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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate,
tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-Samuel Adams
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It's Grown-Up Time
“Hold your
tongue!” said the Queen, turning purple. “I won’t!” said Alice.
“Off with her
head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
“Who cares for
you?” said Alice (she had grown to her full size by this time). “You’re nothing
but a pack of cards!”
I COULD BE WRONG,
BUT I'M BETTING that
until you read the lead
editorial in last week's mid-edition update you believed that you had to
accept Federal Reserve notes (FRNs) as payment for your goods or services if
tendered as such. Or you believed you had to pay your bills with them; or that
they have any significance whatever other than in that the federal government has
obliged itself to accept them in payment of debts owed to it, and will tender
them in payment of its own debts.
Last week I showed
you that none of these things are true, and that all your life you've been
misled by a state-(and state client, crony and
collectivist-useful-idiot)-serving fiction.
Years ago I showed you that
no law requires you to use or
present a social security number to live or work or be paid for work in the
United States, and that all your life you've
been misled to the contrary by a state-(and state client, crony and
collectivist-useful-idiot)-serving fiction.
I
have also shown you that
"income" within the meaning of the "income tax" doesn't mean "everything that
comes in", and that all your life you've been misled to the contrary by a
state-(and state client, crony and collectivist-useful-idiot)-serving fiction.
All in all,
through these revelations and others, what I've shown you is that the
deterioration and corruption and collapse around you is not the outcome of a
secret overthrow of the law or the consequence of some deep flaw in the US
Constitution. Instead it is just the result of certain factions in
society having gained so much influence in education and media as to be able to make
Americans misunderstand the law in ways that suit the interests of those
factions.
No authority stands behind any of this nonsense. All there is behind any of this nonsense
is propaganda, selfishness, ignorance and inertia.
All there is behind any of
this nonsense is the willingness of these special interests to browbeat everyone
else, and the reluctance of everyone else to stand up against
it, hold their ground, and break the destructive fictions upon
the rock of their resolute insistence on the truth.
THE CHALLENGE
BEFORE YOU is that standing-up part. It is the doing-what-is-right part, even in
the face of petulant anger from the spoiled brats and brain-dead Neanderthals
who want you to just go with their program and lie quietly while you and your
children are bled for their benefit, and your once-beautiful and bountiful
experiment in liberty-defended-by-law is burned to the ground.
The challenge
before you is that of refusing the allures of comfort and comity at the
seemingly easy price of "going with the flow" and sinking quietly back into the
matrix. The challenge before you is that of holding your ground in the face of
fiery-eyed shrieking madness from the fiction-beneficiaries, and, like Alice,
recognizing that those who stand in the way of your truth are nothing but a
bunch of cards and rising from the bad dream into full consciousness.
These are not
challenges unique to our time; they have always been the price of liberty. As
one-time slave Frederick Douglass put it so well:
"The whole
history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made
to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. ... If there is
no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and
yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the
ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean
without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral
one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but
it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never
did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you
have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed
upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress."
The fact is, in
our time, these challenges are the easiest they could be, because not just the
natural law but even the written law, the state's own written law, stands with
us and against the screamers who want you and I to stand down and shut up and
quietly agree with their self-serving pretenses. We don't have to stand against
the law; we simply have to stand against the false blandishments of the law-defiers,
speaking our truth and refusing to participate in their lies.
It's that simple.
NOW, GRANTED, SIMPLE DOESN'T MEAN "EASY". Standing firm against a scary pack of cards is
scary, and scary is hard.
But simple does
mean easy to understand and easy to undertake. All that you must do is make your
choice and stick to it, like a grown-up who knows what it takes to be the boss
even in the face of a willful child's tantrum.
