Standardized Sheeple Syndrome (SSS)

I have posted this video before, on Facebook, but I've not, as yet, found good reason to share it here, on my blog, except that it's just freakin' cool.  Well America, t'would seem that there is finally just cause to present what could be my very favorite video on taxes, and why you don't have to, nor should you pay them.

The other day, I was tagged by a guy who was simply shouting out "Stop Paying Your Taxes!"...and that was pretty much it.  I sat and thought about that for a while.

Oh, make no mistake, I agree with the guy.  But just like women across America shouting "Death to Trump", and nothing else, I just can't leap onto such a bold statement without some pretty damn good reasons to back it up.  So please bear with me, while I give you some damn good reasons.

For one, you can't NOT pay any taxes for a number of reasons.  For one, where gas, fast food, etc. are concerned, oftentimes, the taxes are bundled in.  What are you gonna do, walk into a McD's and say "Gimme just the burger, and tell me what it is without the tax on it; that's all I'm going to pay", or gas up at the pump and just get the un-taxed gas?  Impossible.

You wanna mess up the Government, both State and Federal?  I give you two viable ways, that make a lot more sense, go a lot quicker, and that are a whole lot easier.

1.  Don't file tax returns, and

2.  Don't drive.

Let's start with number 1.  Now, Standardized Sheeple Syndrome; a debilitating disease that affects the way the majority of Americans everywhere think; dictates that if we don't file our taxes, the Government is going to swoop down on us and wipe us out and take everything we have to get the bill paid.  Trust me when I say that you have all been suffering from SSS for far too long if you believe this (see video).  This is primarily untrue for a couple of reasons.

1.  The majority of Americans do not have to pay taxes.  We file to get returns.

2.  The Government simply does not have the manpower to enforce this.  If it ever had to enforce it, let alone on EVERYONE, by the time they got to all of us, a couple of decades would have gone by.

There's a problem that a lot of you probably haven't realized about State and Federal tax returns of late.  I strongly suggest that you first peruse this article that I wrote a year or better back, about how the Government, both state and Federal, has now taken on the role of "Bill Collector" for Government RELATED debts.  On a federal level, if you owe any bill (school loans, etc) to a federally AFFILIATED function, they will remove the debt from your returns, something I don't believe they have a right to do.  On the State level, the State now takes moneys that you owe the City and County you reside in.  As if we don't pay them enough to torture us by charging us taxes on the income we bring in, sometimes as much as half of it, now they're collecting on our debts too?  Come on, what's next...our utility bills?  Credit card debt?  Don't you dare doubt it for a moment.  You can find that article here, it's a hell of a thought provoker:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/07/corruption-part-iv-collection-agency.html

When I thought about the fact that the Federal Government, who merely SPONSORS banks to loan students money for school and school supplies (the Government USED to do this, but, like everything else, decided instead to dole the privelege out to greedy private banks; like we haven't done enough for them already, right?),  but instead rips students off with unreasonably high interest loans...(you ready for this baby boomers?  5%...per month...per one hundred dollars loaned.)

Let's take a look at $10,000 in loans for just a 4 year period.  I borrowed this in the first semester alone.  Let's say you take this amount in the first semester of school, and pay for the rest.  After 4 years of non-payment, that comes out to  $500 a month...for 12 months...times 4 years...a whopping $24,000...IN INTEREST ALONE!  You think for one minute I'm going to pay that at the end of the day?  Sure they presented that on the day of signing...but what college-aged student is going to do the math?  I mean, this is FICA...they wouldn't do us like that right?  SSS at work.  Grants are the only way the Government contributes to our education these days.  The rest is a rip off.  Oh, but they'll stand behind these banks in a second, and take it out of your tax return to cover the bank's butt.  Nice.  Oh, I agree.  Stop FILING your federal taxes.  Quit supporting private banks.

On the state level, I came up with a damn good reason not to pay your state taxes, and screw them all up at the same time, the aforementioned #2 - stop driving.

Last night, I was talking to my friend Alyse Thrush, who has been through some real Hell herself, and beings it was like 5 in the morning, and I was barely awake, and answering something she had asked.  I'll bet she's sorry she asked.  I responded with quite the ordeal.  I was led from there to write this article, matter o' factly.

She asked me a rather simple question really..."Why do you walk around?"  A loaded question, of course...especially where I'm concerned.

