“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
Mid-Edition Update for April 4, 2014
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"It is not a defense that the Court Order... is unlawful or unconstitutional."
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Michigan Introduces A 'We're-Serious-About-The-Fourth-Amendment' Bill
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People! Don't Keep A Bushel Over Your Candle!
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The Big Challenge For The Next Eleven Days: NO LYING!!!
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What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth?
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Illuminating Anniversaries For This Week
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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
"It is not a defense that the Court Order... is unlawful or unconstitutional." SAY WHAT??!! Ever since the judge gave this government-requested jury instruction in my wife's first trial for "contempt of court" (for refusing a government-requested court order dictating the content of her testimony on a sworn statement), I've been trying to figure out just what it is supposed to mean. Is it the Nixonian, "Anything a court orders is by definition "lawful" and "Constitutional"? (Remember Tricky Dick with his infamous line, "When the President does it, that means it's not illegal"?) Or is it the idea that a jury has no business considering whether refusing to obey an unlawful order is actually something for which the state can lawfully punish someone? If this, doesn't that have the effect of making all orders "lawful"? Don't either of these rationales make the jury just a rubber-stamp guilt-finder on behalf of anything any official cares to command any American to do? "She was ordered to lie in her testimony at the government's request; she didn't lie; end of inquiry, put her in jail!" How about, "He was ordered to falsify records so this other guy could be framed; he didn't do it; end of inquiry, put him in jail!" Or, "They were ordered to fire on the protestors, and refused. Put them in jail!" I think that if you folks let this stand, in time all those with the moral compass to object to any state atrocity-- from coerced testimony on which the state will base a claim on someone's property to who knows? an order to flip on the ovens?-- will be in prison or civilly-disabled with a criminal record. In the face of the manifest corruption of this jury instruction entirely on its own "merits" (so-to-speak), it is a mere technicality that the statute under which Doreen is charged only criminalizes “Disobedience or resistance to [a court's] lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.” (18 U.S.C. § 401(3) (emphasis added)). After all, if "it is not a defense to the crime of Contempt that the Court Order the Defendant is accused of violating is unlawful or unconstitutional," then what is this "lawful" specification by Congress, other than just a sick, Stalinesque joke? It is astonishing to me that Doreen's first trial was practically devoid of citizen-court watchers. It is also astonishing that we have not been inundated with grown-up American lawyers and journalists vying to be the first to help fight this, and to shout from the rooftops about the outrageous assault on the Sixth Amendment by way of this instruction (asked for by the government five days before trial, and granted by the judge on the third day of trial), not to mention the assault on the First and Fifth Amendments involved in her persecution for refusing orders to swear that she believes her earnings qualify as "wages as defined at 26 USC §§ 3121(a) and 3401(a)" and "self-employment income as defined at 26 USC § 1402(b)". There's still time, people, before Doreen's re-trial in July... *** IT IS ALSO ASTONISHING TO ME that this community-- and also even the mindless deniers who are so calcified in their assumptions of knowledge about the income tax that they won't even LOOK at these pages and give themselves a chance to learn better-- haven't erupted in energetic recognition of the significance of this case. The details of the assault on Doreen (and of the underlying "lawsuit" from way back in 2006 on which Doreen's current persecution is grounded) are a glaring affirmation of everything revealed in CtC about the income tax. Remember, without a single prior word-- by notice, audit, challenge, letter, phone-call or otherwise-- the government launched a suit against Doreen and me four days before "tax day" in 2006. Equipped with no supporting evidence of its own whatsoever (there was never a single hearing in the matter-- evidentiary or otherwise, and even what was submitted with the government's Motion for Summary Judgment as a "supporting declaration" by someone working in the IRS "examination department" contains a disclaimer), the government asked the judge to simply "find" that our earnings for 2002 and 2003 qualified as "wages" and "self-employment income". The judge did indeed announce this arbitrary "finding". But she only did so in conjunction with another "relief" simultaneously sought by the government: orders attempting to compel Doreen and me to rescind our previously-made testimony to the contrary and declare, on sworn statements, that WE BELIEVE that our earnings qualify as "wages" and "self-employment income"! The trick, of course, is that IF these lawless orders were obeyed, then-- and only then!