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January 16- In 1547, Ivan the Terrible
becomes Tsar of Russia. In 1909, Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the
magnetic South Pole. In 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment is ratified, providing
authority (otherwise lacking) for the federal criminalization of alcohol
manufacture and distribution. In 1979, the CIA-installed Shah of Iran flees to
Egypt to escape the wrath of Iranian revolutionaries after 25 years of brutal
despotic rule as a United States client and agent. In 1991, the "Operation
Desert Storm" United States invasion of Iraq begins. In 2020, the first
impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins in the Senate.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
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,
especially in recognition of the fact
that my posts are heavily suppressed. They will NOT get out
if you don't get them out.
Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
A Few Words About Corruption...
...and the duty (and wisdom) of refusing to tolerate
it, especially in public institutions.
“There is no safety for honest men but
by believing all possible evil of evil men.”
– Edmund Burke
IF YOU WERE OFFERED A $BILLION DOLLARS
for which you simply had to ruin, impoverish, endanger or even see
killed outright a million people you didn't know
and in regard to whose sins-- or lack thereof-- you
had neither knowledge nor responsibility, would you
do it? OK, YOU might not, but do you think that anybody would do it?
Let me throw this into the mix: The
theoretical actor in this picture doesn't even have
to break a sweat in the commission of the crime. All
he or she has to do is issue some orders or promote
some disinformation, and do so from a position in
which the risk of accountability is virtually zero.
Maybe I'm am outrageous cynic, but I
think many people could be found who would harm or put those
strangers at risk, or doom them to certain death, or
devastate a distant land making refugees and widows
and orphans, and would do so for even a lot less
than a $billion. Maybe even just a $million.
Maybe even less than that.
The average sociopath would view it as
found money, after all, and for no skin off his
or her nose...
Indeed, I think some folks would do it
for nothing, just to cover up past crimes, or serve
as a distraction from current other crimes,
or for purely political reasons.
Seriously. Aren't I right about this?
WITH ALL THAT IN MIND, think about how
easy it must be for
someone offered A-list status with the "mover and
shaker" crowd and a very well-paying job with
lifetime tenure just to creatively misunderstand
some complicated legal material. The effect is to fleece a
bunch of (mostly) strangers out of a whole lot of money,
but on the other hand, the fraud is defended-- even
celebrated-- as an element of a fuzzy but
benign-sounding "social contract".
There's not even any
violence or death involved (as long as everyone goes
along, anyway).
Today, we're going to take a deep (but
easy) dive into the most significant example of this
latter kind of corruption on offer in America today.
This is an institutional corruption that affects
every single American man and woman, harming most of
them (including you and members of your family)
pretty grievously.
All you have to do to begin with is
watch a video. Afterwards, a bit more will be asked
of you, as you will see, so please be sure to read
on after watching.
***
A Few Words On Judicial And
Agency Fraud In The Administration Of The Income Tax
FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS Americans have
been getting a hard lesson about the evils of
"narrative management". By this we mean
state-serving disinformation campaigns, usually
amplified and maintained by co-opted and
collaterally-benefiting media and other private
interests, also known as "consent engineering"
projects.
Just in this young century alone we
have suffered such campaigns in regard to COVID-19,
"climate change", "Russiagate", the 2014 Ukraine
coup and the agenda on behalf of which it was
carried out, and election rigging, in addition to
earlier campaigns concerning "Iraqi WMDs",
corporations that are "too big [to be allowed] to
fail" and more.
Happily, most of those operations
listed above are slowly being exposed by the
diligent work of (primarily) "alt-media" journalists
and alert civic-minded amateurs. However, the
grand-daddy of all disinformation campaigns-- the
success of which enables and makes profitable all
the others-- has remained hidden from most eyes.
That grand-daddy snow-job is the
fictional narrative that in 1913, Americans decided
to subject themselves to a direct tax on all that
comes in, which is excused from the "apportionment"
requirement on all such taxes hardwired into the US
Constitution. Didn't
happen.
In this video, legal scholar and
rule-of-law activist Pete Hendrickson exposes the
frauds committed by federal appellate courts and
executive agencies on behalf of this false
narrative. Better still, Pete shares the liberating
truth about the income tax which those frauds are
meant to conceal.
So, buckle up. You're about to have the
red-pill ride of your life.
