Defining The "Deep State"

A lot of folks talk about it, but many mistake the true nature of the beast.

THERE ARE TWO PHENOMENA typically complained of (by conservatives, especially) in regard to Washington, DC: the "Deep State" and the "Swamp". Often the two terms are used interchangeably.

Both terms refer to real things (metaphorically speaking). There IS a "swamp". and there IS a deep state. They are NOT the same thing.

But the creatures of the real Deep State encourage the conflation of the two Washington infections as a means of providing themselves with cover from meaningful political attention which would otherwise be a threat.

This conflation serves the purpose because the "swamp" is merely the envelope of corruption, incompetence, bloat and waste which pork-and-patronage-larded oversized central-state bureaucracies always generate around themselves. The "deep state", on the other hand, is a lean, purposeful competitor of the Constitutionally-limited republic on the prosperity of which it parasitically feeds. The notion that both are just parts of the same clown show makes the evil of the latter more difficult to discern and to effectively declaim.

SO, WHAT IS THAT lean, purposeful and parasitic competitor of our beloved Constitutional Republic? It is the Leviathan born on July 26, 1947 with Harry Truman's signing of the National Security Act. Upon that stroke of the pen the "state" apparatus ordained and called into existence by the United States Constitution, pursuant to the principles and purposes laid out in the Declaration of Independence-- the sole and explicit object of which was to secure, even against encroachment by the state thus created, the blessings of liberty to the People-- acquired a misshapen and voracious Siamese twin.

That ill-begotten twin is dedicated-- theoretically-- to the preservation of the state and its interests. This goal is argued by Deep State apologists as necessary for the preservation of the People's liberties, even though accomplishing it is said to require censorship, secret evidence, endless domestically-directed propaganda, the gutting of meaningful trial by jury, 24/7 unwarranted surveillance of every American (and everyone else, as well), the delivery of pallet-loads of American treasure to foreigners to facilitate their killing or oppression of other foreigners, kidnappings, assassinations, renditions and black sites, the general disparagement of rights of the People unspecified in the Constitution and the assumption by the state of powers not delegated thereto, just to name a few of the People's liberties trampled in the process.

But hey, making an omelet requires breaking a few eggs, right? Or, to put it another way, sometimes you have to destroy a village in order to save it.

 By way of Truman's ill-conceived act (of which he expressed deep regret only a few years later, after JFK's assassination with the obvious complicity of Deep State actors) America had fastened upon her the CIA, the NSA and the pernicious concept of "state secrets"-- a notion fundamentally at odds with that of self-government, as nicely illustrated by its earliest use in concealing government culpability from the families of victims of a fatal plane-crash.

At around the same time and going forward, the aforementioned assaults on America's proper Constitutional order were joined by federal and state "emergency" legislation (which many of us saw dusted off during the COVID plandemic) and pernicious and unconstitutional "continuity of government" planning. A few more of the Deep State's Hydra heads include the PATRIOT Act, a State Department transformed from a diplomatic corps into a belligerent and conniving black-ops adjunct, and an ever-increasing host of foreign and domestic clients as the Deep State apparatus and rationale became a vehicle for exploitation of the People's prosperity by any special interest that made a case for agenda-serving expenditures and legislation and figured out the "kickback to Congress" formula.

NOW, JUST TO MAKE CLEAR the harms from the "deep state" infestation (in case the recital above was insufficient), here is a graph illustrating the problem in purely fiscal but decidedly stark terms:

As can be seen, it is upon the birth of the Deep State as I have defined it that the United States (the federal government, not the USA) begins growing like Topsy. All with eyes even just a little bit open can easily recognize this metastisization as increasingly fatal to the Founders' and Framers' vision of a Constitutionally-limited republic-- a vision that took our ancestors to the pinnacle of human flourishing of freedom, prosperity and the constantly-realized promise of steady improvement under the rule of American core principles.

