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August 10- In 1792, French
revolutionaries storm the Tuileries Palace and take King Louis XVI into
custody. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the Murrah
Building bombing in Oklahoma City. In 2006, liquid and semi-liquid toiletries
are banned from commercial airflights.
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), nod your head 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.
***
Flock Cameras: Lawful Or
Unlawful?
Spoiler alert: Unlawful as hell.
HATS OFF to Ivan Ehlers for this
outstanding educational observation (and to
L.A. Taco for
publishing it)! The simplest and most incisive response
I've ever seen to the "not my problem" idiotic
apathy that typically permits erosions of the rule
of law to go insufficiently opposed.
As I imagine most of you know, the
erosion of law at issue here is Flock Safety Cameras
(and
their equivalents under other names and
configurations) which have sprung up like
toadstools across the country over the last couple
of years. Addressing the title question, these
devices, the vast majority of which are installed
under contracts with local government units, are
plain violations of the Fourth Amendment prohibition
of unwarranted surveillance.
The term "unwarranted" is used
deliberately and instructively: although a few
decades of Supreme Court corruption on the point
have now passed, the fact is that the properly
researched history of the Fourth Amendment reveals
that the term "unreasonable" in the amendment is
meant as a synonym for "unwarranted" (just as the
two terms are synonymous in general use). In other
words, a search/seizure that is not based on
probable cause and backed by oath and judicial
approval (which is to say, warranted) is inherently
unreasonable under the terms and intentions of the
amendment.
Another way to put it is that the right
of the people to be secure against searches and
seizures without a valid reason shall not be
violated, and establishment of a valid reason
requires an allegation of probable cause under oath,
with particularity, considered by an appropriate
officer authorized to issue warrants.
The historical record of the precursor
enactments upon which the Fourth Amendment is
modeled-- including the Declaration of Rights in the
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, the Virginia
Declaration of Rights, Madison's description of his
intent for the Fourth Amendment in his argument on
its behalf to Congress, and the 1780 version of the
amendment incorporated into the Massachusetts
Constitution-- makes the correctness of this
construction crystal clear.
All of these authorities, and the
appropriate analyses thereof, can be found in my
essay, 'Warrantless
Searches Are Always Unlawful', to which I
strongly recommend everyone's attention for
reading and
sharing.
The courts badly need to be confronted
by an agitated and active People demanding that
their Law-- that is, the law that THE PEOPLE enacted
and imposed upon the courts and the rest of the
government organs which they created-- be respected
and upheld.
BUT EVEN IN THE MEANTIME, even while
the torch and pitchfork brigades are merely
beginning to organize, the unlawfulness of these
mass surveillance toadstools is actually admitted by
those responsible for the abuse, as shown in this
excerpt of a response by a South Carolina city
government to a FOIA request for Flock data
collected in connection with the license plate of
the citizen making the request:
...the requested records consist of
historical location information reflecting the
movements of a vehicle over time. Such information
implicates substantial privacy interests. While an
individual observation of a vehicle traveling on a
public roadway may not be protected, the compilation
of numerous observations into a searchable database
creates a detailed record of a person's movements,
associations, and activities. Disclosure of such
information would undermine the privacy interests
recognized by the Fourth Amendment and Article I,
Section 10 of the South Carolina Constitution...
Word to the city: disclosure of such
information to the person whose movements,
associations, and activities have been tracked would
not undermine anyone's privacy interests.
But THE CITY having such information certainly DOES
undermine privacy interests. That language by the
city could form the core of the lawsuit/criminal
complaint that I think this FOIA requester should be
busy preparing.
Indeed, a LOT of people should be
preparing such suits and complaints.
Some might be tempted to view such
destructive responses as improper. I am inclined to
disagree.
These cameras are deployed in defiance
of the law of the land, and for the deliberate
purpose of "undermining privacy interests recognized
by the Fourth Amendment", as that South Carolina
city properly put it. Every warrantless photo taken
by these things is a criminal act, and one which
once done cannot be undone.
Somewhere that photo joins a database
of billions of others taken annually by this network
of cameras, and if you believe that even a
subsequent court order for the destruction of that
database means that it and all its backups just
disappear forever at the dutiful hands of
the same villains that have been unlawfully
taking these pictures, well, you
are too simple to be let out and about for your
picture to be taken in the first place.
Hence, stopping the taking of these
pictures is an urgent matter, not fit to wait for
contracts to expire, or paid-off city councils to
withdraw from them. It's like this: If gangs were
roaming the streets where you live grabbing and
raping children, and doing so with the
cooperation of the local government and police,
would you just bide your time until the errant
authorities had a change of heart, or could be
replaced by the next election? Or would you take
matters into your own hands?
