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The News
Current Events and Continuing Education for February 21
through March 13, 2014
“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
Friends, I'll be addressing the Western Pennsylvania Liberty
Forum on March 13 at 7 PM. Visit
wplf.net for more
information, and I hope to see you there!
Follow and share losthorizons on Twitter
here,
and on Facebook
here!
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those
who receive and live upon taxes."
- Thomas Paine
C'mon!
CtC can't be right!
You're crazy!
If
CtC were actually
right,
it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying the truth for years
on end,
and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (thirteenth)
edition of
CtC!
I'm delighted when anyone wishes to share what I have posted here with
others! Sharing this page is an important means of moving toward the
restoration of the rule of law-- PLEASE DO IT!! But I'd appreciate your
doing so by directing your friends here themselves, rather than by copying
and emailing the material.
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You can't understand the present if you
don't understand the past...
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 28- In 1784,
John Wesley charters the Methodist Church. In 1827, the B&O
Railroad is incorporated. In 1922, Egypt gains its independence
from Britain. In 1935, nylon is invented. In 1985, the
Provisional IRA attacks the Royal Ulster Constabulary station at
Newry with mortars. In 1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden is
assassinated in Stockholm. In 1993, the BATF attempts to
execute a bogus "firearms violation" warrant by way of a
massive, no-knock raid on the home of the Branch Davidian
religious sect in Waco, Texas, as a publicity stunt. In 1998,
the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft makes its first flight. In
2013, Pope Benedict XVI becomes the first holding his office to
resign in nearly six centuries.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
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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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Word From The Community--Your Letters,
Commentaries And Other Good Things
Some great stuff from Warriors to me and to the
world...
Hi Pete,
I work for a department in the City of
Los Angeles, CA. During November 2013 the computers in my
office were upgraded to Windows 7. After the upgrade I
discovered that access to the Lost Horizons website was
BLOCKED! So far, no other websites regarding the truth about
the taxes are blocked - only Lost Horizons. Very telling.
I submitted amended returns for 2010,
2011, 2013 during July 2013. California is on board and did the
right thing; however, I think they lost my 2011 amended so I
recently resubmitted it. The feds properly refunded 2010
monies; however, an errant IRS agent (Layne Carver) is acting
like it is his money and is alleging frivolous without of course
pointing out anything. After my response he stated he was not
going to respond anymore! I told him he was required to let me
know exactly was what frivolous about my returns, that 2010 was
properly refunded - so he cannot say that 2011/12 is frivolous
filed in the same manner. I included a copy of the check and
letter the Treasury Dept. issued with my refund for 2010 AND I
copied the Treasury Inspector General. This was December,
haven't heard back yet. However, on January 27, when I mailed
out my 2013 easy versions of state and fed, I resubmitted those
returns (with 2nd Submission written across the top) and if
necessary will continue to resubmit them until my refunds are
properly issued.
By the way, it is also interesting that
we cannot e-file with Form 4852. I found that out when I
attempted to e-file with Turbo Tax this year.
-Tonya
CONGRATULATIONS
ON THOSE VICTORIES, TONYA!!
Very interesting about lh being uniquely
blocked-- I have often wondered how prevalent that kind of
silent suppression might be... (And I hope everyone reading this
recognizes that it is ON THEM to overcome this corrupt effort to
keep the real truth about the tax out of view while allowing
distracting and discouraging "tax honesty" nonsense to fill
people's minds instead, by pro-actively sharing lh posts and
links.)
And there's
that name "Layne Carver" again! I've had three or four people
mention this name to me recently, all from different areas, and
all in contexts like this one. This leads me to suspect that Mr.
or Ms. Carver is the new "Dennis Parizek"-- the signature stamp
of a possibly former IRS worker used to provide the impression
that an actual person is taking responsibility for what no one
really will, such as inane and bogus "frivolous
assertions calculated to
distract someone while the two-year window in which a suit can
be filed quietly closes.
Also
interesting news about Turbo-Tax-- it used to be that if the
right data was entered, the program would produce a 4852
accordingly. Since the form is
very much a legitimate Treasury Department form
(and one used by an awful lot of people every year) this is very
curious. I wonder if there are any other routinely-used forms
the TurboTax folks have been persuaded to treat as non-existent?
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From a recent post on the National Forum:
Here is an email
I sent to Laurence Vance of LRC, in
response to his latest article featured on that site:
Libertarian Answers
Hi Larry,
Your recent Libertarian Answers article
grossly misrepresents a true libertarian view of taxes, SS, Medicare
and Obamacare. The pretense under which you first ask the questions
and then answer them relating to these subjects is that they are
imposed upon the whole American people in a general, direct,
upon-their-rights fashion. This pretense finds its origin not from a
libertarian ideology but from a socialist one. After all, should the
few powers granted to a limited government based on the concept of
federalism be viewed from the ideology of libertarianism/classical
liberalism, of which the Founder’s were card carrying members, or
socialism?