In matters of
style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-Thomas Jefferson
Learn how the Founders set
things up so that you could discipline a willful and disobedient
state and shrink it back down to its proper size
C. S.
Lewis offers a wonderful lesson about being grown-ups in the
face of despotic ambitions to control the paradigm
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Another Educated American Turns An Alleged
"Income Tax Balance Due" Into Zeros And A Refund Check
CtC-EDUCATED
AMERICAN MIKE LONG has just finished turning what had been a
better-than-$15,000 asserted tax liability to California-- plus
interest and penalties-- into an acknowledgement by the state
that his private-sector earnings are not taxable and a refund of
everything paid against that alleged obligation. As Mike
explained to the state in a January 10, 2013 document accompanying his submission
of an educated, amended tax return for 2011:
"The payers have listed as "wages"
payments that were not "wages" so defined, but were, in
fact, non-taxable receipts. I am rebutting their claim,
because I am a private-sector worker. The payers were not
my "employers," I was not their "employee," I was not,
during 2011, engaged in or receiving gains, profit or income
from a "trade or business".
I expect a full and complete refund
within 30 days."
And so it was (although it took 61 days, not 30). Mike's
victory in enforcing the Constitution against California--
the 850th posted here of the tens of thousands steadily won
by educated Americans across the country for more than nine
years now-- follows his similar victories with the feds last
October. See the whole story, with documentation,
here.
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P.S. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MASSIVE AND FRUITFUL A BLOW would be
struck for liberty and the rule of law-- for the intended
restraint of the State by the Constitution-- if sites like
lewrockwell.com, the
fff.org,
antiwar.com,
prisonplanet.com and
rutherford.org and folks like
Glenn
Greenwald,
John Stossel,
Andrew Napolitano and others with bully pulpits posted
this story? Or any of the hundreds of other stories like it
on this site? Can you imagine?
This country would be in unquenchable transformation within
two weeks. Millions of Americans would suddenly know what
Mike Long knows. Millions of Americans would suddenly know they
can act-- all on their own-- to restore the republic and shrink
Leviathan back down to the size and functions intended by the
founders. Millions of Americans would LEAP at that opportunity.
The house of cards would collapse, just like that.
So, why don't they? That is, why don't these virtuous sites and
these good-hearted pundits post this story?
The answer is, I think, simple: the folks who make decisions at
these sites, and these pundits themselves, DON'T EVER ACTUALLY
READ THESE POSTS!
These folks see a story like Mike's and they just automatically
dismiss it as an anomaly, or a misrepresentation of the facts,
or anything that allows its contradiction of all they
have been conditioned to believe about the tax to be reconciled
in favor of those conditioned beliefs. They let the paradigm of
that conditioning subsume contrary information, just like most
folks are prone to do, and don't read (or dig into) the story,
having automatically, from the beginning, dismissed it as a
waste of time.
At
best, these folks will refer stories like this to some imagined
expert-- a columnist who writes on tax-related stuff, or perhaps
an attorney. That person, ALSO won't read the story, or at
least, won't look further than the post itself.
That designated investigator ALSO won't see the years and years
of consistent history of which Mike's victory is only the latest
story. That investigator won't see the years and years of
increasingly corrupt and desperate government efforts to
suppress CtC even while acknowledging its accuracy with these
endless victories, nor will he or she see any of the rest of the
mountain of evidence of every possible variety standing behind
each of these posts.
Nonetheless, that designated investigator will report that
there's nothing to see here. He or she will report that it's
just "Schiff" stuff; or some kind of a scam; or anything but
what an actual investigation would reveal it to be. After all,
such an actual investigation would take time and effort, and why
bother?
'Cause, you know, how could it be true?! Everybody knows the
tax is on everything-- just like everybody knows Lee Harvey
Oswald killed Jack Kennedy acting as a lone nut-job with a magic
bullet, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caught the Roosevelt
administration by surprise, and they hate us for our freedoms.
The sad fact is, as Mark Twain observed, “It's easier to fool
people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
The state has been doing a whole lot of fooling for a long, long
time, and these good folks, as perceptive as they are on many
fronts, simply won't even consider the possibility that they've
been fooled about the legal nature of the tax. They find it
easier to dismiss the evidence of their own eyes than to
entertain the notion that everything they "know" about this
subject is wrong.
IT'S SUCH A SHAME. As another sage from Twain's era (Uncle Remus) wisely
observed, "It ain't what ya don't know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin'
on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain't so."
Here, the hurtin' is really big. Every day that this
story-of-the-century-- this opportunity of the century-- goes
unreported and uncapitalized-upon is another day in which the
state gets bigger and more dangerous when it could be getting
smaller and less dangerous, and another day in which the people
as a whole get weaker when they could be getting stronger.
