After two years of campaigning, the bewildered American people are not facing the real problem. They have been thoroughly indoctrinated by politicians, who, rather than talk about cures, talk about shots in the arm. My thought is that my readers might be interested in hearing how I win-and how I lose.
My father never had a good thing to say about me. He talked about Adam's disobedience, and that God gave him everything a man could want. In my father's view, I never appreciated the wonderful blessings I'd received. I just took and asked for more. Consequently, I lived on a guilt trip until age 49, at which time my second wife divorced me. At the time, my wholesale lumber business was on the rocks. I was a sinner on a guilt trip living out a self fulfilling prophecy.
Nixon's price controls changed market conditions. Independent lumber dealers, family owned lumber mills, and lumber wholesalers like me went the way of mom and pop grocers. In government, the means is justified by the end, in my case, with Nixon's price controls. Where did Nixon get the authority to control prices? Same as all politicians, same as the courts, Nixon assumed authority and nobody was big enough to challenge him. Nixon's unconstitutional price controls put me out of business.
At the time that Nixon's price controls left me without an income, the capital gains tax and double digit inflation, upon the sale of my property, forced me to pay a large tax on non-existent profit. At times, the capital gains tax taxes people out of existence. With unconstitutional authorities assuming they can do this and that on my mind, in 1973 I wrote a letter to U. S. Attorney General William B. Saxbe, advising him that the capital gains tax was unconstitutional. My answer came from the IRS in the form of a tax audit. I was one of those nutcakes you read about in the newspaper trying to get out paying my tax. Nevertheless, sharing the wealth in an unconstitutional redistribution scheme does not weigh with the Constitution.
Thanks to the authoritarian, holier than thou nature of those in control, the IRS, intoxicated on its misbegotten power, called this disobedient, unappreciative misfit a "Fifth Amendment freak." The Fifth Amendment states that I have the constitutional right to be heard in a meaningful way in a meaning place. I don't look at the Constitution as a historical document. The Fifth Amendment gave me the authority to challenge the IRS.
In any event, given authority by your assuming and unchallenged elected representatives, the IRS is encouraged to assume whatever it chooses in the taxes a worker owes. Between the assuming IRS and my then wife-and a public blind to reality-I ended on the street, locked out of my apartment for non-payment of rent.
The blind would say I should have known better than to mess with the IRS. If everyone submitted to tyranny, there would be no freedom. The moment the Higher Law is altered, tyranny commences. The public is blind to reality.
The divorce court put a roof back over me. The IRS continued to ignore the law. The federal response to my letter caused me to study the Constitution and tax law. I learned from my study that federal authorities are twisting the law. To make the taxpayer guilty until he or she proves innocense in a court of law, as clearly written in the law, is unconstitutional, and for the following good reasons:
I petitioned the U.S. Tax Court. The IRS suggested that I drop my claim in return for their paying me the refund I had coming under the law, but to let their erroneous assessment of tax stand. It took three years to be heard, after the IRS had frozen my tax refund for business losses, after the IRS had mistakenly assessed me for taxes I did not owe, after the IRS put me on the street, all with tacit approval of your elected representatives and the courts.
The tax court ruled, three years after the fact, in my favor. In the meanwhile, if I had no bread I could eat cake. As implemented in my case, the income tax is clearly federal expedience. It cheats American workers out of their fundamental rights. Your representatives hide these lawless doings I bring to your attention. They buy the majority with government entitlements-robbing Peter to pay Paul.
The IRS paid me what was mine under the law, and then, thumbing its nose at the tax court order, without notification, filed a tax lien against me. When I sold my condo, the IRS, without my knowledge, implemented its tax lien. My check at the closing was minus $2506 in favor of the tax collector.
Covering for the government's lawless expedience, the U.S. Court of Appeals held against my challenge, assuming that federal income tax is "legitimate." A U.S. Supreme Court that sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil against federal income tax dismissed my cause without comment. No one is the wiser. The Attorney General, knowing the IRS had ignored the tax court order, had ripped me off for $2506, wrote in his brief to the Court that the IRS had corrected its mistake, furnishing the record, minus the tax collector's illegal tax collection, which I reported in my brief.
After the Supreme Court brushed me aside, I purchased a home and requested a loan on the G.I. Bill of Rights, which your elected representatives, in appreciation of my service to the nation, gave veterans. This ungrateful wretch was turned down. The IRS had not removed its tax lien against me. It was waiting to pounce again. I contacted the Attorney General, asking if he wanted to see me in court and explain the tax lien. He elected to have the lien cancelled. I filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court anyway for the $2506 the IRS confiscated , the same that the Attorney General forget to mention in his brief to the Supreme Court. The District Court ordered the United States to refund my property with interest. The United States failed to obey the court order. I reopened my complaint. The court gave the United States 30 day to pay up.
