(The Associated Press) “We The People demand the best candidate.” In my view, “We the People” don’t yet know whether we are afoot or horseback. Of course, when I read the same stuff you people read I march to the beat of a different drummer. Consider this:
After my departure from my old life in the spring of 1975, and after my two year sabbatical on Bold Venture, my 37 foot sloop, after my two years in the South Atlantic Ocean, my astrological chart began to fit. It didn’t before my departure. I’m going to explain why. First of all, I’m Aquarius Rising. That means I’m seen as eccentric—stubborn in my far out of the mainstream beliefs. Before my departure, I went with the flow. Now, I’ve been told, I’m a rock in the stream. Who needs my kind?
My second marriage failed and my 25 year business enterprise, as well. There was nothing left but to change. Coincidentally, my astrological chart indicated that at the time of my change that the pressure would be great to change.
I knew nothing about astrology when I made my change. Since then, I’ve learned that one’s Rising Sign is an astrological term for when the sun rises on one’s life. It is calculated by taking the place and exact time of one’s birth, for the sun travels across the earth’s surface and approximately 900 m.p.h. Because I was born at 4:51 P.M. C.S.T. in Houston, Texas, astrologers calculate I’m Aquarius Rising.
I bought Jeanne Avery’s The Rising Sign and turned to “Aquarius Rising.” Avery wrote that I may be “the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries.” In an earlier blog, I mentioned that my sailing experience was in the Bermuda Triangle. I’m reading Time-Life’s Mystic Places. I read about an individual’s time warp experience in the Triangle. I wrote about my time warp experience. I’m thinking about what Avery wrote about me—bringing back information lost to civilization.
Mystic Places tells about megaliths, massive upright stone monuments, the most famous of which is Stonehenge, near London. Megaliths are pre-historic. Not only is what they represent a mystery, but how they were moved. They are often placed over high radiation areas, and as well in areas of high magnetism. Our planet is surrounded by a magnetic field, part of the universe’s electromagnetic force. Occultists visiting said sites are prone to experience mild hallucinations. It is thought that pre-historic people marked said sites as having healing power. In fact, medical science treats broken bones with electromagnetism. Said sites are thought to be markers for astronomical events. Stonehedge is known to be lined up with six other megaliths, it is thought for astronomical purposes. Not one word, though, about my thought. Pre-historic people were conscious of more than modern people of the workings of the universe.
It is well known that if we are without one of our senses the other senses are enhanced. My aunt was stone deaf for years. An operation restored her hearing. The world of sound was unbearable to her. She had to wear earplugs for a time. My father told me he had rheumatism so badly when he was a young man that he was walking with the aid of crutches. His landlady hid his crutches. He was forced to go to work without them. He never used them again. With all of our contrivances, are we not dulled to the workings of the universe in our ability to cope?
In America, all those contrivances give us a chance to do more than work most of our lives for a bare existence. In our leisure time, we watch TV and play computer games. We entertain ourselves. Encouraged by government, we go deeply into debt buying racy cars, boats, gadgets, twice the home we can afford. It is all good for the economy, we’re told. Who is going to pay the bill? Something's wrong. It doesn't add up.
But if it isn’t fun, it’s not worth doing; it isn't worth thinking about. Perhaps, unconsciously, environmentalists want us to get along without so much, but unfortunately they are being manipulated by self-serving politicians, the same politicians that give us all manner of crutches. Environmentalists just don’t get it. They are looking for external answers. I reason that instead of being so things oriented, we should be looking within and doing what we know is best for us. Who with a public voice is saying that? I don't hear it.
This brings me to my awakening in 1975. My anger at my government caused me to read Edward S. Corwin’s The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law.Corwin’s essay caused me to go to the county law library and study my Constitution, and the procedure for taking the IRS to court. I had a personal stake in the outcome. But wouldn't you know, everyone I knew at the time thought I’d lost my mind. Where have you heard that you have a personal stake in the outcome and you, yourself, can take the IRS to court? To the world, I was a lousy tax protester, a nutcake.
The IRS made a mistake. I was overtaxed and the IRS refused to correct its obvious mistake. The law your representatives wrote says you have to go to the U.S. Tax Court to get the mistake corrected. Most people don’t. It raises a lot of revenue. To many, anything that raises revenue is good. It gives government more money to hand out. I went to Tax Court and got the mistake corrected. In violation of the Tax Court order, the IRS once again mistakenly confiscated my property. Understand that the government is always mistaken. We, the people, break the law. To many, it is good that government can do no wrong, especially bureaucrats. Both the U. S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court saw nothing unconstitutional in the repeating IRS mistakes. The federal judiciary is activist. The Constitution is whatever they say it is. To many, that’s, good, those who feel they are benefitting at another’s expense.
I filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court on the IRS’s repeating mistakes. The court decided to hear me. The government admitted that it had “wrongfully” taken my property. My property was dutifully returned to me. The IRS then went to my bank and took every cent in my checking account. The IRS is permitted to make limitless mistakes. The U.S. District Court refused to reopen the case. I was told I’d have to file a new complaint.
The “law” in the United States, with the consent of the majority of the American people, those who feel they are benefitting at another’s cost, allow the IRS to make limitless mistakes. I took the court record to The Palm Beach Post. The Post was ignorant of that fact. The Post had not thought about it. I showed a reporter my court record. With my court record in hand, the reporter went to the IRS and said, “how come?” The IRS was forced to admit on the front page that it had made numerous mistakes against me. There was not one peep from anyone, proof that many Americans think it is good what the IRS is doing to taxpayers; that is, the half who pay no taxes. All the IRS admission of limitless mistakes did was to make taxpayers more afraid of the IRS. To many, that’s good. And who wants to hear “my problem.” Thanks to the American people, it took the IRS only two years to make a mistake against my wife, and refuse to correct it. To many, just think good and everything will be alright. Just give the politicians a chance. They will make everything right.
Have the American people fully awakened to the fact that their government is a gangster in disguise? I think the American people are burying their heads in the sand. Think of the world you people are leaving your children. What are your children going to think of you when the day of reckoning comes? We’ve a long way to go and a short time to get there.
