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Let's discuss something that doesn't exist under the rule of law...
May 9- In 1941, the British navy
captures a German submarine containing an 'Enigma' cryptography machine,
allowing the Allies to decrypt coded German messages. In 1945, Vidkun Quisling,
who had been installed as Premier of Norway after the country had been invaded
and occupied by Germany, is arrested. He would later be executed for treason.
In 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration approves the first oral
contraceptive. In 1970, between 75,000 and 100,000 Americans gather in front of
the White House protesting the war in Vietnam. In 1974, formal impeachment
proceedings against Richard Nixon for offenses stemming from a warrantless
surveillance scheme begin in the House of Representatives. In 2004, Chechen
president Akhmad Kadyrov is assassinated during a World War II memorial parade.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
HEY, People! 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.
We won't win by YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
A Few Words About Executive
Department Latitude
Spoiler alert: there is none.
NEITHER EXECUTIVE ORDERS nor executive
agency latitude can authorize executive department behavior
which is not pursuant to either a direct
Constitutional authorization or to
properly-enacted Congressional legislation.
Congressional legislation,
in turn, cannot lack or exceed a Constitutional
delegation of authority, nor violate or conflict with
any Constitutional prescription or proscription.
These limitations are without
exception. They apply even regarding executive orders
or department policies
which are nominally confined solely to the internal
activities of executive department personnel but
which could or will have the effect (whether overtly
intended or not) of influencing, or interacting in
any way with, anyone else (as all will do, or be
utterly and manifestly pointless).
This brings us to the subject of this
discussion-- the "Disinformation Governance Board"
put in place in the Department of Homeland Security
some months ago and just recently announced to the
rest of us, the obvious purpose of which is to
create a means or an atmosphere by which expressions
disfavored by the state can and will be discouraged,
suppressed, censored and/or stigmatized. This
"board" and its purposes are illegal.
TO BEGIN WITH, there is no
Constitutional authorization for a "Disinformation
Governance Board". Nor is there any Constitutional
provision from which such an authority can be
derived, even under the pretense of a presidential
"national security" responsibility.
The only Constitutional provision
relating to the president and the subject of
security is that the
president be commander-in-chief of the armed
forces and active duty militias when called into the
actual service of the United States (per the first
clause of the second section of Article II). That's
it.
SINCE THE CONSTITUTION lacks
authorization for a "Disinformation Governance
Board" (or the latitude to create one), that
authority could only be found in a congressional
enactment. And any congressional enactment must conform to the
provisions of, for instance, the First
Amendment...
Per that First Amendment, Congress can make no law
abridging the freedom of speech. That means
Congress can make no law by which an executive
branch official can be authorized to abridge the
freedom of speech-- even in the name of "national
security" or for any other reason or rationale.
The enactment of a vague, "do whatever is necessary
to keep us safe" law does not change this limitation
at all.
To "abridge" means to "reduce or lessen
in duration, scope etc.; to diminish; curtail."
Plainly, the labeling by the state of any speech as
being "disinformation" is meant to abridge such
speech, or will in any event have that effect,
either by discouraging its dissemination or its
consumption.
Plainly, an executive department
initiative by which some speech will be labeled (or
treated as) "disinformation" cannot be
Constitutionally authorized by Congress. Plainly,
authority for such an initiative cannot, therefore,
be found in even the most vaguely-constructed or
construed enactment.
ALL TOLD, THEN, the newly announced
Department of Homeland Security "Disinformation
Governance Board" is both unauthorized and
irremediably violative of the Framer's intent as
expressed in the First Amendment (as well as
nauseatingly Orwellian, and as such, revealing of
the depth of corruption festering within the current
denizens of Washington).
It is also expressly illegal under 18
U.S.C. § 241, Conspiracy against rights:
If two or more persons conspire to
injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person
in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession,
or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any
right or privilege secured to him by the
Constitution or laws of the United States, or
because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise
on the highway, or on the premises of another, with
intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or
enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title
or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and
if death results from the acts committed in
violation of this section or if such acts include
kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated
sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated
sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of
years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to
death.