I said it like this.  I haven't driven in Iowa since 2010.  They started suspending my license for various reasons; non-payment of Child Support (thanks again, DHS...oh, and by the way, that is ALL PAID OFF NOW), and non-payment of parking or speeding tickets...and every time, I'd have to pay them $200 to re-instate it, and test AGAIN to get it back,  Let's not even discuss the fact that half the time, I wouldn't know it was even suspended, at least not until I got pulled over.  I wonder who thought of that wonderful way of handling the non-payment of your county and city debts?  I just wanna stick hot pokers up his/her nasal cavities.

Finally, on the last suspension, I decided to take a 2 year haitus from driving in my favorite state.  They want my money?  They'd have to come to my door and try and take it from me.  In the meantime, I'll take mass transit, thank you.

Then, in 2014, after my daughter was stolen from us, I woke up to just how much money I was paying Iowa concerning my right (they call it a privilege) to drive (travel) and I swore I'd never drive again, as long as I lived there.  Then this occurred to me:

Surely, as much money as we pay the local, county and state Government to drive (buying the car initially and paying the taxes on it, even AFTER it's ours, free and clear; registrations, titles, plates, insurances, unavoidable gas taxes, license fees, driving classes, renewal fees, reinstatement fees, SR-22 insurance, driving tests, CDL testing and licensing fees, etc.), you just gotta know all that money we pay for all of this simply doesn't only go to pay the employees of the DMV.  I'm sure that part of that goes to none other than paying the state to do other things...like stealing our children, or prosecuting us incessantly.

You have to consider this:  The state is, under no circumstances, going to tell Iowa's (or any other state's) citizens that they need a million dollars so that we can pay social workers to remove children from bad...or good homes; nor are they going to tell them that they need to pay the County Attorney's office to wrongfully prosecute thousands of state citizens until they win, using your taxes.  No, they need to be a bit more subversive than that.  They'll do it anyway...but they'll just take the money from other revenues...like all the money that the State makes from us owning and driving cars.

Now THERE'S something to think about, eh? Personally?  I'm tired of paying the State and Federal Government to do crooked and corrupt things to me.  Now that's a good reason to stop paying your taxes, and to stop driving and start taking the bus if naught else, right?  :D

Legislative Proposals...the New Breed

Who knew?  The Mighty Sword now writes Legislative Proposals...but not like you politicians have been known to...not all filled with legal gobbledy-gook, boring passages and hard to read/understand language.  No, here, you'll see something that you rarely see in a congressional document...common-sense.  Will it work?  Hard to say...but I think we may see a new trend on how we, the standard sheep, deals with our government (and they with us), using good ol' fashioned street smarts and EASY TO UNDERSTAND terminology...not the other-worldly secret language Governmental Legislators use.

So...here it is, Mr. Living Man's first proposal to get rid of the law that stops us from having and taking care of our children, as God intended (TAKE THAT CRIMINALS...hehe).  Now it's time to get rid of that pesky Confidentiality dealy, and the biggy....immunity to prosecution.

Proposal for Legislation to have all Juvenile Hearings Recorded Using Modern Technology, for Accurate Records

In the current Iowa Code, Vol. III, Chapter 232, Concerning Juvenile Justice, §232.41, you’ll note that it currently states:

“232.41 Reporter required.

Stenographic notes or mechanical or electronic recordings shall be taken of all court

hearings held pursuant to this division unless waived by the parties. The child shall not be

competent to waive the reporting requirement, but waiver may be made for the child by the

child’s counsel or guardian ad litem. Matters which must be reported under the provisions

of this section shall be reported in the same manner as required in section 624.9.”

First of all, it clearly states that ALL processes are available...but in the district court (at least in MY hearings), no recordings were discussed, offered, nor mentioned. Later, when you ask for “recordings” from the clerk of court office, you’re told that recordings are NOT made in juvenile matters...only transcripts are made, and produced and entered only after the party pays the transcriber (not the court) $3.50/page.