TO SUMMARIZE, THE ACTUAL "DEEP STATE" AGAINST WHICH all good Americans should turn their anger and their scorn is the conglomeration of so-called "national security" agencies and initiatives and their ancillary organs, water-carriers, clients and the like. This includes, in part, the CIA, the NSA, the modern FBI, the DHS, the Justice and Treasury departments in any alleged "security"-related offices and activities, and so on.

In many cases these government tumors on the body politic are staffed by swamp creatures-- bureaucrats with more-or-less permanent positions who remain in place through administration after administration, and who do, in "Deep State" agencies and in the Department of Agriculture as well, represent a sclerotic, ponderous obstacle to properly lean and responsive government, but they are not the "Deep State".

We should all keep these distinctions firmly in mind in all discourse and analysis, and correct any misstatements or arguments conflating the "swamp" or the "permanent state" with the "Deep State". The former is a problem. The latter is a dagger not simply poised above us but already driven into America's flesh and steadily working its way toward her vital organs.

Here is the distinction in a nutshell, as alluded to at the beginning of these comments: The Swamp (permanent state) is mere routine institutional lard. But the actual Deep State is a purposeful, agenda-driven cabal that has taken control of policy in defiance of all Constitutional proscriptions and runs Washington for its operators' and beneficiaries' purposes, not those of the American people, useful markers of which include the deployment of censorship, domestic propaganda and narrative management.

NOW, HERE'S THE GOOD PART-- we should not just keep all the true definition of the "Deep State" in mind, and in play in discourse. There is, you see, a bit of important backstory to the eruption of the Deep State which empowers each of us to do something concrete and immediate about the problem, as will be seen in the daunting graph presented above, but with a little more data added:

You see, the Deep State only managed to become today's monster because a piece of legislation called the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 (CTPA) went into effect beforehand. The enactment exploited the unique circumstances of World War II, the preceding years of the Great Depression, and a thirty-year campaign of misinformation about the meaning and effect of the Sixteenth Amendment to cause millions of Americans who had never before then paid a dime in income tax (and had not and still did not owe any) to begin declaring their untaxable receipts to be of a taxable character.

These millions of misled Americans began sending money to Washington (and eventually most state governments as well), making possible the enormous spike in government expenditures that can be seen beginning in 1943 (to the right of the red dashed line on the graph). (You can read a detailed discussion of this hugely-important history here.)

There's an open question as to whether the CTPA was a deliberately planned scheme to accomplish this effect or whether it was just an unexpected serendipity. Either way, though, it saw the feds suddenly awash in revenue. After doubtless gaping in astonishment and glee for a bit, the Deep-State-to-be never looked back.

Spending-- and the related power of the state relative to that of the people from whom all the spent wealth was being taken-- skyrocketed, as can be seen.

Recognizing the opportunity and eager to get the full measure of damage to a Constitutional structure the character and restraints of which he despised, Harry Truman rolled out the Leviathan-obstetrics unit known as the National Security Act in 1947. In 1954, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) of 1939-- a respectfully transparent and accurate representation of the limited scope of the income excise-- was replaced with the IRC of 1954-- a case study in obfuscation and opacity plainly designed to conceal the limits and real nature of the tax and preserve the massive misunderstanding exploited by the CTPA.

Today, as a consequence of that little progression, the state is an 800-lb. gorilla in every American's living room and office. That beast continues to get bigger and more aggressive daily.

Despite the intimidating scope of the problem, however, it all started with the simple misunderstanding of the CTPA. It can all be stopped with the correction of that misunderstanding.

 YOU can help make that happen.

In addition to correcting the public discourse on "Deep State" versus "Swamp", and straightening out those who mistakenly call on Deep State organs to fix what are actually Deep State-caused maladies, each of us must spread to the greatest extent possible the truth about the limited nature of the income tax. USE THIS LITTLE THREE-PAGE DOCUMENT to accomplish this vital task.

Write a brief, persuasive email or tweet or post designed to encourage the opening and reading of that .pdf and attach a copy or the link above.

ACT YOURSELF in accordance with the truth about the tax and publicize your actions in every way possible.

