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don't understand the past...
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
September 28- In 1066, the Norman conquest of England begins. In 1781,
American Revolutionary forces begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia. In
1928, penicillin-- the first antibiotic-- is discovered. In 1971, the
United Kingdom criminalizes the medicinal use of marijuana.
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
Illusions Of
Authority
Or, the art of full-spectrum bs, fully illustrated
with real-world examples!
IF YOU EVER HAVE TO PROVE TO ANYONE THAT THE LAW IS
JUST WHAT
CtC SAYS IT IS, and that the government and the courts
agree, it's easy. All you have to do is point out that when the
government and certain cooperative federal judges sought to
convict me on charges of "filing false returns" for saying that
my earnings were not "wages" as defined in the law,
they refused to let the jury see the actual statutory
definitions of "wages", and instead gave it prosecution-written
"substitute definitions".
That pretty much tells the whole story about what
the law really says and means, and that the courts and the
government know and agree that what it says and means is exactly
what I say it does. Anyone who denies this point is frankly
crazy.
If the government and courts have to write their
own version of the statutes in order to get some that say and
mean what they needed to accomplish my conviction-- that
everyone's earnings are "wages"-- it can only be because the
versions written by Congress DON'T say and mean that.
This isn't rocket science, people.
So, this is an example of one way in which the
State creates a pretense of legitimacy for what it wants
everyone to believe is the actual law: Just make something up,
apply it in an exercise of pure, unadulterated corruption,
announce the "outcome" of the bogus trial thus thoroughly
gimmicked, and hope no one looks closely at what got done.
HERE'S THE MORE COMMON PROCESS: Over the course of
thousands of rulings made over decades by hundreds of federal
judges in scores of federal courts, many will be ill-educated,
careless or sloppily-written. (This is true even though the
writers will likely be practiced at sounding sober and
knowledgeable.)
Worse, many of these rulings and opinions will
actually be written by DOJ attorneys-- the same ones
representing the government in the case. They will be carefully
and cleverly written for the express purpose of validating
whatever creative legal theory, construction or interpretation
the same attorney had dreamed up and argued as the basis for
getting his way in the litigation being ruled upon.
In the aggregate, these sloppy, ill-educated,
careless and-or self-serving "rulings" become a toolbox. Out of
that toolbox thousands of government lawyers tease out and
carefully sculpt excerpts to give the appearance of support to
anything the attorneys want to "prove" (which always amounts to
the bestowal of the appearance of legitimacy for any power to
which the state wishes to lay claim).
Then it gets worse still, as a second generation of
sloppy and self-serving rulings are churned out in which prior
examples of the same sloppy or self-serving rulings are cited as
"precedents". This makes the new batch not just forays into
fantasy but actually FURTHER forays into fantasy-- fantasy in
the sense of being departures from, if not outright contrary to,
what the law actually supports.
Then, to top it off, there are the instances in
which a ruling is written purely for the purpose of evading the
law on the government's behalf, with completely faked precedents
cited as the justification for the (usually otherwise
reasoning-free) decision.
Here's a good example, again from my own case, but this time
on the appellate level.
All of these "precedent-citing" future decisions--
which again, rarely contain any reasoning attempting to explain
or justify what the cited precedent purports to support-- bear
the appearance of authority. They suggest that some diligent
jurist dwelt on the matter at issue, pored over the law-books
and cases, and impartially added the weight of his or her own
reasoning to those of some colleague addressing the same issue
in a prior proceeding, resulting in a reliably sound and settled
conclusion.
But the fact is, these decisions are pure
corruption, either of the "reckless disregard" or the
"deliberate" varieties. What they are
not is any kind of indicator
or authority for the actual legal validity of
whatever they pretend to uphold or enforce.
Nonetheless, unless they are denounced and briefed (or hooted)
off the stage by litigants and/or honest legal professionals,
every one of these fraudulent "decisions" will be used, in turn,
as "precedents" for future decisions at least as defective or
deceptive, if not worse.
