March 3 & 7, 2008
Mid-Edition Update
Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash, But Gold Is Always As Good As... Well, Gold
Machiavelli's Notebook
'The War On Terror Is Bogus'
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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
The Insidious Encroachment Of The Collectivist Paradigm
The other day, I came across a news story in which what was once the merely descriptive phrase "first responders" made an appearance as a title. My hackles rose.
The use of the phrase "first responders" to describe emergency response workers has always been a bit awkward at best. For one thing, "first responders" necessarily implies "second responders", and so forth. One can only think of such expressions of cultural pathology as the "Crisis Counseling" industry, and the various and ever-increasing ranks of self-important, oxygen-stealing federal, state and local busybody bureaucracies, as next in line in the implicit hierarchy of place in this unhealthy pyramid of assumed interest and authority.
More importantly, the treatment of emergency workers as "first-responders" serves to push the REAL first responders-- the live, grown-up (or even not grown-up) autonomous human beings directly affected by the event-- into a subordinate, almost object-like role in the affair. Thanks to the adoption of these labels and the perspective they imply, the actual interested parties-- the ONLY actual interested parties in any legal or moral sense-- are relegated to the status of helpless, powerless victims-- mere wards of the state. By the same process, of course, those we've put on retainer to assist us when called upon are encouraged to deviate from their proper, "What can I do to help you?" role to an unnatural and unhealthy, "Keep quiet and do what you're told! We're in charge, here!" position.
The reality, of course, is that the various governmental emergency workers are only the state's "first responders", and when they are characterized as such without qualification, the label is an invitation to the rest of us to perceive ourselves as cogs in a great collectivist machine.
Cogs in the state's machine are looked after by the state for its own purposes, not ours. The fact that looking after us in the manner and to the degree which the state finds fitting may benefit some of us some of the time does not diminish this reality in any way. It is simply an expression of a political reality. We must be kept happy (or, at least, not severely discontented) or we will cause trouble; furthermore, our discontent (or sufficiently overt neglect) would undermine the fiction by which the state justifies its efforts to control so much of our wealth and authority, which control is, in turn, the means by which the state's operators and clients profit from its existence. Providing benefits to us is merely a means. Control is the end.
In short, when we allow (or worse, adopt) the use of the collectivist fiction's labels, we discipline our own habits of thought into self-destructive modes. When we use labels implying ourselves to be helpless victims needing rescue and protection by the state, and relegate ourselves to the role of mere subordinate beneficiaries of that succor, rather than the purchasers and masters of such emergency response efforts, we soon come to think of ourselves in that way, and encourage, if not pressure, others to do the same. The imposition of status as no more than a member of the hive is only a short step away once we have become habituated to thinking of ourselves that way, or when enough of our fellows have adopted such roles as to make independence highly difficult, if not impossible.
Does it seem like I'm picking at nits? Perhaps, but I don't think so. Words have great power, and those used as labels are often selected in service to an agenda. (Think of the label, "enhanced interrogation", for instance...) Furthermore, vague terms-- like "First Responders"-- tend to be picked for service to agendas of manipulation, rather than the honest and straightforward variety.
I don't like vagueness OR manipulation, and I don't like life in the hive. I'll stick with "cop" and "firefighter".
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It's Time For A Show Of Strength
Ron Paul has just issued a call for a march on (or, at least, in...) Washington as a show of support and strength. I whole-heartedly endorse this notion, and propose that this march be coordinated with two other events.
The first of these two other events is the nationwide April 15 "holiday" that has already been being widely promoted for the same show-of-strength purpose. I suggest that these two notions become a single event: A "Million-American" gathering in Washington on April 15.
Two virtuous serendipities will result from that combination. One is that having the Washington march take place on the holiday will serve to encourage even DC denizens who would not otherwise be inclined to do so into taking the day off as well. The second is that because April 15 is a Tuesday, and because most marchers will have to travel a considerable distance to participate, the "holiday" will really end up running three days, and thus will be that much more significant.
The other "event" I propose be coordinated with the march and the holiday is the wholesale reclamation of control by millions of individual Americans over their wealth and power by accurately upholding the "income" tax laws. This would not be a one-day event, but a process over the course of all the time between now and the march; and it would not be a "show" of strength, but an application of strength. Nonetheless, I think the character of each of these concepts make them a natural family.
