Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

It's A Good Time To Remember That In The End, It's All On Us In large part, CtC is about learning to say "NO!" and being prepared to stick to your guns. This is true across the board, not just as regards the income tax. I'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME sorting through the vast tonnage of papers that have accumulated over the 18 years and counting since writing CtC, and many of those that came before that inflection point, also. It's been a major journey for me. Sometimes it has been very painful, such as when dealing with the records of the prosecutorial and judicial assaults upon me and Doreen. Sometimes it has been very uplifting, as when going through the many thousands of CtC-educated and CtC-inspired victories shared with me by readers, and the many expressions of support and companionship with which I have been blessed by so many of you during the afore-mentioned assaults (for which I have always been, and will always be, enormously grateful). IN THE COURSE OF THIS EXERCISE, I have unearthed many things long-forgotten-- some well-forgotten. For instance, I have been reminded of the faintness of heart I used to encounter during the sporadic instances of well-publicized, focused institutional hostility to my work over the years (a list of some of which can be found here). At those times I would hear from many folks about their successful CtC-educated claims, proudly or gratefully reported to me, but with requests to keep the happy facts to myself. "I want to play it safe" would be the reason given, based on the notion that standing up and bearing witness to the world would invite corrupt adverse attention and harm. The idea, in short, was that it is better to hunker down and quietly enjoy the benefits of CtC's liberating information even if that silence means denying energy to the spread of that information and its potential generation of a paradigm-shifting momentum by which all "hunkering down" would become unnecessary. My response to hearing from such not-quite-warriors was always the same: "Playing it safe" by silence is just conceding the field to the enemy, meaning the harm you fear will come upon a bit more slowly, perhaps, but with way more certainty. By "playing it safe" you relinquish your arms and watch your adversary grow in strength while you shrink. It is what Patrick Henry spoke of in his powerful speech calling his Virginia countrymen to arms in 1775: Continued... https://losthorizons.com/N/180.htm#2