ALTHOUGH I CAN'T SAY THAT I HAVE GIVEN TOO MANY
OTHER AREAS OF LAW and federal jurisprudence nearly the same
attention as I have that of taxation (with a few important
exceptions, as will be seen in 'Upholding
the Law'), I believe I can say without fear of embarrassment
that no other area of law than that of federal taxation has been
comparably assaulted by the kind of corruption of which I speak
in this article. The reason for that is simple:
over the last 75
years the state has been creating, nurturing and defending a
massive scam in regard to tax law.
Indeed, the sheer volume and distorted character of
the judicial frauds with which the state's preferred practices
concerning the tax are hedged about is-- by itself-- powerful
evidence of the fact that those practices are contrary to the
truth of the law and can only be sustained with an army of lies.
Over the years I have devoted time and effort to
exposing some of the bogus judicial rulings
most heavily-relied-upon by DOJ and IRS Office of Chief Counsel
lie-yers and corrupt courts. Today I want to point everyone to
these various exposures, for two reasons.
First, it is always my hope
that everyone of you will make use of these debunkings in any
legal actions in which the bogus rulings are cited against your
educated and law-upholding positions. See to it that any legal
professional you may be using to assist you does the same (and
you legal pros reading these words should be busy making names
for yourselves and doing much good for us all by using this
material to write papers for your professional journals).
Secondly,
I'm in something of a troll-hunting mood. Over the last few
weeks I've been made aware of a very focused new effort by the
state and its under-bridge-dwelling minions to frighten people
away from picking up a copy of
CtC and learning the liberating
truth, and to frighten the already-educated away from sharing
victories.
This effort has included heavy flogging of the
fiction that "the courts have rejected
CtC's arguments", with
the bogus rulings I've disassembled (and others which cite to
them) as the evidence trotted out for misleading display to the
unknowing. It is hoped that the true character of these rulings
will go unremarked, because every school-kid knows that the only
reason for relying on bs is a lack of anything legitimate that
makes your case.
The bogus court ruling references presented to an
American public the state wishes to frighten away from what it
very much recognizes as its Yorktown are accompanied by wildly
distorted and exaggerated stories of government attacks on
educated filers and claimants intended to exploit the last
resort of the tyrant and the corrupt when the facts don't serve
their purposes: fear.
Like the bogus court rulings, reliance on which
proves that no legitimate judicial rulings in opposition or
dispute of what is taught in
CtC exists, what "executive
resistance" to
CtC-educated filings and claims there is consists
of bogus pretenses, such as "asserting" "frivolous submission
penalties" on things to which they are plainly not applicable.
Understand that when I say "plainly not applicable"
I'm not talking about "asserting" a penalty to a return or other
item within one of the categories of things potentially subject
to such a sanction which I simply don't think qualifies. I'm
talking about "asserting" the penalties in regard to things not
in any category at all, or "asserting" the same penalty multiple
times in regard to the same item. Like the bogus court ruling
contrivances, the only reason for such pretenses is a lack of
any legitimate basis for resisting a filing or claim.
I'M GOING TO PROVIDE LINKS to the analyzed "scare"
rulings now, and to a page laying out the bogus character of
"frivolous penalty assertions". Please pour yourself a cup of
your favorite productive-time beverage and read through them.
Then come back here and read what follows below the links.
United States v. Sloan, 939 F.2d 499, 501 (7th Cir. 1991)
Lovell v. United States, 755 F.2d 517 (7th Cir. 1984) (and
Parker v. Comm'r, 724 F.2d 469, (Fifth Cir. 1984))
United States v. Latham, 754 F.2d 747, 750 (7th Cir. 1985) and
Sullivan v. United States, 788 F.2d 813 (1st Cir. 1986)
"LexisNexis" Misrepresentations Regarding Pacific Nat'l Ins. v.
United States and the Limited Meaning of "Person" in 26 U.S.C. §
6671(b)
In re Meador, 79 Mass 454 (1869)
Hartman v. Comm'r, 65 T.C.
