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Where Are All The Journalists? Where Is Your
Outrage?
We
haven't ever before had a trial for heresy in America, but one
is on the docket now...
BACK IN WHAT WE ALL LIKE TO THINK OF AS A DISTANT PAST, the ways
of which are universally viewed with derision, contempt and
condemnation as both simple-minded and barbaric, people were
sometimes accused of "heresy".
The crime was the profession of a belief which "the authorities"
wished to go unspoken.
The fictional pretext for criminalizing heresy was that the
heretic really knew better than what she errantly professed,
because the officially-approved beliefs are presumed to be
unmistakable established truths. They wouldn't be the
"officially-approved" beliefs otherwise, don't you see, and
anyone too dense to recognize them like everyone else has done
must know them to be such truths anyway, because of that
"official approval".
A heretic could therefore be properly punished for lying and
properly made to declare instead what the authorities knew she
really knew to be true. Further, the crime wasn't just an
individual perjury; a heretic's continued profession of her
errant beliefs, and her failure to recant and instead profess
the favored view, would infect the minds of others with her
seditious beliefs.
Perhaps the best known victim of this tyrannical practice was
Galileo Galilei. Galileo was accused of heresy for declaring his
belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun, contrary to the
official view at the time.
Sorry to say, Galileo recanted his perfectly correct conclusions
and was spared being burned at the stake. (He was sentenced to
house arrest for the rest of his life anyway, for having lied in
the first place as proven by his recantation, and as warning
against the next person who might be tempted to publicly declare
a belief contrary to the "official" one that everybody knows
to be true, the right to do so having been something else
Galileo had asserted as part of his "heresy").
Popular resistance to this manifestly improper rationalization
for the exercise of state power against an individual was
overcome with the sly claim that it was all about saving the
souls of the accused, since heresies were purportedly rejections
of God. This was combined with the unspoken but obvious threat
that anyone who objected too strongly to the assault on any
"heretic" could be readily tarred as being a heretic himself,
and would become the next in line for the attention of the
inquisitor.
The real goal, of course, was the suppression of information,
conclusions and beliefs which threatened to take hold in the
minds of others and undermine the status quo. Those in power
understand that the reason things are the way they are, with
themselves on top, is because of the way things are. They strive
mightily to prevent change-- especially change in the
perceptions of those capable of taking away their power.
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A "TRIAL" FOR HERESY WAS SOMETIMES KNOWN AS an "auto de fe"-- an
"act of faith". Once the relevant tribunal (the "inquisitor",
generally) had determined that the charged expression qualified
as heresy, the accused would be given a chance to recant her
disfavored belief and declare her adherence to a position the
powers-that-be found more to their liking. If stubborn, the
accused would be tortured for a while to help her remember that
deep down inside she knew the truth of the favored view and the
error of her own (or that deep down, she really didn't believe
her professed view at all).
If an accused heretic were to recant (under the influence, or
anticipatory fear, of the torture or other penalties of
continued contumaciousness), she might still be punished, but
not so badly as otherwise. If she did not, things would be the
worse for her...
Barbaric and simple-minded, right? Thing of the past, yes?
Indeed, this kind of thing is expressly prohibited in America by
virtue of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of expression
and conscience, isn't it?
NOT ANYMORE.
This very day Doreen Hendrickson faces a charge of heresy.
Doreen has been charged with criminal contempt of court for
refusing to recant a belief about a matter of law which she has
repeatedly declared under oath, and to replace it with a
contrary statement declaring that she believes something the
government would prefer her to say.*
Doreen was ordered to declare this government-dictated "belief"
over her sworn signature attesting that it is her own belief.
She was also ordered to lie about the fact that the recantation
and contrary, government-dictated declaration are by command of
the court, so as to perfect the appearance that these are things
done of her own accord and truly reflect what she herself really
believes to be true and correct.
What's more, the "belief" that Doreen was ordered to declare is
that her earnings qualify for the "income tax". Plainly, this is
something either objectively true or not, irrespective of Doreen
Hendrickson's beliefs, meaning that the order can have no
legitimate practical or legal purpose.
