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The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory. On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: ‘Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to   Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six  times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in  1889.’

So Judy recently e-mailed Congressman Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle. Believe it or not, Harry Reid’s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:

George W. Bush has signed a contract to become the new face of the TV show, Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader.

9-cent IRS dilemma leaves lawyer confused

He owes a nickel and is due 4-cent refund

BY JOE SWICKARD • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER •January 3, 2009

“It’s not the money; it’s the principle” is an old saying that usually brings a knowing, world-weary scoff from veteran Detroit criminal defense lawyer James Howarth.

“But I think this time with the IRS, it is the principle,” Howarth said.

After all — this is about 9 cents.

While many may fight the Internal Revenue Service over thousands of dollars, Howarth said he’s in a dilemma with the federal agency, and he insists it’s no chump change controversy.

“We are talking the IRS here,” he said.

In mid-November, Howarth received notice that his FICA account, even after an adjustment, was out of whack.

He owed the IRS a nickel. And the IRS was serious.

It advised him to act promptly “to avoid additional penalty and/or interest.”

Howarth started calculating how much that nickel was going to cost him.

As he figures it, there is the 5 cents plus the cost of a check — payment must be made by check or money order. Then there is his CPA’s fee, an envelope, his secretary’s time, his own time and a 42-cent stamp.

“The costs are several hundred percent over the nickel,” he said.

But then a second letter arrived. This one said Howarth had a refund coming.

The amount? Four cents. But to get it, Howarth would have to ask for it because it was less than $1.

“When I owe them a nickel, I must pay them,” he said. “It’s not optional. But when they owe me, I have to ask for it.”

Howarth said it is unclear from the letters what connection — if any — the 5-cent obligation has to the 4-cent refund.

He said he is unsure if he now owes one penny or if there was a recalculation resulting in a 9-cent swing in his favor.

“I just don’t know,” he said. “But I do know that if I were to walk into the IRS office with pennies taped to a piece of cardboard, they wouldn’t accept it.”

Howarth said he called the 800 telephone number on his letters, but gave up after “an inordinate amount of time on hold. And I’m sure the agent would have been delighted to have this file land on his desk.”

IRS spokesman Luis D. Garcia said the agency does not comment on individual accounts.

As for Howarth, he said he’s consulting his accountant — and he might try to follow the lead of Wall Street financiers in seeking a resolution, although he fears his Detroit address will work against him.

“I might apply for a bailout,” Howarth said. “But, for us, there seems to be some sort of stigma.”

Contact JOE SWICKARD at 313-222-8769 or jswickard@freepress.com.

By Christopher Hansen

As I watch in horror the Banksters and GM etc. clamoring for the government to bail them out I cannot help but recall the words of Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s grandfather, Marion G. Romney, who in 1976 AD stated:

The practice of coveting and receiving unearned benefits has now become so fixed in our society that even men of great wealth, and possessing the means to produce more wealth, are expecting the government to guarantee them a profit. Elections often turn on what the candidates promise to do for voters from government funds. This practice, if universally accepted and implemented in any society, will make slaves of its citizens.

How much will you have to pay to guarantee a profit for the Banksters, GM and Chrysler? Are you becoming a debt slave or are you already a slave?

And they say America is a free country. Well they said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction too. They lie. Do you understand that yet?

“Freedom—is the absence of the awareness of restraint.” –David Rockefeller

So keep filing and paying those “voluntary” income taxes and may your chains set lightly upon you.

No one’s safe when freedom fails,
and good men rot in filthy jails,
and those who cried appease, appease,
are hung by those they tried to please.
Author unknown

IRS cannot answer questions

The IRS employs people that watch pornography at work but cannot answer questions correctly. If the IRS cannot answer questions correctly then there is no tax upon the citizen according to the Supreme Court.

“Keeping in mind the well-settled rule that the citizen is exempt from taxation unless the same is imposed by clear and unequivocal language, and that where the construction of a tax law is doubtful, the doubt is to be resolved in favor of those upon whom the tax is sought to be laid…” (Emphasis added)

Spreckels Sugar Refining Co. v. McClain, 192 U.S. 397, 1904.