542 (1975)
U.S. v. Hendrickson
Hendrickson v. United States
Hendrickson v. United States
Regarding "Frivolous Return" Letters And Notices
Examples Of "Frivolous Penalty Assertion" Episodes
NOW, DOES ANYONE REALLY THINK that if any court(s)
in all of American history had ever said, "All gains (or
earnings, or receipts, or whatever else that wasn't a
custom-defined term in tax law was appropriate to the question)
of any and every kind by an American, or in America (or whatever
else that wasn't a custom-defined term in tax law was appropriate) are taxable under the federal income tax",
that or those wouldn't be the case(s)
cited and relied on by the DOJ and IRS in all of their
representations meant to suggest such a thing? And does
anyone really think that if such statements were true,
they wouldn't have been said that
plainly by some court by now?
(This as opposed to careful and meaningless
tautologies with language like "All income is taxable", which
says nothing more than, "All of what qualifies as the object of
the tax is taxable." It is undisputed that whatever qualifies as
"income" in the context of the tax is taxable. The issue is what
qualifies
as "income" in the context of the tax.)
Does anyone think that the IRS and DOJ would be
relying on careful misrepresentations of squirrelly and dodgy
cases like 'Latham' and 'Sullivan' or other cases citing to
those squirrelly and dodgy cases as their authorities (as they
have been doing for decades) to convince people that "includes"
means "also includes" or that the statutory definition of
"employee" at 26 USC 3401(c) embraces ALL workers of every kind
under any circumstances if any ruling
really said those things?
Does anyone think any court would have engaged in
the transparent dodge (and consequent constructive admissions)
over the meaning of "includes" as was done by the Sixth Circuit
in response to my motion to vacate if
it really could say that "includes" means "also includes", or
even just that "person" in 26 USC 7343 means "any person"?
Does anyone in his or her right mind think that if
it were true that
CtC-educated filings and claims could be
legitimately resisted or overcome there would have ever been so
much as a single bogus "frivolous penalty" scare-letter issued
to anyone? (Not to mention tens of thousands of surrenders to
those filings and claims in a constant, sustained, massive
acknowledgement by federal and state governments for more than
ten years now...)
This would NEVER have happened. Instead, if these
filings and claims really were invalid and/or "frivolous" there
would have been NOTHING but simple disallowances of claims, a few prominent
"failure to file" prosecutions in which it was plainly alleged
and proven that such returns are invalid under the law, and/or
just straight-up application of the "frivolous penalty" to every
one of them.
NONE would ever get a bogus "frivolous penalty
assertion". Any that came to the attention of the government
enough for a bogus "assertion"
would have simply gotten a real, straightforward and perfectly
clear penalty imposition.
In the end, then, the record proves that the
state's resistance to what is revealed in
CtC is entirely
unfounded, and entirely fraudulent-- a series of mere ploys and
subterfuges intended to keep you from learning and acting on
people-empowering truths the state fully acknowledges but finds
inconvenient.
In the end, you have to decide whether your rights
to your property, and the benefits of the rule of law to you and
your children, are going to be stripped from you because you put
your head down in response to pure bullsh*t.
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A Nice New Out-Reach Tool
A FINE ACTIVIST WHO KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE
between "grumble" and "rumble"-- and why the one does
nothing and the other does everything-- has produced a great
new one-page handout/flyer. Get it as a printable and
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Do you pay alcohol
tax on milk?
Do you pay
cigarette tax on bacon?
No? Why not?
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Because what’s drunk and smoked from
the grocery story is not subject to the same excise
tax as the products smoked and drunk from the
convenience store. Then why do you pay an income
tax on non-excise-taxable activities of common
right, such as earning a living?
If your accountant, CPA, or payroll
department’s corporate counsel tells you that the
income is a direct tax, excused from apportionment
by the 16th Amendment, then they are woefully
misinformed1 by the IRS’s office of
disinformation, and have completely failed to
conduct due diligence.
The federal income tax in the United
States is an indirect tax2. More
specifically, it is an excise3 tax on
certain privileged4 activity, just like
there is an excise tax on certain products such as
alcohol, cigarettes, and gasoline. That is why the
federal income tax is entirely lawful and
constitutional, as written. That is why the
16th Amendment and the Internal Revenue Code
harmonize with the US Constitution’s prohibition5 of
direct taxes that are not apportioned among the
states based on population. In fact, the 16th
Amendment does not deal with direct taxes6 at
all! Though the income tax is entirely lawful, it
is often misapplied.