I realize, of course, that all of you CtC readers will be acting to uphold the law without regard to any other events (or have already acted).
However, most of you probably don't know that the vast bulk of Ron Paul supporters-- while having precisely the right attitude toward a tax that appears to make them serfs to a Washington political aristocracy able to fleece them at will to finance its corrupt and destructive ambitions and pleasures-- have no idea of the truth about that tax. Even Dr. Paul himself is in the category of those who do not realize that the "income" tax is actually a tax on the benefits enjoyed by that aristocracy and its clients and investors, (rather than a tax on the rest of us), and is, in fact, a wholly benign and virtuous mechanism by which beneficiaries of the power and privileges delegated to the federal government are obliged to return some of their gains to the public purse.
For a year now, many of you have been constantly interacting with this vast host of Paul supporters-- Americans self-identified as champions of the Constitution and its strict limitations on government power-- but have taken it for granted that these folks must somehow know the truth about the tax; that they must have been told by someone else, and are already acting to restrain Leviathan as they obviously wish to do, and as the Founders intended them to do-- just as you are.
I'm sorry to say it, but you're wrong.
These upstanding Paul supporters in their huge numbers DON'T know the truth, most of them, but they need to. The only way they WILL come to know is by YOUR EFFORTS to expose them to the liberating information uniquely presented in CtC. And if you take up this task, your efforts will be rewarded. When that vast host of upstanding Americans-- now drawn together and in communion with one another thanks to the astonishing efforts of Ron Paul and of others inspired and activated by his campaign-- DO come to know the truth and act upon it, a truly amazing thing will happen.
One of the key elements in the message Dr. Paul has so successfully communicated, and which resonates so naturally with all who hear it, is that the liberty of the American people is not the result of forbearance by a master-class in Washington, but is the consequence of individual Americans-- the actual sovereigns in this land-- standing up and acting to uphold the law. It is OUR power that protects our liberty, and anyone with a lick of sense understands this.
But the exercise of our power depends on knowledge. Share the knowledge. If you do, by the time we gather in Washington-- whether on April 15 or another date-- the transformation of America from a rapidly declining oligarchy based on the corrupt exploitation of ignorance back to the Constitutionally-limited republic that is our magnificent heritage will already be well underway.
Aren't You Glad You've Taken Control Of Whether Any Of YOUR Money Goes To Washington, Just As The Framers Intended? Everyone In Your Ron Paul Meet-Up Group Will Be, Too.
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P. S. Many of you also interact with another large cadre of activists primed to lend their weight to a liberating transformation, but whose potential power is similarly kept on the sidelines due to ignorance of the actual truth about the "income" tax. I speak here of those in the "tax honesty" community-- the "Truth Attack" folks, the "Lawmen", the "We The People" people, the "Law That Never Was" crowd and so forth.
These folks are explicitly motivated by the subject of the "income" tax, but are frozen into complete impotence in their efforts to see that tax made properly subject to the discipline of the law due to embracing the utterly counter-productive behavior of "non-filing". By refusing to file, these activists-who-are-actually-NON-activists stand silently on the sidelines and both lose their money, and surrender their legal standing, by default.
Despite being plainly put on notice that they have been declared to have engaged in taxable activities by those who paid them (by being delivered copies of the "information returns" submitted to the tax agencies), these folks refuse to respond in a legally-meaningful fashion. Instead, they allow the system to which they are so opposed to just shrug its shoulders, take the unanswered allegations as true, and pocket the silent non-filer's property.
(Some of these folks imagine themselves to be anything but silent. They protest loudly, complain bitterly, and send letters and "statements" and "memorandums of law" to the tax agencies, or the Treasury department or their congressmen ad infinitum. But all of this might as well be done within Maxwell Smart's "Cone of Silence". The structure with which they are attempting to communicate only recognizes certain forms of expression, and the one that applies in this case is the one that the non-filer refuses to employ-- often due to misunderstandings about the legal effect of filing such as are discussed here.)
A selected few of these hapless non-filers will even be prosecuted for their behavior. This is not because the non-filing itself represents any harm to Leviathan on a case-by-case, or even large-scale basis-- it doesn't. Such prosecutions occur merely because the body of law associated with the tax does provide for a penalty when one who has been alleged to have received more than the exemption amount of "income" fails to file (really, the law provides for the penalty when one who actually HAS received more than the exemption amount fails to file, but once the allegation of such receipts goes unanswered by a filing attesting to the contrary, it is then taken as having been validated...), and if too much blatant violation of any provision of the law is tolerated without response, the whole structure starts to look raggedy.