Further, every day that this story goes unreported is another
day in which good Americans like Mike, who are actually on the
front line enforcing the supremacy of our law over an
increasingly lawless state like proper Americans, are shamefully
left by their brethren to do so unremarked and uncelebrated--
even as they defend the rights of the very pundits who scorn to
notice them.
It's such a shame.
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one
who is striking at the root.”
‑Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”
‑Louis Brandeis
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active
and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number
of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping
men."
–
Voltarine de Cleyre
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that
good men should look on and do nothing."
-John Stuart Mill
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A Much-Needed Twenty-Eighth Amendment
To The United States Constitution
HERE'S THE TEXT OF THE AMENDMENT I'M PROPOSING:
"The power of Congress to regulate Commerce with
foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with
the Indian tribes shall be exercised solely for the
purpose and to the effect of ensuring that such commerce
is unhindered and unburdened by any restrictions,
prohibitions or charges imposed from any quarter or by
any authority, other than such tariffs on foreign
imports as are elsewhere provided for herein."
The purpose of this amendment is to end the pernicious
resort to a misconstruction of the Commerce Clause by
Congress and the executive as a pretext for the assumption
of vast and never-authorized liberty-destroying powers, such
as drug prohibition, abusive “wetlands” regulations,
"gun-control" measures and much
else. The Commerce Clause was never actually a grant of such
powers.
Thomas Jefferson, discussing a proposal to create a national
bank, expressed the nature of the authority granted by the
commerce clause this way:
"...if this was [alleged to be] an exercise of the
power of regulating commerce, it would be void, as
extending as much to the internal commerce of every
State, as to its external. For the power given to
Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the
internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is
to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,)
which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but
to its external commerce only, that is to say, its
commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or
with the Indian tribes."
According to James Madison, the chief architect of the
Constitution, the purpose of the clause is "the relief of
the States which import and export through other States,
from the improper contributions levied on them by the
latter"-- in other words, preventing one State from
taxing goods passing through it into another.
This amendment will simply restore the Commerce Clause to
its proper and intended scope—preventing the several states
from interfering with the passage of goods and services
across their borders to or from the hands of their citizens
and residents.
PLEASE COPY THE TEXT ABOVE and send it to
your US congresscritters (rep and senators). As much as it might
be easier to get this pushed forward by the states, the only
method by that avenue calls for a Constitutional Convention,
not the proposing of a single amendment. The latter is what
we want (and we DON'T want the former). Have them tell you
what they do toward this purpose, and then you tell me, so I can coordinate their
effort with others and push for support nationwide.
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Illuminating
anniversaries of this week:
March 30- In 1842, anesthesia is used for the first time
in a surgical operation. In 1858, a pencil with an attached eraser
is patented. In 1867, the United States buys Alaska from Russia
for 2 cents per acre. (Of course, 2 cents was worth a good deal
more then than it is now...) In 1909, the Queensboro Bridge
between Manhattan and Queens opens for traffic. In 1939, the
Heinkel HE 100 sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph. In 1981,
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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
Test Your "Income" Tax IQ! CtC Warrior SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States "income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family! Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the liberating truth!! Click here to take the test |
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If You're Not Standing Up, Then You're Standing Down
..and "standing down" means "going down"
MY FRIENDS, IT IS 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.
However, unless YOU send those victories I can't post them. Unless YOU
stand up, your courage and commitment can't inspire anyone.
YOU WILL RECALL THAT FOR THE LAST YEAR OR SO I've been telling you that
we are in a transformational moment. Look around at what is going on
today and recognize the truth of what I say.
More than half the American population views the state as a threat.
As mainstream a publication as Forbes magazine is posting
articles about massive DHS ammunition and armored vehicle purchases.
The
LA Times,
NY Times,
Washington Times and other mainstream organs are editorializing
about Leviathan having grown too big, and gotten dangerously out-of-hand
(see stories at each of the preceding links). Rand Paul's filibuster
denouncing the lawlessness of Mordor-on-the-Potomac has prompted a major
buzz across the country.