...and 18 U.S.C. § 242,
Deprivation of rights under color of law:
Whoever, under color of any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully
subjects any person in any State, Territory,
Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the
deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of
the United States, or to different punishments,
pains, or penalties, on account of such person being
an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than
are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results
from the acts committed in violation of this section
or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or
threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or
fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than ten years, or both; and if death
results from the acts committed in violation of this
section or if such acts include kidnapping or an
attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an
attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an
attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or
imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or
both, or may be sentenced to death.
This pernicious, despicable and
law-defying fascistic artifact should be denounced
as such from all quarters in the most strenuous and
unforgiving terms possible.
Don't leave it to "the courts". They
are unreliable and often slow to the point of
uselessness. The law here is plain. No judicial
opinion is needed, and none saying what the law
plainly means would be respected by those who have
instituted this obviously illegal "board".
No state agencies should cooperate with
this illegal "board". No media outlet should echo or
allow itself to be affected by its pronouncements,
or be forgiven for doing so.
"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
"All governments are run by liars
and nothing they say should be believed."
-I. F. Stone
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.
Now, more than ever, this argument
needs to be widely aired.
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO I first published
a thoughtful and important analysis of the moral and
legal issues involved in the subject of abortion.
The analysis includes a practical solution to the
political conundrum posed by the competing desires
of some women to be spared bearing an unwelcome
burden (albeit a burden arising, in the overwhelming
majority of cases, from choices freely made by that
woman) and the compelling, indeed, imperative
interest of society to prohibit the taking of
innocent life.
In all those seventeen years, during
which I have pointed to the analysis whenever given
a pretext, such as on each anniversary of Roe v.
Wade, or when the issue of abortion has been in the
news, there has been, to my knowledge, not a single
comment shared, nor any links or discussion of the
piece anywhere. This has been very frustrating for
me, needless to say.
Nonetheless, I'm going to open myself
up for more painful disregard and again urge
everyone to
read this argument now that the abortion issue
is so thoroughly highlighted in the public discourse
by the leak of what we will hope is indeed the
impending decision of the Supreme Court on the
issue. Please, everyone,
read the argument.
I know that because it takes a nuanced,
libertarian position in which heed is taken of the
legal and moral interests of both mother and child,
the argument will strike some as being
confusing. Or, it will seem to some to be too
complicated, or insufficiently aggressive in favor
of one side or the other.
But as the current fulminations by
pro-abortion activists in response to the leaked
Supreme Court ruling demonstrate-- underscored by
the fact that those currently infesting Washington
are fully supportive of those fulminations and will
do everything possible to encourage more of the same
and worse, notwithstanding (and perhaps even
welcoming) the resultant erosion of the rule of
law-- a simple reversal by the Supreme Court of Roe
is not going to settle the matter.
Battles are certain to erupt in many
states (and some already have, in anticipation of
the reversal). A
truly comprehensive solution like mine is
needed, now more than ever. Please study it, think
about it, let it percolate. Please share it with
others.
And please, comment on it! Do social
media posts presenting it and discussing it, and
share your comments with me as much as possible. I
will be grateful for any and all efforts in this
regard.
***
(While we're on the subject of the
abortion controversy, let me say that those rioting
in opposition to the apparent intent of the Supreme
Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, and whoever doxxed
the justices of the court, should all be arrested
and prosecuted
in accordance with 18 U.S.C. § 1503, Injuring
or influencing officer or juror generally:
(a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats
or force, or by any threatening letter or
communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate,
or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or
of any court of the United States, or officer who
may be serving at any examination or other
proceeding before any United States magistrate judge
or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of
his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror
in his person or property on account of any verdict
or indictment assented to by him, or on account of
his being or having been such juror, or injures any
such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing
magistrate in his person or property on account of
the performance of his official duties, or corruptly
or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter
or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes,
or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the
due administration of justice, shall be punished as
provided in subsection (b). If the offense under
this section occurs in connection with a trial of a
criminal case, and the act in violation of this
section involves the threat of physical force or
physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment
which may be imposed for the offense shall be the
higher of that otherwise provided by law or the
maximum term that could have been imposed for any
offense charged in such case.
(b) The punishment for an offense
under this section is—
(1) in the case of a killing, the
punishment provided in sections 1111 and 1112;
(2) in the case of an attempted
killing, or a case in which the offense was
committed against a petit juror and in which a class
A or B felony was charged, imprisonment for not more
than 20 years, a fine under this title, or both; and
(3) in any other case, imprisonment
for not more than 10 years, a fine under this title,
or both.