Also provided by the Iowa Judicial Branch, there is a paper that you can fill out to get actual recordings of your hearings; including, quite obviously, juvenile, as shown below. Note that there is no misunderstanding that we are talking about actual DIGITAL RECORDINGS here:

Let it be known that, when I took this into the Polk County Clerk’s Office, Randy Osborn (The Clerk of Polk County Clerk) himself came to tell me that they don’t make recordings of juvenile hearings, only transcriptions. I then asked him to sign this paper, stating just that, and he refused to sign it, or give me the recordings...only offering the transcripts; and only if I paid $3.50 a page to the transcribers:

Mr. Osborn refused to sign this affidavit, for obvious reasons. There are most certainly recordings made of these hearings (the transcriber herself should, if nothing else, make a recording in case something happens to her machine, or there is an emergency), and shouldn’t a recording be made anyway, in case of foul play in our judiciary?

Obviously, paper transcripts of juvenile hearings (or any hearings, for that matter) are NOT an “accurate record”...of anything; for the following reasons:

1. No matter how good a court reporter may be, their training could in no way prepare them to differentiate as many as 10 different speaking voices, especially if 3 or 4 of them were talking at once. The transcriber may be familiar with the regular players of these hearings, but couldn’t possibly continually pinpoint the voices of those she does not know, such as the parents, or

others that are not regularly in attendance.

2. That there are way too many different meanings of words. How does a transcriber differentiate

between the words “There, Their and They’re” for instance, let alone its context? This is just

one of 1000’s of examples of words that could be heard incorrectly, or taken out of context.

3. I don’t care how you slice it, when given the means to do the wrong thing, some people take that road, just as sometimes when you elect an official, there is no absolute guarantee that, if given the opportunity, they won’t do wrong. If such an official (judge, county attorney, GAL, etc.) were to be involved in something untoward, and had the shroud of confidentiality (no one can look into a juvenile case until it’s over, the parental rights are ALREADY terminated, the child/children are already gone, you get the picture...isn’t more than a little convenient for those removing/adopting out the children and terminating parental rights?) to help keep the lid on things; and immunity from prosecution, isn’t it more important now than ever that ACCURATE and double assurance that the right thing is being done be in place? Let’s say this/these officials wanted to cover up what had been done in a court hearing. With no recorded version available to the public OR the parties involved, it’s not unthinkable that these officials could just toss what was transcribed into the trash and “transcribe” something more to their liking. As much as we don’t like to admit it, the law is sometimes subverted, and sometimes we put the wrong people into office.

The proposed legislation should read thusly:

“232.41 Recordings required.

Stenographic notes as well as mechanical or electronic recordings shall be taken of all court

hearings held pursuant to this division unless waived by all of the parties. The child shall not be

competent to waive the reporting requirement, but waiver may be made for the child by the

child’s counsel or guardian ad litem. Recordings of all hearings shall be made available to the involved parties for as long as 2 years, and shall cost no more than is normal for such a recording to be made.

Author’s Addendum:

I in no way intended to make this personal, (and believe me, it is NOT JUST personal...there are 1000’s of Iowa parents, over 1800 a month in Iowa, from what I gather, who go through the same thing we had to), but I will state this: If there had been recordings of what happened in our court hearings available to us, the parties, we would not only still have our child, we would have seen a judge, 1 Polk County Attorney, 2 Asst. Polk County Attorneys, some DHS employees, a CFI worker and a GAL go to jail. The things they got away with in our hearings were incorrigible, and completely covered up...by confidentiality and immunity...and by the fact that no recordings were, supposedly, made of these hearings, nor are any “available” to the parties. We, the wrongfully terminated parents, beg the house and the senate to pass this legislation as quickly as possible to protect all involved...the parents, and especially, the children.

America's DEADLIEST Sin (Greed, Revisited)

Well, America, I think my love affair with our great nation has reached a new low.  I can only keep saying "Wow", when I think about this...

What is America's favorite and most deadly sin again?  You'd think it was corruption in government, wouldn't you?  Nope.  Corruption stems from THIS original deadly sin...yes, I'm talking again about none other than good ol' fashioned American Greed, in all its lovely glory.  Please see my OTHER 2 articles about this here:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/04/day-7-greed.html

and here:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-original-7-deadly-sins-3-part-i.html

So, I'm sitting in a McDonalds in......no wait, I can't say that!  Almost messed up...anyway, a Mr. Paul Noyes is there, filling out an application for work, and as its just me and he in the room, he shouts this out as I'm packing up to leave McD's..."Well, at least here they don't charge you for applications, like they do in Washington State"...and I have a mini-brain-conniption.  WHAAAAAAAAAA?  ARE YOU SERIOUS??  Now they charge people to apply for jobs, $.50 to $1 per app??  Unfreakin'believable.  Every time I think we've reached the highest possible level of greed, America shocks me again.

