Current Events and Continuing Education for February 1, 2013 through
February 14, 2013
“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
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February 1- In 1814,
the Mayon Volcano erupts. In 1861, Texas becomes the seventh of
the several states to secede from the Union. In 1920, the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police begin operations. In 1942, Vidkun Quisling
is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers. In 1968,
South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is photographed
summarily executing North Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem in an
intersection in Saigon. In 1979, convicted bank robber Patty
Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by Jimmy
Carter. In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after 15
years in exile. In 1992, Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide,
is declared a fugitive from justice by India's Chief Judicial Magistrate
of Bhopal for failing to appear in proceedings concerning the Bhopal
chemical plant disaster in which a probable 16,000 people died from
exposure to toxic gas. In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia
disintegrates during re-entry. In 2004, Janet Jackson has a
wardrobe malfunction.
Anniversaries of interest for each day of
the upcoming week will be found throughout the newsletter below.
STAY ON YOUR FEET, PEOPLE!
Keep sending in those victories, and
keep
spreading the truth about the tax. It is the sharing of
knowledge and the resolution to stand up for the rule of law that
will see our liberty from this scourge secured in the end, even
though it's taking a bit longer than any of us would want.
Don't lose sight of the fact that the mountain of official
acknowledgements of the legal correctness of what is done by the
CtC-educated has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, with
none being more clear and telling than the evasions resorted-to by a
couple of federal courts recently. (Some doozies are detailed in
this text from my
recent petition to the Supreme Court).
These acknowledgements are great resources for illuminating other
minds with the truth. All that is then needed is to remind the timid
that the willingness of corrupt institutions to abide by the law (or
their refusal to do so) is NOT the measure used by grown-ups in the
land of the free and home of the brave to determine the conditions
in which they will live.
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
Further, although I have never charged anyone for my time and effort
in producing this newsletter, or for any other intangible (and don't
intend to start now, either), the circumstances of my protracted
absence-- and a big fine being now imposed on me as part of the scamsters' "scare everyone back into the barn by attacking Pete"
strategy-- have left me and my family in dire straits. In light
of that fact, and in order to allow me to continue my work, I ask
those who can to consider donations such as seem right to you, and
to continue to order books, and see that they
find welcoming homes.
If you don't support those standing between you and the Beast,
pretty soon they won't be.
It's Okay, Sit Tight... The Sheriff's Coming, And
He'll Save Us All!
IT SEEMS THAT EVERY TIME THE HEAT IN THE
FROG-POT GOES UP, something
circulates among the restive masses explaining why there's really
nothing to worry about, and taking the edge off what had been a
growing impulse to action. The impending new violation of the Second
Amendment is a case in point. I think I've seen twenty emails go
'round over the last three weeks reassuring me that whatever the
evil feds might try to do, it'll be okay, because (thousands) (90%)
(most) (you pick the hyperbolic pronouncement of your choice) of the
sheriffs across the country will "refuse to enforce an
unconstitutional order"!
Whew! What a relief!! I feel so much better knowing that all of
these sheriffs-- who for decades have been cooperatively kicking down doors,
operating warrantless checkpoints, seizing property and imprisoning
private and peaceable consumers of certain goods based on a pretense
of legitimacy under
the Pure Food and Drug Act's invocation of the "interstate commerce"
clause in the US Constitution, just to pick a single example--
are going to suddenly say "Enough is enough!"
I hope it's true. But I think anyone who counts on it is crazy.
The fact is, when these guys say:
"I won't enforce any unconstitutional law,"
what they really mean is:
"I won't enforce any law that the courts have said is
unconstitutional. No, sirree! But if those courts say its OK, well,
that's a different story..."
Unfortunately, these are two wildly different standards.
LET'S NOT FORGET that "the courts" are staffed by appointees of the
very folks who are plumping for this violation of the Second
Amendment. Judging from past performance, these folks seem to be
chosen more for their talents at rationalizing weasel-worded loopholes by which they can plausibly get out of
Leviathan's way than for their enthusiasm for recognizing when and
why they shouldn't step aside.
