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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.
June 8- In 1789, James
Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights to the House of
Representatives. In 1861, Tennessee secedes from the union. In
1949, George Orwell's '1984' is published. In 1967, the USS
Liberty, a plainly-marked Navy intelligence ship flying a U.S.
flag deep in international waters, was strafed and torpedoed by
Israeli warplanes and ships for more than an hour, killing 34
crewmembers and wounding 171. Israel claims the attack was a
case of mistaken identity, and Admiral John McCain Jr. (father
of current U.S. Senator McCain) convened a 10-day investigation
of the incident within a week of its occurrence, which endorsed
this explanation and declared the matter closed. However,
internal White House documents indicate that the Johnson
administration knew better. Johnson himself ordered that no
rescue ships were to be dispatched from the carrier group
closest to the stricken ship during the attack. The survivors
have been demanding a new investigation for years without
success.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Let's start with a new batch of thoroughly-agency-vetted
admissions by the IRS...
CtC WARRIORS GUY AND SHERRIE have risen like the real
grown-ups and heroes that they are. Not content to let it just
run full-steam-ahead to hit more icebergs until it sinks and
takes us all with it, Guy and Sherrie
have gone to the boiler-room of our American "ship of state" and
taken back their coal:
Here are the docs Guy and Sherrie filed to secure this
$15,481 100% refund, including their response to a sleazy IRS
effort to frighten them into reversing themselves by way of a
suggestion that their 4852s weren't good enough evidence of what
had been paid in "wages" and what had been withheld. Upon
receiving that, "Sorry, Charlie, peddle it somewhere else!"
response, the agency promptly, if reluctantly, issued the check.
Even beyond the manifest attention paid to their
claim reflected in the aborted "LTR 12C"-effort to discourage
them, Guy and Sherrie's filing and claim had, of course, gone
through elaborate scrutiny by the tax agency, as is true of ALL
CtC-educated claims.
After all, the IRS is not some uniquely naive
entity that just sends out checks because someone asks for
them! What a ridiculous thing to suggest!
Contrary to self-serving myths promoted by the IRS
and its fellow-travelers to keep you from grasping the
evidentiary significance of
CtC-educated victories, all filings claiming refunds (not
just
CtC-educated filings) are challenged by default. As the
Taxpayer Advocate Service of the Department of the Treasury
describes it in its 2013 Annual Report to Congress:
The return integrity process is complex and
multifaceted. A tax return must travel a long path with many
potential roadblocks before the IRS accepts it as filed. The
main goal of IVO is to stop fraudulent refunds before they are
issued by identifying potentially false returns, usually through
wages or withholding reported on the returns. The IRS does this
primarily with the Electronic Fraud Detection System, which was
built in the 1990s. EFDS runs all individual tax returns through
various filters to identify characteristics that may indicate a
high risk of fraud.
In particular, ALL
CtC-educated filings-- the vast majority of which show and
claim a refund of withholdings-- ALL withholdings-- while
showing no "income" at all-- have ALWAYS been scrutinized, both
by the EFDS and the
"Questionable Refund Program", not to mention every IRS
employee who sees them, before the returns have been processed
and the refunds have been issued.
THOMAS E. HAS ALSO STOOD UP and acted, recognizing
that it is the only thing that
will make a difference. Tom shares HIS complete refund from the
feds of everything withheld during 2013 in connection with
"income" tax:
Tom's filing which produced this victory on behalf
of the rule of law and for The People's meaningful discipline of
their public servants can be seen
here.
ALAN AND M.A. NUNNER HAVE ALSO gotten to their feet
and done what every American that really cares about this
country should be doing. They've shucked-off the myths and
mindless fears of exercising their rights and invoking the law
which the state has been using for decades to keep us all
helplessly and uselessly paralyzed while it runs amok:
This refund of withholdings from 2010 which issued
seven weeks ago resulted from an amended return filed early this
year, and includes appropriate interest.
Now Let's Move To Simple, Kindergarten
Logic
ALL THOSE VICTORIES IN APPLYING THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
THE LAW presented in
CtC by men and women across the country for
more than ten years now-- the three above, the 900 or so others
posted elsewhere on this site, and the tens of thousands
acknowledged by the IRS in testimony and by stipulation-- all
those victories achieved after careful, resistance-oriented
scrutiny by the government, have taken place:
...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 before-- 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: "It is not a
defense to the crime of contempt that the court order was
unlawful or unconstitutional" in deciding
whether she could be found to have violated an actual legal duty
when resisting them.
