Fear Is The Mind-Killer

The challenge is to muster the courage to push past the Hallowe'en chorus and recognize this truth.

FRANK HERBERT COINED THE TITLE of this observation in his epic novel Dune, a sweeping tale of deeply-entrenched institutional corruption being met and overwhelmed by an insurgency armed with religious-grade confidence in the rightness of its cause. Herbert's formulation nicely encapsulates fear's super-power: Like a well-evolved parasite, fear, by supplanting cognition and objectivity, creates the very conditions under which it is most difficult for the victim to fight back against its influence.

This is not to say that fear and its mindless responses are always a bad thing. If the threat is such that simply running away as fast as possible is the optimal response, fear is your friend. It'll make you run hard and long. Sometimes fear will prompt the "fight" reflex, instead, and this can also be the best response.

But whichever is chosen, "fight or flight" are generally the best responses only to overt and immediate physical threats. Pretty much every other kind of threat calls for thoughtful analysis of the real source and true nature of the danger, and thoughtful formulation of the optimal response.

In other words, for everything other than an immediate physical threat, the mindlessness induced by fear is the worst thing that can happen-- for individuals.

ON THE OTHER HAND, GOVERNMENTS LOVE the mindlessness of fear. By preventing thoughtful consideration of the situation, and inducing instead a panicky casting-about for protection or escape from the perceived threat, fear makes individuals prone to surrendering their own decision-making to that of any confident demagogue who promises protection.

In fact, fear and the mindlessness it induces is so useful to governments that it is a routine practice of those running and benefiting from state power to regularly menace the people with alleged threats to their safety and well-being, in the certain knowledge that many, perhaps most, of the people will respond by surrendering more power from their own sovereign hands into the hands of the state's operators, who can then use that power for their own interests and benefit.

H.L. Mencken summarized this sordid dynamic concisely: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Over the course of long experience, the political class and its apparatchiks have learned, as well, that maintaining the surrender-inducing panic for a certain amount of time will make the transfer of power it encourages nearly impossible to reverse, due to acclimation, fading memories of the past paradigm, and the arising of influential commercial and institutional beneficiaries of the "new normal".

THIS WEEK SEES THE 19th ANNIVERSARY of the most acute example of the fear-formula available to living memory-- the "9/11" hoax. In this sophisticated hobgoblin-flog, the American people were induced to mindlessly buy in to the proposition that we were all targets of foreign terrorists whose deadly plans could only be thwarted by the erection of an American panopticon into which we must all be confined and against the intrusions of which we have no recourse; the pouring of wealth into the bank accounts of arms manufacturers; the embrace of torture and indefinite detention as state policy; and many, many other impositions by which the People are diminished and the state is swollen.

The necessary fear-production was successfully sustained in the 9/11 theatrical for long enough that even though subsequent, thoughtful investigation and analysis has shown that the entire "threat-event" was a calculated misrepresentation of the truth-- if not an even greater state crime-- the American people are still plagued by the diminishments of their liberties and the aggrandizement of the state committed under its influence nearly 20 years ago. As Robert Higgs brilliantly explained in Crisis and Leviathan, it is by these ratchet-events that our once shining example to the world of a republic erected on behalf of liberty and the rule of law has become the 8,000 lb. gorilla eating out America's substance and engendering fear and loathing of Americans throughout the world.

I just recently saw the calculation that fully 1/4 of the population of the world is now suffering to a greater or lesser degree under United States sanctions. Think about that.

And then add to that thought due consideration of the millions of widows, orphans and refugees produced by the aggressions of our homegrown Leviathan in other parts of the world under one ridiculous pretext or another over the last nineteen years. These are the among the horrendous immoral and self-destructive outcomes of surrender to mind-killing fear.

MINDLESS FEAR IS WHAT'S BEEN ON OFFER all year in 2020 through the endless scary hype about the "C19 pandemic". Any rational examination of the facts-- as here-- makes clear to anyone whose brain is not paralyzed by fear that C19 is not even remotely a threat so dire as to justify extraordinary responses above and beyond our routine responses to every other flu virus over the decades. Indeed, on the evidence, C19 is an extraordinarily mild coronavirus.

The fear has been given a chance to take hold because the scare-tactics-- frightening stories about just how terrible this mystery virus was-- began well before any actual data was available to be studied. By the time that evidence HAD accumulated in late March, many Americans were already too far gone in the "mindless" mode to take in that evidence and realize that the hype was just that-- hype, and, as became increasingly obvious, deliberate hype.