Why aren’t you fighting back?

After all in the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson states: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” According to Jefferson, who was also a tax rebel I might add, the only duty we have as Americans is to safeguard freedom and bring down any government that dares to take it away from us.

By Christopher Hansen,

Many people say we must have a wall of separation of Church and State. I say that Socialism is the religion of the State. They say that socialism is just a politcal idea and not a religion at all. Well I disagree and so does H.G. Wells since Socialism was his religion.

“Socialism is to me a very great thing indeed, the form and sub­stance of my ideal life and all the religion I possess. I am, by a sort of predestination, a socialist. I perceive I cannot help talking and writing about socialism, and shaping and forwarding socialism. I am one of a succession, ­one of a growing multitude of witnesses, who will continue. It does not — in the larger sense — matter how many generations of us must toil and testify. It does not matter, except as our individual concern, how individually we succeed or fail, what blunders we make, what thwarting we encounter, what follies and inadequacies darken our private hopes and level our personal imaginations to the dust. We have the light. We know what we are for, and that the light that now glimmers so dimly through us must in the end prevail.” H. G. Wells, New Worlds for Old

It is interesting to note that Social Security was and is called a Scared by those that believe as Wells did.

The fact that this New American Civil Religion is, to its members and leaders is sacred is found in their own words:

“We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.” Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1933

Republican Senator Voinovich: “My first priority as a U.S. senator would be to protect Social Security and Medicare for Ohio’s families, seniors and future generations. Social Security and Medicare are sacred trusts between the federal government and every American. People need to know that their future is not in jeopardy, and that the federal government will maintain its commitment to these programs first.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10/12/98)

Semiannual Report to Congress, The Realities We Face: Continuity Amid Change April 1, 2004 thru September 30, 2004 Social Security Administration – Office of the Inspector General, SSA OIG Pub. No. 85-007, Published November 2004 www.socialsecurity.com/oig (Page 3) “We are continuing to work as stewards of this sacred trust with SSA to achieve measurably improved results, and to anticipate future challenges as we achieve our own goals.” Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr., Inspector General

“And Medicare will be put on sound financial footing. These are principles which will strengthen one of our nation’s most sacred obligations, the health of our senior citizens.” President George W. Bush July 12, 2001
“Social Security for the 21st century. Social Security is and must remain a rock-solid guarantee. It is a sacred trust among the generations…” President Bill Clinton, December 8, 1998

Republican Senator Alexander: “In the votes that I’d cast, I would never vote to undermine the benefits that people have a right to expect. I regard it as a sacred trust. You pay your money in, you get your money back.” (Associated Press, 11/1/02)

“And thanks to Social Security, we Americans continue to uphold the sacred compact between the generations.” President Bill Clinton February 29, 2000

“Social Security is a solemn promise that must be kept and I urge Congress to preserve that sacred trust.” Mel Martinez, Republican Jr. Senator (FL); previously Secretary of H.U.D.

“Since the social security system was evolved under the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, it’s been a sacred pact between the employees and the employers with the framework established and guaranteed by the Government…” President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977

The government cannot establish a civic religion (see Lee v. Weisman 505 U.S. 577, 590, 1992) or a religion of secularism (see School Dist. of Abington Tp., Pa. v. Schempp 374 U.S. 203, 225, 1963) and yet that is exactly what it has done by fully embracing and enforcing the Communist Messiah and theologian, Marx’s and his 2nd plank of his Communist Manifesto. America has substantially embracing many of the doctrines and faith of Marxism and his followers like Mao. Mao’s doctrine of dialectical materialism transforms theology into so-called strictly secular law even though they are religious in nature, based on faith, and without question substantially burden any REAL Christian’s exercise of religion. But civic and secular religions are as unconstitutional as federal establishment of so-called sacred religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism or any “sacred trust.”

And so you see that H. G. Wells and his co-missionaries, have succeeded in preaching Socialism and converting the U.S. governments into the now established religion of socialism.

The only question now is: What are you going to do about it?

James Madison said: “It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much… to forget it.”

Today I was able to have a small victory against the first experiment upon my liberties. The reason I fought this for four years was because of Madison’s statement.

