http://www.losthorizons.com/phpBB/viewt ... =7089#7089Would you permit me to cite the 08/01 and 08/15 newsletters as two of the best ever?
I felt compelled to interrupt my reading of the 08/01 newsletter to commend Pete personally twice! First, I affirm his analysis of the tax policies of the Bible in "Poisonous 'Pieties'", though it, by delving once again into religion, may get a little more heat than usual (if possible!). From my own studies, his description of moral duties is, as always, 100% correct. This particular analysis attacks more sacred cows and obstacle delusions than usual, so it is likely that it will be more misunderstood than usual, but please rest assured that he has nailed in stone the correct application of moral and immoral taxation and government.
His logic hardly needs elaboration from me, but particularly by referring "what is God's" back to jurats and "higher power" back to us the People, Pete has performed an end run around many mistaken apologists. He's also answered the texts correctly on their own terms and without a need to bring in any contexts. However, review Acts 4 and 5 in full, particularly noting the tension between first "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God" and then "We must obey God rather than men!" Caesar controls what he may lawfully jurisdict; but God controls everything, including (but not limited to) what is Caesar's. Note also that help for the law-abiding comes unexpectedly from lawgiver Gamaliel, who administratively and ministerially points out the correct application of the Constitution of the day (the Tanakh) and procures release for the accused.
As a libertarian Pete has been very sensitive to the need not to estrange either Christians and God-fearers, or libertines and Invictus-types, and this editorial should continue that tradition. Anyone lost on this point has not absorbed the other points of CtC and UtL yet. Pete is once again fighting the good fight.
Second, both issues have encouraging and motivational "Every Which Way But Loose" installments: IX.I and X are the absolute best gibberish output ever. Agents across the nation are now admitting what they've been mulling over for years: that they are dying to understand exactly how you can have "withholdings" without "wages" (I was asked essentially that in person at the Fort Lauderdale IRS office), and that they are begging and pleading for our signatures on consent forms to be able to "complete their actions" and start thinking back inside the box again! To have these in writing is the veritable "piece of resistance"!
The more that the IRS is coming out into the sunshine, the more hope there is daily that the denouement of this age may spare us the worst and that wrath may be speedily poured out upon the unjust. Making Nuremburg a cakewalk.
I also want to thank Pete for the "important events" daily feed from a CtC perspective. Besides knowing of snippets like his natal day (and that of IRC-1954) both coming up tomorrow, you get an amazing perspective on the flow of history. Imagine, all on August 15ths: the Panama Canal opened; Japan surrendered WWII; India declared independence; two Koreas were created; Congo/Brazzaville declared independence; Nixon killed the gold standard (that same day prompting a certain Texas obstetrician to begin a 37-year political career); and, 8 years ago, I began my own experiment with civil disobedience of tax law (which, I can now proudly state, ended in early 2005 with my adoption of full CtC compliance).
Along with a substantially increased "Victories" section, and Tom deSabla's amazing, winsome CtC-basics appeal to reason, the newsletter, site, and forum are getting better all the time.
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All hail! PeterEricBlowhardMeister Hendrickson! Our Wise Prince! Our Savior!