The money the IRS seized in violation of the tax court order was given back to me six years after the IRS seized my property. The IRS then went to my bank, under the authority elected representatives granted the IRS, and seized every cent in my checking account. The District Court judge told me he was not going to stick his neck out again.
In Nazi Germany, Hitler made it legal to exterminate Jews like insects. In principle, America's elected representatives are doing the same as Hitler. I asked my bank to show me the IRS's authority for stripping me of my grocery money. My bank assumed it had the authority to fork over my existence to the IRS with nothing more than a printed form that didn't even have a signature on it.
All of my effort was not for naught. With the court record and the IRS seizure notice my bank gave me a copy of, I went to the press. Under questioning, the IRS admitted that it had wrongfully taxed me and confiscated my property for 11 years. The truth of what the IRS did to this taxpayer was printed in a front page story. No problem. Not one peep from anyone. Senator Bob Graham, Florida Democrat, sent me his legal staff's report stating that the IRS is permitted to use "Draconian" measures to collect tax.
In further response, the IRS office guilty of 11 years of mistakes against me decided to put my wife and I on the street. The IRS mailed my wife's employer a demand notice that the employer was to give my wife's pay to the IRS. The IRS notified my wife by mail that it was going to take our home and everything we had to pay an erroneous tax assessment the IRS had filed against her.
Employers assume they have the authority to fork over their workers' pay to the IRS, with no proof that the taxpayer owes any tax. My congressman had the IRS move the claim against my wife to a different office. The assessment was cancelled.
When I challenged federal income tax, I had a bigger than life calling. Your votes for the representative that promises the most to you is a vote to hijack workers. Medicare is soon to go broke. Social Security will follow. When you have no bread, you can eat cake.
When I look within-past my emotions-I get the picture of a new age and vast change. Those with the right answers are going to win and those who don't understand what they are doing are going to lose big. America is on a guilt trip, the government and the people co-dependents. How much longer can the United States' unconstitutional acts last? The United States is a sinking ship. All of those depending on government are going down with the ship.
My answer to the self-serving, corrupt American establishment was my middle finger. I jumped ship. For two years, I sailed in the Bermuda Triangle, where the weather is more changeable than almost anywhere in the world. During a terrible storm at sea, to be expected in the Bermuda Triangle, I was around 50 miles from my destination on a 37 foot sloop with three friends, about a twelve hour sail under normal circumstances. You read about those who disappear in the Bermuda Triangle and are never are seen again. I guess on a time warp, I arrived at my estimated time of arrival. As I approached the inlet, the breakers across the inlet parted and I slid down a giant sea into a safe harbor. My three sailing companions called it a miracle. You didn't read about that.
Writing the Attorney General was the first step in my thousand mile journey. I departed from my old life in 1975. I left my life at sea in 1977 and took a career job in Portland, Oregon. In the
spring of 1980, I met Karen, the right woman to spend the rest of my life with, and two weeks after wife number three walked out. On our first date, May 18, 1980, a hike to Multnomah Falls, not 50 mile to the northwest Mt. St. Helens erupted, symbolizing calamity, such as the American calimity, followed by hope and renewal.
I was living a charmed life; that is, until the spring of 1981. I quit my job and returned to my life at sea, this time with my soul mate. In November, 1981, we set sail on Bold Venture II, ending on the rocks in April, 1982, in the Caribbean. I know how to win and how to lose.
Returning to my life at sea was an emotional decision. Karen and I spent the next 17 years in West Palm Beach, Florida, back on my guilt trip, trying to gain back what I'd lost. If anything could go wrong it did. For those of you who depend on government, rest assured that if anything can go wrong it will.
The good news is that with the guilt trip finally behind me, on April Fool's Day, 1999, Karen and I took a one-way jetliner ride back to Portland. We bought an RV and lived a happy-go-lucky nomad lifestyle for the next nine years, thankfully with no taxable income and the IRS.
One day in November 2007, Karen said she hated to think about living the rest of her life in an RV. A week later, can you believe this? I received a letter from the Veteran's Administration advising me that I'd been declared permanently unemployable due to a World War II injury. The federal wheel of fortune stopped on my number. We had the money to buy our dream home.
During World War II, I thought I was fighting for freedom and independence. As it turns out, I was fighting for my number on America's wheel of fortune. Frankly, I'd just as soon that government would have done the things government does best, let the economy do its natural thing, and leave the individual to take care of his own needs. I think I'd have been more secure if left to do my thing.