Rebut all of the periodically-popular calls (ascendant again at this time) for the replacement of the income tax with some alternative-- which would mean installing an actually bad tax (unlike the income tax, which administered as written and as it had been before the gaming discussed above took hold, is an excellent and highly-desirable tax-- so much so that our grandfathers actually amended the Constitution just to allow the administration of the tax to resume after a hiatus prompted by an errant Supreme Court ruling in 1895) which we might never be rid of.

Be the storm after the raging of which sunlight breaks out in renewed and more-than-ever glorious brilliance.

"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

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Random Musings And Observations

Was Harris a Uniparty ploy? Something that SHOULD disqualify candidates for government posts; and a point about the Founder's views and the "Judeo-Christian" fiction; and an important link between the immigration and abortion problems.

SO, DID THE UNIPARTY offer us the odious Kamala Harris as a means of inducing widespread acceptance of Trump, the candidate they really wanted in place this term? One has to wonder. See this article from Ryan McMaken for what might be an illustration of this disturbing notion.

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REGARDING THE SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS of Trump appointees currently underway: It seems clear to me that anyone who believes that God favors some particular group of people due to race, ethnicity or religious affiliation is dangerously delusional and not fit for any office of trust and honor (and more so when also believing in the preordained-- and relatively imminent-- end of the world, and viewing that as a good thing).

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ON THE SUBJECT OF AGENDA-SERVING RELIGIOUS MYTHS, I think it important everyone understand and keep in mind that contrary to a claim often-made, America was NOT founded as a "Christian nation" (and especially not as a "Judeo-Christian" nation-- a term not even coined until decades after the founding, and, as currently used to link or conflate Old Testament and New Testament theology, ridiculous on its face).

The Founders were predominantly Deists-- especially in their public persona. They were believers in God the Creator, and in God's goodness and primacy, but they were not so presumptuous as to imagine themselves able to discern and describe His attributes to any further degree.

Nor were they so naive as to imagine that writings presuming to ascribe purposes, preferences and policies to God-- especially fantastic self-serving writings emanating from a notably insular and primitive culture-- should be taken as "gospel", so-to-speak.

This is not to say that some of the prominent Founders were not Christian-- many probably had some leanings in that direction, co-existent with their Deist views. But Deism was very widespread in the Founders' culture, and very clearly expressed in the writings and acts of a great many of them.

More importantly, while all were reverent, humble and mindful of their moral agency and duty, none of the Founders were Christian in their public persona involved in the founding of the country and the framing of the Constitution. Representations to the contrary, meant to self agenda, are unfortunately very common in today's public discourse.

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THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE remaining front and center at the moment, I have to observe that a welcome opportunity presents itself to America. Let me explain.

The chief justification for open (or at least, liberal) immigration policies, and the toleration of the pathologies and general dystopian effect of such policies by which large swatches of aliens are brought into the country with not even an effort at assimilation, is that without the influx of (young) warm bodies, there will be an insufficient workforce to be tapped to finance the welfare commitments of the state, or to support a growing economy overall. But there is an alternative and vastly-better solution to that "warm bodies" shortage.

Every year, Americans kill ~1,000,000 babies by elective abortion. These are native American babies who would grow into fully American young men and women. All we need to do to eliminate whatever "warm body" shortage is currently being addressed with disruptive alien invasions is to stop the killing of native babies by way of barbaric abortion policies.

This solution to the worker shortage problem is yet another powerful reason to oppose abortion, and a potentially powerful incentive with which to turn women against the practice, even if it remains entirely elective. Add to that the overall solution to the rights-conflict on which much of the toleration of abortion relies (articulated in this discussion of the real legal underpinning of so-called abortion rights and this analysis of the rights conflict and how its resolution would work out) and we could see two major monsters slain with one blow, as it were.

Let it be so!

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

You've got magic in your hands, if you will use it...

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The Income Tax Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES.

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 EASINGS of the despotic measures to which most of the country has been subjected under since the onset of the COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative 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.

Read this little two-page document. Click on the links at the end.

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

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Regarding Trolleries

(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.