Further, Doreen is ordered to declare this "belief" on her own
tax form, the legal effect of which is to authorize the
government to impose a tax on those earnings. The government has
been unable to assess a tax on these earnings, even over the
course of the 11 years that have passed since some of them were
received-- because, in fact, her earnings do NOT qualify for the
tax, as this history, and the very fact that the government is
trying to force Doreen to agree that they do, should make clear
to anyone old enough to be out of kindergarten.
Thus, the coerced lies ordered by the government and the court
assault not only the very core of liberty-- freedom of speech
and conscience. They also assault the principle of "due process"
as well, under which no one can be forced to declare agreement
with a legal adversary's view of the facts.
More, these corrupt orders don't simply serve the state's
corrupt political interest overtly declared in the court's
order, which explained itself as intended to discourage others
who "imitate" Doreen and "file false tax returns"-- returns
which,
in their tens of thousands over a full decade now and even
when striven mightily against, the government has been
unable to overcome by any legal means and which are plainly NOT
"false", like
the
educated amended return that produced this complete refund--
with interest-- for Henry and Kathleen two-and-a-half weeks ago:
No, these corrupt orders have the added dimension of serving the
direct and immediate financial interest of those in control of
the state, as well, because that's really what this is all
about.
I THINK EVERY RATIONAL AMERICAN CAN AGREE that it's one thing
for the state to tell someone that she must declare what she
believes, and it's rather another for the state to tell someone
WHAT she must declare she believes. The one is mere "discovery".
The other is rankest tyranny.
Doreen's trial ended in a hung jury, thanks to her good fortune
in ending up with one or more real Americans being among those
into whose hands this case was put. But if everyone's right to
freedom of speech and conscience is to still be preserved when
the government comes back at her again next summer, we all need
to make some noise about this assault, and keep on making it.
“Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general
lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated;
asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been
forced upon them. But what is the lesson?…the people ought to be
enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after
establishing a government they should watch over it....It is
universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be
permanently free.”
-James Madison
*Motions filed in this case, which reveal the nature of the
charge and the history of the issues involved can be found
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here.
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Illuminating
anniversaries of this week:
November 25- In 1783, the last British troops leave New York
City. In 1867, Alfred Nobel patents dynamite. In 1874, the
"Greenback Party"-- a pro-inflation political organization-- is
established. Ten years later it is dis-established, but not before
occupying 25 seats in the U.S. House, in the aggregate, over that
decade. In 1950, the People's Republic of China commits troops to
the Korean War on the side of the North Koreans. In 1952, Agatha
Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.
It goes on to become the longest-running play in history. In 1986,
Edwin Meese announces that money from arms sales to Iran were illegally
diverted to the "Contra" rebels in Nicaragua. |
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Square Peg, Round Hole: Schools Failure To
Accommodate Students
by T. J. Hendrickson
Public schools are simply methods of indoctrinating children to
teach them to be submissive to the state. This paper will
explore how this works. Specifically, how controlling
curriculum controls students, and how the schools fail to
promote creativity and critical thinking. It will also
illuminate how education fails to account for different types of
learning styles, and how students don’t always handle being kept
together for extended periods of time. Using the book
Truancy as a portal, we’ll see how this process is done, and
the negative effects of this process both on the future of
American heritage and on the minds of the American youth.
Truancy tells the story of a fictional city ruled in a
tyrannical manner, and led by the “Mayor”. The Mayor leads a
board of people called “Educators”. The Educators sole job is
to make school as unpleasant and difficult for all students
enrolled, so they’ll be ready for the government to make their
lives as unpleasant as possible once they grow up. In the city
surrounding the school, there are constant patrols of
“Enforcers”, who are the henchmen of the Educators. Anthony S.
Bryk and Yeow Meng Thum explain this in detail in their article,
The Effects of High School Organization on Dropping out: An
Exploratory Investigation, where they say,
"… the nihilistic quality of contemporary school
environments tends to deny meaning to human action, foster
disillusionment, and produce a sense of rootlessness and
anomie.”