Unfortunately, the elected, having been given no good reason to change, the majority are looking to Washington for their answers. Indeed, why would I want a change? Life for me is as good as it gets.
We've got a lot to think about. On my first bold venture at sea, in 1975, when everything could have gone wrong, everything went right. In 1981, I acted on my emotions and paid a price. We are at the threshold of the greatest change in the history of man, with a choice: annihilation or personal power beyond our wildest dreams.
By subjugating ourselves to authority's whims, it is out of the realm of our thinking to look inward and be aware of personal power. So I ask that you think of the mind connected with and interacting with the elements of the universe-anything imagined manifested. The thought, in and of itself, would remove the current limits of awareness.
Physicist Stephen Hawking says that knowing the mind of God requires a fundamental understanding of the universe; that is, the how and why of everything. The applicability of quantum mechanics and classical physics is so different, except near the center of a black hole or at the very beginning of the universe, when all was one entity, there must be something we don't yet fathom about how it all comes together. I give you the God of our future.
Ever since Heisenberg discovered the uncertainty principle, the forerunner of quantum mechanics, physicists have looked at the creation of the universe in a radically different way. Quantum physics looks at the shortest in distance and space and sees the same symmetry in the big picture. Gravity, equal in force from all frames of reference, and the same for the other three forces, applying to the smallest of the small, to galaxies, to the universe, would not the same Higher Law apply to the letter and spirit of our law in practice-that is, equal in rights, equal in opportunity in all frames of reference? Under nature's law, there are no government entitlements. The consequence of ignoring nature's Higher Law is an economic meltdown and a government bailout at the taxpayer's cost. The American people have been led down a manmade garden path.
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, is far fetched until one learns about quantum mechanics' wildly undulating geometry. When I was at sea, on the smooth geometry of the ocean, as I approached land, at first all I could see was a dark line on the horizon. As I drew nearer undulations appeared. I could see my inlet. Once in the inlet, I could see it all. The same applies in quantum mechanics. We are looking at the geometry of the big picture, a long way out from the beginning of creation.
In that storm at sea I mentioned, my hand on the helm seemed like the hand of an orchestra conductor. Anticipating the wind and wave action, and steering a straight course, although I should have been far to the north of my destination and far out to sea, inexplicably, I was at my destination at my estimated time of arrival. Breaking seas parted. I slid down a giant swell into a safe harbor. By going to sea, where all life began, it was the ocean, the heavens, and me. "Wouldst thou know the mystery of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers comprehend its mysteries." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Symbols are everywhere. In The Elegant Universe, Chapter 6, "Nothing but Music: The Essentials of Superstring Theory," I was reminded of my thoughts during the above mentioned storm at sea. "Music has long since provided the metaphors of choice for those puzzling over questions of cosmic concern. From the ancient Pythagorean ‘music of the spheres' to the ‘harmonies of nature' that have guided inquiry through the ages, we have collectively sought the song of nature in the gentle wandering of celestial bodies and the riotous fulminations of subatomic particles." As one in touch with life's anomalies, I understand this kind of thinking.
String theory brings together quantum reality and the big picture, ultimately, that we might see the universe as one entity, thereby to derive a logical reason for our presence and purpose. We are almost there and afraid to find the real God of the universe, preferring instead to cling to the false notions of earthbound authority.
A human being, a colony of cells unified, within each of our cells molecules, within molecules atoms, within atoms subatomic particles, with nothing below "1" but zero, nada, zilch, the "1" of the universe in us is superstring theory, the beginning of all beginnings:God. This is the latest in science.
The nature of string theory is that of a violin string-vibrational-in an infinity of tones, the same applies to the letter and spirit of the law. Logic, in Greek philosophy the rational principle that governs and develops the universe, in Christian theology, first there was the word, and the word was God (John1:1), the word composed of letters-with no subdividing-the same applying in string theory, gravity, equal in force from any frame of reference, and to the law, symbolizing equal in rights, equal in opportunity-the law of man is inseparable with the Higher Law, the background of the American Constitution, we are created with reason, fundamental to the law, the father of modern law, the Roman jurist Cicero, "We are born for justice, and right is not the mere arbitrary construction of opinion, but an institution of nature . . .that which is established on account of utility may for utility's sake may be overturned," the permanent elements of human nature transcend expediency, and align themselves with human conscience.
Superstring theory is not yet proven, but within the realm of possibility, an idea with no form, but from which we create our reality, the latest science finds that there is a dimension of infinite possibility from which observation makes reality. Anything we think is possible; anything we think impossible is impossible, time is running out. We're almost to the answer for everything that is, but diverted by self-serving authorities, afraid of taking the plunge.