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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.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION

TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC

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.

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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...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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."

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Where Is Trump When Working Americans Need Him?

by Paul Craig Roberts

Divisions are already appearing in MAGA ranks. President-elect Trump and Elon Musk have aligned with the H-1B work visas  that allow foreigners to be brought in to fill American jobs.  This disappoints the Trump working class that believed making America great again meant they were going to get their jobs back.

American corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations like H-1B work visas for a variety of reasons.  A H-1B visa recipient is an indentured  servant. He or she is paid substantially less but cannot leave the employer for higher pay as the visa is tied to the specific employer. This also has the result of denying the indentured servant employment or protest rights as the indentured servant’s presence in the US is tied to the visa that is tied to the employer. For example, a H-1B visa holder cannot file a discrimination complaint.

As Senator Bernie Sanders puts it:

“The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest,’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.”

The case for H-1B visas is fraudulent. The claim is that America’s huge numbers of universities are incapable of producing enough American graduates to meet America’s need for “highly educated individuals with skills critical to our country’s economic future,” to use the words of Todd Schulte, president of an immigrant advocacy organization with ties to big tech.  Or as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disguised the scam, “American businesses rely on the H-1B visa program for the recruitment of highly-skilled talent, benefitting communities across the country.”

Imagine, the United States relies on the Third World, not on its many world prestigious universities,  to supply its need for “highly-skilled talent.”  The communities are not benefitting.  The American residents are losing the jobs.  Wages and salaries are being paid to foreigners who have displaced Americans.  The difference between the US wage and the H-1B wage goes to corporate profits and executive “performance bonuses.”

I pointed all of this out years ago and summarized it 12 years ago in my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Disintegration of the West,(Clarity Press, https://www.claritypress.com/product/the-failure-of-laissez-faire-capitalism/)

It is a fairy tale told by shills to enhance corporate profits and executive bonuses that Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, University of California, University of Chicago,  and the large numbers of private and state universities cannot turn out enough educated people to fill the economy’s needs.

If Americans are not studying for careers in high tech it is because they know the jobs will be given to foreigners on visas. Moreover, Americans who prepare for these careers are hit again by the offshoring of many of the jobs.

During the early years of the 21st century when the “skills shortage” was being concocted to serve corporate profits, Business Week reported a 12.7% decline in computer science pay, a 12%decline in computer engineering pay, a 10.2% decline in electrical engineering pay.  Professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master degrees in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering fell 6.6%, 13.7%, and 9.4% respectively.

As I wrote at the time, “Obviously, if these skills were in short supply, as corporations [and their economist shills] allege, the shortage would result in rising salaries as employers bid for scarce human resources.” How can economics account for a shortage of skills and a fall in pay?

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...and then proceed to the afterword below...

Afterword

I REALIZE THAT THIS PIECE BY PAUL ROBERTS is a few weeks old at this point, but it gives an excellent concise picture of what the H-1B visa is all about, both technically and politically, and, again, both socially and economically. All of it helps keep discourse on this very current and very significant topic to the point and productive.

I will add only one thought to Roberts' comprehensive observation: it is likely, it seems to me, that the notable decline in male participation in college-level academia over the last couple of decades is a casualty, to some degree or another, of the abusive H-1B policies discussed here.

After all, most of the foreign workers being brought in under the program are hires in STEM fields. These are areas to which men gravitate and in which they excel both at the academy and in the workforce.

But with low-cost foreign workers being brought in to take available jobs in the STEM fields in large numbers (relative to the demand), the cost-benefit ratio to a young American man choosing between years of educational commitment (and possibly a pile of student loan debt) only to qualify for scarce work (for men of his kind) at low pay versus going down another path lobbies hard in favor of the second option.

ALL TOLD, THE H-1B visa program is just another example of centralized state power exploited by a connected few at the expense of the majority. Without that centralized state power we still would doubtless have some foreign workers in the American workforce, but probably not on a wholesale basis, and not under indentured-servitude conditions that result in broad-swath suppression of earnings in the industry.