-- the government would have a basis on which to say that we owed it income taxes. The reciprocal, of course, is that if the government had an actual authority to simply tax us for our unprivileged work, or tax our unprivileged earnings-- that is, if the tax actually was what the government tries so hard to convince everyone it is, and what CtC so definitively reveals to be untrue-- the government would never in a million years seek orders like these. For one thing it would have no need for, or interest in, declarations of belief from us about squat. Such declarations would be utterly irrelevant to the application of the tax. Much more significantly, if the tax were what the government wants everyone to falsely imagine, and which CtC has proven to be untrue, the government would very explicitly AVOID making such demands like the plague. The nature of these sought orders--especially under the circumstances in which they appear-- starkly illuminates that the tax ISN'T what the government wants everyone to falsely believe that it is, and seeking them provides me the opportunity to point this out. These orders would never have been sought except as a calculated risk based on their necessity to the effort to claim that Doreen and I owed a tax and the hope that more people would only see DOJ press releases announcing that a "court had ruled that Hendrickson owes the tax" than would see my revealing clarification as to what this outcome involved and relied upon. In short, and again, these Constitution-violating, scheme-revealing orders would never have been sought if our declarations were not fundamentally necessary to the government's desperate desire to equip itself with a basis for assessing a tax against us and announcing it had done so, because our activities and the earnings they produced ARE NOT subject to the tax and can't be made to appear otherwise while our original returns saying so stand unrescinded. Needless to say, no such taxes ever HAVE been assessed. Even years later while I was being subjected to a "kangaroo-court" trial on charges of not really believing my earnings don't qualify as "wages" (a trial in which, among much else, the outcome of this civil lawsuit farce was-- sans witnesses-- extensively presented to the jury as reason why I should be presumed to believe my earnings WERE "wages", 'cuz, you know, a judge had "found" this) the government's own Treasury Department formally acknowledged that no taxes have ever been owed contrary to our freely-made returns, as remains true to this day. WE ARE NOW ELEVEN DAYS FROM ANOTHER "TAX DAY"-- this one 8 years after the one for which the government's fraudulent, Constitution-defying lawsuit was launched by which it first hoped to quell the CtC tide of educated Americans rising to enforce the law and their rights. All that time I have been handing you all tools with which to share the liberating truth with your friends, families, colleagues and everyone else. But the really BIG truth-telling tools have always been the ones handed out by the government itself, in the clearly-seen character of its oppositional scramble. USE THEM!! AND RAISE THE HUE AND CRY ON BEHALF OF OUR LAW over this assault on our precious jury system in the assault on my Doreen! Once destroyed by this "unlawful and unconstitutional not to be considered" assault, it will be a long time before a jury again offers any real protection to a target of government oppression. "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its Constitution." -Thomas Jefferson
P. S. WHERE ARE YOUR SCHOLARLY OR INSPIRATIONAL ARTICLES ON THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX, PEOPLE? Do you think I can change the law-defying false paradigm of the "ignorance-tax" beneficiaries all by myself? That's not possible!! YOU LAWYERS have to publish and post your own CtC-educated scholarly articles in your profession's journals and on its websites. YOU CPAS have to publish and post your own CtC-educated scholarly articles in your profession's journals and on its websites. YOU NON-SPECIALIZED AMERICAN GROWN-UPS have to publish and post your educated and inspirational letters and personal stories in your hometown newspapers, in every e-zine out there, and in every chat-room and news-group. I can't do it alone. But we CAN do it together-- if you'll do your part. Care to post a comment on this article?
If You Have Done So, 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?
If You Haven't, ARE YOU CRAZY??!!
Seriously! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??
LEARN the liberating, empowering, critically-important truth about the 16th Amendment and the liberating, empowering, critically-important truth about the "income" tax. STOP merely reading (or writing) about how bad things are and START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ‑Dale Carnegie
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See and hear from some others who "did", too, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Learn how to share YOUR testimonial here.