The direct link to this video on Rumble
is
here; and on YouTube,
here. The
originally-posted version of the film is
here. A
text version of this presentation can be found
here;
and an audio file,
here.
I'm grateful to David
Schied, who did the filming of this video.
***
NOW, I SAID ABOVE that a bit more would
be asked of you than merely watching the video which
I trust you have now viewed to the end. That request
is simple: I want your help in ending the judicial
and agency corruption of which you have just
learned.
All that is needed to accomplish this
is to expose that
corruption.
But you know what ISN'T exposure? Me
showing this video to you.
You know what IS exposure?
YOU persuading 100 other people to
watch it, and to then each persuade another 100
people to watch it.
Let me illustrate this point. Another
version of the presentation you've just watched was
originally posted shortly after the event, back in
July of 2017. I announced it in the newsletter
edition back then and posted the link in an
appropriate place on the LHC site map. Remember,
this was more than five years ago.
Since that posting and announcement,
more than five years ago, that video has garnered
only 17,000 views-- which is to say, only around the
same number of folks who get the newsletters
directly. The choir has heard this preaching, but
pretty much no one else has, just as is true of
pretty much everything I write and create and post
in my efforts to restore and uphold the rule of law
in America.
PEOPLE, I CAN'T DO THIS SUCCESSFULLY
ALL BY MYSELF!!
This virtuous and important cause needs
each of you to vigorously act on its behalf. Take a
chance on embarrassing yourself, if that's how you
see it, by being persistent and forceful and
cajoling and wheedling and soaring in your efforts
to get other people to
watch this film.
Having just seen it yourself, will you
not agree that it is of universal interest, and not
at all tarnished with any "tinfoil hat" aspects, and
that anyone who watches it will at least have to
admit that the facts exposed are notable and worth
knowing, however they may end up feeling about
personally acting in response to those facts? There
is nothing you need be ashamed of in burning some
social credit by insisting that your family and
friends and even neighbors sit down in your living
room and watch this hour or so of video.
No one will say afterwards that you're
a nutcase. They may not take the pledge then and
there and become warriors for the truth and the law,
but they won't conclude that you're crazy,
and they won't ever
forget what they have learned.
Some of them will go on to share what
they have learned with others. All will remember
what they learned the next time they are dealing
with the subject of the tax in any way, both
personally and politically.
That's how corruption gets beaten,
people-- by enough members of the polity learning
about it. Eventually that learning will happen in
folks that can take positive action from positions
of authority, and then, all of a sudden, that
particular corruption is no more.
But only if YOU ACT.
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted
fountain is the righteous man who gives way before
the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"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
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
"Be
the change you want to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi
***
Now, seriously. Do you want this
article to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
given above or below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
The "Fair Tax"-- A Bad Idea
Born Of Ignorance Rears Its Ugly Head Again
Somehow, the
CtC Warriors in
Georgia
have failed to educate their Congressman, Buddy Carter (R. 1st District), on the liberating truth
about the income tax, leaving him to trot out a
foolish and dangerous "Fair Tax" proposal...*
THE SO-CALLED "FAIR TAX" has
periodically haunted America over the last
twenty-five years or so, seducing those oblivious to
the true nature of the income tax. Such folks
imagine that the income tax is actually enacted the
way the federal and state governments have been
systematically misapplying it to most people over
the last 80 years or so (with the necessary-- if
unknowing-- cooperation of the exploited victims).
Such folks never stop to wonder
why Americans of the early years of the 20th
Century-- every adult of whom had personal
experience with, or knowledge of, the income tax--
amended the Constitution in 1913 for the express
purpose of over-riding an 1895 Supreme Court
decision which had thwarted the administration of
the tax and allow it to resume...
They should do so (starting
here, and then moving to
this
for a more complete picture).
ANYWAY, DURING ONE OF THE PREVIOUS
exhumations of the "Fair Tax" zombie, I published a
few words on the subject that should suffice to lay
the moldy monster back in its crypt with anyone
paying attention. Hopefully those good folks will
share the whole story with enough others (members of
Congress, especially)-- and do so quickly enough--
to spare us all from what would be a truly
disastrous mistake.