An awful lot of sheriffs-- themselves just politicians, remember--
seem to have the same talent. Most appear happy to make
accommodations with the devil; or to prefer avoiding confrontation
when able to seize on a plausible pretext for doing so.
Even "Sheriff Mack", famous for challenging the requirement that
state officers conduct federal "Brady Bill" background checks, lists
in
his biography without a hint of shame a year spent as an
undercover narcotics agent early in his career. Furthermore, even
Mack's signature episode concerning the "Brady Bill" requirements
isn't really what most people think.
Mack didn't simply refuse to do the checks, having concluded they
(or the requirement that they be conducted by state officers) were
unconstitutional. Instead, Mack asked the federal courts whether he
should conduct the checks. Mack let "his" decision about what was
and was not Constitutional actually be made by an organ of the
state.
WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD NOTION what the Supremes are likely to say
qualifies as "Constitutional" in regard to gun control today. In
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 US 570 (2008), the court's
majority opinion indicated that despite the Second Amendment, the
Supremes were OK with "limitation" of the right of the people to
keep and bear arms.
The court announced its willingness to throw the real utility of the
Second Amendment under the bus with these words:
We
also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and
carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of
weapons protected were those “in common use at the time.” 307 U. S.,
at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the
historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of “dangerous and
unusual weapons.” [Citations omitted].
It
may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military
service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second
Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause.
But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of
the Second Amendment ’s ratification was the body of all citizens
capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful
weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be
true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the
18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly
unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount
of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks.
But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit
between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change
our interpretation of the right.
This ruling opined that the Second Amendment secured an individual's
right to firearm possession for self-defense. But it denies the
amendment's real purpose of ensuring that the People retain the
physical means to discipline or dispose of a State that has grown
contemptuous of the disciplines and limitations imposed by law and
resistant to a political remedy:
[The right to keep and bear arms] may be considered as the
true palladium of liberty .... The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been
the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits
possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the
people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever,
prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink
of destruction."
-Saint
George Tucker, close friend of Thos. Jefferson and Justice of the
Virginia Supreme Court, in his edition of 'Blackstone's Commentaries
On The Law' (1803)
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been
considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;
since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and
arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are
successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist
and triumph over them."
-United
States Supreme Court Justice
Joseph Story, in 'Commentaries On The
Constitution Of The United States' (1833)
"The
[second] amendment, like most other provisions in the Constitution, has a
history. It was adopted with some modification and enlargement from the
English Bill of Rights of 1688, where it stood as a protest against
arbitrary action of the overturned dynasty in disarming the people, and
as a pledge of the new rulers that this tyrannical action should cease.
The right declared was meant to be a strong moral check against the
usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and as a necessary and
efficient means of regaining rights when temporarily overturned by
usurpation."
-Thomas
Cooley, Justice of The Michigan Supreme Court, in 'Principles Of
Constitutional Law' (1880)
"The Second
Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those
exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have
failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection
and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the
courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing
them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only
once."
-Alex Kozinski, Chief
Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 'Silveira vs. Lockyer' (2002).
There
is no rational argument that can be raised against recognizing the
Second Amendment as intended to ensure that Americans in their
individual capacities retain military capability entirely
independent of the government and entirely outside its control. As I
point out in 'Gun Control And The Federal Government' in my book, 'Upholding
the Law and Other Observations',
Over the past half century, meaningful instruction
in civics and history (along with much else) has
been largely abandoned at virtually all public, and
many private, schools. This has created fertile
ground for the implantation and spread of a host of
falsehoods about the nature, purpose, and
particulars of the U.S. Constitution-- an
opportunity which has been seized upon and greedily
exploited by clients of state power in service to
their various interests. One particularly
persistent and pernicious such falsehood concerns
the meaning of the Second Amendment-- asserting that
the amendment tolerates, or even explicitly
supports, federal involvement in the area of
individual possession of weapons by citizens of the
several States. Happily, even a rudimentary (but
accurate and rational) analysis of the plain
language and historical context of the Constitution,
and the Supreme Court jurisprudence on the subject,
readily reveals this assertion to be complete
nonsense.