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Michigan Introduces A 'We're-Serious-About-The-Fourth-Amendment' Bill AS REPORTED HERE LAST WEEK: "A bipartisan group of Michigan legislators have introduced a bill, which would ban the state from providing material support to the National Security Agency (NSA). The introduced legislation would also block some immediate practical effects of federal warrantless surveillance programs from within the state. "House Bill 5420 (HB5420), the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, was introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R-Rochester) last Thursday to prohibit any state support of the NSA. Cosponsors include five Republicans and five Democrats. "“There is a clear assault by federal government agencies like the NSA on Michigan citizens’ fourth amendment rights,” Rep. McMillin said. “We should do everything we can to stop that assault.” "Michigan joins a host of states including Arizona, California, Tennessee and South Carolina which are considering similar legislation to push back against NSA spying this year." THIS IS NOT PERFECT LEGISLATION. Too much is left to interpretation in its Section 3 backdown. What, for instance, is "consistent with" the Michigan and US Constitutions-- the measure of the degree to which this legislation supersedes any conflicting law, regulation, rule or order? Worse, what is the meaning of "voluntarily supplied" electronic data or metadata? The bogus FISA "court"-- and to a great degree the corrupt regular federal courts-- have long-since argued that by choosing to do business with service providers, rather than simply living as a hermit in a cave, as you could, amounts to a voluntary offering of everything connected with those relationships to anybody the service provider cares to share it with, including government snoops. This is completely in conflict with the actual meaning and purpose of the Fourth Amendment (and also relies in many cases on a wildly corrupt distortion of the term "business record"), but it's what the NSA's pet judges say. Legislators have to begin facing the fact that the now-generations-old political dodge of being vague in legislation in an effort to look "prudent", and leaving the determination of how things will actually play-out in practice to the courts, is not getting the job done. Legislation like this should say plainly and unambiguously:
STILL, I SALUTE TOM MCMILLAN for this important first step (and hope that Michigan Warriors will forward my recommendations above to their state Senators so that the bill can be modified accordingly in committee, and those in other states will do the same everywhere else legislation of this kind is being or will be considered)! *** BY THE WAY, ALSO IN RELATED MICHIGAN NEWS, Michigan's Mike Rogers, the chief nutcase of the House Intelligence Committee, has announced he won't be seeking another term. I think we can all thank Edward Snowden and the wind blowing from Tom McMillan's statehouse for that... Rogers, unsurprisingly for the sort of megalomaniac who believed himself fit to decide that none of the rest of us were entitled to, or in need of, government respect for our Fourth Amendment, says he'll switch to hosting a national radio show for a bit, possibly as a stepping stone to a 2016 run for president. Maybe he'll get Rudy Giuliani to be his running mate. Care to post a comment on this article?
***** Now, More Than Ever, It's Time To Learn The Truth About The Tax! AS THE STATE GOES EVER-MORE ROGUE, it is ever more important that American men and women step up and cut back the beast's rations, as the Founders meant for them to do, and relied upon them to do. That discipline is the only peaceful, functional remedy for a circumstance like ours today, in which the political process has been captured by enemies of the Constitution and the judiciary is either entirely corrupt and co-opted or is intimidated into silence for lack of sufficiently-evident resolve among the people. Accordingly, this week I updated my 2006 introductory film, 'It's Time To Learn The Truth', and added 15 minutes of inspirational words from some serious CtC Warriors. Find it below and on YouTube's site here. PLEASE! Watch it through, and then spread it to everyone, like your liberty depends on it. It does.
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." -I. F. Stone
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CtC WARRIOR AND ALL-AROUND LIBERTARIAN SCHOLAR AND ACTIVIST BRIAN WRIGHT has sent me this wonderful bumper-sticker (which is destined to adorn my daughter Katie's car, she having called out the first excited dibs upon the decanting of the thing from its envelope). What a great recognition of the difference between brave Americans like these two stand-up-and-do-it grown-ups and the usual limp, glad-handing PR cut-outs offered by the mainstream political parties! This is exactly the kind of outside-the-prison-cell thinking America desperately needs right now. We need full-spectrum restoration of the law and the principles upon which it rests, and that means jettisoning and scorning every practice that has been failing us. One thing that has been failing us dramatically is the childish expectation that politics as usual, or the usual members of the political class, are going to be our salvation. They are not. In fact, politics as usual and the usual members of the political class are what we need saving from. The only thing that is going to do the job is our own diligent, purposeful and courageous action on behalf of our own law-- diligent, purposeful and courageous action such as that taken by Edward Snowden and Chelsea (Bradley) Manning. That's what makes naming these two as fit candidates for high office so compelling a meme. THESE two, unlike the usual run of real candidates, have proven themselves to have real respect for our American principles; to recognize those principles as worth going to the wall for; and to recognize that the only way those critically-important principles are going to prevail in the face of the systemic corruption which will always arise institutionally against them is to STAND UP AND ACT. AS ALL OF YOU READING THESE WORDS KNOW (or will when you've spent a bit more time here, if you are new to CtC and LostHorizons), our community is all about standing up and taking action on behalf of the rule of law. Brian and his great bumper-sticker nicely remind us of this fact. I hope Brian's reminder will produce renewed commitment and resolve on everyone's part to that otherwise-it's-all-futile activism-- both the core, strike-at-the-root activism of enforcing the Constitutional and statutory rules concerning taxation, and full-spectrum liberty-and-the-law activism in politics and everything else, as well. This community needs to be a community of leaders, setting the bar high and keeping it there. *** SPEAKING OF FULL-SPECTRUM ACTIVISM, my wife, Doreen, forwarded to me a video the other day that nicely captures the spirit of what I mean by this. It also serves to illustrate that this community's perspective is widely and deeply shared. Contrary to what you will see on CNN or NBC, there is an ever-sharper distinction between the fictional, propagandist "mainstream" in which an entrenched, rent-seeking institutional structure would like you to believe, and the real mainstream, of which you and I are a part. Here are some other representatives of today's real American mainstream:
"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Don't Keep A Bushel Over Your Candle!! I HAD A CONVERSATION THE OTHER DAY with a warrior still waiting for his first victory, and who is instead being put through an obnoxious stall-and-distract "frivolous" routine (along with his warrior wife). This recently-retired professional man has done everything to comprehensively uphold the law, even going back as far as possible to correct his business filings as well as his personal ones, but so far with no joy. My correspondent had suing on his mind, and wisely so-- the stall-and-distract "frivolous" assertions are calculated to occupy their target while the two-year window to launch a suit to compel the issuance of a thus-far unmade refund closes, and these folks aren't going to get foiled by that cheap ploy. So, I encouraged my friend to proceed, with all possible dispatch. At the same time, though, and more vehemently still, I urged this good man to another, parallel activity which I think even more virtuous, since it offers direct benefit to everyone: WRITING UP HIS STORY FOR PUBLICATION!! Thinking about what this wonderful couple has been put through, I was struck hard by how compelling their story is as evidence of the truth about the tax-- just as is the story of every carefully-scrupulous educated filer and claimant whose claims are being evaded with the manifestly inapt, obviously-dodgy "frivolous" bs. I was also struck by the realization that those who have been victimized by this run-around don't understand the power of their stories! My correspondent said as much to me when I brought up the idea of him writing up his story for his local paper, and/or posting in one place or another on the internet; his initial response was that, 1. He HAD thought about writing it up, but as a book; and 2. He didn't want to write it up until he had gotten a favorable resolution of the matter, thinking that only then would it be a virtuous story to tell. No, no, NO! Both of these notions-- that the whole tale could fill a book, and that it is desirable to be able to report a victory at the end of the story-- are understandable. But both overlook the very important facts that a 1500-word article will get read, while a book might not; a 1500-word article will get written, while a book might never be (and in any event, won't get written and out there NOW, while the need is immediate and high); and the story of illegitimate resistance to a CtC-educated claim is just as powerful an educational tool as a victory-- maybe even more powerful. I ask you all, would the civil-rights movement have gotten the attention it did if the only people who ever told their stories were those NOT subjected to manifest abuse? If Rosa Parks' story had been, "Well, a white guy came on board and demanded that I give up my seat in the front of the bus to him. I refused, and he gave up and went to the back himself," do you think her experience would have inspired anyone to pay attention? More to the point here, evasions are evidence of truths-- just as much so as are admissions or capitulations. Those of you who are attentive will have noted that while most of the EWWBL episodes I post end up as victories, I also post those that are not-- because an unfounded or transparently-evasive dodge by the government is just as much evidence of what the law actually requires as is a surrender to that requirement. When you can show your opponent doing the equivalent of muttering, "Yeah, THAT's the ticket...!" you are showing that he's lying. When you show that he's lying, you are showing that the truth is not on his side, and IS on your side. I REALIZE THAT EXPLAINING HOW THE STATE'S AGENTS ARE LYING is not as easy as simply announcing a victory. But it IS just as compelling to those we need to reach, and in some ways, more so. Despite its ever-increasing ludicrousness, there are still some who cling to the feeble "denial" notion that CtC victories are just a [ten years long, tens of thousands of occasion] "slip through the cracks". These folks convince themselves that CtC-educated victories don't happen because they should, but only happen by accident. But that "it's all been a big mistake" notion, even as deeply delusional as those who resort to it are willing to be, can find no traction when facing demonstrable outside-the-law behavior by the state in response to CtC-educated claims. No one can argue that gimmicked "frivolous" notices making fake and deliberately incorrect references to statutory language, for example, are "slips through the cracks"! SO, HERE'S THE THING, PEOPLE: This community really needs to become a very vocal, very widely-published community of revelatory voices-- RIGHT NOW. Every one of you needs to get busy bearing witness to the truth-- trumpeting your victories and denouncing any and all law-defying, truth-revealing evasion of the truth by its enemies. As I counseled my correspondent the other day, every one of us must write our 1500-word testimonials. Write them for consumption NOT by me or by the CtC-educated, but for reading (or watching-- video stories, even just of you reading or telling your story are great) by those not yet equipped with the liberating truth about the tax. Get them out there-- in your hometown paper, your newsgroups, your chatrooms and your blogs. Email them around, and copy me, please. The ice is breaking, because lies only hold up until the weight of the truth becomes too much for them, but it has a way of hardening back up if the pressure upon it doesn't grow. If all you've had are victories, sing them out! If you've had resistance, sing that out, just as loudly. Use the resources on this site. You don't have to analyze any evasions to which you might have occasion to refer-- just describe them with an eye to pointing out that they are unmistakably knowing and deliberate, and provide the URL at which they can be read about here as the means for explaining how they are manifestly contrary to the law. Understand that EVERY state reaction to CtC IS A RESOURCE on behalf of communicating and emphasizing the liberating truth. But only if you put it out there... Care to post a comment on this article?
