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-James Madison

 

The Lost Horizons News

Mid-Edition Update for June 14, 2013

Featured in this Update:

The Lamest Crap I've Ever Seen...

Some Of The Finest Stuff I've Ever Seen...

And Some Of The Most Important Stuff I've Ever Written.

 

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"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."

-James Madison

 

Aren't You Really, Really Glad YOU'VE Taken Control Of How Much Of YOUR Money Washington Gets To Spend, Just As The Founders Intended?

 

The Lamest Crap I've Ever Seen...

 

...HAS TO BE THE WHINE FROM MIKE ROGERS, CHAIR OF THE HOUSE Intelligence Committee, that the 30 billion felonies committed by the NSA and FBI and CIA over the last few years (and ongoing today), were used to "stop a terrorist attack" within the last few years. This is like being told by your rapist that you should forgive his assault, because it kept you from being out on the street where you might get mugged!

 

Besides, who in their right mind would believe the claim about a "terrorist attack" being thwarted? Not me.

 

It's possible that a real attack plot-- rather than one of the FBI "Homeland Security Theater" routines-- WAS planned by someone, and DID get stopped by government scrutiny of EVERYONE'S PRIVATE BUSINESS. But when this claim is being made by a member of the serial-liar class infesting Washington for the last twenty years and more, skepticism is strongly in order. And if so, who cares? The odds of anyone in particular being victimized in some way by terrorism in this country is infinitesimally small.

 

On the other hand, it turns out that the odds of your right to be secure in your person, papers and effects from unwarranted state intrusion being violated on the pretext of protecting you from that infinitesimally small danger is 100%!

 

Dianne Feinstein, a senior member of that class I mentioned earlier, says the All-Seeing-Eye program is "lawful". By this she means it has been deemed to be within the creatively-elastic embrace of some vaguely-worded enactment of Congress by one of her serial-liar-class lawyers.

 

Like Rogers, Feinstein doesn't even remember the Constitution she is oath-bound to honor, and therefore doesn't realize that qualifying as "lawful" starts there. Feinstein, Rogers and their ilk don't realize that the convenient, state-serving opinion of some serial-liar-class lawyer to the effect that surveillance by the state without probable cause supported by sworn testimony isn't a Fourth Amendment crime doesn't make it so. It just means that the serial-liar-class prosecutors have an excuse to not go after the serial-liar-class perpetrators of these crimes.

 

By the way, have you thought about just how thoroughly you could take control of a Congress and the judiciary and.. well... everything, if you had the dirt on everybody that a systematic Fourth-Amendment violation like this would give you? Talk about your "new world order"!

 

I think this musn't be tolerated.

 

Just my opinion...

 

On the other hand,

 

The FINEST Thing I've Seen In A while...

 

...HAS TO BE THE HEROISM OF EDWARD SNOWDEN! This patriotic American marches in the footsteps of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Sibel Edmonds, Daniel Ellsberg and other men and women who have braved the very real threat of personal danger from the sociopaths operating the state for their own benefit and that of their cronies to speak truth and reveal those operators' endless crimes.

 

 

The contrast between Snowden and his kind and Rogers, Feinstein, James Clapper and the other enemies of light and liberty in the serial-liar-class is of laser-like intensity. Thank God, and I mean that just as written, for good and brave people like Snowden and the other heroes of our time.

 

Speaking Of Light, Liberty, Speaking Truth And Revealing Crimes...

 

...I HOPE YOU ARE DOING YOUR PART AT BEING A HERO by spreading this file (which was expanded with more material and authorities this morning, by the way) far and wide! In my opinion, this file containing the detailed legal history of the dramatically-misunderstood and deliberately misrepresented 16th Amendment is so important that anything and everything must be done to get it into a state of viral distribution across America.

I'm asking you to help me with this by very purposefully sending this file to every single person you can, with a little note from yourself urging your correspondents to read the file, study it, and verify for themselves each assertion made and each fact cited. Urge your correspondent to let what is learned thereby percolate and settle in and begin shining its transformational light on his or her mental landscape, and in the meantime, to PASS IT ALONG TO OTHERS in the same way!

Seriously, my friend. Even if you never do "action items", please do this one.

Right now. Without fail. Please.

 

You may not recognize how doing this will make any difference. I tell you, it will make ALL the difference.

 

In this file is the anti-body to all the germs of error, disinformation and misunderstanding that allow the "ignorance tax" to persist. It needs to be given a chance to take root in as many minds as possible-- especially those NOT in the CtC community.

 

In many of these minds, perhaps, this truth anti-body will wither for lack of a hospitable environment. But in just as many, it will flourish and bloom, and those folks will become the patient and innovative teachers of others.