It is abundantly clear from as little as a casual
study that the Founding Fathers were not foolish or
presumptuous enough to believe that they had created
a form of government so perfect as to have, in and
of itself, offered the people complete protection
from usurpation, abuse, or tyranny. Instead,
clearly recognizing and wisely fearing the
inevitable tendency of all forms of government to
seek ever greater control and power, the Founders
girded the citizenry about with numerous safeguards
of their liberties, intending thereby to ensure that
the people always possess the means to remain
masters of the relationship. These include the
distribution of power among the three competing
branches of government; the limited grant of power
of any kind as delineated in the written
constitution; the provision that laws be subject to
a jury's approval each time they are applied; and a
series of explicit prohibitions of legislation in
certain areas, embodied throughout the Constitution
and particularly in the Bill of Rights.
It is acknowledged without dissent that nine of
these ten original amendments amount to unambiguous
prohibitions of government action, either through
expressly forbidding legislation relating to the
subject involved, or by expressly dictating the form
and limitations of permitted government action.
Yet, to the Second Amendment-- clearly the one
intended to ensure the retention by the people of
the means to enforce upon a balky government
obedience to all the rest-- those who see themselves
benefiting from the power of the state ascribe a
uniquely contrary character. Here, it is argued, is
the odd amendment whose purpose is to authorize
a power of the state, namely that of arming the
militia! (With characteristic contempt for the
inconveniences of rationality and consistency, the
very ideologues who view the federal government as
able to claim any authority toward which it may be
tempted-- in utter defiance of the doctrine of
enumerated powers-- would have this be one power
that had to be spelled out, so as to imply that it
must belong to the government rather than to the
People.)
Even if the obvious incongruity of that were not
enough, the government is, in fact, provided with
all necessary authority for defense purposes
elsewhere. The Constitution-- not a document
fraught with redundancies (in fact, the prohibition
of unapportioned direct taxation is the only element
stated twice)-- specifically authorizes Congress to
arm the militia in Article 1, Section 8: "The
Congress shall have Power...To provide for
organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia...".
Thus, the only credible reason for an
acknowledgement of the right of the People to keep
and bear arms in the Bill of Rights is to preserve
it for use against the government whose abridgement
of that right is anticipated and prohibited
thereby-- in perfect consistency with the character
of its fellows.
The willfulness of the ‘misunderstanding’ suffered
by those intent upon violating the amendment is
revealed in the single misguided Supreme Court
ruling cited in defense of their position:
"…The Constitution as originally adopted granted
to the Congress power- 'To provide for calling forth
the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To
provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining,
the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as
may be employed in the Service of the United States,
reserving to the States respectively, the
Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of
training the Militia according to the discipline
prescribed by Congress.' U.S.C.A.Const. art. 1, 8.
With obvious purpose to assure the continuation and
render possible the effectiveness of such forces the
declaration and guarantee of the Second Amendment
were made. It must be interpreted and applied with
that end in view.” United States v. Miller, 307
U.S. 174 (1939).
It could be “obvious” only to an idiot that the
Second Amendment was added to the Constitution in
order to render possible, by prohibiting certain
acts of Congress, the exercise of a power with which
Congress is explicitly and unambiguously equipped
elsewhere. Are we to understand that this is to
ensure that the government doesn’t find itself in
the conundrum of calling forth the militia and then
discovering that by virtue of some law that it has
itself passed and is unable to repeal, infringing
the right to keep and bear arms, the militia must
remain unarmed and thus ineffective? Please.
...
Nonetheless, in Heller, the Supremes manage to find obvious what
only an idiot could, and make clear that they will likely uphold new
gun control legislation. Sadly, that'll almost certainly be the
standard relied upon by most sheriff's across the country when
deciding what's Constitutional or not.
The sobering truth is that while it is possible that any given sheriff or
other state or local officials might actually use his or her own
judgment and truly stand against unconstitutional federal overreach
for the first time in his or her life in the matter of gun control,
anyone who relies on that happening is crazy. Further, even if it
DOES happen, and even if it happens massively, reliance on that
"white-hat awakening" being adequate even to this single need
against a monstrously overgrown State is misplaced.