The Enforcers, in charge of security inside and outside of the
schools, are trained to be brutal and ruthless.
Truancy follows a young student named Tack. Tack doesn’t
quite understand why school is made to be so unnecessarily
difficult, and becomes disillusioned with it. Eventually, he
witnesses his younger sister, Suzie, die in an explosion that
was, at its core, caused by the Educators. Losing control of
his hatred for school, Tack runs away and eventually finds
himself in the ranks of the Truancy, an army of ex-students who
now wage a secret war against the Educators. The Truancy is
headed by their mysterious leader, Zyid.
Those who work for the schools, or those who somehow derived a
successful life from years of toiling in the education system,
insist that school needs to be rigorous, and every child must
enroll. They say that a child not in school loses valuable
education. And, more likely, they’ll say a child loses the
direly needed social interaction facilitated by hours-long close
contact with their peers, requiring them to adapt, compromise,
and be part of a cooperative. Public school workers, who are
actually government employees anyhow, and other proponents of
public schools consider these to be positive traits.
Friedenberg put this very well in his article Coming of age in
America: Growth and Acquiescence, when he said,
“An extremely important social function of the school -
and, I believe a major reason for our continued unquestioned
support of it - is to protect society from "subjectivity";
from people with an excessively personal style or approach
to situations, who threaten or antagonize their co-workers,
fellow citizens, and indeed, in extreme cases, society
itself ....”
Whether they recognize their motives or not, teachers and school
staff are molding a compliant citizenry.
Where would a school start if it wants to breed the next
generation of submissive citizens? Inside the student, of
course. In Truancy, TV, books, and newspapers are all
controlled by the Educators, and are strictly controlled to say
and print only the propaganda that the government and the
Educators want the people to hear. The same is true for real
life schools. By controlling what goes into a pupil’s brain,
you, by default, control what comes out. Thomas Jefferson
stated this succinctly when he said,
“The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion
of power into tyranny] are to illuminate, as far as
practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more
especially to give them knowledge of those facts which
history exhibits, that ... they may be enabled to know
ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their
natural powers to defeat its purposes.”
The architects of the public schools claim a desire to produce
critical thinkers, yet eschew any semblance of the classic
education advocated by Jefferson. The current rush to implement
nationwide the distinctly anti-Jeffersonian Common Core
curriculum is an example of efforts to leave behind education in
our heritage and further regimentize students. Diversifying
learning options would be good for solving this problem. Rather
than asking students to report on what the teacher says
happened, students should be encouraged to think on their own
and challenge what the teacher said in their reports.
Currently, many students are encouraged to simply regurgitate
what the teacher already said, and aren’t really required to
show any signs of comprehension or analysis of the material as
they toil under the watchful eye of school personnel.
In Truancy, when students are outside of school, they are
constantly monitored by the Enforcers, and can be tracked by
tattooed barcodes on the students’ wrists. Though the real
world hasn’t gotten quite that bad yet, RFID chips and GPS
tracking in phones makes it very easy to track anybody, anytime,
anywhere. Comparatively, all the technology in the real world
teaches pupils that they should be accustomed to their
whereabouts being constantly monitored. Inside a present day
school, there is barely a corner of the average public school
that isn’t monitored 24/7 by security cameras. These cameras
get students acclimated to the idea of Big Brother watching out
for them all the time, and students quickly learn to accept it
and view it as part of their day to day routine. Leslie I. Hill
puts this well in her article Power and Citizenship in a
Democratic Society:
“Such thinking forms ‘antecedent generalizations’ that
require scrutiny if we are to understand how citizens choose
to engage with their political leadership.”
On top of this, students learn in school that they really don’t
have any control over their environment, and they feel the same
is true of the real world.