The reason that these folks counter-productively enable the predations of the state, and even engage in vigorous encouragement of this same foolishness in others, is simple ignorance of the truth about the law-- often an ignorance that is deliberately maintained by their leadership. The leaders of some of these groups have specifically declared that they have never read CtC, or anything on this site, and all of them speak disparagingly to their followers about both.
Bizarrely, these leaders rely on the defeats routinely suffered by some of their adherents to maintain an exercised attitude among the rest, while stubbornly refusing to study and acknowledge the unending victories won by the CtC-educated, and actively discouraging their followers from doing so. Even CtC-targeted IRS propaganda is parroted by some of these folks in their efforts to turn attention away from what has been being proven correct for years now in favor of what has been being proven incorrect for decades. More on this disturbing resistance to the truth can be found here.
The bottom line is that an activist attitude toward the income tax can by no means be taken as reflecting an understanding of the subject, and such an attitude coupled with ignorance means that not only is no good being accomplished by that activist, but harm probably is, instead. Like the Ron Paul activists, those in the "tax honesty" community have stood up and revealed themselves as Americans whose hearts are in entirely the right place, and who are ready to learn and act. Teach them.
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IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary exaction suffered out of ignorance as to its lawful objects and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies. See "Income Tax", "Social Security Tax", "Medicare Tax" and "Federal Unemployment Tax".
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
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The March To Victory There is only one place where actual, positive victories on behalf of the truth about the income tax are being won, and that is within the ranks of those educated by 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' Here are this week's additions to the ever-growing mountain of such victories, each of which represents a concrete shift of overall power and control away from the state and back to individual Americans.
Taking Action (And ONLY Taking Action) Brings Results
Ever notice how everybody complains about the overgrown, arrogant federal government, but nobody actually does anything about it? Well, actually, some of us DO do something about it.
The Americans you're about to meet know the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. These heroes read 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' and learned the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the "income" tax. They know who's really in charge, and how, and why. They're done arguing with the social director about the best arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic, and have gone down to the engine room to make some changes. (Interestingly, April 15 was the date the Titanic sank...)
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WHEN AM I GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE YOUR VICTORY FOR THE RULE OF LAW?!
Or are you STILL unable to let actual hard facts and evidence overcome the mere propaganda you've been fed all your life by those with a well-defined and substantial financial interest in keeping you mindlessly ignorant of the truth about the tax?
If this is still true, after everything you've read to get to this point, you're probably hopeless, but click here, anyway.
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Those who are NOT hopeless will be interested in knowing that:
By the way, those who have stood up and taken proper action WITHOUT having yet enjoyed a lawful response are already victors as well. The moment that a proper and accurate filing is made the virtuous blow on behalf of the rule of law has been struck.
The moment that a proper and accurate filing is made the entire exploitation-of-ignorance-as-usual machine stops dead for that filer and that period, and there's no restarting it again (unless the filer can be intimidated into rescission...). At that point, all current and future illegitimate claims to the filer's property are undone, and the filer's claim for the return of any relevant property is established. It's just a matter of waiting for the headless chicken to stop running around.
However, I don't have a simple way to display victories at that stage of progress.
If you're in the category of those who have acted, but whose proper filings are being resisted, rest assured that your victory IS recognized and honored. And watch this space. In some not-too-distant future newsletter, I'll be announcing a program for displaying you and your victory-in-waiting.
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This week's recommended reading: 'Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East and What It Means for Americans' |
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Mid-Edition Update
Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash, But Gold Is Always As Good As... Well, Gold
During a recent conversation with a friend, I became aware that the systematic and deliberate disparagement of real money (gold) routinely conducted in an effort to foster tolerance of the state's paper version has left many Americans without a clear understanding of the immutability of the value of gold. Here is what needs to be clearly comprehended in this regard: Gold NEVER loses its value, even if its paper "dollar" price declines!
If you buy an ounce of gold for, say, 900 paper "dollars", and later can get only 450 paper "dollars" for that ounce, this is NOT because the gold has lost value [purchasing power]. It is because the paper "dollars" have increased in value. That is, the purchasing power of the 900 paper "dollars" traded for the gold ounce in the first place is now achieved with only 450 such "dollars". The value of the gold has not changed at all.