Further still, even if the "white-hat awakening" happened, and
Leviathan was thereby thwarted for the moment, it would just be
a brief and
ultimately pointless respite. If that happened but was all that
happened, even during that brief respite the people would continue
to be bled a bit weaker while the State is fed a bit stronger; more
children would be taught to be a bit more alienated from their
parents perspectives on this and every other aspect of liberty; and
more "old guard" sheriffs would fade away to be replaced by those
for whom understanding of the law and liberty is dimmer than it is
among the current crop.
In short, reliance on a "white-hat brigade" to defend you against a
threat you keep feeding and letting grow stronger is misplaced
and always will be. There's a reason that even while also
distinguishing between various governmental structures the Founders
drew a bright conceptual line between ANY official of any position
and "the people" themselves as unorganized individuals. The reason
is that while one can hope for leadership and support from local
officials like county sheriffs, in the end, it's on YOU.
In the end, nothing but YOU stepping up and exercising YOUR
authority and looking out for YOUR interests as only you can and
really will can answer the need. Remember, sovereign authority
doesn't reside in "the sheriffs". It resides in YOU.
The founders recognized that under no circumstances can a state
which is allowed to control the disposition of a significant
fraction of the country's aggregate resources be meaningfully
restrained in any respect. They also recognized by equipping each
individual with the power to largely decide how much of his or her
own resources stays home, the simple dynamic of each person looking
out for his or her own interests will operate as a mammoth
"invisible hand" on the state's shoulder, imposing a critically
important restraint which can be imposed in no other way.
Besides, isn't "relying on the sheriff to save you" basically the
very same advice the gun-grabber's give, when they tell you that all
you need to do when you're under attack is just dial 911?
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution]
let us carry ourselves back to the time when the
Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in
the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be
squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to
the probable one in which it was passed."
February 2- In 1653, New Amsterdam is incorporated
(later renamed New York City). In 1709, Alexander Selkirk is
rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's
'Robinson Crusoe'. In 1790, the United States Supreme Court
convenes for the first time. In 1848, the first shipload of
Chinese emigrants arrives in San Francisco. In 1876, baseball's
National League is formed. In 1880, the first electric streetlight
is installed, in Wabash, Indiana. In 1887, Punxsutawney Phil takes
the stage for the first time. In 1913, Grand Central Station opens
in New York City. In 1922, James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is published.
In 1933, Hitler dissolves the German Parliament. In 1940, Frank
Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. In 1972, the
British Embassy in Dublin is destroyed by protestors after 27 unarmed
civil rights marchers are shot in Derry by British troops, resulting in
14 fatalities. In 1989, the last Soviet armored column is driven
out of Afghanistan after a ten-year bleeding of the USSR.
Citing the death by stress of hacker and internet freedom
activist Aaron Swartz as its "tipping point", the watchdog
organization "Anonymous" shut down a number of United States
Department of Justice (sic) websites last week, and posted
the following video on the DOJ's "Federal Sentencing
Guidelines" page:
The text of the video follows:
Citizens of the world,
Anonymous has
observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the
United States with growing concern. We have marked the
departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it
was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due
process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the
usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the
“discretion” of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is
wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more
to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of
oppression or personal gain.
We have been
watching, and waiting.
Two weeks ago
today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz
was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice.
Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could
not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a
game where the only winning move was not to play.
Anonymous
immediately convened an emergency council to discuss our
response to this tragedy. After much heavy-hearted
discussion, the decision was upheld to engage the United
States Department of Justice and its associated executive
branches in a game of a similar nature, a game in which the
only winning move is not to play.
Last year the
Federal Bureau of Investigation revelled in porcine glee at
its successful infiltration of certain elements of
Anonymous. This infiltration was achieved through the use of
the *same tactics which lead to Aaron Swartz’ death. It
would not have been possible were it not for the power of
federal prosecutors to thoroughly destroy the lives of any
hacktivists they apprehend through the very real threat of
highly disproportionate sentencing.