We would also have that many fewer persons of alien and to some degree incompatible cultures adulterating our own, tattered and fragile as it now is, thanks in large measure to the pressure we have been under for years as good-hearted but foolish people striving to accommodate rather than compelling to assimilate. (Those interested can find my more complete thoughts on this point here).

Of course, we CAN do something about that centralized state power problem, and thus about all the problems it facilitates, in turn... Indeed, the American people, individually, are equipped by the Founders and Framers with the power to shrink and discipline the central state even in the face of inevitable official resistance.

All the people need to do is learn how and why to say "NO!", in a practically-meaningful manner and context.

Those of us who have already received that liberating and empowering lesson need to help the rest of the American population quickly understand the truth about the income tax, such that even though Washington remains in the hands of immoral establishment hacks and self-servers it finds its ability to just carry on with chronic irresponsibility severely curtailed.

Such an effort is easier than ever now, with the US Supreme Court having just reaffirmed its 108-year-old ruling in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR. Co., acknowledging the truth about the income tax revealed in CtC.

Remember, the arising and sustenance of the Leviathan state monster is a direct result of the successful mis-administration of the US income tax laws. This began primarily in the early 1940s with the adoption of the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 amidst the tumult of WWII, and after a couple of decades of corrupt misrepresentation of the 16th Amendment's purpose and effect, despite that misrepresentation being squarely in defiance of the history of the amendment and multiple express Supreme Court rulings on the subject.

Shrinking that Leviathan state monster merely involves the reversing of that misadministration-- something that can be done by individual Americans, acting one-by-one, with no help or approval of any government official. Each such act makes use of state-restraining tools baked into the Constitutional cake by the Founders and Framers, and each such act WILL make a difference, however small. Most important, each such act will absolve the actor from the dishonor of participation in the heinous crimes their resources would otherwise finance.

All that is required is some knowledge (which can be gotten here), and some courage-- the latter of which naturally blooms in the hearts of real Americans when given the nourishment of the former. As the saying goes, America is the Land of the Free because it is the Home of the Brave.

You can find all of this explained here, along with links to some additional relevant resources.

Read that material, and then become an agent of change. Urge everyone you know to do both of these things, as well.

Seriously, people. It's time to stop whistling past the graveyard and start using the powerful and important tools with which our wise ancestors equipped us.

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A Little Extra

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..."

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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

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

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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")?

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Selected Features From Recent Editions:

Once again,

It's Resolution Day!

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A few words about Moore, false flag theater, Trump II, and other amusements.

An Eclectic Survey Of The Current Splash Zone

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Other Voices (with an important afterword):

Time To "Allocate", Mr. President-Elect

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Let's celebrate some more victories.

As We Move Deeper Into The Happy Holiday Season

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Other Voices (with an important afterword):

America's Axis Of Misery

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In order to overcome a lifetime's worth of propaganda, I'm...

Turning Down The Gaslight

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Make sure your kids know

The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

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A cautionary commentary:

The Delusional Style In American Politics

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Well!

About Last Tuesday...

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Along with a pet-peeve about the "college educated" demographic distinction, a few comments

Regarding Trump's Mandate

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Here's a good question:

How Long Can Christians Continue To Turn A Blind Eye To Israel's Atrocities?

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Though it may sound odd to begin with, hear me out:

BRICS Might Be America's Best Hope

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A few comments, and endorsements of a sort,

Regarding Next Week's Elections

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Word to the West:

If Israel Attacks Iran, Russia Is Not Going To Stay On The Sidelines

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Folks STILL aren't taking this seriously enough, so...

One Moore Try...

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A nice little connect-the-dots historical review:

From 9/11 To 7/10: The Fake 'War On Terror' Collapses

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Folks aren't taking this seriously enough, so...

Back Again To Moore

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Regarding the immigrant invasion:

Whether Or Not They're Killing Our Pets Is Small Potatoes, 'Cause They're Definitely Killing Our Constitution

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To many agenda-driven people, it's

America, The Candy Store

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Regarding a thus-far unopened gift:

A Bit More About Moore

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Getting back to basics:

That To Secure These Rights...