...and/or 18 U.S.C. § 1507,
Picketing or parading:
Whoever, with the intent of
interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the
administration of justice, or with the intent of
influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court
officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or
parades in or near a building housing a court of the
United States, or in or near a building or residence
occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or
court officer, or with such intent uses any
sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any
other demonstration in or near any such building or
residence, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
...rather than given a pass. Indeed, we
should already be learning of massive arrests under
these provisions of law. Why aren't we?
Also, did you know that abortion is
legal in Russia, even though Vladimir Putin is
personally opposed? Apparently he's not quite the
dictator that his Western detractors would like
everyone to think...)
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.
EVERY COMMENTATOR needs to stop using
the expression "the Biden administration" to label
the author of the current basketful of bad policies
afflicting America over the last two years+. If Joe
Biden has been designated the author of everything
against which opponents of the policies stand, then
when he is gone (as he doubtless soon will be),
those opposing the lunatic, destructive policies
fastened upon us during his time will be disarmed,
even though the policies will be unchanged.
Those bad policies are not Joe Biden's
policies (however much he may approve them and be
party to their imposition). The policies are those
of all the people who have taken offices over the
last two years (and more-- frankly, Donald Trump was
abysmal at weeding out dangerous nominees, and
appointed many, some of whom remain in office, and
all of whom appointed subordinates of like bent mind
who remain in their positions still).
***
A GOOD SUMMARY of the backstory on the
Russian military operation in Ukraine can be found
here (and should be supplemented by a review of
the material
here,
here
and
here). A useful report on the actual events in
Ukraine during the course of the last couple of
months by a journalist on the ground there (and
recently
taken prisoner by Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces but
subsequently-- and surprisingly--
released) can be found
here.
Another worthwhile post concerning the
events in Ukraine can be found
here.
***
MAO ZEDONG RIGHTLY OBSERVED that
political power flows out of the barrel of a gun.
Conservative Americans have forgotten this, and are
now being victimized as a result.
Conservatives, whose classical liberal
mores and principles created the prosperity by which
their political foes can afford to devote themselves
to destructive activism, stand in paralysis as the
civilization their ancestors built is conquered and
displaced by that of better organized and less
complacent "progressives" willing to use
intimidatory violence in pursuit of political goals.
Where once police stepped in and enforced the
Constitutionally-promulgated law against those who
eschewed lawful means of attempting to secure
change-- an exercise of lawful violence to quell
lawless violence-- law enforcement is now abandoned
by elected officials beholden to the lawless, and
stands down.
Perhaps it is time for conservative
America to recognize its need to step into the
breach, exercising the authority of "citizen's
arrest"...
***
IT IS AWKWARD TO SAY THIS (or to speak
of the subject at all), but I wonder if the reason
behind the assault on "whiteness" and the
Western culture typically associated with that label
which is so relentlessly promoted today might be
that the astonishing accomplishments of the
far-and-away predominantly white-populated cultures
which arose in Western Europe during the Renaissance
and went on to create the prosperous, long-lived,
artistically-rich world in which billions live today
and to which the other billions aspire make obvious the
weaknesses of other cultures.
Perhaps those wishing to defend our
uplifting and universally beneficial Western
civilization should begin devoting themselves to
comparing cultures and their products. People need
to be reminded that while all cultures commit sins
(and all have their virtues, as well), accomplishing
great things-- especially great things of universal
benefit to all humankind-- is managed only by a very
few.
***
GLENN GREENWALD INTERVIEWS fellow
journalist Julie Kelly, who has done the best
reporting on the events of January 6, 2021 and the
corrupt narrative derived therefrom, in the very
worthwhile video posted below. The false-flag 'Whitmer
kidnapping plot', of the preceding year, the nature
of which sheds helpful light on the truth about the
subsequent contrivances at the Capitol is also
covered.
Well worth the 63 minutes of your time.
Afterward, consider this question: What
are YOU going to do when you are told on November
2nd that Democrats have retained control of both
houses of Congress (even though you know that is
impossible other than by fraud)? What IS your plan?