In light of those facts-- the acknowledging
behavior and the very definite desire to discourage CtC-educated
returns-- which do you conclude is true:
CtC
is wrong and returns filed in accordance with its teachings
can be properly disregarded or overcome by the government;
or
CtC is right and everything you hear to
the contrary by anyone, and everything presented as supposed
evidence that "the courts have ruled against CtC", or the
like is a variation on the insight behind the ancient wisdom
that "figures don't lie, but liars figure".
The answer is obvious.
SO, HERE'S MY QUESTION: HOW MUCH PROOF IS
NEEDED??!! Do those of you in doubt and denial(to whom I trust
this article has been sent by educated and upright friends) have
to see a surrender letter from the government personally
addressed to you before you start shouting down the trolls and
the "tax honesty" gurus and the fear-mongers?
Or is it just that you will not exercise your
rights except when the government is enthused about your doing
so? Surely you realize that if that is your standard, YOU'VE GOT
NO RIGHTS LEFT.
If that is your standard, you've just got
"privileges", copper-top.
Think about it. But don't take too long.
PEOPLE! See and share this important ten minutes of
truth! Send out links to
this YouTube location with an admonishment to watch it and
share it in turn!! Please understand that whether we
get free of the mis-applied tax and all the social and political
pathologies that accompany it rests on ONE THING-- enough
Americans learning the truth. Nothing else is necessary, and
nothing else will do the trick. SPREAD THIS VIDEO.
The compromise is obvious; the upcoming
Snowden/Greenwald revelations might provide some fascinating
particulars...
I'M AWAITING WITH GREAT EXCITEMENT THE IMPENDING
RELEASE BY EDWARD SNOWDEN (through Glenn Greenwald) of the names
of Americans who have been spied upon by the NSA. This is
promised to take place soon, in what
Greenwald says will be the
most stunning revelation to date concerning this
executive-branch crime spree.
I'm interested in seeing if I'm on the list,
of course. More, though, I'm interested in seeing if the judge
who is enabling the state's attack on the First, Fifth and Sixth
Amendments by way of the patently illegitimate charges against
my wife, Doreen, is on the list.
Doreen is charged with "criminal contempt of court"
for resisting orders issued in 2007 by another judge-- at the
government's request-- to (falsely) declare that she believes
her government-adversary's version of the "facts" in a legal
dispute to be true (and to conceal the fact that the coerced
declaration of "belief" are coerced).
You see, the government wants to apply the income
tax to Doreen's earnings from 2002, 2003 and 2008 as part of its
more-than-ten-year-old effort to frighten Americans away from
CtC. Having never been able to do so on its own-- since those
earnings don't actually qualify for the tax under the relevant
definitions in the law-- the government asked a court to order
Doreen to declare that she believes that they qualify.
This declaration would make the objective reality
problem go away, and spare the government its problem of being
unable to prove it has any claim against those earnings. The
only problem has been that Doreen won't obediently relinquish
her rights and let the government and the courts stuff their
self-serving words into her mouth.
NOT ONE TO GIVE UP EASILY WHEN SO MUCH MONEY AND
POWER ARE AT STAKE, the government is now trying to create an
illusion of legitimacy to the plainly illegal orders it sought
seven years ago by attempting to get a jury to agree that Doreen
should be punished for resisting them. In what would be a
comical irony were the assault not the serious thing that it is,
the government asked the judge in the contempt case to issue her
own Constitution-defying order-- commanding Doreen's jury to
disregard the unlawfulness and unconstitutionality of the
earlier orders issued by her colleague in deliberating
whether Doreen could have "criminally" resisted them!
This new judge did so, making the case not just an
assault on speech rights and the principles of due process, but
on
the core concept and purpose of the protection of trial by
jury, as well. There being no explanation I can think of for so
dramatic a violation of the law other than coercion, I'm very
interested in seeing if this judge is one who has been subject
to NSA [J. Edgar] Hoovering.
Of course, whether this judge's name appears
on Snowden's list of NSA victims wouldn't be dispositive of this question.
The NSA is hardly the only executive branch
dirt-bag.
But it WILL be
interesting to see if her name is on that list...
*Find a .pdf file discussing the
assault on Doreen and the Constitution
here.