In Truancy, the insides of the school are depicted as
being white walls, boring classrooms, and nothing of any
entertainment value anywhere. Much in the same manner, real
world schools do not encourage exploration or creativity. They
do not encourage color, or freedom of expression. It’s as if
they’re preparing students to accept and thrive in a mundane
office with a mundane job. Color and signs of who students are
inside is only seen in how students dress. Even that, though,
is partially controlled by the school staff. However, though a
lack of creativity and exploration does inhibit learning, more
prominent is the lack of multiple teaching styles found in the
schools of today. Though the average school can’t cater to
every single students individual needs, education and learning
is not a “one size fits all” situation. In Susan Hart’s article
A Sorry Tail: Ability, Pedagogy and Educational Reform, she
explores different levels of learning, and what some students
can be expected to achieve compared to what others can be
expected to achieve. Hart says,
“The emphasis on curriculum differentiation has also
served to harden the edges of categories of ability and
legitimate their use as a means of organizing 'appropriate'
teaching. Teachers have been encouraged to formulate their
goals for teaching differentially in terms of what they
expect the 'most able', 'average' and 'least able' will
learn.”
Though Hart’s article is focused on different academic levels,
she also explains how the environment in which a student is
placed can strongly affect his academic performance.
Though it’s detrimental that students are constantly monitored,
and have to study in a boring, lifeless institution, and
teachers thrive on this control, the schools in Truancy
exemplify a different aspect of public education, and the
negative effects on its subjects. In the book, students are
practically encouraged to betray each other, and are put into
situations in which snitching is good. Ultimately, this
encourages a harsh environment in which all the students are
compelled to spend a majority of their time. Though in real
life students are not encouraged to betray each other, schools
do little if anything to try to make school more congenial, and
attempt to minimize fights.
With these students freshly pushed into their own little boxes,
made to fit into the holes society already made for them to
fill, how will they handle the real world? How will they
operate in the workplace, where every worker is expected to be
just like the next? In a word, predictably. With every
generation of the citizenry expected to be the same, and
predictable, the government is able to easily predict what the
populace wants to hear and what will be necessary to keep them
in control and keep them complacent. William F Cox writes in
his book “Tyranny Through Public Education,”
“… the federal government has taken control of education
policy, decision-making, and taxation. As we shall soon
see, rights reserved either to the states and, most
importantly, to the people are not respectively enjoyed, but
are wrongfully preempted by government authority.”
This is true, and exhibits the fact that the government was
never intended to take control of education, and for the exact
that reasons that H.L. Mencken, a long time advocate of
alternative schooling or homeschooling says in his book H.L.
Mencken’s Smart Set Criticism, where he writes,
“The plain fact is that such an education is itself a
form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the
pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a
simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to
make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and
uninquisitive citizens.”
Because all schools force every student to simply conform to the
schools pre-planned curriculum, and pre-planned goals, schools
do not create innovation. They teach students to think inside
of the box that the education system has told them contains all
the options in the world. Then, students graduate from high
school, and move on to the workforce, where they’re told to
think outside of the box that they’ve grown up in. In the
workforce, all they can do is what somebody tells them to do,
because school never taught independent thought. In the words
of John Taylor Gatto,
“The truth is that schools don't really teach anything
except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me
because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools
as teachers and aides and administrators but the abstract
logic of the institution overwhelms their individual
contributions.”
Obviously, a world built by and filled with cookie cutter
servants filling mundane office jobs is doomed to live in a
bleak world, never pushing boundaries or innovating to build the
next generation. But what can be done to produce a more diverse
and intuitive citizenry? Encourage creativity in all its forms,
applaud innovation in school, and experiment with new education
methods. In effect, public education is a blank canvas. When
students come into elementary school, they’re given a black
marker, and a white marker, and told that with those two colors,
they can become anything they want to be, and go anywhere they
can imagine. But, what if one student needs a red marker to
complete his plans for his future? Many teachers say he’s a
truant, non-compliant, and a disruption to the order in school.
He’s told that he doesn’t need a red marker, and he’s looking at
things wrong. Instead of forcing students to see in black and
white, they should be provided with every color imaginable.
Rather than being told that the world is black and white, and
they need to find their favorite shade of gray, students should
be told that that the world is a canvas, and they should use all
the colors to paint what they want to see.