As a result
of the FBI’s infiltration and entrapment tactics, several
more of our brethren now face similar disproportionate
persecution, the balance of their lives hanging on the
severely skewed scales of a broken justice system.
We have felt
within our hearts a burning rage in reaction to these
events, but we have not allowed ourselves to be drawn into a
foolish and premature response. We have bidden our time,
operating in the shadows, adapting our tactics and honing
our abilities. We have allowed the FBI and its masters in
government — both the puppet and the shadow government that
controls it — to believe they had struck a crippling blow to
our infrastructure, that they had demoralized us, paralyzed
us with paranoia and fear. We have held our tongue and
waited.
With Aaron’s
death we can wait no longer. The time has come to show the
United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the
true meaning of infiltration. The time has come to give this
system a taste of its own medicine. The time has come for
them to feel the helplessness and fear that comes with being
forced into a game where the odds are stacked against them.
This website
was chosen due to the symbolic nature of its purpose — the
federal sentencing guidelines which enable prosecutors to
cheat citizens of their constitutionally-guaranteed right to
a fair trial, by a jury of their peers — the federal
sentencing guidelines which are in clear violation of the
8th amendment protection against cruel and unusual
punishments. This website was also chosen due to the nature
of its visitors. It is far from the only government asset we
control, and we have exercised such control for quite some
time…
There has
been a lot of fuss recently in the technological media
regarding such operations as Red October, the widespread use
of vulnerable browsers and the availability of zero-day
exploits for these browsers and their plugins. None of this
comes of course as any surprise to us, but it is perhaps
good that those within the information security industry are
making the extent of these threats more widely understood.
Still there
is nothing quite as educational as a well-conducted
demonstration…
Through this
websites and various others that will remain unnamed, we
have been conducting our own infiltration. We did not
restrict ourselves like the FBI to one high-profile
compromise. We are far more ambitious, and far more capable.
Over the last two weeks we have wound down this operation,
removed all traces of leakware from the compromised systems,
and taken down the injection apparatus used to detect and
exploit vulnerable machines.
We have
enough fissile material for multiple warheads. Today we are
launching the first of these. Operation Last Resort has
begun…
Warhead – U S
– D O J – L E A – 2013 . A E E 256 is primed and armed. It
has been quietly distributed to numerous mirrors over the
last few days and is available for download from this
website now. We encourage all Anonymous to syndicate this
file as widely as possible.
The contents
are various and we won’t ruin the speculation by revealing
them. Suffice it to say, everyone has secrets, and some
things are not meant to be public. At a regular interval
commencing today, we will choose one media outlet and supply
them with heavily redacted partial contents of the file. Any
media outlets wishing to be eligible for this program must
include within their reporting a means of secure
communications.
We have not
taken this action lightly, nor without consideration of the
possible consequences. Should we be forced to reveal the
trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will
be collateral damage. We appreciate that many who work
within the justice system believe in those principles that
it has lost, corrupted, or abandoned, that they do not bear
the full responsibility for the damages caused by their
occupation.
It is our
hope that this warhead need never be detonated.
However, in
order for there to be a peaceful resolution to this crisis,
certain things need to happen. There must be reform of
outdated and poorly-envisioned legislation, written to be so
broadly applied as to make a felony crime out of violation
of terms of service, creating in effect vast swathes of
crimes, and allowing for selective punishment. There must be
reform of mandatory minimum sentencing. There must be a
return to proportionality of punishment with respect to
actual harm caused, and consideration of motive and mens rea.
The inalienable right to a presumption of innocence and the
recourse to trial and possibility of exoneration must be
returned to its sacred status, and not gambled away by
pre-trial bargaining in the face of overwhelming sentences,
unaffordable justice and disfavourable odds. Laws must be
upheld unselectively, and not used as a weapon of government
to make examples of those it deems threatening to its power.
For good
reason the statue of lady justice is blindfolded. No more
should her innocence be besmirked, her scales tipped, nor
her swordhand guided. Furthermore there must be a solemn
commitment to freedom of the internet, this last great
common space of humanity, and to the common ownership of
information to further the common good.