Early Speaker List For The First Annual CtC Summer Symposium
SOME SPEAKING SLOTS ARE BEGINNING TO BE FILLED for the
Symposium July 3rd and 4th. So far we are scheduled to enjoy:
Dr. Greg Belcher delivering a talk on outreach
opportunities and procedures-- what you can do, some proven
ways of doing them, what to expect and how and when to
follow up and/or move on.
Oakland County, Michigan, Circuit Court Judge
Michael Warren, author of 'America's Survival Guide' and
co-founder of PatriotWeek.org, will speak on the critical importance of
citizen activism on behalf of liberty and the rule of law.
Brian Wright, co-founder of the Michigan
Libertarian Party and early Free State Project activist
explaining the natural harmony of CtC's revelations about
the tax and the law generally with the libertarian ethic and
political principle, and how the former produces practical
implementation of the latter into American public policy.
Professor Harry C. Veryser, chairman of Walsh
College's Department of Economics and Finance, associate
scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of 'It
Didn't Have To Be This Way' will explain Austrian economic
reasoning and analysis.
Shane Trejo, Michigan State Coordinator for the
Tenth Amendment Center speaking on nullification and other
Tenth Amendment issues.
Katie Hendrickson, Communication Coordinator
for AFP Michigan (Americans for Prosperity) sharing the how-tos
on the use of "social media" for word-spreading and
excitement-generation about CtC's liberating message.
Additional topics will include:
The legal and political history of the income tax;
The nature of the American Constitutional and legal
structure overall;
The principles and procedures at play in an
accurate, educated filing;
Effective presentation in an administrative and
legal contest;
Dealing with "legacy" filing (or non-filing)
issues;
The powers and principles of the common-law grand
jury;
More...
Please keep in mind that the Symposium will
immediately precede this years Seventh Annual Declaration Day
Party.
All symposium attendees are invited to the party, with
which we will close a wonderful several days of community
gathering, sharing, learning and growing.
THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO GET YOUR QUESTIONS
ANSWERED, TO MEET FELLOW MEMBERS OF OUR UNIQUE COMMUNITY OF EDUCATED
ACTIVISTS, AND TO GET YOUR SPIRIT ENERGIZED!
SO, MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE YOUR PLANS to be part
of this important inaugural event in SE Michigan July 3rd (2-6PM) and
July 4th (10-6PM)-- and at the
Seventh Annual
Declaration Day party on the 5th (noon to whenever)!
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
Bitcoin holders can donate in that medium by clicking
the button below:
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."
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
June 9- In 68, Roman
Emperor Nero prevails upon his secretary to slit his throat in
order to spare him an impending Senate-imposed death by flogging
for his various crimes in office. In 1650, the Harvard
Corporation-- the first corporation in America-- is formed. In
1732, James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for an
American colony called Georgia. In 1856, 500 Mormon "Handcart
Pioneers" set out walking from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake
City, Utah. In 1915, William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow
Wilson's Secretary of State over the Wilson administration's
underhanded behavior in regard to the sinking of the RMS
Lusitania with Americans on board, which Wilson used overcome
public resistance to an American entry into World War I. (See
'If The State's Lips Are Moving, It's Lying' in 'Was
Grandpa Really a Moron?' for more on this shameful affair.)
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.
READING
AN OTHERWISE GOOD COMMENTARY by the ACLU's Jameel
Jaffer recently, I had to suppress a groan before the
end of the second paragraph. Like far too many
journalists and pundits do routinely today, Jaffer had
adopted the false validating language deployed by the
law-defying community to keep the rest of us from
recognizing its offenses.
Here is the offending passage in this
article about the federal government's contempt for the
Fourth Amendment (and the Constitution in general):
In two significant but almost-completely
overlooked legal briefs filed last week, the US
government defended the constitutionality of the Fisa
Amendments Act, the controversial 2008 law that codified
the Bush administration's warrantless-wiretapping
program. That law permits the government to monitor
Americans' international communications without first
obtaining individualized court orders or establishing
any suspicion of wrongdoing.
Ouch! Word to the very good Mr. Jaffer and
all others putting fingertips to keyboards in the
interest of speaking truth: That "law" DOES NOT "permit
the government to monitor Americans' international
communications without first obtaining individualized
court orders or establishing any suspicion of
wrongdoing." Congress can make no such law-- the Fourth
Amendment
prohibits warrantless searches (and says nothing
about that prohibition protecting only Americans from
such searches, by the way).