I remember having the very same conniption when I came to understand that apartment complexes (and, because of this, house owners renting apartments as well) started charging you $25-$100 to apply to live in their apartments.  This was quite bad enough.  I mean, come on...these folks are going to be over-paid by you to live in their crappy little hovels as it is...now you're going to pay them to process an application to accept you so that you can over-pay them?  I tell the better portion of these people to kiss mah grits, and hunt down those who haven't as yet fallen into this stupidity.  Worse yet, you people are paying these fees...which, of course, not unlike most things we sheep shut up and pay, is standard brainwashed behavior.  If we would just open up our mouths and speak our minds, this would have never become the standard it is.

But no, this couldn't be enough.  Now you want us to pay you to apply to work for you TOO???   If this becomes a national standard guys, I'm giving up on America for good.  DON'T YOU DARE PAY THESE GREEDY LITTLE BASTARDS!!!!  Call your legislators, that takes up around the time it takes to pay these morons and fill out the application.  Go down to the state capitol building, and ask them to pass legislation against this crap!  Granted, I just learned you were able to do this sorta thing...but better late than never!

This is just the sorta thing that makes this country notorious for idiocy, and should NOT BE TOLERATED, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

What Have We Here? - Part 1

Guess Who, America?  Yeah...it's me again.

Just wanted to fill you in on a few things.  For one, it's important to mention that I am well out of reach of the state of Iowa...so sad for them.  For two, my NCO's against the two biggie social workers in my life, Katie Gosch and Emily Nieman, are both lifted....so sad for them, as well.  For three, a big moment is coming up, as I'll be posting all the paperwork filed in ALL of my cases...both federal AND state, and will carry full commentary.  Included will be the remainder of all of the confidential paperwork in the Supreme Court Appeal to the juvenile cases, where they so OBVIOUSLY covered for all of the district level criminals, and upheld their decision to terminate our rights, even though DHS's own director cleared us of all charges, expunged our records, and removed us from the abuse registry in our Child Protective Assessment Appeal(s).  Also included will be ALL of the criminal cases that they've brought against me; since they decided that too many people were seeing (and reading about) what they were doing, and opted to jail me to shut me up, for pretty much any reason they could muster.  Here, you'll also see clearly how they CHEATED in order to win out.

Also forthcoming will be a HUGE and drawn out article concerning how the people of Iowa are continuously and wrongfully arrested for stupid little crimes, then made career criminals utilizing a money generating scheme that fully targets the homeless and the poor, and those without the where-with-all to afford attorneys.  Here we will be covering a MAJORITY of Iowa's criminal code (thank you Drake Law Library, for giving me the COMPLETE Iowa 2015 code books FREE so that I could accomplish this), and explaining how certain people are made into "Habitual Offenders", utilizing criminal code that 90% of Iowa's citizens don't know about, or had anything to do with passing.

Remember also that all things personal, concerning the ongoing and seemingly NEVER-ENDING war with the State of Iowa will be, around March 1st (the resurrection date for the podcast), going only here, on the following site:

(Blog Name):  Iowa, and More Importantly, Des Moines, Iowa

http://desmoinesandiowathevenusflytrap.blogspot.com

There is one final thing I wanted to address.  To the idiot who continues to read, then comment on my posts with completely unsubstantiated moronic drivel...(cough, cough, whoever that idiot happens to be THAT ONE LURKER), your comments are no longer read, most certainly no longer published, and simply deleted immediately on sight...so why bother?  Rest assured that you are most certainly wasting valuable kinetic energy that you could be expending elsewhere.   That you continue to comment is no skin off my neck...it only takes a mouse click or two to delete your stupid ramblings, and only CONTINUES to prove to me that you have little better to do with your life.  No matter...I'll say it again, what you comment is ineffectual to me, and certainly does nothing to or for my readers either, considering they never see what little to less than nothing of what you have to say.  To the fans out there that REALLY have something to say, keep saying it...when I see YOUR comments, they get published immediately...regardless of what you have to say.  I love you all...and at least, you have constructive and legitimate things to comment about my articles.  Someday when this mentally retarded person finally realizes the futility of trying to comment negatively, I may allow comments to be instant again.  Until then, I apologize for having to moderate.

What fun we're gonna have, eh?  Let's get this pahty ROLLIN'  :D