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It's outrageous, but it's undeniable:

The Virtual Certainty Of Foreign Interference In The 2024 Elections

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

It's A Good Time For Some More Victory Posts

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

Illegal War, The Orgy In Paris, Riots In The UK, And More

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

The Assassination Attempt, The J.D. Vance Pick, And The Biden Withdrawal

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In light of its condemnation of it everywhere else,

Why Does Washington Support Racism In The Middle East?

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Gotta love it:

The Supreme Court Gives It All Away In Moore

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It's been a busy last couple of weeks, so...

Regarding A Few Other Recent Events

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A new video resource:

The Income Tax Is An Excise Tax, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

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The video above is meant to make this unnecessary, but in the meantime...

Dealing With A Little Tax Agency Corruption

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the still-persistent MSM denial of election-rigging in 2020,

Does Everyone Know That Nuclear-Armed Russian Subs Have Taken Up Positions Off The US Coast?

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Never needed more than now:

One Of The Best And Most Important Speeches I've Heard In A Long Time

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the Trump trial and verdict,

From Ron Paul To RuPaul

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Among other thoughts on current events,

An Important Message To The Christian Community

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Among other thoughts on current events,

Support For Israel Is Giving Christianity A Bad Name

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Since the Swamp isn't able to discipline itself voluntarily in accordance with George Washington's wisdom,

It's Time For A New Law

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Further...

It's Time To Demand The Courts Show Respect For The Fourth Amendment

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Back in the saddle after my extended hiatus, I am pleased to start with:

A Couple Of Notable New Victories

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I must share a few more thoughts on current events, since...

The Dangerous Craziness Continues

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Apologetically,

So, It's Been A While Since I Last Posted...

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Amongst comments on other current topics...

A Prescription Against Today's Dangerous "DEI" Infection

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A couple of recent wins over the obnoxious "partial refund" ploy means...

Ending The Year With A Nice Christmas Present

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

A Few Final Thoughts (For This Year) On Current Events

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

Israel: It Gets Worse And Worse

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With a heavy heart, I find myself compelled to say:

Good-Bye, Ron DeSantis

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In the interests of inspiration and encouragement when Leviathan needs shrinking more than ever before...

It's Time To Share More Victories

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Although it is a subject so polluted by mis- and dis-information that I hate to even think about it, I feel compelled to offer...

A Few Comments On Israel And Hamas

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Continuing with my Twentieth Anniversary celebration, I offer:

Another Code-Cracking Freebie

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Re: cancel culture crimes; Newsom's "trans" admission; and selected observations from the debate...

A Few Comments On Current Events

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As the assault upon it continues unabated, I offer:

A Word To Its Critics From Western Civilization

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A few weapons for fighting on behalf of Western civilization, including...

A Legislative Model For Dealing With The "Trans" Infestation

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It's the twentieth anniversary of the book's publication, and now it's time for:

CtC Online

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For the benefit of everyone in this community, I ask you all to participate in:

An Important Action Item

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Contemplating Russia's ban on destructive "trans" nonsense; a path to redemption for Disney; 'Oppenheimer'; and a little legal red meat, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Out from beneath their concealing bushels, we have:

Some Bright Candles With Which To Illuminate The World

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Contemplating "national security" secrets; the need to call things by their right names: Section 230; and other matters, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Pay attention, people!

It's Declaration Day

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A brief touch upon some of the many things that could be said...

On The 60th Anniversary Of The Deep State's Dark Awakening

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The lesson to learn from...

Why Tucker Carlson Got Fired

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To the counter-productive benefit of the war-mongers,

Even Well-Intentioned Commentators Persist In Getting The Ukraine Story Wrong

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Recent revelations pose a serious challenge to American grown-ups:

The FBI Is Clearly Dirty And Rogue... What Are You Going To Do About It?

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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More early educated filers have emerged, so...

Let's Enjoy A Few More Recent Victories, And An Excellent New Video

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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While sitting on the front porch and watching the world go by, I've had...