What that "law" does is
deny victims of illegal
government searches from recourse to American courts in
order to enjoin or punish the transgressors. It
doesn't "permit" what is impermissible; it simply thumbs
the state's nose at the rules, and instructs the state's
courts to do the same.
The difference between the reality of this
contempt for Constitution and the fiction that the
enactment somehow authorizes the plainly illegal
behavior on behalf of which it was sought and passed is
night and day. But the daylight is hidden when
journalists and commentators don't give a little thought
to what they're really describing, and say it plainly.
In this case, Mr. Jaffer spends his entire
commentary very properly criticizing the government's
position, but only after having surrendered the argument
at the very beginning. Those of us who respect the law
can't afford to be giving it up in this fashion.
WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE DEBATE, and
we can only do so by thinking clearly and speaking
plainly, and never letting the law-defiers' ambitions be
the measure of our reality.
"Political language... is designed to make
lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give
an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "In a time of
universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
CtC Warrior
SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz
to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States
"income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family!
Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the
liberating truth!!
The Lies Grow More Audacious Paul Craig Roberts If
there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy
make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7
meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing
dispelled the doubts.
The howlers issuing from these occasions are enough to
split your sides. Obama and his lap dog Cameron described the
Normandy landing on June 6, 1944, as “the greatest liberation force
that the world has ever known” and took all the credit for the US
and Britain for the defeat of Hitler. No mention was made of the
Soviet Union and the Red Army, which for three years prior to the
Normandy landing had been fighting and defeating the Wehrmacht.
The Germans lost World War II at the Battle of
Stalingrad, which was fought from August 23, 1942 until February 2,
1943, when most of the remnants of the powerful German Sixth Army
surrendered, including 22 generals.
Nineteen months previously the largest invasion force
ever assembled on planet earth invaded Russia across a one thousand
mile front. Three million crack German troops; 7,500
artillery units, 19 panzer divisions with 3,000 tanks, and 2,500
aircraft rolled across Russia for 14 months.
By June 1944, three years later, very little of this
force was left. The Red Army had chewed it up. When the so-called
“allies” (a term which apparently excludes Russia) landed in France,
there was little to resist them. The best forces remaining to Hitler
were on the Russian front, which collapsed day by day as the Red
Army approached Berlin.
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..."
June 10- In 1692,
Bridget Bishop is hanged for witchcraft in Salem,
Massachusetts. In 1793, the Jacobins gain control of
revolutionary France's Committee of Public Safety, setting the
stage for the Reign of Terror. In 1805, the Barbary Pirates
sign a treaty ending hostilities with the United States. In
1898, U.S. Marines land on Cuba. In 1999, NATO suspends a
months-long campaign of air-strikes after Serbia agrees to
withdraw from Kosovo.
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than
how our children are educated..
Justice Dept. lies to the Supreme Court; something to think about;
the misunderstood Constitution; more...
A FEW WEEKS AGO IT CAME OUT THAT LAST SPRING, shortly
before the revelations by Edward Snowden which belatedly caught them
out, "Justice" Department attorneys
lied bald-faced to the US Supreme Court in order to get a ruling
allowing NSA warrantless wiretap crimes to continue unhindered.
This, of course, is just the latest exposure of this department's
systemic contempt for truth and the law, which is routinely on
display in legal contests across the land, as anyone who has dealt
with these creatures will attest.
Is there ANYBODY out there still harboring the least
doubt that this department is nothing but a nest of corruption, and
that any judge (or justice) who takes ANYTHING said by these
criminals as other than presumptively false, or cooperates with them
in any way, is at best incompetently naive, if not a co-conspirator?
I hope not.
Further, those of you who are still financing these
thugs, and persist in "misunderstanding" or "being unconvinced"
about what
CtC reveal about the tax in order to pretend you have no choice
about doing so and excuse your failure to get up on your hind legs,
should be ashamed of yourselves.
*****
HAVE YOU EVER GIVEN ANY THOUGHT TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN
when
30 million other Americans-- or even just 3 million-- know what you
know about the "income" tax?
Leviathan thinks about it-- a lot.
You
should, too.
