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Though you probably haven't heard this from the MSM,
May 12- In 1780, Charleston, South
Carolina is captured by the British army. In 1862, Baton Rouge, Louisiana is
captured by the Union army. In 1941, the first fully-programmable,
fully-automatic computer, the Z3, was introduced by inventor Konrad Zuse, in
Berlin, Germany. In 1965, the Soviet Union's 'Luna 5' spacecraft crash-lands on
the Moon. In 1967, Pink Floyd stages the first quadraphonic rock concert.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Please don't just
read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or
approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order
to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with
perspectives and arguments with which to
educate others, and in the
expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or
direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things,
especially in recognition of the fact
that my posts are heavily suppressed. They will NOT get out
if you don't get them out.
Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
***
BTW, join me on The Shields Report
the first Saturday of every month at 5PM EDT!!
...recognizing that the May 14, 1948
catastrophe was inflicted-- perhaps not immediately,
but over time-- on all of us.
THE SPECIFIC VICTIMS REMEMBERED on
Nakba (Catastrophe) Day (May 15) are the
Palestinians driven from their homes and their lands
by Jewish terrorists with smuggled arms in 1948.
But, in fact, everyone on the planet can be
rightfully deemed a victim of that crime.
Since the declared establishment of the
State of Israel, the initial crime of its violent
formation has been followed by a steadily expanding
wave of destruction. Evidence strongly suggests that
amongst the "features" of that wave are the
assassination of JFK (and of his brother Robert, in
turn), with all the ramifications associated with
those crimes (i.e., American escalation of-- rather
than withdrawal from-- the Vietnam war and the many
political pathologies and mutations therefrom; the
complete collapse of the gold standard in the USA;
prolongation and deepening of the Cold War; and so
on.
Then there is 9/11, which, along with a
homegrown assault on liberty by way of the PATRIOT
ACT, REAL ID, and other such measures, served as the
pretext for US assaults on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,
Syria and other states seen as problematic by Israel. These not only resulted in the deaths
of millions and the utterly wasteful blowing up of
$trillions in American assets and those of other
countries involved in the assaults (both as
aggressors and defenders), but also produced a
hugely destructive tidal wave of refugees swamping
"the West". In turn, that swamping has dramatically
and destructively distorted the politics of the
affected western states and their relations with the
non-western world.
There seems good reason to suspect that
the otherwise inexplicable prolongation of the US
proxy war against Russia-- in which a million or
more have died, and vast numbers of Ukrainians have
been dislocated-- is simply for the purpose of
keeping Russia occupied and therefore unable to
interfere with Israeli-US aggressions in the Middle
East... at risk of escalation into nuclear war, of
course.
Israel's decades of (US funded and
enabled) grotesque abuse of Palestinians within its
reach and its now significantly-advanced genocide in
Gaza and the West Bank have been sickening
spectacles the bulk of the world's population has
been forced to suffer in spiritually erosive
paralysis, unable to intervene for fear of US
retaliation due to the capture
of
American politics by Israel and its supporters. That
capture has resulted not only in the aforementioned
global soul-sickness and malaise, but also in the
substantial diminishment of liberty in America--
once the shining beacon on a hill showing the rest
of humanity why to strive for individual rights and
the rule of law but now a darkly corrupt
surveillance state, thanks to the Israel-serving
"war on terror".
GIVEN THE FOREGOING WARM-UP, I
will leave it to the reader to discern other
catastrophic consequences emanating from Britain's
arrogant and indefensible expropriation of the
Palestinian people on behalf of Jewish supplicants
in the early 20th Century. Those interested will
find a large collection of resources, including
pre-1948 newspaper articles and other published
records; specific and detailed examples of how
Israeli influence has undermined American rule of
law; detailed historical data on the broad arc and
on individual punctuation points, and much more that
will be helpful to that inquiry
at this link.
I urge everyone to spend some time
reflecting on this subject, and to share their
thoughts, and these resources, with others.
P.S. AS NOTED, THE UNITED STATES IS
CAPTURED, and committing evil in the service of its
captors. This is so because what had been our
national commitment to individual liberty and the
rule of law for most of our history had made us
wealthy and powerful, and though we are rapidly
eating away at our wealth, we're still the big dog
on the block. Hence America remains the fittest tool
for a rapacious will to take in hand.
But this needn't continue. How big a
dog the United States can be in wreaking havoc for
Israel and its Zionist useful idiots is up to the
American people. Acting entirely as individuals, no
permission needed, each American man and woman can
shut off at least one spigot of fuel keeping
Leviathan big and bad.