So let’s begin with the income tax. Historically, an
income tax under classical liberalism was an excise on privileges
measured by the income produced by the exercise of that particular
privilege. An income tax under socialism is a direct tax on all that
comes in because you exist within the jurisdiction of the state. Two
dramatically different types of taxes. The SCOTUS has repeatedly
ruled, both before and after the 16th Amendment, that the American
income tax is an excise. Congress has said the same by never
apportioning such a tax, and the executive branch also, by enforcing
it in the manner of an excise: only upon actual federal knowledge or
sworn claims of the exercise of federal privilege occurring. This
exercise of government privilege tax (duty) was first utilized by
the British Liberals during the eighteenth century Enlightenment
period as expressed by Blackstone in his description of the indirect
taxes in current use in Britain in his Commentaries. See the ninth
excise or duty in his list.
So if the income tax is an excise and enforced as such
in American Law and was viewed by the titans of Classical Liberalism
as popular taxation because it met that long list of requirements
conducive to limited government and liberty (see C. Adams, For Good
and Evil, Chapter 28) than any other tax ever devised, why don’t you
frame your answers within that context? I’ll give you a couple of
examples using your questions:
Should the income tax be changed to a flat tax?
Libertarian answer: Constitutionally the income tax is an excise and
is limited to and imposed upon the exercise of federal privilege.
Its nature is such that it cannot be changed or converted into a
flat tax, which is inherently a direct tax, without prompting the
constitutional requirement of apportionment for direct taxes.
How much more should the “rich” pay in income taxes
than the “poor”? Libertarian answer: Historically and traditionally,
those who engaged in the exercise of government privilege and reaped
handsomely from it paid a higher rate than those that barely eked
out a subsistence living income from the exercise of such
privileges. Such graduation was based upon the principle that the
purpose of government was to preserve and protect the rights and
property of all the people, not to exorbitantly enrich privileged
individuals using government powers to achieve these ends. Its
purpose was to check the economic self-interest of privileged
persons to prevent the likely corruption of these lofty ends. In
other words, government was not an institution to be looked upon as
a source for individual or corporate wealth. To discourage this
natural tendency the more income earned from government privileged
activities the higher the rate. During WWI the rate on privileged
income over one million was nearly 77%. Its purpose was to
discourage, through taxation, the dangerous development of a
military industrial complex with interests other than the protection
of liberty and property.
That pretty much covers the income tax. As far as the
others, SS, Medicare, FUTA, and Obamacare, they are just specialized
income taxes falling upon government employees, officers, and others
within that general class. From a libertarian understanding of the
limited powers of the federal government, it is not difficult to
perceive that these would be the only individuals who the federal
government would have jurisdiction over anyway. Those in the private
sector are far removed from this jurisdiction; but, with the eager
consent and prodding of the feds, can enter into this very limited
jurisdiction voluntarily by claiming to be an “employee” working for
an “employer” who pays “wages”. These are all custom defined Words
of Art and, conveniently, homonyms of common words in common
parlance with common meanings.
So the libertarian answer to any questions regarding
these subjects would go like this: Since Congress can regulate and
tax the employees and officers of the federal government, and SS,
Medicare, FUTA and Obamacare are representative of this jurisdiction
and can constitutionally only apply to this privileged class, the
only concern for citizens operating in the private sector and
directly unaffected would be that the administration of these
socialistic programs would increase the cost and social influence of
government to an unreasonable extent. (One must consider that if the
American people realized that the above was true and did not
ignorantly, yet voluntarily, enter into this jurisdiction, then
those to whom these laws actually applied (federal government
employees, et al) would protest so loudly that these laws would not
remain long on the books. Why? Because the taxes would be so high to
maintain such socialistic programs amongst such a limited class of
individuals, that no one could practically afford or would desire to
work for the federal government anymore versus the private sector.)
One more note regarding this question and answer:
Should funding for Planned Parenthood be cut since the organization
performs abortions? Libertarian answer:
There should not be any government funding of any
private organization in the first place.
Once a private organization receives government funding
it becomes a public instrumentality subject to the rules and
regulations of public instrumentalities, such as taxation.
There are thousands of libertarians out there just like
me who understand the income tax (and all its trailers) as I have
explained above and would appreciate it, as would I, if you would
properly represent the libertarian ideology when it comes to these
subjects. I suggest you start with this file:
http://losthorizons.com/Documents/The16th.htm.
I’m still a big fan of your writing, though. Keep on
carrying on in the pursuit of freedom and liberty.
Best regards,
Gregory Sutton
GREG, YOU MAKE SOME GREAT POINTS in this polite and
instructive outreach effort. I especially like your effort to
illustrate how the
legal reality of the limited taxing authority informs,
harmonizes and interacts with other limited and limiting
characteristics of our federal creation! That is one of
the most important concepts to be understood from
CtC, and you do a wonderful job of bringing it home in this
letter. I hope Mr. Vance takes this to heart, learns the truth,
and puts it to use in his future writing.