In the book Truancy, the main character, Zyid, has a
prophetic quote in which he says,
“Children of this city, for most of our waking lives, all
of us have suffered in academic shackles. Our parents, our
teachers, the mayor – adults of all kinds – have all worked
to keep us in these invisible chains. … We are driven like
cattle into the classrooms to obey and feign respect for
teachers that treat us like wayward beasts. The educators
have always patiently taught us of our own inferiority, to
the point where many of us had begun to believe their
words. Tonight, we’ve changed the curriculum.”
After a couple generations of changing the curriculum, what
would the current world look like? Gone would be the boring,
gray, square office buildings. In their place would be creative
imagination-inspired buildings that exemplify the mind of the
architect, rather than the world of the business. And, business
itself would change. Business would no longer be left as a one
dimensional experience, where workers go every day to push
paper, go home, and repeat the next day. Instead, workers would
go to the office and work on new, innovative ideas. Driven to
keep up with changing trends, workers would think outside the
box to not only be efficient, but to be imaginative. Then,
they’d go home that night in anticipation of the next day, with
their minds filled with the excitement of knowing that they are
helping to push the world into the future by expressing what
they think will create a colorful and diverse era unrivaled by
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What Do The People Do About The Rogue State?
The most important
question facing Americans today
I HAD THIS
QUESTION POSED TO ME BY AN EMAIL CORRESPONDENT the other day. I guess this just
shows how poor a job I've done at communicating, because I have been trying to
shout the answer to this one from the rooftops for a long time.
That answer is
simple: The People impose restraint on the rogue state by choosing-- one by
one-- to cease voluntarily turning control over their resources to the state,
and choosing instead to retain
control over those resources. This is done by
refusing-- one by one-- to engage in "income tax" excisable activities (and refusing to
blindly or fearfully allow their activities to be treated or taken as excisable
activities upon which the tax arises, when they really are not).
The refusal of
individual Americans to voluntarily engage in excisable activities forces the state to resort to
highly-politically-accountable, highly-politically-vulnerable alternatives
revenue sources. These include options like direct, apportioned taxes (which will not be tolerated by the people or
approved by Congress at $multi-trillion annual volumes), and/or increased
revenue tariffs (which can raise amounts adequate for legitimate state needs,
but are very self-regulating, since consumers naturally choose
domestic product alternatives when higher tariffs raise
the prices of imports beyond a certain point).
This solution is precisely the one intended and provided for
by the Founders-- who didn't impose the taxation rules in the
US Constitution just so they could admire their
handwriting. They put those rules in place in direct
anticipation of state behavior of the sort with which we are
now plagued.
As even so odious a character as Hamilton pointed out in Federalist #21:
“Imposts, excises, and, in
general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a
fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them.
The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own
option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources. ...If duties
are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the
product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within
proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any
material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a
natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
What we've got today is simply the direct (and perfectly
predictable) consequences of NOT adhering to the Founders'
plan. As Frederick Douglass trenchantly observed,
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact
measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
We've got plenty of injustice and wrong these days. But our fix to the problem
was bought for us with blood a few hundred years ago.
All
we have to do is stop playing along with the rogue state's
false (and rather embarrassingly crude) paradigm concerning who owns what,
and what powers to tax have really been granted. As soon as enough of us
quit endorsing that nonsense,
it's all good.
By the way, let's not
forget that not only is adhering to the Founders' plan
the very essence of wisdom, it is also a simple matter
of acting in conformity with the law...
Victories Recently Added To The
Hundreds
And Hundreds And Hundreds Previously Posted
(out of the thousands and thousands and thousands
being won by Americans across the country for the last ten
years):
L. W. shares his first victories on behalf of the rule of
law: Two complete refunds of everything withheld from him
during 2012 and put into the hands of Kansas and the United
States.