After a four year battle I was exonerated today. Four years ago this month a Fascist Nevada Highway Patrol Officer arrested me for not having identification with me while driving a friend’s truck. The Cop took all of my identification and placed it randomly around the truck, tucking into seat crevices, the glove box and under the seat.

I was taken to the Clark County Detention center and booked. I was told I had to have a vaccination. I refused. I was questioned even though I demanded that I be allowed to remain silent and had demanded an Attorney. Because of my refusal I was hit twice in the privates and then placed in solitary confinement. I was informed by one of the officers that I was being punished for my religious beliefs.

My wife sent the bail money down but she was informed that I was being uncooperative so my paperwork would probably be lost unless I started being cooperative. My paperwork was lost. My wife was informed that my paperwork had been, for some reason, placed at the bottom of the stack although it should have been on the top. After about 36 hours in jail I was released.

Then off to the court system where I was never arraigned. I fought the Justices of the Peace because none of them had the required bond. The first judge recused herself. That battle took a year and the ruling was that although the justices of the peace did not have a bond there was no penalty statute. Naturally there was a penalty statute but Judge Bixler ignored it. Here is the statute:

NRS 4.030 Oath and bond of justice of the peace. Each justice of the peace elected or appointed in this State shall, before entering upon the duties of his office:
1. Take the oath prescribed by law.
2. Execute a bond to the State of Nevada, to be approved by the board of county commissioners and furnished at county expense, in the penal sum of not less than $10,000 or more than $50,000, as may be designated by the board of county commissioners. The bond must be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and filed in the office of the county clerk.

Note that a bond must be secured. It never was so the Justices of the Peace had never taken office.

I was then sent to trial although I was never arraigned. An arraignment is a requirement:

NRS 174.015 Conduct of arraignment.
1. Arraignment shall be conducted in open court and shall consist of reading the indictment or information to the defendant or stating to him the substance of the charge and calling on him to plead thereto. He shall be given a copy of the indictment or information before he is called upon to plead.
2. In Justice Court, before the trial commences, the complaint must be distinctly read to the defendant before he is called upon to plead.
I was tried and convicted on two of four counts after the Nevada Highway Patrol officer committed perjury on the stand.

I appealed within the 10 day requirement but the Justice of the Peace never forwarded my appeal to the District Court as required by statute. 2 year later I received notification that my appeal would be heard. I was given notification that said I was to appear at 10 AM but no date was given. I had to call the judges secretary to get the date. I showed up and the DA made a motion to dismiss because, he claimed, I had filed for an appeal 2 years late. I was able to prove I had indeed filed 2 years earlier and the case moved forward. The DA then filed a motion to dismiss claiming that I had not secured a court date within 60, as required. The problem with that argument is that you cannot set a court date until the Justice of the Peace sends the appeal request to the District Court Clerk which had not been done for 2 years.

The judge told the DA that his motion to dismiss was denied but that he could make that same argument in his response to my appeal brief and set a schedule. I had to send in my brief by October 10th and the DA was to respond by November 7th.

The DA never responded to my timely brief. Then today he argued that he could have a brief in in a week. I argued that the government had not done its job and that I had followed all of the rules and that they had not. The judge agreed and dismissed all of the charges against me.

If everyone would just fight, even the smallest infractions by the government, this nation would not be a nation of people whose rights are trampled on at every turn by public servants. Some times the master, We the People, have to fight back against tyranny.

You can SOMETIMES find justice in the courts but it is very hard. But more people need to challenge corrupt judges, corrupt Cops and corrupt DA and their deputies. The liberty you save may be your own.

May God support you in all your battles with the Beast of governemnt tyranny that we are forced to face on a daily basis here in America today.

By Christopher Hansen,

Once again the Christian Reich Republicans show their ignorance about fundamental rights. I watched, in horror, last night on Jon Stewart’s, The Daily Show, as Mike Huckabee said that in our country marriage is a “privilege.” That’s right the sacred fundamental religious rite and right of marriage is a privilege.

Here is the only video I could find on the marriage is a privilege statement. I am not endorsing nor recommending the other information found there.