***
Hi Peter,
Thanks for splashing my documents on
LH.com again on the page
A
Challenge To The Common Sense And Intellectual Integrity Of
Skeptics, Doubters And Ostriches,
I'm beginning to feel like a celebrity.
As a followup to my US Treasury
check of over $6k received in December, yesterday I received my
restoration of properties check from the state of LA. It was
for $4.2k with my original liability to them of $4.9k. My
federal AGI decreased by 36% (thanks to you) from elimination of
dividends and cap gains on my 1040X. On my LA amended return
generated on their website which I filed immediately after
receipt of my US Treasury check, it indicated, and I printed the
amended return, a refund of approximated 44%, or $2.2k. I even
called to report that there was an apparent discrepancy, but
they said no problem basically. The $4.2k check received is
about 86% of $4.9k. This keeps getting better and better. It
appears the amount is in error by $2k or so but I will let them
figure that out on their own.
I was in such a hurry to deposit it I
forgot to scan it but I can and will scan the check stub and
envelope and send to you along with my cover letter within a
week or so.
FYI I have been spreading the word at
work, sub rosa of course, and with family, friends and
neighbors. Three 1040Xs from two neighbors and one acquaintance
have gone out recently due to my proselytizing, including one
for $12.3k and another for $34k, both for salary withholding. I
also dropped off a copy of CtC for a New Orleans Saints player
and a New Orleans Pelican player at Saints' headquarters near my
house. Both are paid in the tens of millions so it will be
interesting to see if they act on this.
All the best to you, Doreen and the
family,
Gary D.
YOU ARE A CELEBRITY, GARY-- like every
CtC Warrior,
you are a true American patriot and defender of the Rule of Law.
YOU are the man on whose character the Founders relied when
giving us, "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it..."
Addressing everyone else now, here is Gary's new
victory:
The cover letter with which Gary accompanied his
Louisiana amended return which yielded this refund can be seen
here.
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The
Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment
IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of
energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool
families and community groups, your neighbors, your
family members, your pastors and
co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs,
members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia,
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone
in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth
movement, other activist movements
and everyone
else,
you have only yourself to blame for your
troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which
you might complain. It's on you.
WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note
explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic
is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI
(weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the
harder I work, the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson
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A teacher asked
her 6th grade class how many of them were fans of Big Government.
Not really knowing what a Big Government fan is, but wanting to be liked by
the
teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little TJ.
The teacher asked Little TJ why he has decided to be different...again.
Little TJ said, "Because I'm not a fan of Big Government."
The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a fan of Big Government?"
Little TJ said, "Because I'm a libertarian."
The teacher asked him why he's a libertarian. Little TJ answered, "Well,
my Dad's a libertarian and my Mom's a libertarian, so I'm a libertarian."
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your dad were a moron and
your mom were an idiot, what would that make you?"
With a big smile, Little TJ replied, "That would make me a fan of Big
Government."
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
March 1- In 1781, the
Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation. This
day in 1803 is designated as that of Ohio's admission to the
union as the 17th of the several states, but the actual
congressional action on the admission didn't take place until
August 7, 1953. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returns to France
after escaping his imprisonment on Elba. In 1867, Nebraska is
admitted to the union as the 37th of the several states (36th,
really-- see the Ohio entry above). In 1872, Yellowstone
becomes the first United States park. In 1912, Albert Berry
makes the first parachute jump from an aircraft in flight. In
1932, the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped. In
1941, the first FM radio station in America begins broadcasting
(WSM-FM in Nashville, Tennessee). In 1954, Puerto Rican
nationalists open fire on United States representatives from the
visitor's gallery during a session of Congress, wounding five.
In 1966, the Soviet Venera 3 space craft becomes the first to
land (by crashing) on the surface of another planet. In 1971,
the Weather Underground sets off a bomb in a men's room in the
U.S. Capitol building. In 1974, seven suspects are charged with
conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate
break-in.
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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
Some Tips On Filing Educated Rebuttals And Claims
A helpful consideration of certain core "income" tax
dynamics
1. DON'T USE A FILING AS A PLACE TO MAKE ARGUMENTS (or
imagine this to be necessary or wise)! As pointed out on
FAQ Page 2:
Q. Is there any need or
virtue to including legal arguments in a filing
supporting or justifying what is being reported?
A. In a word, no. Once a testimonial
declaration as to the factual matters with which the
filing is concerned is made (by way of the return) and
appropriate testimonial declarations in rebuttal of any
allegations that amounts were received during the
relevant period as a consequence of engaging in a
taxable activity (by way of affidavits in response to
"information returns", such as Forms 4852, or corrective
responses to 1099s, etc.), the tax agencies are required
as a matter of law to accept that testimony as
definitive and final.