The filed docs producing these victories are posted at links
found beneath each of the checks shown below, as is always
the case when those docs are supplied to me for this purpose
by the upstanding victor. But I'm going to precede those
checks and doc sets with one of the items included in each
filing this time, because these explanatory notes with which
some accompany their filings do so thoroughly debunk the
absurd notion that some outside the CtC community persist in
harboring to the effect that even the tens of thousands of
ongoing victories must somehow be all some sort of mistake.
Enjoy:
See the filing that produced this
May 24, 2013 debut victory
here.
See the filing that
produced this May 23, 2013 victory
here.
K.
& S. G.
See the
docs that produced K. and S.'s May 24, 2013 debut victory
here.
It will be noticed that this refund is about $800 shy of the total
withheld and the couple's corresponding claim. They say they made a
mistake handling the 1099-R, and also had a few hundred nicked off this
refund for an alleged liability from a previous year. K. says he'll be
doing some amending...
Tyler
This
April 30, 2013
victory for 2012 is Tyler's first on behalf of the rule of law!
Bill
Harding
See the filing that led to this
May 27, 2013 victory
here
(Bill deliberately declined to recapture what had been withheld
from him as the FICA income taxes, as he is currently accepting
the benefits from that program and feels this is the right way
to deal with that situation). Enjoy Bill's federal victory for
2008, and his
Michigan victories for
2005,
2006,
2008,
2009,
2011 and
2012.
Noel
Berube
See the filing that produced this
May 24, 2013 debut victory
here.
D & K
This August 23, 2013 victory of everything withheld and paid-in, plus interest, is on an
amended filing correcting a pre-educated original
James G.
Travis and Angie
Scott
This August 16,
2013 victory was on an amended return-- see it
here.
Henry and Kathleen
Click
here
to see the amended filing that produced this September 9, 2013 complete refund
with interest.
Click
here
to see a few more examples of the
tens of
thousands of times
CtC-educated
Americans have enforced the Constitution and restrained the
state in accordance with the Founders' plan over the last ten years.
Click
here to see a couple score fully-documented instances in which
the tax agency involved tried hard to resist issuing those
refunds to educated claimants, the progress and outcomes of
which nicely illustrate who's got the law on their side and
who doesn't.
But, hey! Don't forget the "official
position" on the matter:
Do you have a victory to share?
Click
here to learn how to do so.
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the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
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JD
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the law. THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice.”
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SPOTLIGHT on ACTIVISM
CtC Warrior David Sides
says, "Bumper stickers? Nice, but NOT BIG ENOUGH!"
(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....)
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Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri
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At a
rally outside the Alamo
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CtC Warrior
Brian H. in Alaska has a great INDOOR approach to spreading the
transformational truth. Here's Brian's desk at his workplace:
You
notice the big glass container to the right of the CtC? Tasty freebies
for Brian's co-workers-- candy and brain-candy all in one:
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LATEST 'TAX TIP'
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...
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Illuminating
anniversaries of this week:
November 27- In 1870, the New York Times dubs baseball America's
National Game. 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is
held in New York City. In 1965, Pentagon officials inform the
Johnson administration that a "surge" is necessary for success in
Vietnam.
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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774)
(How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
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2012 to March 1, 2013) show approximately:
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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed,
second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as
self-evident.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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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 government as a threat.
As mainstream a publication as Forbes magazine is posting
articles about massive DHS ammunition and armored vehicle purchases.
Denunciations of the NSA violations are features in every major MSM
organ.
Even before Edward Snowden's documentation of particular crimes being
committed against the American people the
LA Times,
NY Times,
Washington Times and other mainstream organs were editorializing
about Leviathan having grown too big, and gotten dangerously out-of-hand
(see stories at each of the preceding links). In the Spring Rand Paul's filibuster
denouncing the lawlessness of Mordor-on-the-Potomac prompted a major
buzz across the country, and in July Justin Amash shocked Washington by
very nearly defunding a huge portion of the illegal surveillance state's
crimes.
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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The Willingness Of Some People To Trade Liberty For Convenience Is
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Some Observations About Current Political Efforts To
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"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on
taxes."