Huckabee proved, with this statement, that he does not know the difference between a right and a privilege. Of course most Americans do not know either and have sold their birthrights for a mess of pottage made from licenses too numerous to mention.

Remember this: If marriage is a privilege then the government can outlaw it entirely. A privilege is a creation of the government and they can end it through legislation just like they created it. It can require, as Great Britain does, that every marriage be performed in a secular government ceremony. It means that the government could outlaw churches from preforming any religious ceremony relating to marriages. Why? Because the government created marriage so only they can perform marriages. That’s right…No more Church or Temple marriages of any kind but only those observed and approved of by the government or its employees.

But the fact is that marriage existed before the government of any State and before the U.S. Federal government was created by the States. Marriage is not a privilege. A privilege is something created by the government. Voting is right. However voting for your Congressmen is a privilege created by the creation of our Republican forms of government. Having a license to practice law is a privilege. Performing a religious rite is not a privilege. But it is indeed a right that the government has stolen from We the People. Marriage is a religious act that has been stolen by the government so that they could steal your children and place them in government indoctrination mills (called government schools), license your marriage for profit (you have to pay for a marriage license) and create a marriage that has within it three parties. You, your spouse and the government, all within the marriage contract and with duties within that contract.

Do you support marriage licensing laws? If you do then you support something that did not exist in America when the Constitution was written. Marriage license laws were ONLY for mixed marriages to prevent black men from marrying white women or white men from marrying American Indians, or Chinese women from marrying black men etc. It was racist at its very foundation.

Nevada did not have marriage license laws until the 1940s. That was also when we got the “Liberty tax” AKA Income tax on the average American. It was when Social Secuirty was just getting under way. It was when the Federal government was moving to destroy state’s rights and steal Americans wealth using the Federal Reserve banksters with their fiat money system. It was during the great power grab and the voluntary enslavement of Americans into these “privileges” schemes where one must ask the government for the privilege to work, read, marry, travel, cook, hunt, fish, etc.

Ask yourself. Is marriage a religious covenant? If not, where are its roots to be found. People can live together and have sexual relationship in the USA without a marriage license. So why are people that believe you should be married before having sexual relationships required to ask the government permission to perform a religious activity? What ever happened to “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”? It died in the quest for government to turn natural rights, given us by a Creator, into privileges to be licensed, regulated and controlled by the government.

Did you know that Nevada requires ministers to get a license in order to marry you and your prospective spouse so that the government can share your bed and have a say in the upbringing of your children?

I am proud to say that my son, Nicholas and his brave wife Alissa were married under the common law which is still allowed in Colorado. They obtained no license. The government is not a part of their marriage and yet it is still forced to recognize that marriage. They only have two participants in their marriage and not a government required Ménage à trois. Thank God for Colorado.

Marriage today is done, not for the reasons Christian and Jews and Muslims of the past married, but to be eligible for Socialist benefits. In fact the real reason that Gays are demanding to have their relationships recognized by the government as being a marriage is so that they can claim those same socialist benefits so-called good Christians seek after. They can already have church ceremonies and live together and contract to do EVERYTHING that heterosexual couples can do. What they cannot do is get government benefits and privileges that are granted to heterosexual couples.

If we just removed government from marriage then there would be no legal battle over who is married and who is not because the government would not be in bed with homosexuals or heterosexuals.

But then the powers at be, like the government that seeks to keep you paying for those licenses, encourages you to fight against other groups. Gays against Straights, Blacks against Whites, Christians against Muslims etc. etc. instead of organizing together to throw off these privilege masters and restore our Creator granted rights we spend our time hating all the other slaves.

So go and get yourself a license and remember that government can only require a license for a government created privilege.

Youtube video on British Gun Control

Are you next?

Do you have food storage?

Do we live in the freest country in the world or are we just deceived and live in Germany 135 and don’t understand that yet?

In the 1700s, Johann W. von Goethe made today’s problem very clear when he said: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

David Rockefeller said it another way: “Freedom—is the absence of the awareness of restraint.”

The following is a message from the President:
“Please do nothing to stand up for your rights. If you do it will slow down your induction into slavery.”

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.