Here is that commentary:
Regarding Tax "Reform"
An astonishing number of Americans
continue to call for the enactment of a
"national sales tax" (such as the so-called
'Fair Tax'). These poor folks have let
themselves be suborned into thus endorsing
the notion that the federal government has a
legitimate claim on an unlimited portion of
every American's personal property--
enforceable by one means or another-- in
exchange for nothing more than being spared
getting a headache filling out a bunch of
tax forms each year (or going to the trouble
to learn the truth about the law).
Understand, the sole "benefit" pitched
by boosters of this shell-game "reform" is
that the individual paperwork burden would
diminish. Everyone would still have just as
much of their property taken. What this is
really all about is distracting Americans
from consideration of the real issue-- that
is, who actually has a lawful claim to all
that money-- by dangling a minor symptomatic
relief in front of them. It is with these
folks in mind that I offer the following
comments...
"Every reform is only a mask under
cover of which a more terrible reform, which
dares not yet name itself, advances."
-R. W. Emerson
Now that the current income tax
structure has been deciphered and revealed
to be benign in 'Cracking the Code- The
Fascinating Truth About Taxation In
America', it falls to all of us to actively
and strenuously resist any attempt by the
tax beneficiary crowd to replace that
structure-- which they are coming to
recognize as fatally compromised, for their
purposes-- with an alternative, such as a
national sales tax or value-added tax. Such
alternatives-- all of which would seek to
maintain spending at or near current
levels-- would quickly be riddled with
exceptions, special-interest pay-offs and so
forth; as well as the subsidies and
associated means-testing necessary to
forestall what would otherwise be an
intolerable burden for the poor. They would
quickly become indistinguishable from the
current regime in complexity, bureaucracy,
and injustice. More importantly, depending
upon how such an alternative was instituted,
we might never be rid of it.
After all, a broad-based federal sales
tax or VAT-- which would be functionally
involuntary in nature (thus, direct), and
would lack any effective connection between
the federal government and the object of the
tax as well-- is just as much prohibited by
Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution as
is the general tax on receipts that most
Americans misunderstand the income tax to
be, and thus would be unconstitutional
without an amendment. However, with the
income tax having been broadly
misunderstood-- and thus obnoxiously
misapplied-- for so long that many Americans
have reached an, "Anything but this!"
attitude, there is every danger that the
general public could take the position that
if a Constitutional amendment would rid us
of that current regime, then so be it.
Should that happen, not only would we
abandon an existing statutory structure
which, as actually written, is dramatically
better than even the wildest promises made
by those who tout "reform", but the evils we
suffer under today-- by virtue of mere
ignorance, something easily remedied-- will
become evils we suffer from tomorrow with no
remedy available at all. Thus, calls for
such reforms really amount to efforts to
better secure the benefits enjoyed by
clients of the state under the current mis-administration
of the existing law.
Now, seriously. Do you want this
article to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
given above or below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
*I'm not really knocking the Georgia
CtC Warriors-- one of the most active and productive
CtC Warrior groups in the country. But still, an
educational delegation to Buddy Carter's office to
bring the man up to speed-- maybe by sitting him
down for a viewing of the Judicial Fraud video in
the opening article of this newsletter-- would be a
good thing to do, right?
In both cases, the reference to Biden's
fate was not out of any sympathy or affection for
that career criminal and sociopath. Rather, the
reference was deployed as a vehicle for energizing
Americans' interest in my legal analysis of Kamala
Harris's qualification for office-- a matter of
obviously acute importance when and if Biden exits
stage left.
The recent eruption of
classified-document felonies first discovered, we
are told, by Biden attorneys who, we are told, were
inexplicably dispatched to pack up Biden's old
Penn-Biden Center office (something I would have
thought would have been left to interns or other
low-grade staff)-- and who then inexplicably
suspected that more such documents might also be
laying around to be discovered in his Delaware
garage, and then his house-- leads to the strong
suspicion that ol' Joe is being set up for a final
trip back into the basement bunker. Good riddance,
of course.
But on the other hand, Joe's departure
means the very disturbing prospect of Kamala
Harris's ascent into the Oval Office-- something
that would be an even greater embarrassment to
America than Sleepy Joe has been. (The policies
would stay the same, I imagine, since I don't think
either Joe or Kamala have had or would have anything
to say on that front no matter how the pieces get
shuffled about...)
ALL THAT BRINGS ME BACK TO MY POINT,
which is that Kamala Harris (and all other so-called
"birthright citizens") isn't actually a legal
citizen. She is not even qualified for her current
office or her previous position in the Senate, much
less the presidency.