A Few Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Mass murder in Nashville raises this disquieting question:

Do We Have More Time Bombs Walking Among Us?

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Democracy dies amid a din of state propaganda and narrative management. Hence,

America Needs A New Law

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So...

It's A Girl!! (Along With Other Good Things To Celebrate)

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You'll want to sit down for this one, and then afterward, stand up.

The Ugly Face Of Gender Confusion Disorder

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"Social distancing" originated as a middle-school science project. There's another such juvenile notion being enthusiastically promoted...

A Few Words About "Chatbots", And AI In General

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On a proper reading of the civil rights laws,

If Any Discrimination Is To Be Illegal, Ideological Discrimination Surely Qualifies

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It's time the grown-ups go on offense and get America on the path to...

Recovering From The Madness

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As this year's "tax season" commences...

A Few Words About Corruption And American Civic Responsibility

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A bad idea born of ignorance has once again reared its ugly head.

Regarding The So-Called "Fair Tax"

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The issue of Kamala Harris's qualification for office is becoming very important, because...

It Looks Like Joe Biden Might Be Getting The Hook

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With winter coming on, it's a good time to remember:

The Biggest Snow-Job In History

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It's a proper season in which to report:

A Nice Victory In Tax Court

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The assault on liberty and the rule of law continues apace...

A Few Observations On Current Events

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Among other clarifications and corrections,

What Pro-Lifers Mean By "No Exceptions For The Life Of The Mother"

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The madness continues, and worsens:

On The Situation In Ukraine And The Nordstream Sabotage

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Though only responsible themselves for one of two crimes being committed,

Aliens Wandering Around Texas ARE Illegals, Judge Napolitano

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"Trans care" crimes; mislabeling abortion; "identity politics"; and so-called "emergency powers"...

More Comments And Observations, In Brief

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Because they seem necessary:

Cognitive Inoculations Against Selected Misunderstandings, Misinformation And Madness

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Humbly offered:

A Legislative Agenda For The Protection Of America's Kids And Culture

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A few comments on crickets, lesser meal worms, and the like, along with some great...

Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

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It may seem strange to hear this, but,

A "Right To Abortion" Is NOT A "Right To Kill An Unborn Child" (Or Fetus, Or Whatever Label You Prefer...)

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

White Slaves And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts

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It's about time...

A Welcome IRS Admission Debunking The "ARG44" Hoax

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Selected observations on current topics, starting with:

What The Evidence Suggests Is REALLY Going On In Washington, And Why

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This is not mere rhetoric:

What A REAL "Existential Threat" Looks Like

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Regarding the inherent anti-Americanism of EVs and the illegality of "preferred pronoun" punishments,

A Couple Of Quick Comments

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Sharing interesting information about a few things, including:

Key Facts About "Fossil Fuels"; A Miracle Medical Treatment; More...

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Purveyors of gender confusion have succeeded in a disturbing imposition of,

Life Imitating Art

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As I celebrate more real American heroes, I have to ask,

How Many Times Does This Have To Be Said?

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The Founders understood, and we should, too:

Why Americans Need Weapons Of War

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See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

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Newsletter Delivery Options

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.

Watch this fascinating 12 minute video on how climate data are misrepresented.

Then share this link with everyone you can

H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.

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Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's?

Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you.

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No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do.

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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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.

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.

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Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

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The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior

This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up.

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IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward

A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up.

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JFK conspiracy? No problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't be silly! How could that ever happen?!

Cognitive dissonance in action.

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Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium?

Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda.

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The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment'

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...

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Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries?

Set Your Church Free

Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.

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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?

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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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."

-James Madison

How About You?

Are You Governing Yourself?

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

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There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated...

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

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IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.

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"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

The Choice Is This Stark

Wear this new T-Shirt proudly, and tell the enemies of the law that if they don't like Constitutional limits, they should find someplace else to live!

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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"...)

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The willingness of some people to trade liberty for convenience is without limit...

Regarding "Tax Reform"

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