Learn how here, and share THIS with others, too.
Remember:
***
Now, do you want this
article to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
given above or below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most
creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make
gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been
better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money
for their own uses.
If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to
apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you
can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having
the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your
own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that
use.
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*****
Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...
...an important action item opportunity.
FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC EASINGS of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under
since the onset of the
COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative should not be
allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing.
The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.
And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if
they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and
Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you
can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):
[Name], since March of 2020 you've
watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy
classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No
dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.
YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant
state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in
size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an
opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has
been nurturing in the average mind for decades).
Those things having not yet happened, you
should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.
Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to
begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take
place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a
who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to
show it to you.
When you're done with that reading, you'll know
what to do next.
BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact
that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the
law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and
you don't call them out for it.
If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the
truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be
grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They
would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in
that delusional bubble.
As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they
certainly WOULD do something
like that.
Use this evidence in all your
outreach efforts.
"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
(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from
learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when
CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a
concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This
effort involves official government websites and press releases
touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds
with some
CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the
real substance of the ruling)--
and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.
Are the presentations and
resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?
Tim Kendrick has posted
a video
on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about
it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to
feel obligated in any way.
But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue
to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only
the cost of a cheap paperback.
Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very
thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is
just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be
conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support.
No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to
act let it be solely because it seems right.
All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others
that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.
Leadership is a challenge. But it's not
complicated, and you can do it.
*****
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The
Word?
SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE
EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that
everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to
believe about something as entrenched and significant as the
income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help
cut through the resistance:
Ask your listener how he or she would react if
you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the
earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the
time because people don't understand how it works? Or how
about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying
the same?
Now you just have to explain that
you're going to show exactly those things-- but because
the state really doesn't want people to know this, these
things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would
all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these
admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press
release. But it'll be worth the effort...
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.
Remember: 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."
Be Not Enticed To Tyranny:
Oppose The Surveillance State
By Elizabeth Melton
A surveillance state is
being erected around the American public at an
alarming rate. In many urban and suburban settings,
anyone traveling on public streets or sidewalks will
have his image captured by the ubiquitous
surveillance cameras. A leisurely stroll around the
neighborhood, as well as any conversation along the
way, might be recorded if the city uses
surveillance-enabled street lights. Even our own
front yards might not be safe from the prying eyes
of the state if a neighbor has
a “smart” doorbell that shares data with law
enforcement.
Rural areas are not exempt from this
intrusion.
Automatic License Plate Reader cameras (ALPRs, often
contracted under the brand name
FLOCK), are
being placed on rural highways and on county lines in an
increasing number of areas. Audio and video surveillance now
cover remote corners of the
Amazon Basin.
Satellite technology could ensure that, one day, no square
foot of the planet is unobserved.
The power of the modern
surveillance state is without historical precedent.
The argument that “there is no expectation of
privacy in public”
no longer adequately addresses the huge
quantities of data that surveillance apparatus
captures, stores, and analyzes.
While
civil rights and
other niche groups are
sounding the alarm
about the
dangers of Big Brother, critics are surprisingly
underrepresented among popular news outlets. When
the topic of citizen surveillance is covered at all,
these stories are often portrayed as a benign
solution to a dangerous problem with the dangers to
civil liberties receiving a brief nod, if even
mentioned.
So why does the average
citizen not have greater concern over these
intrusions upon their civil liberties, in some cases
even championing it? One answer to that question
might be that these systems are a Trojan Horse.
While they are dressed up as a gift that will
protect society from all that they fear, it is the
gift itself that poses the greatest threat.
The
use of fear to gain power is a tale as old as
time, but our unprecedented access to information
has not made us any less vulnerable to it. Each
decade of the lives of the modern citizen has
brought about its own moral panic with the
accompanying “solution.” From the
Satanic Panic to the
War on Drugs, fear has driven consistent
relinquishment of our individual rights over time.
The justification for the
modern surveillance state began on September 11,
2001. The fear inspired by those terrible events was
the foundation for the unconstitutional provisions
of The PATRIOT Act, the advent of real-time crime
centers, and the birth of the TSA. Public fear of
terrorism enabled the government to impose security
measures that would never have been tolerated in the
absence of a crisis.
With greater public
acceptance of an increasingly Orwellian environment,
expanding surveillance from the airport into the
streets required only amplifying stories of gang
warfare, a problem portrayed as solvable only with
the rampant use of cameras. Divisive political
rhetoric over illegal immigration has further fanned
the flames as border walls are replaced by
technological solutions.