The law excluding Harris is quite
clear, even if most scholars have been dissuaded
from even examining the subject closely. That
dissuasion has been accomplished with a
long-standing false narrative about Supreme Court
jurisprudence on the subject, the fact that the
analysis requires a little effort to identify and
uncover the pieces of the puzzle, and mostly,
perhaps, because much screaming and wailing and
gnashing (and baring) of teeth is sure to attend the
making of this argument from the most unhinged and
violence-prone brownshirts on the Left.
But it's time to eschew sloth and fear
and rise to the occasion. Even if the shivery
prospect of "President Kamala Harris" isn't enough
by itself, respect for the rule of law should impel
us all to action, and damn the torpedoes.
Read on, and then share, share, share!
The Issue Of
Kamala Harris's Eligibility For Office
"No Person except a natural
born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United
States, at the time of the Adoption of this
Constitution, shall be eligible to the
Office of President..."
Article II, Section I, Clause
V of the United States Constitution
I'VE RECENTLY SEEN CLAIMS that
Kamala Harris, while born in the USA, is the
child of non-citizens in America merely on
student visas. If so, then she is not
qualified to be vice-president, or even
senator, for that matter.
We'll begin with an analysis of
the "birthright citizenship" notion itself.
Then we'll apply what has been shown to the
specifics of Kamala Harris' birth
circumstances.
A CHILD OF NON-CITIZEN PARENTS
does not acquire citizenship simply by being
born on American soil-- myths about
so-called "birthright citizenship"
notwithstanding. The law on this is
perfectly clear and unambiguous, and the
pretense to the contrary relies entirely
upon the glossing-over of inconvenient and
contradictory words in the Fourteenth
Amendment.
In this case, the phrase "or
naturalized" is the one conveniently
disregarded, as though its presence has no
impact on the meaning of the citizenship
clause. But that phrase-- which translates
as, "or granted citizenship"-- is actually
the key to the meaning of the clause (or, at
least, the key to untangling
misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the
clause).
Here is the complete language
of the amendment, in relevant part:
"Section 1. All
persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the state wherein they reside."
So, let's insert the
translation of "naturalized", which will
make immediately obvious that this amendment
clause is not intended to grant citizenship
to anyone in any normal sense of the term:
"All persons born or granted
citizenship in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside."
Obviously this language
contemplates and concerns persons already
possessed of citizenship by normal
procedures-- either through birth to citizen
parents, or having been granted it through
naturalization.
As this more complete rendering
of the language helps clarify, the purpose
of the provision is not the granting
of United States citizenship. Instead its
purpose is the granting of state
citizenship to those who are already
United States citizens.
A LOOK AT THE 14th AMENDMENT'S
CONTEXT AND HISTORY makes this yet more
clear, revealing that those for whom this
clause was designed are the persons
naturalized by the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
That group consists of former slaves, all of
whom, if having been born in the United
States, are granted United States
citizenship thereby:
Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That all persons born in the
United States and not subject to any foreign
power, excluding Indians not taxed,
are hereby declared to be citizens of the
United States; and such citizens,
of every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall have the
same right, in every State and Territory in
the United States, to make and enforce
contracts, to sue, be parties, and give
evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell,
hold, and convey real and personal property,
and to full and equal benefit of all laws
and proceedings for the security of person
and property, as is enjoyed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to like
punishment, pains, and penalties, and to
none other, any law, statute, ordinance,
regulation, or custom, to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. And be it further
enacted, That any person who, under color of
any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or
custom, shall subject, or cause to be
subjected, any inhabitant of any State or
Territory to the deprivation of any right
secured or protected by this act, or to
different punishment, pains, or penalties on
account of such person having at any time
been held in a condition of slavery or
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, or by reason of
his color or race, than is prescribed for
the punishment of white persons, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on
conviction, shall be punished by fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars, or
imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
both, in the discretion of the court.
Note that the overall language
of the enactment plainly has as its object
only those persons born into slavery, and
now freed. Harmoniously, the specific
language refers to all persons born in the
United States-- while making no reference or
provisions regarding persons who shall
be born in the United States (none of whom
could then be born into slavery, the
institution having at that point been
abolished).