 

Pleas help me with this oh-so-important project.

-Pete

 

P. S. I know a lot of folks out there have self-defeating notions planted in their minds about how clearing up confusion about the "income tax" won't matter, "'Cause they'll just pay for all the badness with inflation, man!" or whatever.

 

No, they won't.

 

If "they" could do that and survive politically, (and weren't getting a whole lot more out of the maladministration of the "income tax" than just a couple of trillion dollars a year, as well), the tax would've been dropped with a grimace and without a backward glance like the universally-hated thing that it is, at least forty years ago. This "they'll just inflate" thing could only be said by someone not old enough (or alive at all) during the 1970s when we had a test of just how Americans would tolerate real inflation...

 

(Not that we're going to be spared getting a good dose of inflation soon anyway, you understand, unless we very quickly shrink the state down so small that it no longer has the resources to quash the emergence of free and valid currencies. This will only happen by Americans reclaiming individual control of their resources, as is relied upon by the framers in their design for a meaningfully-Constitutionally-limited republic-- and that, of course, is what the file posted here is all about.)

 

The misunderstanding of the income tax is the thoroughly cultivated thing that it is (and anyone reading through the file posted here will come to understand just how diligent is that cultivation) BECAUSE THE MISAPPLIED TAX IS THE INDISPENSABLE LIFEBLOOD OF THE UNRESTRAINED STATE. The state knows this well.

 

Indeed, the reason the truth about the tax is hedged about with a more enormous army of lies (and constantly-recruited "stakeholding" defenders) than any other organ of the state is because it is so vital to Leviathan's excesses, ambitions and survival. It is the heart of the monster.

 

The file posted here is the monster's bane. Your efforts to spread this shaft of illuminating, inspiring and disinfecting sunlight will do more for your future well-being and that of your children than anything else you could do.

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

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Some Folks Have Already Surrendered To The State's War Of Terror...

I'm proud to be a member of our ever-growing CtC community of grown-up Americans who have not.

 

To learn how the Founders anticipated this kind of internal assault on our liberties-- and provided against it-- read

'The Shield'

(and share it around widely)!

 

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What Makes You A Warrior For The Truth?

We each have our reasons, and our story. It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with the world.

Everyone's failure to step up and fulfill this simple request is really getting to me, now...

 

"The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

What does it for you?

 

Is it simply because no moral and upstanding person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere else?

 

Is it recognition of the critical importance of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon be lost to us completely?

 

Is it the money?

 

Maybe it's just simple respect for your own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be not involuntarily subordinated to others?

 

Maybe it's just simple respect for your general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose on the road to wreak havoc?

 

Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly, it'll soon burn down the house around us all?

 

What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens your resolve?

 

It's time to take off the bushel and share your light!

 

I would like you to think about what it is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day, if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't yet understand what this is all about.

 

In this day and age, the most effective way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of others is to video-record yourself talking about how you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates YOU.

 

All you need is a webcam or cell-phone equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how to use, one of these, have a friend help.

 

If needed, write a little script for yourself. Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and getting down into your heart.

 

Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes, and keep in mind that the purpose is not to educate, but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will be one of many to be shared.

 

You needn't feel any obligation to be profound, and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the law, other than to say that you have read it and you know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere, and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience want to have what you have, and to be where you are in your heart.

 

Keep in mind that you're speaking to an audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject, and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal; this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true." You want to pull that audience right past such things, and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our American heritage of liberty and the rule of law.

 

Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.

 

Speak about rights. Speak about morality, and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution. Speak about everyone's duty to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation to respect yourself, and to look out for the current and future well-being of your children and your fellow citizens.

 

If you have had victories, describe them. Better still, show them, if possible.

 

Be clear about just what you accomplished: EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all; a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s; or whatever happened.

 

When you speak of state victories, name the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!

 

Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE.

 

If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness, describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing to endorse the lies.

 

Mention what you do for a living, whether you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy or gal, or a retiree or student. Help people understand that the company of grown-up activist Americans they are being invited to join cuts across all demographics and all interests-- with the common denominator being respect for the law and love of the principles on which this great country was founded.

 

This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.

 

We've all had frustrating occasions of trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks who have themselves decided that it's time for them to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your testimonial for exactly that reason.

 

So, please make and send those videos right away! The restoration of institutional respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes know that there is a community already waiting for their fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining spirits.