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The Biggest Challenge For The Next Eleven Days: NO LYING!!! ...You wouldn't think this'd be very hard, right?
As is often the case, "tax day" and Easter are in close conjunction this year. This lets me seamlessly underscore my admonitions here with a reminder that we have been wisely told that while we are to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, we are not to facilitate Caesar's making claim to what ISN'T Caesar's, because we also must render unto God that which is God's-- which is our resolve to be truthful and to never bear false witness. DON'T LIE. DO WHAT'S RIGHT. Care to post a comment on this article?
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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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Bitcoin And The "Income Tax" LAST WEEK, THE IRS ANNOUNCED A "POSITION" ON BITCOIN, saying that payments in the virtual money will be taxed just like any others, with the taxable measure of the realized gain being the commodity fair-market value in US dollars of the Bitcoin received. Bitcoin has thus been lumped in with every other non-official currency in the eyes of the tax structure. There is nothing new here. The treatment of Bitcoin by the IRS is simply as "remuneration paid in any medium other than cash", as described in, for instance, this section of the Current Tax Payments Act of 1943 (now 26 USC § 3401(a)) (and as discussed in detail here):
The activity producing the gain still must be the exercise of a federal privilege, of course, so this announcement is purely an exercise of bureaucracy. It is the creation of a pigeon-hole and Internal Revenue Manual directive allowing IRS workers to carry out their duties unhindered by uncertainties. Nonetheless, one can hope that this new iteration of an old, straightforward doctrine will finally induce the stubborn purveyors of the ridiculous "using FRNs is a taxable activity" or "it is because you are paid in FRNs that the tax applies" delusions to pack up their tents and open their minds to the truth about the tax. Their nonsense is a hindrance to the spread of the liberating truth, and their energy, accurately-directed, would be most welcome marching with us rather than against us. One can also hope that the IRS rattling of the "Bitcoiners'" cage with this announcement will prompt that already activist, outside-the-box-thinking community to step up and learn the truth about the tax. I hope any Bitcoin enthusiasts reading these words will share them generously with other fans of the virtual money. Care to post a comment on this article? |
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The Educated Filer Flow Chart
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A CtC Warrior's Solution To Illegal NSA Spying
Brian Harriss had this excellent teaching and outreaching idea, and produced what was needful. Get this flyer as a printable, sharable, spreadable .pdf here, and print it, share it, spread it. |
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Project Paradigm-Shift
IN ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THIS PAGE I SPOKE OF
AMERICAN HERO EDWARD SNOWDEN, who is now rightly celebrated for
his efforts at spreading an important truth. I hope YOU
are doing YOUR part at being an American Hero by
spreading
this
link far and wide! Anything
and everything must be done to get it into a state of viral
distribution across America.
I am counting on you to help make this happen by sending everyone this link.
Seriously, my friend. Even if you never do "action items",
please do this one.
You may not recognize how doing this will make any difference. I tell you, it will make ALL the difference.
This document 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.
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 this page is all about.)
The misunderstanding of the income tax is the thoroughly cultivated thing that it is (and anyone reading through this page 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.
This document 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 has ever deserved liberty...)
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from 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 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 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
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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
TOOLS FOR SPREADING THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX
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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!!
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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:
-- just as long as I'm left alone, dude!
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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!
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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 while since your last having done so.
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