Further, even if the
agencies were NOT required to accept the filer's
testimony, a tax agency/government that wishes to assert
a competing claim to what has been established by the
filer's declarations would bear every burden of proving
its claim.
Unless someone has already conceded the point in his or
her filed return, or given it up by default through
non-filing, the burden of proving that IT has a claim to
withheld money is ALWAYS on the government in any
dispute situation. The return will have formally
asserted the filer's continuing ownership and right to
possess that property:
“Even if you do not otherwise have to file a
return, you should file one to get a refund of any
Federal income tax withheld.”
From the instructions for the 2002 Form 1040
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26 CFR 301.6402-3
Special Rules applicable to income tax
(a) In the case of
a claim for credit or refund filed after June 30,
1976--
(1) In general, in the case of an overpayment of
income taxes, a claim for credit or refund of such
overpayment shall be made on the appropriate income
tax return.
...
(5) A properly executed individual, fiduciary, or
corporation original income tax return or an amended
return (on 1040X or 1120X if applicable) shall
constitute a claim for refund or credit within the
meaning of section 6402 and section 6511 for the
amount of the overpayment disclosed by such return
(or amended return).
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Senator Clark: "Of course, you withhold not
only from taxpayers but nontaxpayers."
Mr. Hardy: "Yes."
...
Senator Danaher: "I have only one other thought
on that point. In the event of withholding from the
owner of stock and no taxes due ultimately, where
does he get his refund?" Mr. Friedman:
"You're thinking of a corporation
or an individual?"
Senator Danaher: "I am talking about an
individual."
Mr. Friedman: "An individual will file an income
tax return, and that income tax return will
constitute an automatic claim for refund."
Excerpted from a Withholding Tax hearing
on August 21 and 22, 1942 before
a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Finance on the withholding provisions of the 1942 Revenue Act.
Missouri Democratic Senator Bennett
Clark, Connecticut Republican Senator John A. Danaher
and testifying witnesses Charles O. Hardy of the Brookings
Institution and Milton Friedman of the Treasury Department
Division of Tax Research.
The filer does not have to prove his ownership and right
to that property-- it never stops belonging to him
unless and until a competing claim could be, and is,
proven both: 1.) to be possible (that is, until it is
proven that he actually engaged in a relevant taxable
activity) and 2.) to have been asserted in a legally
meaningful way (that is, until it is proven that a valid
assertion of the government's contrary alleged claim can be, and
has been, made in a legally meaningful way). See
this for more on "asserted
in a legally meaningful way".
Further, this same dynamic applies anytime a tax agency
suggests that it gets to assume ownership of anyone's
property (either by taking that property or by keeping
it) in the face of a proper assertion of ownership and
claim for refund by the annual filer. "We
changed your account [to our benefit]...", for
instance, doesn't mean anything unless preceded by,
"We proved that you did something making you beholden to
us for $x.xx, that we have the authority to assert our
claim despite your relevant filed return(s) and self
assessment(s), and that we did, in fact assert that
claim in a legally meaningful manner."Otherwise, it's really just, "We're implying that we
have some god-like authority to assume ownership of
whatever we wish, and we hope you've been sufficiently
brow-beaten and confused by the life-long conditioning
to which we have subjected you to imagine that this
could be true..."
(NOTE: See 'About 1040s And Claiming Refunds' in
CtC for more on this subject.)
To include a cover letter DESCRIBING what is being said
in a filing, is one thing. Arguing what should be
understood or concluded by or from what the entries made
in a filing, or explaining why those entries are what
they are is quite another, being both pointless and
possibly counterproductive. Argument or explanation
suggests that a filer feels a need to persuade the tax
agency to agree with him-- which would reflect (and
telegraph) a complete misunderstanding of the filing
process and the agency's role within it, and invite
opportunistic pretenses of DIS-agreement or
misconstruction of what the filings actually says.
2. IF YOU'RE ALREADY AT "$0" TAX there's no point in
claiming the "standard deduction" (or any other
deduction)-- one gets no credit or other benefit from
calculating or claiming a "negative" amount of tax.
3. FILE SINGLE. Someone who hasn't engaged in taxable
activities will have nothing to gain from filing in any
other way, and to file "joint" simply invites potential
complications should it be discovered that anything was
overlooked or mistakes were made in the original filing
and and amendment becomes necessary.
4. DON'T INCLUDE ANYTHING IN OR WITH A FILING that has
entries made by anyone but you (such as W-2s, 1099s or
other "information returns") unless you know and believe
those entries to be true, complete and correct (which of
course would not be the case for any "information
returns" being rebutted). See
this for more.
5. SEND SCANS OF YOUR VICTORIES IN UPHOLDING THE RULE OF
LAW BY WAY OF ACCURATE, HONEST EDUCATED FILINGS TO ME
FOR SHARING WITH YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS!!! See
this to learn how and why.
