THAT YOU ALSO realize how dangerously far this
beloved country of ours has let itself be led onto thin ice over cold
water right now. Whether we survive this assault will depend on what
each of us does right now to get us
back to shore (and what we encourage as many others as possible to do,
too).
There is a predisposition of many folks to just view it all
from a state of mild delusion, as though what is happening is some kind
of reality TV show we are watching, and to which we can afford to pay no
more attention than we find comfortable. That delusional perspective is
the goal of all the 24/7 propaganda about being "in this together" and
"stay home to stay safe" and so forth being thrummed out by those who
benefit from the quiescence of those whose world is being burned down
around them.
Each of us who knows better must grab such folks by the
lapels and shake them awake, or at least (and in any event) lead by
example. I'll say it again: the danger is very real.
I HOPE EVERYONE WILL REFLECT HARD on the fact that those
threatening our well-being are empowered to do so solely by our
cooperation, and more, that in almost all cases, our cooperation with
bad state policies is secured by false pretenses and our ignorance of
the law. Indeed, it is our ignorant cooperation with
the state's extraction of our wealth that allows Leviathan to exist at
all,
with its terrible and voracious appetites, and its lust to dominate and
decree.
If more Americans understood how, as a matter of
law, their resources and wealth are yielded-up to Leviathan entirely by their
choice, and that they have every right and power under the law to snap
shut the purse and let the beast shrink back down from 8,000 lb.
do-what-I-want gorilla to Constitutionally-intended "public-servant"
size-- I think we would see a change in the world for the better.
Needless to say, YOU can be an agent of that change.
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!
[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
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before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your
knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
your hard work and sacrifice.”
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
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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.
May 19- In 1848, Mexico ratifies the
treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, selling California, Nevada, Utah and much of the
rest of the Southwest to the United States for $15 million (albeit as the loser
in the Mexican-American war being concluded by the same treaty). In 1921, the
"Emergency Quota Act" is passed, restricting immigration into the United States
from any country to no more than 3% of the total existing immigrant population
of America of that national origin as reported in the census of 1910. In 1922,
the Soviet Union's "Young Pioneer" national youth service corps is established.
In 1962, Marilyn Monroe croons 'Happy Birthday' to JFK.
*****
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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May 20- In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent
for blue jeans with copper rivets. In 1902, Cuba is granted limited
"independence" by the United States. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh heads for
Paris. In 1932, Amelia Earhart heads for Ireland. In 1940, the first prisoners
arrive at the Auschwitz death-camp. In 1949, the United States "National
Security Agency" (NSA) is established (under its original name, the "Armed
Forces Security Agency"). In 1989, the Chinese state declares martial law in
the face of the growing demonstrations against government corruption which would
lead to the Tiananmen Square massacre a few weeks later.
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A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
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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.
*****
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WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU
ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and
listen!
You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
sophisticated spells which also keep you from
engaging in the fight.
There are real great deeds to be done,
and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and
frankly, your real future
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
penetrate the illusions.
Visit
losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto
the real field of battle!
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PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
May 21- In 1881, Clara Barton establishes the American Red
Cross. In 1904, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is
founded in Paris. In 1917, a fire consumed some 2,000 homes and businesses in
Atlanta, Georgia. Unhindered by FEMA, residents of the city quickly recovered
and rebuilt. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh touches down in Paris after the first
solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic. In 1932, Amelia Earhart lands in
Derry, Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo, non-stop across the
Atlantic. In 1934, Oskaloosa, Iowa fingerprints everyone in town. In 1961,
Alabama's governor declares martial law in response to rioting over civil rights
issues. In 1981, IRA hunger-strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die in
occupying Britain's Maze Prison. In 2010, the Japanese government's space
agency launches a solar-sail-powered spacecraft for a flyby of Venus (which took
place on December 8, 2010).
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:
May 22- In 1377, Pope Gregory issues five papal bulls
denouncing the teachings of John Wycliffe, a lay preacher and theologian who
opposed the secular power of the Roman Catholic Church and its practice of
demanding tribute, and advocated the translation of the Bible into versions
readable by the average person, laying important foundation stones for the
upcoming Protestant Reformation. In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr is
indicted by a grand jury for treason (Burr was subsequently acquitted). In
1826, the HMS Beagle sets off with Charles Darwin on board. In 1906, the Wright
brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine". In 1980, Namco
releases 'Pac-Man'. In 1990, Microsoft releases Windows 3.0. In 1992, Johnny
Carson hosts his last 'Tonight Show'. In 2012, the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest
tower in the world at 2,080 ft. (634 m.), opens for business.
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives.”
"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
May 23- In 1568, the Netherlands declare their independence
from Spain. In 1788, South Carolina becomes the eighth of the several
states to ratify the current United States Constitution. In 1813, Simón
Bolívar leads enters Mérida, Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador. In
1934, Bonnie and Clyde Barrow are ambushed by police and killed in Black
Lake, Louisiana. In 1934, the 'Battle of Toledo', a five-day clash between
1,300 Ohio National Guardsmen and 6,000 striking workers at the Electric
Auto-Lite plant begins. In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City is demolished, 34 days after being rocked by explosions on the
anniversary of the Waco massacre. In 2003, the Euro exceeds its initial
trading value against the US Federal Reserve note for the first time since
its introduction in 1999.
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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:
May 24- In 1798, a popular rebellion
against the British puppet "Kingdom of Ireland", inspired by the American
Revolution and supported by Protestants and Catholics alike, begins. In 1830,
the B & O Railroad, the first revenue-generating federally-subsidized railroad,
began service. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic after 14 years of
construction. In 2000, Israeli troops begin leaving Southern Lebanon after 22
years of occupation. In 2001, the Democrats regain control of the Senate for
the the first time since 1994 when James Jeffords becomes an independent.
*****
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.