*****
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AMAZED AT THE ANTIPATHY OF THOSE CLAIMING A LOVE OF
LIBERTY for the United States Constitution. I have had to conclude
that this just reflects a failure to understand the instrument, and
to recognize the degree to which the bad behavior of the state
decried by these same folks is a result of EVASION of the
Constitution's provisions, not exploitation of those provisions. (It
also reflects an abysmal ignorance of the actual historical record,
which plainly shows that the Constitution succeeded in
keeping the state small enough to drown in a bathtub for 150 years.)
But is has now occurred to me to observe that even if understanding
the Constitution is beyond these folks, should it not be enough to
simply notice that the Constitution is the relentless target of
every institutional enemy of liberty. Think about any political evil
in America that you can, and you will find that every one of them
relies on some "interpretation" of a Constitutional provision, in
clear distortion of the provision's actual language.
It is not the most elegant (or ultimately conclusive) reasoning to
present, but when your intellectual opponents are constantly
attacking something, it can and should be suspected that the thing
attacked is actually opposed to the positions or ambitions of those
opponents, and stands with you, even if you don't understand how.
*****
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.
I never thought I would see the day in this
country when I could be ordered to sign my name to words
dictated by the United States government, not to mention
words I believe to be false. I've seen this sort of thing on
TV where American hostages are giving testimonials with
ski-masked, armed captors ensuring that the Americans spoke
the words that would spare their lives.
With considerable dismay, I now see our
judiciary employing the same tactics that terrorists impose
on their victims. Doreen Hendrickson has been ordered to
perjure herself, that is to sign her name to documents that
say things the government wants said, even though she
believe these things to be false.
Seven years ago, Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds
(ED Michigan) ordered Doreen to make this false testimony,
and to declare that it is her own testimony.
Three-and-a-half years later Edmunds added a requirement
that the fact that the testimony is coerced and not Doreen's
own be concealed (as asked of her by the IRS and DOJ).
Doreen now faces trial on charges of criminal
contempt of court for resisting these plainly illegal
orders. This is not the first trial, though-- it is the
second government shot at Doreen.
The trial judge in Doreen's first trial last
October
actually ordered the jury to disregard the
unconstitutionality of the orders Doreen is accused of
"criminally resisting" (at the request of the team of
attorneys from Washington flown in to prosecute her).
Doreen, completely a legal amateur in every way, took on the
government's conviction-by-any-means-necessary specialists
all by herself. Still, the government could not get the jury
to convict.
Despite the huge effort put on by the team of
three DOJ attorneys during the four-day trial, at least some
members of the jury recognized that the law and the facts
are entirely on Doreen's side. But the government
desperately wants this conviction. It views the preservation
of certain key myths about the income tax to be at stake,
and so it is coming back at Doreen again.
Let me be clear. Doreen is not being put
through this for refusing to testify. She HAS already
testified. The government just doesn't like what she said,
and is trying to coerce her into saying things more to its
interests. (Can you say: suborning perjury? How about: raw,
banana-republic-level corruption?)
Though the testimony involved is on tax
returns, this fact is not relevant. The only relevant issue
is that a federal judge has completely overstepped her
authority.
No one in this country can legally compel
custom testimony...Not on a tax form...Not on a contract...
NOT ON ANYTHING!!!
Please help to uphold the principles on which
this country was founded. Today, it's Doreen and a tax form.
Tomorrow...
Please join me in taking serious notice of this
precipitous descent into Stalinism in an America already
dangerously far down the road to complete lawlessness and
barbarism.
Read the document that follows. Some of the
material will be easy, some will call for a little more
effort, but all will be crystal clear, even the legal briefs
linked at the end.
Remember, in this country, the law is YOUR law,
and the only ones who can enforce it against government
operatives who take liberties with the rules are the rest of
us. They can't be relied upon to police themselves, as what
you are about to read will make obvious.
Sincerely Yours,
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…”
June 11- In 1345, the
chief minister of the Byzantine Empire is lynched by detainees
while inspecting a facility housing political prisoners. In
1776, the Continental Congress appoints a committee to begin
preparing a Declaration of Independence. In 1805, fire destroys
virtually all of Detroit, Michigan. Unhindered by federal
interference, the town is quickly rebuilt. In 1963, Buddhist
monk Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in a busy Saigon
intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South
Vietnam. In 2001, Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in
the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing. In 2002, New Yorker
Antonio Meucci is recognized by the U.S. Congress as being the
actual inventor of the telephone, years before Alexander Graham
Bell's similar invention.
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.