As violations to privacy
have become normalized, the powers-that-be are now
promoting these technologies as an answer to
non-violent crimes such as
littering and
traffic violations. Government programs also
seek to use ALPRs to
micromanage the behavior of travelers while also
reaping revenue in the name of protecting the planet
from climate change.
MELTON MAKES THE IMPORTANT POINT in
her article that the steady growth of the
surveillance state is largely being met with a
ho-hum by even the punditry in the most conservative
and libertarian camps. It must be suspected that
there's a certain resignation at work here: having
raised an alarm about all this with each new
expansion during an earlier decade or so, but to no
effect whatsoever, those who otherwise would be on
the ramparts just aren't bothering anymore.
The real problem, however, is not
resignation. The problem, rather, is that the
activist-intellectuals who have resigned themselves
lack a real case to make on behalf of privacy,
because they do not actually understand the Fourth
Amendment (something also true of American legal
professionals, including those presiding over
courtrooms across the country). Properly understood
and applied, the Fourth stands as a puissant bulwark
against most of the concerning aspects of modern
camera-infested America.
Let's dig in:
Warrantless Searches Are Always Unlawful
The historical record of the Fourth Amendment makes
clear that there are no exceptions.
AMERICANS HAVE BEEN SIMMERING WITH ANGER IN RECENT YEARS over revelations
about the NSA and FBI hoovering-up everyone's phone-calls, email, "social
media" posts and so on, along with other systematic, institutionalized
privacy assaults. This widespread ire has been met with predictable political-class
nonsense: lies about the extent of the violations, efforts to downplay the
significance of the violations, and arguments that it's all for a good cause
anyway, so everyone should just get over it.
All of these evasions and obfuscations are bad enough, just for the insult thereby
offered to an angry America: "We're not only mugging you, but we also
believe you're too stupid to stay incensed about it if we throw some eyewash
your way..."
But the apologias and efforts to placate us aren't the
worst offenses. Far more pernicious is the real assault on
our sensibilities and the frayed sinews of our Constitutional structure in
the form of repeated assertions by the perps that these privacy
violations are
"lawful".
They are not.
There is no such thing
as an unwarranted but "reasonable" search
THE RATIONALE FOR ASSERTING THE "LAWFULNESS" of warrantless
extra-domicile and electronic searches and seizures [of physical property
and data] has rested on construing the Fourth Amendment as allowing for
"reasonable" searches and seizures without the need for warrants. But this
is a construction for the purpose of distorting the amendment's prescriptions and proscriptions--
a "constortion", if I may be allowed to coin a term.
Under the constortion, the word "unreasonable" in
the amendment is read as isolated from the remainder of the
amendment, or as a qualifier of the warrant specifications that
follow. Under the constortion, "unreasonable" is seen as included in
order to distinguish an imagined "reasonable" search-- which,
because "reasonable", needs no warrant-- from an "unreasonable"
search, which, because unreasonable, does need a warrant.
But in fact, the historical record makes clear that
this is in no way the Framers' intent-- rather, "unreasonable"
appears in the amendment solely as an expression of the Framers'
view that ANY search or seizure unauthorized by a warrant secured
under stringent standards of testimony and cause is thereby
inherently UN-reasonable, and a violation of the amendment.
In the amendment, "unreasonable" means "without reason"
(an illuminating synonym of which is "unwarranted"). What follows
after that term is not a proscription for how "unreasonable"
searches or seizures are to be conducted. Instead, what follows are
the requirements for the establishment of an amendment-satisfying
reason for a search or seizure.
FRANKLY, THE LANGUAGE OF THE AMENDMENT ALONE makes its
real meaning plain enough to anyone reading it fairly, and without a
wish to constort in service to a government desire to be let off its
Constitutional chain. We'll go to the historical original-intent
records in a moment, but first, let's just look at that current
language:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Fairly read without an intent to misunderstand, there is no way
this language can be honestly construed as a Constitutional statement (or
even mere implication) that certain searches and seizures can be lawfully
conducted without warrants. On the contrary, this language plainly says that
right of the people to be secure against searches and seizures without a
valid reason shall not be violated, and establishment of a valid reason
requires an allegation of probable cause under oath, with particularity,
considered by an appropriate officer authorized to issue warrants.