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:
Coup in Kiev
Mobs rule the day-- but a peaceful solution is possible
by
Justin Raimondo
Ukraine is exploding, and the force of the eruption may
plunge not only the country but also Europe and the US into an abyss
out of which there is no easy extrication.
First, a primer for those who have missed the rapidly
escalating events of the past few days: mobs of protesters have
taken over Kiev and the government of Viktor Yanukovich has been
effectively overthrown. Impeached by the Parliament, and opposed now
even by members of his Party of Regions, Yanukovich has fled the
presidential palace for parts unknown (probably to his home town of
Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border). The police and
all signs of organized authority have simply disappeared from the
streets of the city: armed bands dressed in medieval armor, carrying
bats, crowbars, and sometimes guns roam the streets, dispensing
victor’s "justice" to anyone perceived as a Yanukovich supporter.
It’s a coup d’etat, pure and simple, the violent
overthrow of a duly elected official, and it is being hailed not
only by that champion of "democracy," the United States government,
but also by our clearly biased media, which is using this as a
bludgeon to beat the hated Vladimir Putin – the latest in a series
of overseas villains, second only to Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.
The Western media can hardly contain its collective
glee: "journalists" eagerly tweeted a photo of a golden toilet
supposedly found on the grounds of Yanukovich’s looted estate.
The photo is a fake: it has nothing to do with the
fallen Ukrainian leader. The quickness – and carelessness – with
which the photo was seized on by members of the Fourth Estate speaks
volumes about their biases and their willingness to jump on any
bandwagon so long as its being propelled by their bosses friends in
Washington.
Click here to read the rest of this article
***
Now, take the warning in this article
seriously, because it is wisdom.
Understand that the ONLY thing that will
keep this sort of thing from happening
is YOU keeping the misbehaving state SMALL.
Aren't you REALLY, REALLY glad YOU'VE
taken control
of how much of YOUR WEALTH facilitates Washington's
misbehavior?!
If you haven't, what the hell is wrong with
you?!
Do you not understand how IRRESPONSIBLE YOU ARE
for not having done so?
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??!!
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
*****
'The
Discourse of Voluntary Servitude'
by Étienne de la Boétie
*****
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
March 2- In 1836, The
Republic of Texas declares its independence from Mexico. In
1861, Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom in Russia. In 1901,
the Platt Amendment, providing that U.S. troops will not leave
Cuba unless it agrees to ongoing United States control, passes
Congress. In 1956, Morocco declares its independence from
France.
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This And That
Total Historical Awareness; Ratification of the 16th,
Redux; A little Closing Art in Sochi
VARIOUSLY IN NAZI GERMANY, THE USSR UNDER LENIN AND
STALIN, AND THE USA DURING WILSON'S WAR YEARS, anyone dissenting or
organizing against the persecution or genocide of Jews, homosexuals,
Gypsies, Cossacks, White Russians and resistors of collectivization,
or against American involvement in Europe's "World War I" and/or the
then-relatively-novel and very controversial proposition
that unwilling American boys could be conscripted
and sent to kill or die at Wilson's command, would be deemed an
enemy of the state. In such cases, the surveillance capability of
the state would be bent to the tasks of identifying such persons,
suppressing their speech, tracking their movements and their
communications so as to identify others of like mind, capturing
them, and constructing justifications to bring down upon them the
punishing power of the angry state.
The sheer personal-privacy-violating character of the
surveillance-state practices defended and drooled-over by creepy
thugs like Mike Rogers, James Clapper, Barack Obama, Diane
Feinstein, Keith Alexander, Hillary Clinton and others of the same
dark and twisted spirits should be enough to make you recoil and
say, "NO!". But if it isn't, let this history lesson do it for you.
It is the sickest, most ignorance-baiting bs to say,
"If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide", or to
argue for the Total Information Awareness program based on the
proposition that it has done some good in "the war against terror",
as these sociopaths do, because how much "good"
Total Information Awareness may have done or
may do isn't the point. The point, considered in the light of
history's lessons, is how much BAD
Total Information Awareness can and will do,
especially in that the "wrong" someone might want to hide may well
be their righteous efforts to hinder or resist the state's evil.
*****
LAST EDITION'S 'THIS AND THAT' LED WITH A COMMENTARY ON
the zombie-esque "Sixteenth Amendment Ratification" distraction
plaguing certain ill-educated members of the tax-honesty community.
Here is what I said:
I WAS SHOCKED AND DISMAYED to get an email the other
day flogging the empty, harmful and seemingly deathless "tax honesty movement"
nonsense about the Sixteenth Amendment never being ratified (or not
properly so). Let me try (for the nth time) to put an end to it:
However admirable the work some folks have
done in
examining records from state legislatures and finding
inconsistencies, and almost certainly proving a great deal of
sloppiness and error in the ratification procedures in many states,
in the end the simple fact that no state protested the announcement
of its ratification proves that the announcements were in accord
with their understanding of what they had done or meant to do!