Further, expressly EXCLUDED
from the group with which the act is
concerned is anyone "subject to any foreign
power". This includes anyone born with
allegiance to any other country by virtue of
his or her parents' foreign citizenship--
such as every baby that is the object of
today's "birthright citizenship"
misunderstanding.
("Subject to the jurisdiction
thereof" is the 14th Amendment's restatement
by other words of the Civil Rights Act's
earlier phrase, "not subject to any foreign
power". It was perhaps restated thusly in
order to pre-empt exceptions based on a
claimant's argument that his parents are
somehow not foreign allegiant. Per the new
version of the language in the 14th
Amendment, that negative, even if true,
wouldn't be good enough to allow a slip
under the wire.)
THE REASON FOR THE 14th
AMENDMENT "CITIZENSHIP" PROVISION, very
briefly, is that after the slave population
was emancipated following the War to
Suppress Southern Independence, many states
(North and South) refused to treat freed
slaves as citizens. The refusal found
expression particularly in the denial of
voting rights.
This denial of voting rights to
the freed slaves created a conundrum for the
North. The Northern state bloc faced the
prospect of increased Southern strength in
Congress due to the entire former slave
population now being counted in full (rather
than at 3/5 each) for purposes of
determining the number of representatives in
each state's delegation. But with the freed
slaves unable to vote, the interests
represented by the stronger Southern
delegations would likely remain just as
hostile to the Northern agenda as ever they
had been, simply with more power in their
hands.
The solution was the 14th
Amendment, compelling every state to treat
all United States citizens living within
their borders as citizens of the states, as
well. The expectation was that this
compelled citizenship would convey
unabridged voting rights.
Even so, the optimistic
expectation of proper state behavior was
back-stopped. Recognizing that even state
citizenship might not be enough to safeguard
the Northern purpose against the acts of
what are, after all, sovereign states (and
were still thought of in that way, at that
point), the following fail-safe language--
which nicely underscores the real and
limited purpose of the "citizenship clause"
in Section 1-- was also included in the
amendment:
Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among
the several States according to their
respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed. But when the right to
vote at any election for the choice of
electors for President and Vice President of
the United States, Representatives in
Congress, the Executive and Judicial
officers of a State, or the members of the
Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the
male inhabitants of such State, being
twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged,
except for participation in rebellion, or
other crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of such male citizens shall
bear to the whole number of male citizens
twenty-one years of age in such State.
A GREAT DEAL MORE COULD BE SAID
about the 14th Amendment overall. If I ever
am able to be done with my advocacy for
truth regarding the income tax and can
move on to finishing the analysis of the
Constitution with which I have been noodling
for a number of years now, I'll say it.
For now, though, suffice it to
say that Section 1 of the amendment in no
way mandates the granting of citizenship--
either union-state or United States-- to any
child of foreign parents who happens to be
born on American soil.
Even the construction of the
amendment's "citizenship" clause by the US
Supreme Court in United States v. Wong
Kim Ark (169 US 649, 1898), which did
(mistakenly) find its way to affirming a
14th Amendment-based citizenship-by-birth
claim of a man born to Chinese national
parents who were long-time legal residents
in the United States, does not avail
advocates of "birthright citizenship" for
the children of non-resident (or illegal)
aliens. In fact, Wong defeats the
advocates' argument.
In that case, the court only
found for Wong because of the status of
those parents as being in the United States
by permission, and under terms by which they
were allegiant to the United States during
their time in the country. It was during
that period of allegiance and jurisdictional
submission that their son was born.
The Wong majority, as
part of the exhaustive explanation of its
opinion, quotes Justice Joseph Story in
Inglis v. Sailors' Snug Harbor (1833), 3
Pet. 99. There, Justice Story, referring to
Calvin's Case, Blackstone's
Commentaries, and Doe v. Jones,
explains the basic principle from which the
Wong court proceeds in finding that a
child of legal
residents can acquire citizenship by
birth:
"Nothing is better settled at
the common law than the doctrine that the
children, even of aliens, born in a country
while the parents are resident there
under the protection of the government and
owing a temporary allegiance thereto,
are subjects by birth." 3 Pet. 164.
(Emphasis added.)