Would you stop the cashier at a grocery
store from charging you fuel tax on a gallon of
apple cider? Though it’s similar in color to
gasoline, it’s entirely different altogether, and
not subject to the fuel excise tax. The same goes
for milk and bacon and the tax on alcohol and
cigarettes. It’s no different from the common right
to earn a living versus the privilege of working for
or getting paid by the federal government, an
activity which is subject to
the excise tax.
Learn how to stop paying the excise
(privilege) tax on your exercise of the common right
to earn a living. It’s not much harder than
informing the cashier that your apple cider isn’t
gasoline, even if the stock clerk, like a
misinformed payroll clerk, slaps the wrong label on
the product or earnings. Learn why only about 8% of
the population, on average, paid the income tax from
1862 to 1942, during the years that the income tax
was active, and learn how & why that number jumped
up to around 90% during a few years following 1943.
Learn all this and much, much more at
LostHorizons.com or by reading “Cracking the
Code—The Fascinating Truth about Taxation in
America” by researcher, analyst, and legal scholar
Peter E. Hendrickson.
1. "If [a] tax
is a direct one, it shall be apportioned according
to the census or enumeration. If it is a
duty, impost, or excise, it shall be uniform
throughout the United States. Together, these
classes include every form of tax appropriate to
sovereignty. Whether the [income] tax is to be
classified as an "excise" is in truth not of
critical importance [for this analysis]. If not
that, it is an "impost", or a "duty". A
capitation or other "direct" tax it certainly is
not." --U.S. Supreme Court, Steward
Machine Co. v. Collector of Internal Revenue,
301 U.S. 548 (1937) (Emphasis added; citations
omitted.)
"The
Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief
Justice White, first noted that the Sixteenth
Amendment did not authorize any new type of tax, nor
did it repeal or revoke the tax clauses of Article I
of the Constitution, quoted above. Direct taxes
were, notwithstanding the advent of the Sixteenth
Amendment, still subject to the rule of
apportionment…"
--Legislative Attorney of
the American Law Division of the Library of Congress
Howard M. Zaritsky in his 1979 Report No. 80-19A,
entitled 'Some Constitutional Questions Regarding
the Federal Income Tax Laws'
2.
"In Brushaber v. Union
Pacific Railroad Co., Mr. C. J. White, upholding the
income tax imposed by the Tariff Act of 1913,
construed the Amendment as a declaration that an
income tax is "indirect," rather than as making an
exception to the rule that direct taxes must be
apportioned."
--Harvard Law Review, 29
Harv. L. Rev. 536 (1915-16)
3.
"[T]he amendment made it
possible to bring investment income within the scope
of the general income-tax law, but did not change
the character of the tax. It is still fundamentally
an excise or duty..."
--Treasury Department
legislative draftsman F. Morse Hubbard in Hearing
Testimony in 1943
4.
“The terms ‘excise’ tax
and 'privilege’ tax are synonymous and the two are
often used interchangeably.”
--American Airways,
Inc. v. Wallace, 57 F.2d 877, 880 (M.D. Tenn.
1937)
"...the requirement to pay [excise] taxes involves
the exercise of privilege..."
--United States Supreme
Court, Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107
(1911)
5.
"No capitation, or other
direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to
the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to
be taken."
--United States
Constitution, Article 1, Section 9
“…direct Taxes shall be
apportioned among the several States…according to
their respective Numbers” --United States
Constitution, Article 1, Section 2
6.
"The Supreme Court, in a
decision written by Chief Justice White, first noted
that the Sixteenth Amendment did not authorize any
new type of tax, nor did it repeal or revoke the tax
clauses of Article I of the Constitution, quoted
above. Direct taxes were, notwithstanding the
advent of the Sixteenth Amendment, still subject to
the rule of apportionment…"
--Legislative Attorney of
the American Law Division of the Library of Congress
Howard M. Zaritsky in his 1979 Report No. 80-19A,
entitled 'Some Constitutional Questions Regarding
the Federal Income Tax Laws'
LostHorizons.com
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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:
September 29- In 1916,
John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire. In
1966, the Chevy Camaro hits the road. In 1982, the first of
what will be seven victims dies in Chicago from ingesting
poisoned Tylenol capsules. In 2004, the privately-built craft 'SpaceShipOne
performs a successful flight into space. In 2008, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day
drop in its history.