 

See how some of your fellow warriors for the truth have done their parts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

 

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead

 

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The Crime of the Misapplied Income Tax

 

A CtC Study-Guide

  "There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine

 

CtC Warrior Ike Hall has been engaged in a very virtuous project-- creating a study guide for new students of CtC.  This remains a work in progress at this point, but I think what Ike's done so far is already worth sharing with the rest of the community.  Click here to download the guide-- now complete through chapter twelve!

 

For more clarifying resources click here; and click here for more tools for spreading the truth.

 

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from

Was Grandpa Really a Moron?

Critical Inquiries for a New American Century

  

Bob’s Bicycles

or

Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As Falling Off A Bike

 

 

 

To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works, try this little exercise:

 

Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob, who lives down the street from you in a town that is really big on bicycles.  Bikes get used for commuting, deliveries, shopping, etc..  In fact, other than walking, bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in your town.

Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting business-- "Bob's Bicycles".  Bob's Bicycles is far and away the biggest business in town.

Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract business.  However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders who have signed an agreement with him, or even just those using Bob's bikes.  Bob gets something every time anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd combination of circumstances that took many years to come together.

 

Here's how it happened...

 

Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather of the present Bob (Bob IV).  Great Grandpa Bob started out not only with a main location for his contract business-- he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the more occasional rider, on an "honor system".  Anyone could take and use one of these bikes, but they were expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate rent), periodically.  The initial design of the form was like this:

 

I, ______________, rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles this year.

At Bob's rental rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______

  

I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's true.  But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to miss anything that was due him.  So, after setting up the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms" to every other business in town.  The forms-- accompanied by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he would sue the company involved-- said:

 

Click here to enjoy the rest of this illuminating little parable

(and if you want to see a liberating transformation take place THIS YEAR, forward this file to everyone in your address book)

 

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You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Fighting About.

 

If you are having an argument with the IRS or any other tax agency,

  • You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate profit”.

  • You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign income”.

  • You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion contract”.

  • You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject is never identified.

You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply-- even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect, and CAN be corrected.

 

There IS "A Law" By Which You Can Be Made Liable, And This Is How It Works

 

Now Learn How To Be Master Of The Situation

 

See the Proof

 

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Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri.  America is waking up.

 

Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?

NOTHING.

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

 

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A Brief Introduction To The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax

 

Seriously.  Do you want to win?  SPREAD THIS FILE AROUND!

  Doing so will accomplish more than anything that happens in a courtroom, more than any argument you make with any bureaucrat, more than ANYTHING else that you can do.

Are You Not Bothering?

Then You're Just Talking The Talk.

 

You've GOT To Walk The Walk If You Want To Win.

 

"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

 

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TOOLS FOR SPREADING THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

 

 

Get this graphic as a printable/postable/mailable .pdf

 

Browse other transformational-truth-spreading tools

 

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!!

 

Click here to take the test

 

Find more quizzes here

 

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A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law

 

Hey, don't bother me with that "morality" argument, and all that stuff about "upholding the rule of law".  I'm a pragmatist.  I'm just interested in looking out for "numero uno", and living my life without any hassles from the IRS!

 

So I'm okay with submissively letting the government:

  • take 45% of my earnings;

  • habituate itself to the conveniences of "creativity" in the writing of laws and the behavior of its officers in courtrooms in order to take that wealth from me with an appearance of legitimacy;

  • use my money to mess with foreigners on behalf of special interests, engendering hatred and contempt of all Americans-- including me;

  • use my money to finance an army of bureaucrats who rule my life for the benefit of themselves and their special-interest clients;

  • use my money to pay for an army of lawyers who will sue me or prosecute me if I try to make my own choices about who works for me and on what terms; about what I say-- and when, and how; about what I do with my own property; about whether I'm equipped to defend myself and those I love; and about how I raise and educate my children;

-- just as long as I'm left alone, dude!

 

To suffer abuse without complaint or struggle is to suffer it nonetheless-- but to suffer it without the amelioration of dignity and self-respect.

 

 

CtC Videos And Audio Resources

 

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Doing A Little High-Payoff Math

 

If each person receiving this newsletter each week distributed as few as 100 of any of the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!

 

Just like that!  In one week!

 

C'mon, people, let's roll on this!

 

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Spread The Truth

 

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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite

 

USE THE SITE MAP AT www.losthorizons.com/IncomeTaxSiteMap.htm!!!

 

USE THE SITE SEARCH PAGE AT www.losthorizons.com/search.htm!!!

 

When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.

 

I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...

 

Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!

 

It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks.  Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand.  Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.

 

It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links.  I do it all the time, myself!

 

However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material.  These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page.  (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule.  On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights or 'Every Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions, are not.  The special selection of victories on those pages, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention.  Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)

 

Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.

 

Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted.  Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a month or two since your last having done so.