The Wong court
subsequently extends the legal residence
distinction directly to its case at hand:
Chinese persons, born out of
the United States, remaining subjects of the
Emperor of China, and not having become
citizens of the United States, are entitled
to the protection of, and owe allegiance to,
the United States so long as they are
permitted by the United States to reside
here, and are [thus] "subject to the
jurisdiction thereof" in the same sense as
all other aliens residing in the United
States. Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), 118 U.S.
356; Law Ow Bew v. United States 144 U.S.
47, 61, 62; Fong Yue Ting v. United States
(1893), 149 U.S. 698, 724; Lem Moon Sing v.
United States (1893), 158 U.S. 538, 547;
Wong Wing v. United States (1896), 163 U.S.
228, 238. (Emphasis added.)
In the end this distinction is
directly rested upon in the narrow ruling of
the Wong court:
The evident intention, and
the necessary effect, of the submission of
this case to the decision of the court upon
the facts agreed by the parties were to
present for determination the single
question stated at the beginning of this
opinion, namely, whether a child born in the
United States, of parent of Chinese descent,
who, at the time of his birth, are subjects
of the Emperor of China, but have a
permanent domicil and residence in the
United States, and are there carrying on
business, and are not employed in any
diplomatic or official capacity under the
Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his
birth a citizen of the United States. For
the reasons above stated, this court is of
opinion that the question must be answered
in the affirmative.
United States v. Wong Kim
Ark (169 US 649, 1898) (Emphasis added.)
Plainly, the children born to
non-resident aliens are in no way
beneficiaries of even the Wong
court's expansive and mistaken construction
of the 14th Amendment's "citizenship
clause". Indeed, the express resort by the
court to the legal residence of the parents
in finding for Wong is the exclusion of all
those not enjoying the same distinction of
circumstance, and thus a left-handed ruling
by the Supreme Court to the effect that the
children of non-residents are not entitled
to any such "birthright citizenship".
(It is also worth observing--
for the sake of good scholarship-- that
while much in common and ancient law might
have once weighed on the side of "birthright
citizenship" on grounds outside the
provisions of the 14th Amendment, the very
adoption of that amendment with its explicit
purposes and provisions on the subject has
arguably now settled the question in the
negative.)
AS NOTED IN THE PRECEDING
ANALYSIS, the Wong Kim Ark ruling
by the Supreme Court in 1898 which is
relied-upon by advocates of the mistaken
"birthright citizenship" as supporting their
notions, is wrongly decided. The court in
that case failed to recognize the
distinction between United States and state
citizenship that is the heart of the 14th
Amendment provision in question-- perhaps
due to poor briefing by the litigants in the
case.
But even if Wong were
soundly decided, it would not avail Harris
in her claim, if indeed her parents were
merely in America on student visas at the
time of Harris' birth.
The Wong court reached
its conclusions in Wong's favor based solely
on the legal residency of Wong's parents,
who were found by the court to have been
"permitted by the United States to reside
here" and to, in fact, have "permanent
domicil and residence in the United States".
The court reasoned that in seeking and
establishing legal residency Wong's parents
had affirmatively and deliberately
relinquished their former allegiances and
become allegiant to the USA, thus-- and only
thus-- bringing them under the relevant
provisions of the 14th Amendment.
If Harris's parents were in the
country merely on visas at the time of her
birth,
as I understand to be the case, this
would not meet the standard laid down by the
Wong court.
"Resident" is a condition of
specific legal meaning, as stated here, in
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856:
RESIDENT, persons. A person
coming into a place with intention to
establish his domicil or permanent
residence, and who in consequence actually
remains there. Time is not so essential as
the intent, executed by making or beginning
an actual establishment, though it be
abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
See 6 Hall's Law Journ. 68; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R.
373; 20 John. 211 2 Pet. Ad. R. 450; 2 Scamm.
R. 377.
Obtaining or being in the
country by virtue of a student visa is
merely visiting on a deliberately and
declared temporary basis, and not for
purposes of, or with permission to,
establish permanent residency. Entry into a
country on a student visa involves no
relinquishment of prior national allegiance
and replacement of it with allegiance to the
USA either affirmatively and deliberately or
even casually and by accident, and being
here on such a visa does not constitute
legal residence.
In fact, particular legal steps
must be taken by student visa holders in
order to convert their status to one with
the potential for lawful residence of the
sort on which the Wong court rested
its decision.
See this for some professional discussion of
the subject.