We make this
statement do not expect to be negotiated with; we do not
desire to be negotiated with. We understand that due to the
actions we take we exclude ourselves from the system within
which solutions are found. There are others who serve that
purpose, people far more respectable than us, people whose
voices emerge from the light, and not the shadows. These
voices are already making clear the reforms that have been
necessary for some time, and are outright required now.
It is these
people that the justice system, the government, and law
enforcement must engage with. Their voices are already
ringing strong with a chorus of determined resolution. We
demand only that this chorus is not ignored. We demand the
government does not make the mistake of hoping that time
will dampen its ringing, that they can ride out this wave of
determination, that business as usual can continue after a
sufficient period of lip-service and back-patting.
Not this
time. This time there will be change, or there will be
chaos…
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!!
Nine Years On, And Nothing Has Changed--
CtC Stands Undisputed And
Continuously Acknowledged As The Complete Truth About The Tax In The Most
Concrete Ways Possible, Even By Its Direst Enemies
Two
weeks ago I was pleased to post the 45th installment of the popular 'Every
Which Way But Loose' series. This is a series of episodes of particular note
in the CtC saga, as they
each involve contests of the truth about the tax with a tax agency desperate to
evade and suppress that truth. Here is the introduction to that episode:
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE- XLV
CtC Warrior
Dennis O'Connell has prompted major gyrations from the IRS's Rook
'em, Soak 'em Robot by simply filing an
educated return claiming the
return of property which the government agrees was improperly
withheld from him, because his earnings during 2011 don't qualify as
"income" and are not subject to any related taxes. On May 21, 2012,
the government acknowledged these facts very unambiguously:
Pretty clear, yes? "Adjusted gross income-- your figures, our
figures, both $0.00."
"Taxable income-- your figures, our figures, both $0.00."
"Total tax-- your figures, our figures, both $0.00."
"Amount withheld- $30,423.34; total credits- $30,423.34; refund
due- $30,423.34." Everyone's in agreement.
The IRS even makes clear that it did a thorough examination of
Dennis's return by correcting his misplacement of Social
Security tax withheld on the "Excess Social security and tier 1
RRTA tax withheld" line of the 1040 he prepared. (At the same
time, the agency shamefully failed to go all the way and
proactivley add that amount, and the Medicare withholdings also,
to Dennis's refund as it should have done. Dennis had no
"wages", as everyone agrees, and therefore he plainly can't owe
any Social security or Medicare tax...)
BUT...
You knew there had to be a
"but", or this wouldn't be a proper "ring-around-the-robot"
episode, right? Click
here for the
rest of the story...
I wonder how many of you have been keeping track of these episodes and have
considered just how significant they really are? We've seen nine years of
endless corrupt attacks on me in every way possible, and nine years of endless
troll-posts in the blogosphere and elsewhere trying to spin those attacks as
indicative of actual official dispute of
CtC's revelations.
And yet... and yet... well, go
here and just read
from there to the bottom of the page. Each of these six plain and unambiguous--
if reluctant and resisted-- acknowledgements took place over just the last
twelve months-- that is, nine years on...
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If You're Not Standing Up, Then You're Standing Down
..and "standing down" means "going down"
My friends, it has been my sincere belief that this community of
activists has been encouraged, inspired, enlightened and expanded over
the years by the steady posting here of your ongoing victories on behalf
of the rule of law. Certainly, it has been my pride and my joy to help
you share with the world your honorable testament to the liberating
truth about the tax, widespread knowledge of which is so critical to the
well-being of ourselves, our children, and our beloved America.
I am sad, therefore, to have to say that unless you all resume sending
me those victories I will be obliged to stop posting them for the world
to see-- simply for lack of material to work with! I hope that this will
not happen. I hope that you will not allow the law-defiers to succeed in
their corrupt effort to make this beacon "go dark" by having made me
unavailable for a couple of years, or by frightening you into silence
with what has been done to me.
The fact is, since I have returned to this desk, only a sparse handful
of victories have been shared. So few, I'm afraid, that it will only be
a matter of a few weeks-- if that-- before all those in the queue are
posted. When that happens, this oh-so important offering of this site
that I know has meant a great deal to each of you over all these years
grinds to a halt. What a shame that would be!