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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
OUTREACH!!!
JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.
ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY:
Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled
outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it
here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't
do this all by myself.
"In a time of
universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
-George Orwell
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which knowledge gives.”
-James Madison
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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:
High Cost of Bad Journalism on Ukraine
by Robert Parry
The costs of the mainstream U.S. media’s
wildly anti-Moscow bias in the Ukraine crisis are adding up, as the
Obama administration has decided to react to alleged “Russian
aggression” by investing as much as $1 trillion in modernizing the
U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal.
On Monday, a typically slanted New York
Times
article justified these modernization plans by describing
“Russia on the warpath” and adding: “Congress has expressed less
interest in atomic reductions than looking tough in Washington’s
escalating confrontation with Moscow.”
But the Ukraine crisis has been a textbook
case of the U.S. mainstream media misreporting the facts of a
foreign confrontation and then misinterpreting the meaning of the
events, a classic case of “garbage in, garbage out.” The core of the
false mainstream narrative is that Russian President Vladimir Putin
instigated the crisis as an excuse to reclaim territory for the
Russian Empire.
While that interpretation of events has
been the cornerstone of Official Washington’s “group think,” the
reality always was that Putin favored maintaining the status quo in
Ukraine. He had no plans to “invade” Ukraine and was satisfied with
the elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych. Indeed, when
the crisis heated up last February, Putin was distracted by the
Sochi Winter Olympics.
Rather than Putin’s “warmongering” – as the
Times said in the lead-in to another Monday article – the evidence
is clear that it was the United States and the European Union that
initiated this confrontation in a bid to pull Ukraine out of
Russia’s sphere of influence and into the West’s orbit.
This was a scheme long in the making, but
the immediate framework for the crisis took shape a year ago when
influential U.S. neocons set their sights on Ukraine and Putin after
Putin helped defuse a crisis in Syria by persuading President Barack
Obama to set aside plans to bomb Syrian government targets over a
disputed Sarin gas attack and instead accept Syria’s willingness to
surrender its entire chemical weapons arsenal.
But the neocons and their “liberal interventionist”
allies had their hearts set on another “shock and awe” campaign with
the goal of precipitating another “regime change” against a Middle
East government disfavored by Israel. Putin also worked with Obama
to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, averting another
neocon dream to “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.”
Continued...
Click here to read the rest of this article
and then ask yourself:
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
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
September 30- In 1882,
Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant
begins operation (in Appleton, Wisconsin). In 1901, a patent is
issued for the vacuum cleaner. In 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th
home run of that season, setting a new record. In 1935, the
Hoover Dam is dedicated. In 1954, the first nuclear-powered
vessel is commissioned-- the USS Nautilus. In 1986, Mordecai
Vanunu, the man who revealed details of a covert Israeli nuclear
weapons program to the British press, is kidnapped in Italy by
Israeli agents.
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how our children are educated..
HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!
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This And That
The biggest lie of the week; the world according to
neo-con nutcases; the REAL 'existential threat'; more...
OUR SERVANT GOVERNMENT HAS RESUMED sending vast amounts of
individual Americans' wealth to armament manufacturers with good
friends in Congress. This is being done under the pretext of
national defense against the (in some quarters)
ludicrously-described "existential threat to America" represented by
ISIS, and by exploiting hysteria and delusion (again, in certain
quarters) occasioned by the purported murder by ISIS of two
Americans, supposedly in an expression of mindless hatred of
America.