That is, "unreasonable" in the amendment doesn't mean
"out of the ordinary", "excessive" or "in violation of reasonable
expectations of privacy" as federal courts have variously constorted the amendment over
recent decades. Rather, "unreasonable" means just what is says: "conducted without a
properly-established reason," and is followed by the requirements by
which a valid reason must be established.
However, my perceptions and arguments of the proper reading of
the amendment's language needn't be relied upon to make my case. The writings the Founders
and Framers provide all the clarification needed against even the most
willfully obtuse reading.
AS YOU CAN SEE, while the Fourth
Amendment doesn't prohibit you from being observed
when you go out into public space, it absolutely
DOES prohibit any government agent from tracking
your movements or even paying any attention to you
whatsoever, unless the agent's casual observation
happens to fall on you while you are overtly
committing a crime (at which point that agent can
effect an arrest, just as can any citizen under the
same circumstances).
Armed with the detailed understanding
of the history and meaning of the Fourth Amendment
and its terminology, all the pundits heretofore
resigned to life in the Panopticon should find new
energy with which to raise a hoot and a holler about
privacy issues. And those in the legal profession
can begin righting the upside-down body of
jurisprudence on the subject.
Of course, these good and important
things will only happen if you share this article
around.
Here's the link to this entire 'Other Voices'
post. The paper on the Fourth Amendment itself can
be shared with
this link.
BTW, DON'T FORGET that in addition to
resignation on the part of the punditry and
ignorance and sloth in the legal profession, a major
factor in the abuse of Americans' privacy rights by
the state is its deep pockets. Were the state to be
a bit more straitened as to resources, it would not
find it so easy to run a panopticon, even were one
actually legal.
Remember, too, that American's founding
generation built into the
Constitutional structure that they created the means for
the peaceful disciplining of an errant and overgrown
state such as the one with which Americans now
contend, even in the face of official resistance.
One of the major peaceful means of discipline rests on the
overall structure by which the state is able to
acquire the fuel (revenue) for all its endeavors,
good and bad.
Built-in limitations on direct taxes,
having made them inherently incapable of dangerous
exploitation, (and tariffs, whether properly imposed
or not, being susceptible to a possibly very
uncomfortable but nonetheless simple belt-tightening
refusal to consume imported goods), all the people need to do in
exercising the necessary state-restraining
discipline is
learn how and why to say "NO!" to improper
applications of the income excise, in a legally-meaningful manner and context.
Those of us who have already received that
liberating and empowering lesson need to help the rest of the
American population quickly understand
the
truth about the tax, such that even though Washington remains in
the hands of
immoral establishment hacks and self-servers, it
finds its ability to just carry on with chronic irresponsibility severely curtailed.
Such an effort is easier than ever now, with the US Supreme Court
having just reaffirmed its 108-year-old ruling
in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR. Co.,
acknowledging the truth about the income tax
revealed in
CtC.
Remember, the arising and sustenance of
the Leviathan state monster is a direct result of
the successful mis-administration
of the US income tax laws.
Shrinking that
Leviathan state monster merely involves the
reversing of that misadministration-- something that
can be done by individual Americans, acting
one-by-one, with no help or approval of any
government official. Each such act makes use of
state-restraining tools baked into the
Constitutional cake by the Founders and Framers, and
each such act WILL make a difference, however small.
Most important, each such act will absolve the actor
from the dishonor of participation in the heinous
crimes their resources would otherwise finance.
You can find all of this
explained
here, along with links to some additional
relevant resources.
Read that material, and then become an
agent of change. Urge everyone you know to do both
of these things, as well.
Seriously, people. It's time to stop
whistling past the graveyard and start using the
powerful and important tools with which our wise
ancestors equipped us. That said, these days are
also a good time to be keeping your powder dry.
P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS
ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
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..."
Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
"[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
"Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people." "As an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability
in navigating the law. THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice."
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
-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.
*****
Are You Ready For More Power?
"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
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 (sixteenth)
edition of
CtC!
If
CtC were actually
right, it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying and suppressing 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!)
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no
e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC.
Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for
free-- any such thing.
May 13- In 1787, Captain Arthur Philip
leaves Portsmouth, England with an 11-ship fleet carrying the first convicts
bound for Australia. In 1846, the United States declares war on Mexico. In
1939, the first commercial FM radio station in America begins broadcasting
(WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut, originally designated W1XPW). In 1967,
Zakir Hussain becomes the first Muslim president of India. In 1981, Mehmet Ali
Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II. In 1989, students gathered in
Tiananmen Square in Beijing begin a hunger strike. In 1998, India conducts two
nuclear weapons tests. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on
India in response.