Each person must make his or her own
call, of course. But let me add one other item into
the mix: Necessity is an absolute defense to
culpability for what otherwise might be
characterized as a criminal act, and I'm pretty sure
that if anyone on your jury when you are charged
with acting to thwart an imminent and irreversible
violation of the Constitution has
read this, you're not getting convicted.
BTW, Flock cameras not only take
pictures of whatever they are aimed at (i.e., the
license plates of passing cars;
people walking and biking in a park;
visitors to the local gun shop), but also
captures conversations within range of their
powerful microphones. I mention the sound
capture because many states make such actions a
felony, as in Michigan's
MCL §750.539c. I encourage anyone who has
engaged in a conversation while in the vicinity of a
Flock camera (or similar device), or who now chooses
to do so-- whether in person or on the phone-- to
file a criminal complaint with the local DA or
appropriate law enforcement agency.
FINALLY, LET ME MAKE what to some will
seem a tedious old point (because it appears on
these pages incessantly) but one for which this is a
particularly excellent application: Taking the money
away from the corrupt governmental units deploying
these evil devices is a good way for you to defend
yourselves-- and your children-- from them. Click on
the image below to learn how to do that.
I hope you all can make good use of all
of this to help other good Americans see the light.
Now, more than ever, we need to
shake ourselves awake and step on the brakes of this
runaway train before it is too late. There's not
much time left.
***
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The victory of El Sayed in the Michigan
primary; another Trump crony is confirmed by the
senate; more...
ABDUL EL SAYED got my vote in
Michigan's "open" primary last week-- the first time
I've voted the Democrat ballot in a primary in many
a decade (in Michigan, anyone can vote in the
primary, but only for candidates of one party-- plus
non-partisan measures or offices). My reason was
simple: I'm a one-issue voter this year, and my one
issue is Israel (or Zionism generally). That is,
getting Israel (or or Zionism generally) out of
American politics.
Happily, I was far from alone. So,
even though AIPAC (and its puppet PACs) poured more
than $60 million into the campaign of El Sayed's
rival, Haley Stevens, massively
outspending El Sayed, the guy on the right side of
the Israel issue won the day. Would that Thomas
Massie had had the benefit of the last couple of
months of American awakening before his primary the
way El Sayed plainly did.
In fairness, it has to also be said
that El Sayed is a GREAT campaigner. Well-spoken,
poised, relaxed and quick as a cat on his feet in
his debates, and with a solid resumé for a
political aspirant. He will be a force in the
Senate, even though his own policy proposals will
likely go nowhere-- which is fine. It's more
important that bad policies from others are
thwarted, and this guy will be a hard and articulate
brake on some of the worst.
***
TRUMP CRONY TODD BLANCHE-- a guy both
on record declaring his intention to ignore the law
requiring release of the Epstein files, and one who
has indeed failed to obey that law for the many
months he has been in office as acting Attorney
General; AND the guy who believes that Trump and
family should be uniquely shielded from IRS scrutiny-- has just
been confirmed as US Attorney General by the senate.
Obviously, everyone involved should be impeached--
and prosecuted. But just as obviously, this isn't
going to happen.
Every citizen not a part of the corrupt
cabal at work here, or being defended by the crimes
described here, should be considering alternative
solutions to these problems. I make no
recommendations, but I will suggest that being very
angry and very resolute are the appropriate states
in which to be doing that considering.
***
THE GOBLINS AT MODERNA-- in concert
with those at the FDA-- are offering a new mRNA
injection to those simple-minded enough among the
general public to not have yet caught on to the
damage wrought by the NOT safe and effective COVID
mRNA injections. Sort of amusingly, this new version
is aimed at influenza-- the same viral illness that
had pretty obviously been relabeled COVID-19 during
the
plandemic run of 2020-2022+, and had been the
ostensible target of the older injections.
Odds are good that the promotion of
this new product will not highlight its ancestry for
the benefit of prospective customers, nor the fact
that history instructs that a long series of
follow-up "booster" shots will be needed to get
whatever benefit these things are supposed to offer
(if any). So it falls to the rest of us, as good
neighbors, to do what we can to get that word out.
Remember, friends don't let friends do stupid
things.
***
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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.
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."
TUCKER CARLSON has masterfully laid out
a visionary but 100% grounded framework for a
cultural and political revival of the real American
Experiment (that is, the civic and governmental
structure called for in the Declaration of
Independence). Damn, I have come to love this man!