-Thomas Paine
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Ever Wonder How Much An Unrestrained
FedState Would Like To Tap You For?
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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'?"
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
REGARDING MONEY
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
November 28- In 1895, the first American automobile race is run--
54 miles of thunder and speed. The winner hit the finish line
after approximately 10 hours of hard driving. In 1907, scrap-metal
dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. In 1979, an
Air New Zealand DC 10 crashes at full speed into Mt. Erebus, Antarctica,
due to a navigation error, killing all 257 on board. As can be
plainly seen from the image below, actual high-speed
large-commercial-aircraft crashes leave a whole lot of obvious wreckage:
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The Real History Of Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING DAY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE special days of the
year, and not because of the great food. The real virtues
of this unique American celebration lie in the lessons in
humility and maturity offered by its history. Offered, that
is, by its true history, not the "Thank God (sorry,
politically incorrect-- make that, "Thank Fortuitous Random
Chance"...) we were saved from starvation by the generosity
of our neighbors-- see how wonderful socialism can be!"
lie about the feast we commemorate each fourth Thursday in
November, which is systematically drilled into the head of
every American child who has been put into the hands of the
Obedience Training and Approved Knowledge Implantation
Centers otherwise known as "public schools".
In fact, the feast we commemorate had nothing whatsoever to
do with "generosity"-- indeed, the truth is almost the very
opposite. What we actually commemorate on Thanksgiving is
the effect of the Plymouth Rock colonist's having come to
recognize that only when each person looks to his or her own
interests, and has a secure claim to the proceeds of his or
her own efforts, can a society truly prosper.
In very brief summary, the Plymouth Rock colony began as a
commune, organized under the principle that the proceeds of
every individual's labors would be claimed of right by the
community as a whole, and then redistributed in equal
measure to every member. This system lasted for several
years, during which the colony grew ever more hungry and
impoverished until, in 1623 and on the verge of the colony's
failure, this feel-good foolishness was replaced by formal
acceptance of the natural-law principle that no one has the
right to dictate the disposal of the product of another's
labor.
With that, the ruinous pretense that the community had a
rightful claim on the food produced by each member was
abandoned, and the colonist's rights to their own production
was secured. Only then did the colony have its first
bountiful harvest, for which the members properly gave
thanks.
It is the beneficial consequence of the Plymouth Rock
Colony's epiphany concerning the destructive follies of
socialism and the rewarding virtues of natural law that we
have celebrated ever since. William Bradford, governor of
the colony during these years, expresses the lesson taken by
these ancestors of the American revolutionaries of a
century-and-a-half hence with these words:
"The experience that has had in this common course
and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst
Godly and sober men, may well evince the Vanities of the
conceit of Plato's and other ancients, applauded by some
of later times; that the taking away of propertie, and
bringing into commone wealth, would make them happy and
flourishing, as if they were wiser than God."
Needless to say, the experience of the Plymouth Rock Colony
was firmly in the American memory at the time that our
founding principles were spelled out and inscribed into
permanence in our great chartering documents-- the
Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation,
and our federal and various state Constitutions. Thus,
prominent among these core principles is that no government
(which is, in theory, the agent of the community acting as a
whole) has a claim of right to any property other than its
own, or that produced by the exercise of its own unique
prerogatives.
The virtuous lessons learned by the Plymouth Rock Colony's
near-disastrous experiment with a fancied "alternative" to
this basic reality of natural law, and the wisdom of our
Founders in taking those lessons to heart and hardwiring
them into our American legal structure are well worth giving
thanks for. So, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, and
hope that it finds you all well, and leaves you all
comfortably stuffed with the good food and good cheer for
which this holiday is casually and warmly known.
But I also hope that you all dwell for a few minutes on the
more sober aspects of this commemoration, and especially see
to it that your children understand the truth. It has been
famously and wisely observed that those who allow themselves
to be ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.
(A somewhat more comprehensive discussion of the history
of Thanksgiving, by the excellent Richard J. Maybury, can be
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Last Word
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams,
Architect of the First American Revolution
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