***
FINALLY, I HAVE SOME recommended
statutory language upon which every state
legislature can and should build:
"Any act or practice which prompts,
fosters, encourages or perpetuates the notion that a
child is not fit or suited or proper to the
biological sex with which he or she is born or the
physical characteristics thereof,
or which can reasonably be expected to prompt,
foster, encourage or perpetuate such dysphoria, is
child abuse."
It's way past time to put an end to
this "trans-gender" madness by which so many young
lives-- and our language, our respect for
rationality and our ability to (at least publicly)
distinguish reality from self-serving or outright
delusional fancies-- are being destroyed.
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.
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 BITS OF EASING of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under the mantle of
COVID-19 mitigation 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."
Is There Any Chance Of Restoring Our Lost
Freedoms?
by George Leef
Sometimes I think about what America was like when my
grandfather was young. In 1908, when he was 22, he started a business that, I’m
happy to say, thrives to this day. He was the son of Swedish immigrants and
started with nothing but some mechanical know-how and a good entrepreneurial
idea.
Stories like his were very common in the
America of a century ago. Millions of ambitious immigrants flooded into
the US because its governmental system and culture were conducive to
productivity and innovation. The people overwhelmingly expected to
succeed or fail on their own efforts. Almost nobody thought he had a
right to live at the expense of others, or had any right to dictate how
others must act or what they must believe.
Moreover, the legal system protected Americans’
rights to life, liberty, and property. Theft was illegal. Acts of
coercion were illegal. If someone wanted your money, he could only ask
for it and had to take “no” for an answer. If someone wanted you to join
a labor union, he could ask, but you were perfectly free to decline.
In those days, there were no officious bureaucrats dictating what people
could and couldn’t do in their businesses. Taxes were low. At all
levels, government consumed less than ten percent of the GDP. Therefore,
nearly all of America’s resources of labor and materials were under the
direction of the market’s profit and loss system. Profits signaled where
more investment would pay off; losses quickly put an end to
ill-conceived ventures.
And – crucially – government had almost no power to reward special
interest groups. It did interfere with international trade to benefit
domestic producers, but aside from that, government stuck closely to the
precepts of laissez-faire.
The result was tremendous output of goods and
services, along with innovation that propelled economic expansion at an
accelerating pace. America was all about work, a point that Alexis de
Tocqueville commented on in his book
Democracy in America. Compared with his native France, where guilds
and regulations and the high cost of government acted as a brake on the
economy, in America he saw boundless energy.
Today’s America is a very
different country than the one my grandfather knew.
Governments absorb roughly half of the GDP. There
are innumerable laws and regulations governing our
lives – more than anyone could possibly read, much
less understand. There are also legions of
bureaucrats who are eager to fine and punish anyone
who knowingly or unknowingly violates one of those
laws or regulations. Governmental licenses are
frequently required before an individual is allowed
to go into business or a trade and official
permission must often be sought before employing an
innovation.
Today, government has ample
power to reward special interest groups with
subsidies or other favors, which are avidly sought.
Great numbers of people now
hold jobs that entail no production of goods or
services, but frequently obstruct such production by
enforcing the laws and regulations that get in the
way of efficiency and entrepreneurship. Those jobs
often pay very well and are also avidly sought.
And instead of looking to
their own efforts to solve problems, Americans now
want government to step in. Pleading for government
to raise your income or provide you with medical
care or help you through college is now the default
mode for most of the people. They don’t mind at all
that what they demand can only come at the expense
of others because they’ve been taught that whatever
is done democratically is all right.
As a result of this great
philosophical change, in America today we have a
preponderance of Takers over Makers. The Takers
consume the taxes paid by the Makers and many of
them have jobs that give them power over others
since they are paid to enforce the rapidly
multiplying number of rules and regulations.
Moreover, the Takers exhibit a sense of superiority
over the Makers, based on their idea that it is more
noble to work for “the public interest” than to work
in the morally dubious world of profit-seeking
enterprise.
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all
possible evil of evil men."
-Edmund Burke
IT'S ALWAYS HARD to face a review of America's descent into
corruption and dystopia such as the one presented by George Leef in this
essay. Our losses are almost heart-stopping when taken in sufficient
concentration-- tears, at least, are invoked at the realization of the
hard-won and always elusive freedom we have let slip away at an
ever-accelerating pace over the last seventy or eighty years.