Had any state (or legislator in a state) been of the opinion that
what Philander Knox alleged their legislature had said or meant to
do with regard to the Sixteenth Amendment was not true, he (or the
state attorney general) would have been in the Supreme Court that
afternoon bringing suit.
No such suit was filed. This is because everyone was
for the amendment, and with good reason-- except for some plutocrats
who were VERY upset about it, and also with good reason. The notion
that many people were opposed to the Sixteenth prior to 1913 is part
of a program intended to mislead folks today about what the
amendment really did, and about what it DIDN'T do.
I don't think researcher Bill Benson, upon
whose study of various state ratification documents and condemnation
of Knox's ratification declaration in 'The Law That Never Was' this
distraction is based is a knowing tool in this
project, but those spreading this "never ratified" bs are certainly
doing its work. Ratification happened-- whether directly and cleanly
or by silent acquiescence. To get an idea of why that ratification
is actually powerful evidence all by itself of the benign meaning and effect
of the Sixteenth Amendment, and how it fits in with, and
underscores, the true nature of the income tax, see
this and then
this.
And when you're through reading, PLEASE direct everyone
you know that might be suffering from this "never ratified"
infection to this article (here's the link to share:
http://losthorizons.com/Newsletter.htm#PageTwo).
Don't mistake the seriousness of this issue! Anything
put out there as "tax honesty truth" that is so readily debunked
(or debunkable at all, for that matter) serves to turn previously
open minds ready to learn the actual truth into jaded skeptics who
conclude that anyone encouraging them to suspect that things aren't
what the powers-that-be want them to think they are is either a loon
or a bs artist. When someone approaches these folks another day
with the actual liberating truth about the tax, they will
smile and say "No thanks" without ever even looking-- once burned,
twice warned.
(Find thoroughly-documented debunkings of many of the
misunderstandings constantly injected into circulation among
self-identified "tax honesty" folks in order to keep mainstream
America from giving the time-of-day to any information that actually
threatens the ignorance-based status quo
here.)
I bring this up again because I happened across a blog
a few days ago in which my post above was re-posted, and had drawn
the angry comments of three or four apparent regulars on that page.
My critics appear to sport impenetrable defenses against the larger
point and any of it's various and very important implications, and
made clear that none had bothered following any of the links in the
post as well. All that caught their attention was my description of
ratification as having happened either cleanly or by silent
acquiescence. "There's a law!" they howl. "It's cleanly or nothing!"
I wouldn't normally bother to post clarification to
such an undemanding point, but because the overall issue is so
important (that is, the degree to which focus on things like the
"ratification improprieties" keeps many virtuous people off the real
field of battle), and because respect for the law is nowhere more
highly valued than here and in the CtC community overall (and
therefore this reference may have troubled even more sensible folks
than these superficial blog-denizens), I will add these further
words:
"Ratification" means, "indicating approval". It is a
thing of practical character, and the nuances of the specified form
by which it is expected to be done are of significance in nothing but a clerical
sense. Such specifications help minimize misunderstanding,
second-guessing and repetition, and do have value as a consequence.
But they are of no substantive effect.
The question here is whether the states indicated
approval of what they were reported to have approved. It may well be
that Philander Knox could and should have been punished for
accepting each of the various
approval-indications of the states rather than sending them back for
a little polishing before doing so. But the
fact that those states were overly casual or even sloppy in the way
they indicated their approval doesn't render their approvals
invalid, any more than my utterly illegible signature on a contract
demanding that I "sign my name" makes my indecipherable scribble, in
which no hint of a name appears, a void gesture.
What DOES make it "my name" in the legally substantive
sense
is my avowal of it should the question arise, and
what makes the states' approvals valid despite the irregularities of
punctuation and so forth by which many of them suffered is the
disinclination of anyone in these states-- whether those on one
side of the question or the other-- to rise up to say, "Hey! WE
didn't approve THAT!" once Knox reported that they had approved of
what he read out as the language of the amendment.
Again, perhaps Knox SHOULD have rejected all the sloppy ratification
instruments, and sent them back with requests for perfected
replacements. But the record of silence by what would unquestionably
have been howls of protest and lawsuits galore by offended state
legislators had his report of ratification been other than what the
majorities in those states would have sent back in perfected form
anyway says that his reports of ratification comported with the
states' intended meaning.
*****
KUDOS TO THE RUSSIAN RESPONSIBLE for the wink to the
grown-up world and a raspberry to the adolescent war-mongering
Russophobes in Washington and elsewhere who made much
of the fifth snowflake failing to open into an Olympic ring during
the opening ceremony in Sochi.
The deliberately disorganized human
Olympic-Ring no. 5 in the closing ceremony playfully and
pleasingly riffed off the mishap, making a fine silk-purse out of
what had been an
unfortunate but totally inadvertent sow's
ear.