That fear-induced shut-down of so many American minds has since then been ruthlessly exploited for political and monetary benefit by a growing list of cynical and unscrupulous actors, all at YOUR present expense and the eventual expense of your children.

IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE who has been afflicted by the fear, I beg you to shake it off!

Muster your courage long enough to raise your head, open your eyes, and look around you at what has been done while you have "been away". That look-around is itself going to take a lot of courage once you begin, because today's American landscape is truly frightening.

It is not too late to recover, though.

Organize a meeting of your state group. Invite your friends and family. Plan and execute visible protests of the illegal executive order regime that is being imposed on you-- make sure to get media coverage, which might best be achieved by holding the protest in front of your local fear-mongering radio, TV or newspaper offices, and including their complicity in the panic-attack as an object of your protest.

Use your "social media" accounts to broadcast recommendations to everyone you can reach to abandon any platforms that censor information about the "pandemic" or anything else. Who the hell is Mark Zuckerberg to decide what is or is not "mis-information"!

You might end up de-platformed for putting out those calls, but if that's the reaction from the company involved, you're better off moving elsewhere anyway. After all, you'll have just been told that if you stay, you're going to get nothing but propaganda from that venue anyway. Honorable alternatives exist and should be happily embraced.

Fight any effort to make proper response to the panic-attack a partisan political thing. Both the mainstream Democratic Party apparatus and the mainstream Republican Party apparatus and the office-holders of each are equally guilty in this hogoblin-flog. They each have just tried to pretend that they take different views. But until you see Donald Trump in a national press conference telling all Americans to peel off the masks, re-open their businesses and start prosecuting state officials who have usurped authority through "executive orders", there isn't a dimes worth of real difference between the two.

And so on...

I'll close reminding everyone of the uplifting words of Samuel Adams, architect of the first American Revolution, with which every LHC newsletter has always ended:

"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."

...and also those of another great and wise firebrand from a few generations closer to our own:

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."

-Frederick Douglass

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The Sublime Harmonies Of Social Justice In The Upcoming Worker's Paradise

(A Laborious Mental Exercise)

Imagine that you’re a homeowner and over the years you’ve had some landscaping done to your property: a few decorative trees planted, a stone wall built, a flagstone path installed, etc.. All the work has been done by what had been your favorite contractor, Joe’s Landscaping Service.

Joe and his guys have done good work, for the most part, but as time has passed, Joe has been a bit reluctant to invest in new equipment, so his speed has gone down, and his hourly rate has been inching up at the same time. You’ve brought this to Joe’s attention more than once, but he’s just shrugged and said, "Hey, a guy’s gotta make a living. But I’ll try to get the boys to move a little faster."

Eventually, when Joe announces that he’s raising his rates yet again you pull out the Yellow Pages and find a new outfit, Sam’s Quality Landscaping. The ad claims that Sam has all the latest gear, and a crew of hard workers. You meet with Sam, and even though his hourly rate is the same as Joe’s, Sam is energetic and sharp, and gives you a good feeling about his work ethic. So, you make a deal, and then give Joe a call. "Don’t bother to schedule that re-sodding that we were talking about," you tell Joe, "I’m going to have someone else do it." Joe glares at the phone as he hangs up, and mutters, "We’ll see about that!"

Continued...

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

You've got magic in your hands, if you will use it...

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The Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES.

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 this year 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], over the last several months 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.

Read this little two-page document. Click on the links at the end.

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

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Regarding Trolleries

(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.

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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.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION

TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC

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.

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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...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool families and community groups, your neighbors, your family members, your pastors and co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs, members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth movement, other activist movements and everyone else, you have only yourself to blame for your troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which you might complain. It's on you.

WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI (weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.

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."

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Are You Ready For The "No One Could Have Known" Routine?

by Thomas Harrington

Ready for another rendition of the “no one could have known” routine made famous by all the self-proclaimed liberals who shamelessly went along with the Neo-Cons planned and lie-supported destruction of the Middle East nearly two decades ago?

As in “no one could have known” that by shutting down life as we know it to focus obsessively on a virus mostly affecting what is still a relatively small number of people at the end of their lives (yes, oh squeamish ones we must summon the courage to talk about Quality Adjusted Life Years when making public policy) we probably would:

1. Cause economic devastation and hence excess deaths, suicides, divorces, depressions in much larger numbers than those killed by the virus.