Perhaps that realization of loss, and
its motivating potential, is one of the chief
reasons why endless attention-grabbing distractions
are so integral a part of the corruptors' game-plan.
Were Americans left undisturbed to contemplate what
has been, and continues to be, taken from us, we
would surely jump out of the proverbial frog-pot and
start laying down the law.
ANYWAY, LEEF DOES A GOOD JOB of
summarizing much of what has gone wrong and offering
some glimmers of hope for the future. As he points
out, corrupt institutions are more and more widely
recognized as such and are increasingly losing their
grip on American hearts and minds. The facades
erected in place of the solid societal and political
structures upon which America once rested securely
are ever more rickety and ready to collapse.
We simply need to push the
hobgoblinsdu jour out of our minds
get back to basics, as it were-- re-elevating
liberty and the rule of law over what are made to
seem dire issues of safety and security by those
slowly conquering us over these last seven or eight
decades. It won't be as hard as it may sound.
Think about it this way-- two years ago
the world was turned on end in the name of "public
health necessity" with an onslaught of completely
unprecedented measures no one would have expected
America to tolerate or survive if spelled out
beforehand. To restore liberty and the rule of law
we simply need to resume tried-and-true practices
and arrangements known as "normal life" by our
grandparents.
In fact, to make that restorative
transformation all we need to do is one simple
thing, acting entirely as individuals with no
agreement from any institutional authority. That one
simple thing will function as a catalyst, compelling
the beneficial reorganization of our whole societal
and political structure as a natural and inevitable
process.
You can see a sketch of that process
and its outcomes-- which, remember, we have already
implemented in America, and maintained for better
than half our time as a nation, so this is not
pie-in-the-sky but a thoroughly proven thing--
in
the presentation here. Read it, think about it,
share it.
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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..."
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*****
*****
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 10- In 1768, John Wilkes is
imprisoned for writing an article critical of King George III. The arrest
prompts a riot by his supporters. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress
convenes in Philadelphia. In 1801, the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli declare war
on the United States of America after newly-inaugurated President Thomas
Jefferson decided to stop paying them the tribute they had been receiving from
previous administrations. In 1869, the Lincoln administration's
transcontinental railroad is completed when the Central Pacific and Union
Pacific railroad lines meet in Promontory Summit, Utah. The Union Pacific
organization had built west from Council Bluffs, Iowa (a spot which was, at the
time of selection, 150 miles from the nearest existing rail line, but which
offered Lincoln personal political and financial benefits); Central had built
east from Sacramento. Both rail lines were heavily subsidized with land grants
and were made subject to permanent significant federal control, as were a number
of other smaller lines contracted to construct feeders from major terminal
cities along the way. In 1994, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as president of
South Africa after spending 27 years in prison for "crimes against the state",
which included a campaign of sabotage against military and civilian government
targets, and the making of plans for a guerilla war against the government. In
2012, terrorists supported by the United States detonated two suicide car bombs
outside government buildings in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 and injuring 400.
Some voices challenge that assignment of responsibility, claiming that the Assad
regime carried out the bombings itself as a false-flag operation designed to
justify the regime's past and future actions. But everyone knows THAT kind of
thing never happens, right?
*****
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 11- In 1310, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned
at the stake as heretics, having been tortured into confessions to this effect
by on the orders of King Philip IV of France, who was deeply in debt to the
order, and saw the charges as a way of eliminating this problem and allowing the
seizure of Templar assets, to boot . In 1858, Minnesota becomes the 32nd of the
several states, and is admitted into the union as such. In 1973, charges
against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing "the Pentagon Papers", a 7,000-page
top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's
internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam War, are dismissed.
******
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
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*****
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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
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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 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.
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 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.
*****
"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 14- In 1796, the world's first smallpox vaccination is
administered. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sets off. 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.
*****
*****
'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 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 just seized
control of Palestine the day before the intended partitioning of that territory
into equally-sized Jewish and Arab Palestinian states under a UN mandate
intended to peacefully provide for a Jewish homeland.
*****
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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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.
� All written and graphic material on this page and
website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.