YOU CANNOT LOSE VALUE FROM AN INVESTMENT IN GOLD, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO ITS PAPER "DOLLAR" PRICE.
When it takes 900 paper "dollars" to buy an ounce of gold, it is because at that point 900 paper "dollars" can buy 'x' goods and services, the same purchasing power as the ounce of gold. If the price of the gold ounce declines to 450 paper "dollars", it reflects the fact that the paper "dollars" have now increased in value to the point at which 450 such "dollars" can now buy the same 'x' that required 900 at the earlier time. The gold ounce can still do the same.
The purchasing power of the gold hasn't changed, but the purchasing power of the paper has, so the 450 paper "dollars" for which the gold can be traded now have the same purchasing power that was possessed by the original 900. Whatever the number of paper "dollars" for which the gold trades AT ANY TIME, they will still represent the same purchasing power in your pocket as whatever was the number with which you bought the gold in the first place.
Of course, the paper "dollars" are virtually certain to NOT regain their relative value, and, even if subject to temporary fluctuations, certainly will not do so over the course of even a relatively brief passage of time.
For instance, while the ounce of gold your grandfather acquired in 1900 will still buy today what it would then (more, actually, due to the effect of productivity gains, all of which adhere to hard money, the paper "dollar" gramps also set aside that year now needs the help of 113.13 of its fellows to buy what it once could handle by itself (as of 2006, using an "unskilled labor rate" computation-- the comparison best insulated from improper productivity and quality-improvement skewing of such calculations, in my view).
THE BOTTOM LINE IS SIMPLE: HOLDING PAPER "DOLLARS" IS A FOOL'S GAME, WHILE HOLDING GOLD IS FOOLPROOF.
(Needless to say, more gold goes into circulation periodically, as it is discovered and mined. However, unlike paper trash, the production of gold-- or silver-- is invariably a consequence of a corresponding expenditure of capital and labor. Thus, every ounce introduced into circulation acquires and represents the inherent value of that expenditure, as well as being itself a durable-- indeed, near permanent-- capital asset added to the economy at the same time, making such increases in supply non-inflationary.)
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Machiavelli's Notebook
"Con people into paying enough in taxes, and into tolerating the inflationary erosion of what is left to them by the use of paper money, and you will compel both parents in most families into the workforce, and the children, therefore, into your schools. Now, not only are the adults distracted, overworked and on the edge of dependency, but you have control of the next generation, which you can indoctrinate to suit your purposes. Your mastery will soon be all but unbreakable." (OK, so this is really "Pete's Notebook", but I'm sure ol' Niccolo would agree with me...)
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This Mid-Edition Update's recommended reading: 'This War On Terrorism Is Bogus' by Michael Meacher, British MP and former Environment Minister |
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"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable truth!"
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Special Commentary Why Ron Paul Is Right About Terrorism: A Letter to the GOP Base
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CtC Warrior Dave Dassie has assembled a very useful flow chart for those preparing for "tax season"!
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A page devoted to the 9/11 pretext and how it's being used "What luck for the
rulers that men do not think."
Those continuing to be taken in by the ridiculous and thoroughly debunked mythology about the events of 9/11 endlessly promoted and exploited by the Bush administration and its fellow travelers really need to wake up, and do so quickly. (Click here for a short video nicely expressing this crass and cynical exploitation.)
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of -James Madison
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Going On Offense
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Preparing For The Writs Of Mandamus As useful material is contributed for the development of the writ action, the contributions will be noted below. The material itself will be found appended to the preparatory document linked above. 12/26/07 Warrior Thomas Wilson has contributed
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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant and law-defying tax agents)
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Of Ongoing Interest
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Faux News- We Distort, You Subside...
Want The Truth About Global Warming? Click Below And Watch This Important Film 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' (Heard a lot of hoopla about greater-than-normal melting on the western edge of Antarctica lately? Turns out there's an active volcano beneath that ice...)
A good, detailed history of the current conflict in the Middle East...
A remarkable 62-year-old explanation of what's going on in Washington today...
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CtC-related hits between April 1, 2006 (when logging began under the old server) and August 31, 2007 totaled 17,277,595!
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