Mid-Edition Update

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AS YOU RAISE YOUR VOICE in righteous opposition-- even outrage-- while the political cabal in Washington prepares to fasten another unconstitutional chain on the American public under the name of "National Health Care", you don't find yourself being hindered by the nagging suspicion that perhaps there's something about the legislation that you don't understand, or aren't aware of, which makes it all legal despite appearances to the contrary, do you?

You don't pause and settle yourself down with the thought that since our elected officials are the ones enacting this law, it must be proper, and the how and why is simply escaping you because you're not trained as a lawyer, do you?

You don't put aside your concern because you know you can count on the courageous and incorruptible judiciary, and those great folks at the DoJ, to see to it that if there IS anything wrong with the legislation, it'll get taken care of through "the judicial process", and your interests will be properly looked-after that way, do you?

In short, you don't stand down and put your faith in "the system" to do the right thing, do you?

No you don't.

YOU DON'T STAND DOWN because you know perfectly well that something that violates the plain words of the Constitution, or isn't clearly authorized by that fundamental law, is illegal, and nothing within its thousands of pages of text can change that, no matter what that something might be.

You don't stand down because you know perfectly well that not only can our elected officials NOT be counted on to confine themselves to what is lawful and proper, but they can be counted on to sell whatever authority our complacency allows them to assume to the highest bidder, and the law and our interests be damned.

You don't stand down because you know perfectly well that the judicial process is more often than not just a creative rubber-stamp for the corruptions of the political elite who choose the judges and prosecutors, and the only one that's going to look out for your interest in enjoying the benefit of the rule of law is you.

You don't stand down because you know "the system" will screw you, lie to you, sneer at the Constitution and treat you like a fool and a tool.

If you're wise, you even know that "the system" is (accurately) counting on the fact that if it succeeds in overcoming your opposition now and fastens this outrage upon you, in just a few years you'll come to believe that there must be something about the legislation that you don't understand which makes it legal, because if there hadn't been, our elected officials would never have proposed it or voted for it, and the courts would have struck it down.

NOW I ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT ALL THIS as we move into the last month of the primary "tax season".  Especially, I ask you discuss all this with your companions at every "health care legislation protest", and "bailout protest" and "tea party" and the protest of whatever will be the next outrage by those running and feeding off the corrupt state that rallies the opposition of the people.

Those standing with you at each of these current and fleeting moments of wakefulness desperately need to learn the truth about the biggest exploitation of their ignorance and complacency that there is, and the one that finances and facilitates all the outrages that they DO recognize-- the systematic mis-application of the "income" tax.  Those good folks standing with you right now over the "outrage de jour" have unfortunately harbored a life-long belief that despite the nagging suspicions that arise when they actually read their copy of the Constitution or even just think hard about how the tax is applied, there must be something about it that they don't understand which makes it legal, because if there weren't, our elected officials or courts would have done something about it.

The insidious thing about ignorance is that the ignorant don't know what they don't know, and the human mind always favors perspectives to which it has become accustomed, however groundless those perspectives may be.  This produces a lot of resistance to revisiting long-settled misunderstandings.  But when re-heated by a new passion, the human mind can be re-forged to new perspectives.  Right now, a lot of Americans' "irons" are hot, and now is the time to strike.

Pass out copies of CtC or WGRaM, or any of the ever-growing array of outreach tools available here.  Write to every pundit that has been energized by the present assault on the rule of law but is blind to the really big one with which he or she has been living so long as to now view it as "just the way things are".

UNDERSTAND, AND I MEAN REALLY UNDERSTAND, that the CtC-educated community is the stake poised over the chest of the vampire, and the vampire knows it.  A whole lot of energy and effort are being expended right now to try to blunt that stake, and dissipate the force behind it back into the "way things are" fog.  It's up to you to keep the stake sharp, and pile on the weight.

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“The size of a lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.  The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims of a big lie than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.  Such a form of lying would never enter their heads.  They would never credit others with the possibility of such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts.”

-Adolf Hitler

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Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri.  America is waking up.

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So What Is An Excise, Anyway?

Speaking of Spreading the Word, CtC Warrior Greg Sutton has written up a nice little exposition on "excise taxes" that makes a fine handout with which to alert casual contacts to the fact that there's something they need to learn about the "income" tax.  Download it here for printing and distribution; and again, visit this page for more resources.

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Glenn Greenwald has shared some good words about the "terrorism" hysteria promoted by those who would be our ruling class, and their sycophants in the mainstream media:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

-H.L. Mencken