In sum, even if it were correct
overall in its finding of a "birthright
citizenship" right on behalf of Wong Kim Ark
(as it is), on its terms the Wong
ruling offers nothing on behalf of Kamala
Harris' claims. If the student visas thing
is sound, Harris should be removed from
office (and I suppose consideration should
be given to examining Senate votes during
the time she had been seated in that body
against the possibility that the outcomes of
some of the squeakers should be
reversed...).
So again, you're neither an idiot nor a
coward, right?
Please, this time, MAKE SOMETHING OF
THIS!! Post
the
link to this article widely. Post comments as
provided for at the end of the article. Help give
this matter some traction.
Seriously. Do you want this
article to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
given above or below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
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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*****
Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...
...an important action item opportunity.
FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC BITS OF EASING of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under
the fraudulent mantle of
COVID-19 mitigation 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], since March of 2020 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.
BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact
that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the
law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and
you don't call them out for it.
If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the
truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be
grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They
would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in
that delusional bubble.
As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they
certainly WOULD do something
like that.
Use this evidence in all your
outreach efforts.
"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."
DeSantis Hammers NHL Over
Discriminatory Job Posting: Not Welcome In The State
Of Florida
by Ryan Saavedra, Jan. 13, 2023, Daily
Wire.com
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the National
Hockey League (NHL) in a statement Friday afternoon
after the league posted what the state deemed to be
a “discriminatory” job posting.
“The NHL is proud to
announce its first-ever Pathway to Hockey Summit
launching during our 2023 All Star festivities in
South Florida!” the NHL
said in the job posting on LinkedIn. “The
Pathway to Hockey Summit is a career event for
diverse job seekers who are pursuing careers in
hockey. The day will be filled with guest speakers
and panelists, networking opportunities, and more!”
The event takes place on February 2 in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, and the deadline to register
for it is today.
“If you are looking for your opportunity to meet
with recruiters from the NHL League Office and at
least 10 of our NHL teams, we welcome you to
register,” the posting said. “Participants must be
18 years of age or older, based in the U.S., and
identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander,
Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a
person with a disability. Veterans are also welcome
and encouraged to attend.”
Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for the governor,
responded to the news in a statement, saying that
this type of discriminatory job posting will not be
tolerated in the state of Florida and that the
league needs to “immediately remove and denounce the
discriminatory prohibitions it has imposed.”
“Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the
state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke
notion that discrimination should be overlooked if
applied in a politically popular manner or against a
politically unpopular demographic,” DeSantis’ office
said in a statement. “We are fighting all
discrimination in our schools and our workplaces,
and we will fight it in publicly accessible places
of meeting or activity.”
"Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-Voltaire
DESANTIS FOR PRESIDENT, 2024!
This guy is consistently engaged and on
point with key aspects of the civilizational war in
progress in America-- aspects often overlooked or
shied-away-from by everyone else supposedly on the
side of the grown-ups. What's more, DeSantis
understands and respects the political nuances of
these battles, never (that I see) being ham-handed
or strident in his initiatives of reactions.
On the contrary, the man is deft,
disciplined and smart, couching his expressions so
as to make his point clear as a bell while giving no
real purchase for legitimate and sustainable
criticism or challenge by his (and our) ideological
opponents.
I will confess to knowing little about
where DeSantis would be on foreign policy issues,
and that's a very important question. But on the
domestic front, he seems to embrace a political
Hippocratic oath: First, do no harm. Having that as
an operating principle-- as opposed to: Do "good"
(which will always include the subtext of "as you
imagine it to be")-- hearkens back to the wisdom and
virtue of the small handful of truly admirable
presidents in American history, such as Jefferson
and
Cleveland.
At this point (and for some time now)
while still awaiting info on that foreign policy
point, DeSantis is my man for the Oval Office in
2024, perhaps with Rand Paul, Thomas Massie or Tulsi
Gabbard as the other part of a dream-team ticket.
MEANTIME, THE REST OF US can be doing
our parts to implement the "Do no harm" principle by
defunding the Leviathan state by which pretty-much
all the harm is done. A DeSantis presidency (or that
of any real liberty and rule-of-law
conservative) will be much more likely to succeed
(and much more likely to happen at all) when the
"swamp" is already being drained and its denizens
consequently exposed to the uncomfortable light of
day and scurrying for rocks under which to crawl.