It would be an especial shame because, of course, those victories have
been steadily being won, even while I languished in durance vile. SOME,
after all, continued to be sent over the entire time, and of course
those posted recently include victories won as recently as a month ago.
So, it would be a shame, because if this ongoing presentation of the
most concrete and easily-demonstrated kind of evidence of the truth
ceases, it will only be because this community has had some of the heart
go out of it, and has sunk into the death spiral of, "Let somebody else
do it-- I'll wait..."
Please don't let that be how it goes. Send those victories-- the new
ones, and those of the last few years as well. Follow the link below to
refresh yourself on how to do so.
February 3- In 1690,
the Massachusetts colonial government issues the American continent's
first paper "money". In 1809, the Illinois Territory is formed.
In 1913, the 16th Amendment-- the most deliberately misrepresented
Constitutional amendment of all, bar none-- is declared ratified.
All the amendment did was overrule the limited effect of the Pollock v.
Farmer's Loan & Trust ruling by the Supreme Court in 1895, which had
prevented
dividends and rent connected with the exercise of federal privilege from
being subject to the tax like other "income" had been for decades based
on a view the court took of their relationship of those particular gains
to the sources from which they are derived. To learn the whole
story of the 16th Amendment, click
here. In 1940, Pierre Laval is installed as head
of government in Vichy, France, by the occupying Nazis. In 1959,
the music dies in Iowa. In 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9
spacecraft successfully lands on the Moon. In 1969, Yasser Arafat
is appointed head of the PLO by the Palestinian National Congress.
In 1971, Frank Serpico is shot, but survives to testify about the
drug-war-fueled corruption of fellow New York City police officers.
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HAVE YOU VALUED THESE NEWSLETTERS OVER THE YEARS? YOUR FRIENDS WILL, TOO.
CtC Warrior David Sides
says, "Bumper stickers? Nice, but NOTBIGENOUGH!"
(By the way, Dave's got it precisely right-- If you want your power to
be secure, your neighbors have to be empowered with the same knowledge
that you've acquired. Click here for ideas
about spreading the truth-- which include normal bumper stickers
available for free, by the way....)
Want To Tell The State To Stick It? Homeschool
Your Kids
by Bill Flax
"This notion
that the children belong to the state, that their education
must be provided for by the state … is inimical at every
step to liberty.”
– J.
Gresham Machen
The swelling legions of homeschoolers poke a subtle rebuke at
America’s ever expanding nanny state. Under both parties,
Washington has systematically invaded private spheres and
co-opted public services historically performed by local bodies.
But a spontaneous groundswell of freedom minded folks has
continued America’s rich inheritance of rugged individualism.
The God-fearing, flag-waiving, gun-toting homeschool crowd
embodies the American spirit of mutual self-reliance. You won’t
encounter a more neighborly bunch. Their children thrive without
government “help.” Their support networks blossom sans the
state’s sanction. Meanwhile, taxpayers waste a fortune securing
abysmal academic results. In 2012, SAT scores fell to their
lowest level since tracking began. As spending soars, assessment
scores plummet.
The modern homeschool movement comes largely by Christians
aghast over an academic establishment overrun by progressives.
Schools long ago became laboratories for instilling statism and
distilling politically correct groupthink. Values clarification
anyone? With public education increasingly geared toward
multicultural agitation against America’s godly heritage, many
parents resolved to safeguard the hearts, souls and minds of
their young.
Aren't you glad that YOU'VEtaken control of how much of
YOUR WEALTH facilitates
Washington's misbehavior?!
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..."
February 4- In 1789, George Washington is
unanimously elected first President of the United States by the
Electoral College. In 1792, Washington is unanimously re-elected.
In 1801, John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court. In 1861, delegates from six of the seceding states form the
Confederate States of America. In 1899, the Philippine-American
War begins (a resistance of the
Philippine population against American annexation of the country in
which over a million Philippine citizens will be killed).
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how
our children are educated.
"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
[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.
Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution?