Though it may well have been announced
by the time you read this, it is understood that
Carlson, in association with Thomas Massie, Marjorie
Taylor Greene and Joe Kent, will be forming a new
political party to compete with the
Republican/Democrat uni-party. Great news, if true,
and I will certainly be on board with these good
folks. Jefferson said that political institutions
should be torn down and replaced every twenty years
at the most, because corruption sets in when they
stand that long. We've let it go so long that the
existing "two party system" is dripping with
corruption, and we're long overdue for the change.
ALL THAT SAID, it'll be important for
Americans to avoid falling into the same mistakes
that have led us to the mess we're now in, by making
a reform and then becoming complacent in the belief
that now everything is perfect and reliable. The
fact is that no one can be trusted with too much
power, even those who begin as virtual angels.
A moment like this one, in which change
is at hand, is the moment to cement into place the
Constitutional limitations on the state that the
corruption of the last couple of hundred years has
eaten away. Hence, now, more than ever, is the time
to vigorously spread accurate understanding of the
Constitutional provisions regarding taxation by
which the state is bound down to its proper size and
scope, no matter who holds office.
What is needed to accomplish that righteous
and critically-important resource cut-off is that those who have already received
CtC's
liberating and empowering revelations help the rest of the
American population quickly understand
the
truth about the tax.
Bell-ringing efforts like this are easier than ever now, with the US Supreme Court
having just reaffirmed its 108-year-old ruling
in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR. Co. and
having
freshly acknowledged the accuracy of
CtC.
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.
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.
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"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
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.
*****
Are You Ready For More Power?
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
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.
August 11- In 1919, Germany adopts the
Constitution of the Weimar Republic. In 1929, Babe Ruth hits his 500th home
run. In 1965, 6 days of rioting begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles after a
black motorist is arrested for DUI by a white cop. In 1972, the last United
States ground combat unit leaves Vietnam.
*****
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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August 12- In 1898, the Spanish-American War ends; the U.S.
annexation of Hawaii is formalized by the replacement of the Hawai'ian flag with
the United States flag over the Iolani Palace. In 1908, the first Ford Model T
is built. In 1981, the IBM PC hits the market.
*****
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:
August 13- In 1792, King Luis XVI of France is formally
declared an "enemy of the people" by the revolutionary National Tribunal. In
1831, Nat Turner and his fellow self-liberated slaves kill 50-60 members of
slaveholding families in Virginia. After being captured, Turner was tried,
convicted, and sentenced to death. Bizarrely, after being hung, his body was
then flayed, beheaded and quartered. In 1889, Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents
his 'Navigable Balloon'. In 1913, stainless steel is invented. In 2008,
marijuana smoker Michael Phelps sets an Olympic record for the most gold medals
ever won by a single athlete. In 2013, the US-backed dictatorship in Egypt
declares a state of emergency in the face of mass demonstrations opposing its
coup against democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi.
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!!
August 14- In 1848, Oregon is organized as a United
States territory. In 1912, United States Marines invade Nicaragua in
support of the puppet government installed by the U.S. in 1909 to ensure
American firms' access to Nicaraguan resources. In 1935, the United
States Social Security Act is passed. In 1980, Lech Walesa leads
strikes at the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland. In 2015, the US embassy in
Havana, Cuba, re-opens after 54 years of abandonment during the United
States effort to impoverish the Cuban population into submission.
*****
"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
August 15- In 1914, the Panama Canal opens to traffic. In
1945, Japan surrenders to the Allies, ending World War II. In 1947, India
gains independence from the United Kingdom. In 1948, Korea is formally
divided into North and South. In 1960, the Republic of the Congo declares
independence from France. In 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival begins. In
1971, Richard Nixon repudiates the Bretton Woods agreement to redeem Federal
Reserve Notes in gold for foreign investors. In 2021, after 20 years of
American blood and treasure fruitlessly spent to drive them out and keep
them out in the name of "9/11"
and the "War on Terror", the Taliban triumphantly recapture Afghanistan.
*****
*****
'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:
August 16- In 1780, the British defeat
the revolutionary Americans at Camden, South Carolina. In 1841, John Tyler
vetoes a bill attempting to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States
(which had been de-funded 8 years prior by Andrew Jackson). Hamiltonians
rioted, but to no avail. In 1954, the 3.5-million-word IRC of 1954 replaces the
far more transparent 1939 version as the official prima facie evidence of the
underlying revenue laws of the United States. In 1955, yours truly is born
(alright, not such a significant anniversary, but what the heck...). In 1977,
Elvis Presley dies from a drug overdose. In 2010, China becomes the world's
second-largest economy.
*****
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.