Let's remember, it is our enabling of
the swamp creatures that preserves them as a force
capable of thwarting a victory and successful
administration by any truly virtuous presidential
aspirant.
Happily we CAN stand up and pull the
plug. We CAN defund the state from
which the rot most often spreads, using
a Founder-provided means for imposing a much-needed
corrective on those who do bad things in our names
and with our resources.
One simple act by each individual
American will do the trick, and it needs no approval
or agreement from any institutional authority. That one
simple thing will function as a catalyst, compelling
the beneficial reorganization of our whole societal
and political structure as a natural and inevitable
process.
You can see and learn all about this
solution in
this little two-page paper. Read it, think about it,
share it.
P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS
ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
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someone else by that method.
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this address)?
Click
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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
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
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."
-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
*****
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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 (sixteenth)
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.
January 17- In 1893, the "Citizen's
Committee of Public Safety" (and the U.S. Marines) overthrow the government of
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. In 1949, American television gets its first
sitcom-- "The Goldbergs". In 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower warms America against
the growing insidious and pernicious influence of the "military-industrial
complex". In 1998, Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual
harassment.
*****
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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and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.
January 18- In 1788, the first shiploads of English convicts
arrive at Botany Bay in Australia. In 1861, Georgia becomes the fifth of the
several states to secede from the Union. In 1896, the world gets its first look
at an X-ray machine. In 1911, an aircraft lands on a ship for the first time
(Eugene Ely pilots a plane onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San
Francisco harbor). In 1990, Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry is arrested for
drug possession. In 1998, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair is revealed by an
internet news outlet. In 2012, the effort by the United States to compromise
the freedom and integrity of the internet under the "Stop Online Piracy Act" and
the "Protect Internet Privacy Act" is met with a coordinated "Blackout Day" in
protest by numerous major internet operations. In 2018, a false emergency
warning of an impending missile strike (imagined to be a nuclear missile from
Korea) caused a widespread panic in Hawaii (and yet Hawaiians for some reason
have never been up in arms-- or panicked-- regarding the perpetual provocations
of enormously-nuclear-armed Russia by every administration since the Clinton era
in the 1990s, and especially during the Trump administration).
******
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important
(plus it can get you some great LHC swag!). See
(and carefully read)
these guidelines and encouragements.
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
losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto
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:
January 19- In 1883, Roselle, New Jersey becomes the first town
with a pole-strung electricity grid. In 1920, the U.S. Senate votes to keep the
United States out of the League of Nations. In 1937, Howard Hughes set a record
flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
In 1977, snow falls in Miami, Florida-- the only time this has happened in the
history of the city (the Bahamas got some that day, too). In 1983, Apple
announces its first computer with a GUI and a mouse.
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!!
January 20- In 1265, the first English Parliament holds
its inaugural meeting. In 1649, Charles I of England goes on trial for
treason and other high crimes. In 1841, Britain occupies the island of
Hong Kong. In 1885, the roller-coaster is patented. In 1944, the Royal
Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin. In 1981, Iranian
revolutionaries release 52 American hostages upon the inauguration of
Ronald Reagan, pursuant to an earlier agreement. In 2017, Donald J.
Trump becomes the oldest person ever inaugurated as President of the
United States up to that time (at 70). In 2021, after governmental
areas of Washington, DC are surrounded by barbed wire and ten thousand
troops are deployed throughout, Joe Biden, age 78, is inaugurated as
President of the United States as the culmination of a sophisticated
coup carried out by Big Tech and Big Pharma billionaires, along with a
host of Democrat operatives throughout the federal and many state
governments.
*****
"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
January 21- In 1793, Louis XVI of France is guillotined for
treason. In 1861, Jefferson Davis resigns from the U.S. Senate. In 1908,
New York City passes an ordnance making it illegal for women to smoke in
public. In 1924, Vladimir Lenin dies. In 1950 Alger Hiss is convicted of
perjury for his denials under oath of being a communist while a member of
the U.S. State Department. In 1968, the Battle of Khe Sanh begins in
Vietnam. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam war
draft evaders. In 2008, various stock markets worldwide experience dramatic
crashes (American markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. day).
*****
*****
'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:
January 22- In 1946, the Central
Intelligence Group (later the CIA), is established by the Truman
administration. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issues its noxious and
legally-ridiculous decision in Roe v. Wade.
*****
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.
� All written and graphic material on this page and
website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.