*****
I SAW JEREMY SCAHILL'S 'DIRTY WARS' last night. It's a
well-made and important film, and I recommend it to everyone. Watch
this film and learn a great deal about what drives the relentless
consumption of resources and the equally-relentless erosion of the
law in service to the "war on terror". You'll even learn why
American teen-ager Abdulrahman al Awlaki was murdered by a United
States drone strike in 2011...
*****
DO YOU KNOW WHY THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE INCOME
TAX is spreading so slowly, and not being taken up and trumpeted by
the alt media (at least)? Do you know why that truth is not a big
presence in public consciousness, supporting you in your
conversations on the subject with your friends, family, co-workers,
bosses and professional service-providers?
The reason is that very often when someone first hears
about that truth, the next thing he or she does is go to the
internet and "google"
CtC or me. What comes up in greatest number or most prominence
can strongly influence whether that person moves forward or
backward, and unfortunately, what often comes up most strongly are
DOJ and troll posts rich with disparaging and misleading propaganda
about either subject. The reason this is so is because YOU are not
posting contrary material rebutting the lies and misrepresentations.
If we are all going to get the benefit of this
liberating truth, I cannot be the only voice correcting the record
on the internet about "what the courts have REALLY ruled" in regard
to
CtC. I can't be the only one debunking
the efforts to disparage
CtC by misrepresentations of the
kangaroo-court assaults on me.
Whether the truth wins out here involves a battle of
pens, not swords. YOU HAVE TO BE IN THIS BATTLE, or it may not be
won for years. On the other hand, if you DO get into this battle and
get thoughtful posts up all over the internet designed to address
the specific problem I describe here, it can be won very quickly
indeed. Please do your part.
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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.
***
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:
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.
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s
thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all
rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they
first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones,
dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice
and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to
reason…”
-Frederick Douglass
*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:
March 3- In 1845,
Florida is admitted to the union of the several states. In
1849, Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act, providing for the
minting of gold $1 and $20 (double eagle) coins. In 1875,
Bizet's 'Carmen' premiers in Paris. In 1885, AT&T is
incorporated. In 1931, the 'Star Spangled Banner' is adopted as
the official anthem of the United States. In 1938, oil is
discovered in Saudi Arabia. In 1939, Gandhi begins a fast in
protest of British tyranny in India. In 1991, the police
beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles is captured on video.
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What Do The People Do About The Rogue State??
The
most important question facing Americans todayThe
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.
Eugene Duffy
This
November, 2010 complete refund of 2007 withholdings (with interest)
is a result of an amended filing (really, a replacement filing with
explanation). See the docs
here.
Anon.
Note
the overpayment acknowledgement in the "Summary" section of this
May, 2012 notice, and see the filed docs that led to this refund
credit
here.
Willie Shields
Don't
be misled-- while what the IRS alleges to be owed for a different
year is made the most prominent feature of this May, 2013 notice, it
is, in fact, a notification that Willie has been refunded everything
withheld from him during 2012-- which was
all
Social Security and Medicare taxes (see the "Billing Summary"
section). The amount has simply been gratuitously diverted to pay
off what the government alleges to be outstanding balances for other
years.
Larry
_
See
the docs that produced this June, 2013 partial victory
here (and a related FAQ
here).
Holiday Chock
See
the docs that produced Holiday's August, 2013 victory for the rule
of law
here.
William & Caroline Wadsworth
William and Caroline Wadsworth filed a
CtC-educated return concerning 2011
acknowledging some "income" and rebutting a
half-dozen individual erroneous allegations by
payers that other of their receipts also
qualified as "income". Over a year later the IRS
decided to try to chivvy them back into the
"ignorance barn" with the livestock:
But these two American heroes refuse to be cowed
by domestic enemies of the law. They stood their
ground and were rewarded for their perseverance
with this crisp and clear acknowledgment of the
truth about the tax as revealed in
CtC:
See
the whole story, with all the docs involved,
here.
Gary D.
See the amended filing that produced this refund
here.
Here is Gary's follow-up Louisiana
victory:
THESE LATEST EXAMPLES OF VICTORIES BY AVERAGE AMERICANS in
enforcing our fundamental law
join
all the others in the ongoing river of evidence of the accuracy
of 'Cracking
the Code-...' flowing without interruption...