February 5- In 1778,
South Carolina becomes the first of the several states to ratify the
Articles of Confederation. In 1918, Stephen W. Thompson shoots
down a German plane in a dogfight-- the first aerial victory for the
U.S. military. In 1919, United Artists is formed by Charlie
Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith. In
1958, the U.S. loses a hydrogen bomb (still unrecovered) off the coast
of Savannah, Georgia. In 1968, the Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
In 1971, Apollo 14 lands on the Moon. In 1988,
CIA-asset-turned-Panamanian-strongman Manuel Noriega is indicted on
"drug smuggling" and "money laundering" charges.
Want To
See How The Federal Appellate Courts Construe "Includes" In
Title 26 Statutory Definitions?
Read this
motion.
In it you'll find citation, quotation and discussion of a series of cases
across three different circuits in which the meaning and application of
"includes" in tax law is specifically addressed, and is consistently held to
be exactly as CtC
reveals it to be. See pages 3-10.
Recognize that
attempts by
CtC-deniers in the troll communities and elsewhere to suggest the existence
of rulings to the contrary are simply deliberate lies intended to keep
you from feeling firmly grounded. Recognize as well that these attempts are
made because the only way the "ignorance tax" can continue to trouble you is
if you can be discouraged from acting on your knowledge, and the only way
the ignorance tax can survive into the future is if you can be discouraged
from spreading the truth.
By the way, the United States filed a
response to that motion on January 3, and was unable to present any substantive opposition. You can read its limp and mendacious response
here,
and my reply detailing the lack of substance and the efforts
to deceive
here.
Enjoy.
Comments are welcome-- you are encouraged to post them on
the national forum.
"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
More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes
Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In
CtC, And Have Issued
Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
Illuminating
anniversaries of this week:
February 6- In 1782,
South Carolina bans paper money, after a thorough lesson in its inherent
and unavoidable evils. In 1788, Massachusetts becomes the sixth of
the several states to ratify the United States Constitution and
authorize the new version of the federal government, under the charter
of which the federal government is given no authority to emit bills of
credit or other paper "money", but may only coin money-- a limited
authority in harmony with the identical prescription that the several
states may not emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold or
silver a tender in payment of debts. In 1815, New Jersey grants
the first American railroad charter (for a line between New Brunswick
and Trenton). In 1959, the first patent is issued for an
integrated circuit; and a Titan ICBM is successfully test-fired for the
first time. In 1989, the "Roundtable" talks begin in Poland,
marking the beginning of the end of communist domination of Eastern
Europe.
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774)
(How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
I'm sorry to say that due to the characteristics of the new server I began
using at the end of September, 2007, hit logging for the entire site is no
longer possible. However, just so you know:
CtC-related hits between April 1, 2006 (when
logging began under the old server) and August 31, 2007 totaled
17,277,595!
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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly
observing that,
"Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that
simple statement ..how about the purchasing power
of that same penny 'not lost'?"
February 7- In 1795,
the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
In 1904, a fire breaks out in Baltimore, Maryland which will burn for 30
hours and destroy more than 1,500 buildings. The city rebuilds and
moves on without the assistance of FEMA. Mayor Robert Lane
declares, "To suppose that the spirit of our people will not
rise to the occasion is to suppose that our people are not genuine
Americans. We shall make the fire of 1904 a landmark not of decline but
of progress." He refused all offers of assistance, stating, "As head of
this municipality, I cannot help but feel gratified by the sympathy and
the offers of practical assistance which have been tendered to us. To
them I have in general terms replied, 'Baltimore will take care of its
own, thank you.'". In 1962, the United States bans all
imports from, and exports to, Cuba. In 1964, the Beatles arrive in
America. In 1990, the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist
Party agrees to relinquish its monopoly on power in the USSR. In
1991, the IRA fires mortar rounds at Britain's Prime Ministerial offices
at 10 Downing Street, London. In 1992, the European Union is
created with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.
"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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Pete Hendrickson
enjoys the distinction of being the first American in history to secure a
complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from
his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes). He
is far from the last, though-- readers of his seminal work, ‘Cracking
the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’ and its
just-published sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a
Moron?', have been
doing the same ever since the book first appeared in 2003.
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.