However, anyone who believes that ISIS murdered James
Foley and perhaps Steven Sotloff because they hate us, or even just
because they're evil, is crazy (and also apparently incapable of
remembering that we were treated to the same utter bs as the
explanation for
9/11,
too). If ISIS did these things at all, the only reason would be to
attract more adherents by proving themselves this week's most
effective gadfly to the United States on the basis of our
predictable over-reaction. (Maybe there'd have been a little
deliberate irony there, too, seeing as the timing of the Foley
murder coincided with close US ally Saudi Arabia committing 19
beheadings.)
But this "recruitment" notion really is not credible,
either. ISIS was already well-enough established as the go-to group
for haters of the United States-- all that it needed to do for
recruiting purposes on that basis was to display copies of neo-con
publications and speeches. To listen to these nutcases anyone would
think the 30,000 nomads of ISIS were the reconstituted Third Reich,
cranking out massive numbers of tanks and warplanes and submarines,
when the reality is that these people can't even make their own
replacement bullets.
So what is said to have been done by ISIS in the way of
these two murders and video broadcasts did nothing needful for them.
Instead it just ensured that many of them will be killed more
quickly and more assuredly than would otherwise be likely, and their
hopes for having enough relatively undisturbed time to become
entrenched and fortified and defensible will be thwarted, as anyone
would have predicted if asked beforehand about the outcome of doing
such things.
On the other hand, the broadcast of videos purportedly
showing ISIS doing these heinous things DID provide a much-needed
boost in the interests of those wanting expanded and perpetuated US
activities in the Middle East. Qui bono, America? Qui bono?
P. S. The idea of ISIS as a threat against America
itself is absurd in one sense. It is irrelevant in another.
ISIS as a conquest- or even just an attack-threat
against America nationally is plain fantasy. No such capability
exists in this little group of nomads, and if it settled onto some
territory and grew into an organized, industrialized state which had
such capabilities it would also grow into an institutionalized
structure that would never sacrifice itself in that way, whether on
the altar of mindless animosity or any other.
At the same time, ISIS as a source or locus of
terrorism against Americans simply cannot be prevented by any degree
of US military action. It can only be exacerbated by US military
action. A handful of pissed-off people are all it takes to commit
dramatic acts of terrorism, and US military action cannot eradicate
all pissed-off people, no matter how hard it tries, or for how long.
The claim that the US has a legitimate self-defense
policy objective in battling ISIS is a lie.
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My appreciation to whoever it was that first created
this little graphic, which originally circulated with the title,
'The World According To Americans'. I took the liberty of editing
that title, 'cause we don't ALL see things in quite these moronic
comic-book terms...
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DO YOU KNOW WHO IS AN 'EXISTENTIAL THREAT' TO
AMERICA? The folks contriving an absolutely unjust, unnecessary and
"false-flag" based confrontation with Russia-- a mega-state armed
with thousands of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to a
city near you. And hey, aren't those the same folks actually
attacking our freedoms, too, with massive warrantless surveillance,
assaults on speech and assembly rights, efforts to gut the jury
system, and other offenses against our liberty and the rule of law
too numerous to mention?
Know the real threats, and the real enemies, folks. And
know the real heroes defending our freedoms, too.
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SPEAKING OF THE LYING POLITICAL CLASS AND ITS CLIENTS
AND CRONIES, have you ever given any thought to
what will happen when 30 million other Americans-- or even just 3
million-- learn what you
know about the "income" tax and begin following your example of
acting to protect your own interests and uphold the law?
The lying political class thinks about it-- a lot.
You
should, too, and
add vigorous outreach to your activism.
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
October 1- In 1800,
Spain cedes Louisiana to France. In 1908, Ford Model T's go on
sale at $825. In 1910, the Los Angeles Times building is
destroyed by a bomb set by Ironworkers union members upset at
the position of the paper on unionization. It was one of many
similar bombings during that period (more than 100), but perhaps
the most dramatic, with 21 dead and scores more injured. No
anti-terrorism measures gutting the Constitution were enacted,
and yet life went on. In 1928, the Soviet Union introduces its
first "Five Year Plan" for the bureaucratic control of the
national economy. In 1946, the "Nuremburg Trials" of Nazi
leaders for engaging in wars of aggression come to a close with
death sentences for most of the defendants.