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
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May 14- In 1796, the world's first smallpox vaccination is
administered. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sets off. In 1948,
Jewish residents in the British "Mandate of Palestine" (who comprised about one
third of the total population at the time, and owned less than 15% of the land)
reject a United Nations plan to divide the mandate into equal-sized Jewish and
Palestinian states (with Jerusalem under international administration) and
declare the independent state of Israel, one day before the formal expiration of
the mandate. In 1961 the "Freedom Riders" bus is fire-bombed near Anniston,
Alabama, and the civil-rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob. In 1998,
the final episode of 'Seinfeld' airs.
*****
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
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Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
Hey, Gamers!
WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU
ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and
listen!
You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
sophisticated spells which also keep you from
engaging in the fight.
There are real great deeds to be done,
and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and
frankly, your real future
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
penetrate the illusions.
Visit
losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto
the real field of battle!
*****
PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
May 15- In 1252, Pope Innocent IV authorizes the torture of
accused heretics in order to secure confessions and information about others.
In 1776, the Virginia Convention declares the colony's independence from Great
Britain, and instructs its delegation to the Continental Congress to propose a
joint declaration on behalf of all of the American colonies. In 1862, the U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture is created. In 1911, the United States Supreme Court
declares Standard Oil to be too successful and orders its breakup under the
auspices of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. In 1940, the first McDonald's
restaurant opens. In 1948, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi
Arabia attack the Jewish partisans who had used smuggled arms to seize control
of Palestine the day before the intended partitioning of that territory into
equally-sized Jewish and Arab Palestinian states under a UN mandate meant to
peacefully provide for a Jewish homeland. In 2023, the UN commemorates, for the
first time, Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, memorializing the aforementioned surprise
terrorism attack by Jewish settlers which drove the Palestinians from their
homes and land and into refugee enclaves primarily in the West Bank, the Gaza
strip and Jordan.
If you're not talking this one up everywhere and
helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the
rule of law...
*****
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just because some government officials
denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
*****
Test Your
"Income" Tax IQ!
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!!
May 16- In 1866, Charles Hires invents root beer. In
1918, Congress passes the Sedition Act, criminalizing criticism of the
federal government. In 1969, the Soviet probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.
*****
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives."
"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
May 17- In 1902, the 2,000-year-old Antikythera
astronomical computer is discovered. In 1954, the United States Supreme
Court unanimously acknowledges that its 1896 decision in Plessy v.
Ferguson-- and numerous subsequent supporting rulings-- were bogus judicial
sophistries constructed and maintained in service to the then-existing
political power structure (the rulings had upheld the forcible denial of
access to certain state-funded facilities by certain state citizens). In
1973, televised hearings in the Senate on the Watergate affair begin. In
2018, the US Senate confirmed as head of the CIA Gina Haspel, despite her
being known to have overseen systematic torture of "black-site" CIA
prisoners and to have destroyed 96 video tapes of the torture sessions even
while they were under a Congressional subpoena.
*****
*****
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or
TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant
"Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
"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
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
May 18- In 1302, the militia of Bruges,
a city in the Flemish region of Belgium, massacre the troops of a French
garrison quartered there to to prevent "smuggling" and ensure that imported wool
passed through the hands of politically-connected favorites before reaching
politically-UNconnected buyers in the city. In 1631, John Winthrop becomes the
first Governor of Massachusetts. In 1917, after only 32,000 Americans had
volunteered to personally support the Wilson administration's desire to get
involved in Europe's "World War I", the "Selective Service Act" is passed.
Despite a complete lack of Constitutional authority (and a plain prohibition in
the 13th Amendment), the act purports to authorize conscription. Subsequently,
2,800,000 American men were impressed into the army under the auspices of the
act over the following two years. Of those sent into battle, more than 116,000
were killed, and more than 205,000 sustained wounds but are categorized as
survivors. In 1927, a Michigan school-board member who blames a school-funding
property-tax increase for foreclosure proceedings against his farm explodes
bombs in and near a local school, killing 45 and injuring 58. In 1974, India
conducts its first nuclear weapon test detonation.
*****
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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of
American politics by Israel and its supporters. That
capture has resulted not only in the aforementioned
global soul-sickness and malaise, but also in the
substantial diminishment of liberty in America--
once the shining beacon on a hill showing the rest
of humanity why to strive for individual rights and
the rule of law but now a darkly corrupt
surveillance state, thanks to the Israel-serving
"war on terror".