...since
the beginning of
intense IRS efforts to suppress the book in 2003;
...since
the DOJ itself was compelled to move for dismissals of
multiple IRS efforts to attack
CtC as "promoting false or fraudulent
tax schemes" in different courts across the country in 2004 and
2005;
...since a
carefully-inaccurate description of a typical
CtC-educated filing was listed
as #1 on the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list in 2006 (reappearing again
as #5 in 2007 and #10 in 2009). Interestingly, in 2008 the Sixth
Circuit Court Of Appeals excused this and similar efforts to
mislead, declaring that the
government can't be prohibited from "SUGGESTING [that
CtC] promotes false or
fraudulent tax schemes"... (emphasis added);
...since the launching of the hokey and
contrived IRS PR-campaign "lawsuit"
against my wife and me in 2006, ostensibly seeking to recover
refunds made to us several years ago-- which even the United
States Treasury Department acknowledges were, and remain,
perfectly proper-- by means of an unprecedented court order
commanding us to replace previously-made sworn testimony with
words dictated by the government declaring our earnings to be of
a taxable variety and to only speak government-approved words in
the future;
...since the IRS launched a vicious
assault on me personally in 2008 in a desperate, deeply
corrupt effort to cow the educated into paralysis and frighten
the ignorant away from the liberating truth, so as to continue
successfully bleeding both into penury and subjugation ;
...and since
a criminal action was brought against my wife alleging
non-compliance with DOJ-requested court orders assuming control
of her speech of so obviously-illegal and indefensible a
character that the government resorted to
a jury
instruction for her trial barring consideration of the
lawfulness or Constitutionality of the orders in deciding
whether she could be found to have violated an actual legal duty
when resisting them.
By the way, 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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"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
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CtC-Educated Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
[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."
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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.
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
March 4- In 1629, the
Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter. In 1681,
William Penn is granted a land charter by Charles II of what
will become Pennsylvania. In 1778, the Continental Congress
enters the American states into their first treaties (with
France). In 1789, Congress meets for the first time under the
provisions of the new United States Constitution. In 1791,
Vermont is admitted to the union as the 14th of the several
states. In 1794, the 11th Amendment, limiting the judicial
power of the United States, is passed by Congress (ratified by
the several states on February 7, 1795). In 1797, John Adams
becomes the second President of the United States. In 1837, the
City of Chicago is incorporated. In 1861, the Confederate
States of America adopt the "Stars and Bars" as their first
flag. In 1865, the "Blood-stained Banner" is adopted by the
Confederate States of America as their final flag. In 1929,
Charles Curtis becomes the first Native-American vice-president
of the United States; and in 1933 Frances Perkins becomes the
first female cabinet secretary (Secretary of Labor).
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An Introduction To The Liberating Truth In Ten Easy Segments
Tom Bottaro,
CFC,
CtCW, author of 'Secrets
of the Income Tax Code- A Guide for Businessmen',
has shared another fine outreach effort. Tom has been writing and
sending a series of short wake-up and educational essays to friends
and family, one by one, for some time. When Tom told me about this,
I asked him to compile the pieces and let me post them for everyone
to enjoy and share with their own people. Tom, good guy and warrior
for the truth that he is, was perfectly agreeable.
Here
is the compilation in printable .pdf format. I hope everyone
will indeed share it widely.
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"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."/i>
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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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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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
March 5- In 1770,
British troops murder five Americans in what becomes known as
the Boston Massacre. In 1836, Samuel Colt makes the first
production-model revolver, in .34 caliber. In 1933, FDR
declares a "bank holiday"-- closing all banks under United
States jurisdiction; and in Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of
the vote in parliamentary elections. In 1940, members of the
Soviet oligarchy order the murder of about 22,000 Poles in what
becomes known as the Katyn Massacre. In 1979, Voyager 1 makes
its closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles).
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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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LostHorizons.com traffic stats now available for the past year (March 1,
2012 to March 1, 2013) show approximately:
6,000,000 hits and 2,000,000 page views during that
period!
YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU WERE ALL ALONE, DID YOU?
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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 victories which have qualified for
the EWWBL collection. Every one of these is an especially
illuminating acknowledgement of the truth about the tax, and now
include 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 Without Limit
Some Observations About Current Political Efforts
To Evade The Truth, Such As The "Fair Tax" Scheme
Regarding "Tax Reform"
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"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on
taxes."
-Thomas Paine
Where To Find
Things On This Site
Law Professor James Duane Says: "Don't Talk To The Police. Period."
Honest Cops Agree...
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CLICK HERE TO INSTRUCT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
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:
March 6- In 1819, the United States Supreme
Court acknowledges in its ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland that
the power to tax is the power to destroy. In 1836, the Texas
volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated. In 1857, the
Supreme Court issues its ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford,
holding that African-Americans were not persons and could not
become citizens, and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in
federal territories. In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev
creates the periodic table. In 1899, Bayer trademarks
"aspirin". In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg go on trial for
giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. In 2007, "Scooter"
Libby, Chief of Staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney, is
found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection
with revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame in
retaliation for her husband's having made public evidence that
the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi ambitions to make
nuclear weapons were false.
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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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About The Author
Pete Hendrickson is possibly the
most effective lawyer in history, even while never having
set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying
member of "the bar". He is 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); further, since 2003
students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking
the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’
(CtC), and its sequel, 'Was
Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely
retaining and recovering billions of dollars which
otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have
gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite
concerted efforts by government to suppress his work,
and in some cases
vigorously oppose the claims by
his students.
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.
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