The Seventh Annual
CtC Warrior Declaration Day* Party Is Coming Up
Fast!!
Once again, the party's at
Pete and Doreen's place; and this year we'll do
it on Saturday, July 5-- right after the
First Annual CtC Summer Symposium.
If you're a CtC Warrior on my email list, YOU'RE
INVITED!!
Doreen and I will
supply the dogs, the chips, some fun and games,
and we may even enjoy some fireworks. You bring your love of liberty,
your conversation, and your kids, too!
If you're within
striking distance of SE Michigan and care to
join us, please RSVP to doreen '@'
losthorizons.com ASAP, with "Party" in the
subject line, and further details (including
area accommodations) will be provided. (Delete
the spaces and apostrophes in the email address
to make it work...)
I hope to see you all
there!
*Declaration Day: The day the American colonists expressed their intention to be
free and individually sovereign at any cost, even that of their lives.
Although
it is true that an important kind of independence was realized that day, it was
an independence of the spirit only. Nobody found themselves free to go about
their business the next day, unmolested in the exercise of their new liberty, due
to simply having laid their claim to that liberty. It was not until many bloody years
after formally declaring that they:
"...hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;"
and recognize,
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just Powers from the consent of the governed,"
and,
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness;"
...that Americans actually found themselves able to exercise a true, hard-won
independence.
The declaration was the key and critical first step. It put the sacred honor of
the declarants at stake in their faithful enforcement of that bold resolution. Once having said that,
"...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is [the
people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide
new guards for their future security,"
...there's no going back to subordination with one's honor intact.
Thus we properly celebrate the 4th of July as the anniversary of the public
announcement of the revolutionary's momentous decision.
But it is equally
proper to be mindful that independence was merely the destination on the horizon
toward which the colonists resolutely set their course that day. It was only
faithful, stubborn, come-hell-or-high-water-enforcement that actually secured--
seven long years and much hell-and-high-water later-- the practical reality of
the independence bravely declared in that summer of 1776.
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your
knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
your hard work and sacrifice.”
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
Have You Taken
A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The
Constitution?
June 12- In 1775,
British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in
Massachusetts, and calls on all rebels to give up their
firearms. Amnesty is promised to all who will do so, with the
exception of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who are to be
summarily hanged if apprehended. The Americans (all still
technically British subjects) tell the government to go pound
sand. In 1776, the Virginia Convention of Delegates unanimously
adopts the Virginia Declaration of Rights. In 1963, civil
rights activist Medgar Evers is shot. In 1964, Nelson Mandela
is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
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.
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen
from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to
keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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....)
***
Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri
***
At a rally outside the Alamo
***
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
in the first pic above?
Tasty freebies for Brian's co-workers-- candy and brain-candy
all in one:
More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes
Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In
CtC, And Have
Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
June 13- In 1525, in
defiance of the celibacy rule imposes by the Catholic Church,
priest Martin Luther marries nun Katharina von Bora. In 1774,
Rhode Island became the first British colony to ban the
importation of slaves, and then went on to become the first of
the colonies to declare independence and the last of the several
states to ratify the reform of the Articles of Confederation by
means of the current United States Constitution. In 1777,
France's Marquis de Lafayette lands in South Carolina in order
to begin helping with training the Continental Army. In 1942,
the United States establishes its 'Office of War Information'
and 'Office of Strategic Services'. In 1966, the United States
Supreme Court issues the "Miranda" ruling. In 1971, the New
York Times begins publication of the "Pentagon Papers". In
1996, the Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff
with the FBI.
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.
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
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here.
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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'?"
June 14- In 1648, Margaret Jones becomes the
first person hanged for witchcraft in Massachusetts Colony. In
1775, the Continental Army is established. In 1777, the Stars
and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the flag of the United
States. In 1789, whiskey is distilled from maize by the Rev.
Elijah Craig. It is given the name 'Bourbon' after his home
county of Bourbon, Kentucky. In 1900, seven years after its
government is overthrown by the U.S. military at the request of
locally-invested American business interests, Hawaii is declared
a territory of the United States. In 1937, as a sop to
out-of-work alcohol-prohibition-warriors, the U.S. House passes
the Marihuana Tax Act. In 1938, Superman is introduced to the
world. In 1940, the concentration camp at Auschwitz receives
its first prisoners. In 1966, the Vatican announces the
abolition of its 400-year-old "index of prohibited books".
"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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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.
below.