2. Provide an already monopolistic and predatory online retailing establishment with competitive advantages in terms of capital reserves and market share that will make it virtually impossible at any time in the near or medium future for the country’s and the world’s small and even medium-sized businesses to ever catch up to them. And that this will plunge huge sectors of the world-wide economy into serf-like ruin, with all that this portends in terms of additional death and human suffering.

3. Cause greatly increased misery and countless additional deaths in the so-called Global South where many people, rightly or wrongly, depend on the consumption patterns of us relatively fortunate sit-at-homers to make it through the week.

4. Destroy much of what was attractive about urban life as we know it and lead to a real estate collapse of extraordinary proportions, turning even our few remaining showplace cities into crime-ridden reserves of ever more desperate people.

5. Force state and local governments, already struggling before the crisis, and unable to print money at will like the Feds, to cut their already insufficient budgets at a time when their broke and stressed constituents need those services more than ever.

6. Push “smart” monitoring of our lives, already intolerable for anyone still clinging to memories of freedom in the pre-September 11th world, to the point where most people will no longer understand what people used to know as privacy, intimacy or the simple dignity of being left alone.

7. Train a generation of children to be fearful and distrustful of others from day one, and to view bending to diktats “to keep them safe”, (no matter how empirically dubious the actual threat to them might be), rather than the courageous pursuit of joy and human fullness, as the key goal in life.

We will also no doubt be told that no one could have imagined or known at the time:

Continued...

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...and then proceed to the afterword below...

Afterword

THOMAS HARRINGTON DOES A GREAT JOB framing several important aspects of the C19 hoax. My only critique concerns the statistics with which he ends his article purporting to show the percentages of certain American age groups that have died from the virus.

Harrington apparently buys into (or has yet to be disabused of) the patently bogus death stats which have been inflated far beyond reality under CDC directives guaranteed to produce scarily-high C19 fatality reports. Those directives instruct doctors to report as C19 deaths any in which certain characteristics are observed-- characteristics which are also common to normal flu and pneumonia, among other ailments-- even without any actual testing to determine so much as the presence of the virus, much less to determine that it contributed in any way to the morbid outcome. See the directives and some related discussion here.

In fact, Harrington's percentages should all be discounted by a factor of ten, at least. Which, of course, just underscores the excesses in every other respect to which he points our attention.

HERE'S THE BIGGER POINT: WE ARE SUFFERING A BRUTAL ASSAULT on everything which is crucial to the preservation and good health of our liberty and our prosperity. We mustn't allow any of it to go on-- especially the settling into place of the "principle" that those operating the state can rightly compel our subordination of individual views and decisions to what they see (or claim) to be the interests of the collective.

That "principle" has no limit. If, for instance, you can be made to wear a mask in order to (supposedly) protect your neighbor from catching some illness you might be carrying (and if your children can be kept from playing with each other, and you all be compelled to have drugs injected into your bodies, and prevented from gathering even for purposes of discussing with each other in person-- where such discussion is actually potentially persuasive-- the rightness of such impositions), what can you not be made to do?

What will your neighbors not feel you can rightly be made to do? What will your children not have been conditioned to believe they (and you) can rightly be made to do?

Even if there really WERE a remarkably grave threat in this year's virus (which there most emphatically and demonstrably is not), the impositions being done in its name, and the consequences of letting them be done, are graver threats still. American paralysis in the face of those impositions is madness.

I AM COMPELLED TO OFFER SOLUTIONS, even though I sense too often that they fall on deaf ears. So...

Here are the Constitutional analyses proving the mandates illegal.

Here is the fully-documented proof that there actually IS no dire threat from the current virus.

Here is the introduction document by which anyone can learn the critical importance, the promise and the unstoppable character of the "shrinking Leviathan" solution.

I wish that you would at least share them with others, even if you cannot see why you should bother.

Let your recipient make his or her OWN mind up on whether the sharing was worthwhile. You might end up pleasantly surprised-- people grow under the right conditions, and these are now very much the right conditions.

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A Little Extra

EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means..."

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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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.

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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

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And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

picks up where ' Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax' leaves off.

Click here for more information

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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 (fifteenth) edition of CtC!