Concurrently, this
CtC
community has been winning legal victories and refunds which are
ever-more significant and telling. Consider, for instance, the
half-dozen victories won during the last twelve months which qualified
for the EWWBL collection (starting
with episode 39). Every one of these is an especially illuminating
acknowledgement of the truth about the tax, and included in this handful
is a very significant two-time victory in a federal district court.
Things are happening!
HOW IT ALL SHAKES OUT is still up for grabs, though. This is not the
time for either complacency or paralysis, because both of those don't
amount to "doing nothing"-- instead they amount to "standing down". And
standing down means conceding the fight, letting all these eleventh-hour
sparks of light burn out unnurtured and the moment be a transformation
for the worse.
This is not the time for standing down. This is the time for a
FULL-COURT PRESS.
This is the time for educated American grown-ups to stand up tall and
firm, pulling others to their feet by their very gravity. This is the
time for leading the way.
STAND UP! SEND THOSE VICTORIES-- the new
ones, and those of the last few years as well. Click
here to learn how. Even if you don't have checks to scan, send your
testimonials. Learn how to do that
here.
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Tens of thousands of readers of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' have
taken control of their own resources, in accordance with, and respect for, the
law. The likely total amount reclaimed by these good Americans so far is upward
of several billion dollars.
A few of these good American men and women are generous enough to share
their victories in upholding the law, for the edification and inspiration of
everyone. At the moment the shared
refund checks, closing notices, and so forth total
DON'T YOU NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH, TOO??!!
Do you have a victory to share?
Click
here to learn how to do so.
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Illuminating
anniversaries of this week:
March 31- In 1774, Great
Britain orders the port of Boston closed in response to the Boston Tea
Party. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower is inaugurated. In 1917,
the United States buys the Danish West Indies for $25 million and
renames them the United States Virgin Islands. In 1918, Daylight
Saving Time debuts. In 1933, the FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps
boondoggle is established as a measure to relieve unemployment brought
about by the Fed-generated economic collapse known as the Great
Depression. It fails miserably. Programs of this very sort
interfered with the economic correction necessary to end the depression
and merely prolonged the calamity, leaving the unemployment rate
largely unchanged (it remained as high as 15% in 1937 while the
boondoggle make-work jobs continued, and jumped back up to 19% in 1938
when some of the artificial "New Deal" props like the CCC program were
cut back), but adding greatly to the size and lawlessness of the State.
In 1951, the first UNIVAC 1 is delivered to the United States Census
Bureau. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announces that he will
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be
their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge
gives.”
-James Madison
How About You?
Are You Governing Yourself?
Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power,
And Stand With The Founders
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:
Goading Gullible America Into War
by Patrick J. Buchanan
As President Obama departed for Israel, there came a startling
report. Bashar Assad’s regime had used poison gas on Syrian
rebels.
Two Israeli Cabinet members claimed credible evidence. Justice
Minister Tzipi Livni said, “It’s clear for us that (gas is)
being used. … This … should be on the table in the discussions.”
Yet, 72 hours later, the United States still cannot confirm that
gas was used, and Syria and Russia have called on U.N. Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon to investigate whether it was used, and if
so, by whom.
What’s going on here?
It
does not require Inspector Clouseau to surmise this may be a
fabrication to stampede the ever-gullible Americans into
plunging into Syria to win the war for the al-Qaida-saturated
Syrian rebels
But sucking America into Syria’s civil war is only a near-term
goal for the War Party, which is after larger game — greasing
the skids for a U.S. war on Iran.
Click here for the rest of this article
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Aren't you glad that YOU'VE
taken 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..."
Held over:
Disinformation-How it works
by Brandon Smith
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'The
Discourse of Voluntary Servitude'
by
Étienne de la Boétie
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Illuminating
anniversaries of this week:
April 1- In
1826, Samuel Morey patents an internal combustion engine. In 1867,
Singapore becomes a British colony. In 1924, Adolph Hitler is
sentenced to prison for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch"
(where he proceeds to write 'Mein Kampf"). In 1945, U.S. troops
land on Okinawa in the start of the last campaign in World War II.
In 1967, the United States DOT begins operations. In 1976, Apple
Computer is founded. In 1979, 98% of Iranian voters support the
overthrow of the U.S.-installed monarchy of the Shah and transforming
the country into an Islamic Republic. In 2001 the Netherlands
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