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What Do The People Do About The Rogue State??
The
most important question facing Americans today
I HAD THIS QUESTION POSED TO ME BY AN EMAIL CORRESPONDENT the other
day. I guess this just shows how poor a job I've done at
communicating, because I have been trying to shout the answer to
this one from the rooftops for a long time.
That answer is simple: The People impose restraint on the rogue
state by choosing-- one by one-- to cease voluntarily turning
control over their resources to the state, and choosing instead to
retain control over those resources. This is done by refusing-- one
by one-- to engage in "income tax" excisable activities (and
refusing to blindly or fearfully allow their activities to be
treated or taken as excisable activities upon which the tax arises,
when they really are not).
The refusal of individual Americans to voluntarily engage in
excisable activities forces the state to resort to
highly-politically-accountable, highly-politically-vulnerable
alternatives revenue sources. These include options like direct,
apportioned taxes (which will not be tolerated by the people or
approved by Congress at $multi-trillion annual volumes), and/or
increased revenue tariffs (which can raise amounts adequate for
legitimate state needs, but are very self-regulating, since
consumers naturally choose domestic product alternatives when higher
tariffs raise the prices of imports beyond a certain point).
This solution is precisely the one intended and provided for by the
Founders-- who didn't impose the taxation rules in the US
Constitution just so they could admire their handwriting. They put
those rules in place in direct anticipation of state behavior of the
sort with which we are now plagued.
As even so odious a character as Hamilton pointed out in Federalist
#21:
“Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles
of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time,
find its level with the means of paying them. The amount to be
contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own
option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources.
...If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the
collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so
great as when they are confined within proper and moderate
bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material
oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself
a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
What we've got today is simply the direct (and perfectly
predictable) consequences of NOT adhering to the Founders' plan. As
Frederick Douglass trenchantly observed,
“Find out just what any people
will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the
injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
We've got plenty of injustice and wrong these days. But our fix to
the problem was bought for us with blood a few hundred years ago.
All we have to do is stop playing along with the rogue state's
false (and rather embarrassingly crude) paradigm concerning
who owns what, and what powers to tax have really been granted.
As soon as enough of us quit endorsing that nonsense,
it's all
good.
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
October 2- In 1835,
freedom-loving Texans begin their war for independence from
Mexico. In 1950, "Peanuts" is first published. In 1959, 'The
Twilight Zone' airs its first episode. In 1998, historians take
note that it is the 160th 2nd of October since Iran initiated
military aggression against anyone. In 2002, the "Beltway
Sniper" attacks begin.
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An Introduction To The Liberating Truth In Ten Easy Segments
Tom Bottaro,
ChFC,
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."
-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
in the first pic above?
Tasty freebies for Brian's co-workers-- candy and brain-candy
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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes
Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In
CtC, And Have
Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
October 3- In 1849,
Edgar Allen Poe is found in a gutter in Baltimore, an apparent
victim of "cooping" (being drugged into incoherence and then
taken from polling place to polling place and made to repeatedly
vote as instructed). He dies four days later. In 1863, the
fourth Thursday of November is officially specified as
Thanksgiving Day by Abraham Lincoln. In 1908, 'Pravda' is
founded. In 1932, Iraq gains its independence from Britain. In
1981, the hunger strike by PIRA and INLA prisoners at the Maze
prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten
deaths. In 1990, Eastern and Western Germany are reunited. In
2008, George W. Bush signs the first $700 billion "bailout"
bill, starting an ongoing process of looting the American people
under the amazingly bold pretext that these further offenses
will somehow ameliorate the effects of previous governmental
abuse of the American financial and monetary structures.
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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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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX
“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 Cope Agree
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Films
That Belong In Every Home Library
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:
October 4- In 1537, the first complete
English-language Bible is printed. Two of the three translators
suffer burning at the stake. In 1777, George Washington's
assault on the British garrison at Germantown, Pennsylvania is
defeated by Sir William Howe. In 1957, Sputnik 1 is launched.
In 1988, "televangelist" Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. In
2004, SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X prize for the first private
craft to successfully reach space and return twice within two
weeks time.
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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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