Product Details

• Actors: Larken Rose
• Directors: Larken Rose
• Format: Full length, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Deciphering the Federal Income Tax
• DVD Release Date: April 15, 2004
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FJTVD8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,416 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor

The federal income tax deception has been so successful for so long that most people find it difficult to even begin to doubt the "conventional wisdom" on the subject (that all Americans owe the tax). The federal income tax statutes and regulations were intentionally written to be confusing and deceptive in order to DECEIVE most Americans into paying income taxes that were NOT owed by law. Government lawyers were able to CONCEAL the fact that the "income tax" is an excise tax only on engaging in certain types of international (not domestic) commerce.

Even after the "legalese" hiding the truth in Section 861 had been fully deciphered (which occurred only a few short years ago), the truth was still in a form that took significant effort to digest and comprehend.

When one first reads about this video, he may instinctively think "this can’t possibly be true." However, the average citizen will also admit that he surrenders his hard-earned money to the IRS either because of an assumption or because "experts" have "told" him that he was required to do so, but not because he has ever seen the law for himself. The law does not lie and the evidence will not go away; see for yourself what the law has always said.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jesus was in prison and crucified!, July 2, 2008

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Stephen J. Van Osdell "tabsaw" (Maineville, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Theft By Deception [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I guess according to Buck09's logic, we should ignore all Jesus had to say and preach because he was convicted, imprisoned, and crucified by the guv'ment. The guv'ment is always right correct? They can't possibly have any interest in influencing judges and courts to make sure the verdict is always the same. What would they do if the 'sheep' learned the truth?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Give criticism a rest until you know the whole story......, December 9, 2005

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Anonymous - See all my reviews

This review is from: Theft By Deception [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have reviewed Larken's video and find it to be thorough, precise, clear, and focused.

Larken has certainly done his homework. His research has excelled in one important distinction: he went beyond the study of current laws and regulations to investigate how our federal income tax has been authored since its inception on October 3, 1913.

The historical truth is in our federal depository libraries if you dare to look as Larken has done. You won't find accurate, but more importantly: complete and entire, original source information from our government on the internet. You'll instead find the government's position (displayed on the internet and elsewhere within other public media) on how THEY WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND.

Please bear in mind, that Larken was originally not unlike most of us: a cynic, thinking he could debunk this '861 Source/Rules' argument. He is not its originator. Others had been passing this idea around for awhile and will probably continue to do so. But upon studying up on the historical development of the income tax codes, he came to the unfailing conclusion that we have been duped! It never used to be so vexingly complicated to try and figure out (on our own) what, if any, legal obligation we owe to our Treasury Department come tax day.

But few people there were, back then, who fit within the tax bracket. Inflation has outstripped any movement of the tax bracket putting more and more of us within potential liability making it incumbent upon government lawyers to make the law more difficult to understand hoping that we'll all just give up (trying to understand the mess on our own) and pay up (like everyone else) or else!

Our government loves to put out misrepresentations about any view which opposes it and will continue to do so until enough of us complain to put a stop to it. [Remember the DSHEA law established back in 1994? If not for the out-pouring of letters to Congressional persons, we would not have as much protection as consumers as we have today.]

To the average reader, it would seem that they have thoroughly and convincingly dismissed Larken and anyone else who espouses similar views. But beware of the Fox. It is very cunning, couching its statements in half-truths, double negatives, poor grammar that would make any English teacher cringe, misrepresentations, and.....that's just the light dose. When all else fails, intimidation, denial to death, and blanketing the media with a surplus of misinformation (that by sheer quantity, alone, usually wins by default without necessarily being altogether true or completely accurate). These tactics always seems to work out well for our government to rake in more money than whatever is legally and constitutionally due it.

In the game of misrepresenting the truth about the income tax, half-right is totally wrong. This isn't a touchy-feely issue wherein getting it almost right is good enough. Not so. Like mathematics, the law is precise and if we can't understand it accurately (for whatever reason), then we are in no position to judge it or anyone else who would oppose 'conventional wisdom.'

Larken never asks you, the viewer, to: protest the tax, not pay any tax, or mimic his behavior or the behavior of other 'Tax Honesty' persons. Just because he wants to make himself into a guinea pig of a trouble-shooter doesn't mean that he wants you to do the same. Instead, he'd be tickled pink if you merely TALKED ABOUT THIS ISSUE MORE OFTEN AND WITH MORE PEOPLE. Spread it around. Like manure, let it fertilize into something --- anything more developed than what our current, lame, and lackluster understanding is.

Lest you think that I am espousing inherent corruption within the domain of governmental service, I instead put the bulk of the blame on 'beauracracy' with only a 'light sprinkling of corruption' --- just enough to keep things headed in the wrong direction, but not enough to arouse anyone's wrath on a widespread scale.

We wouldn't want the natives to become restless, now, would we?

Vinyasi

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original presentation, but why no comments?, March 21, 2008

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Floyd Maxwell "BLUEManGroup" (Westcoast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Theft By Deception (DVD)

This movie is original on several levels. It has a unique approach to looking at the legal obligations of potentially tax-paying Americans. It also presents that information in a unique animated format with nary a human in sight.

That said I am surprised no one has commented on this movie here on Amazon (but I am not surprised that imdb does not even list the movie).

For those seeing a couple of copies available used, you can actually get a new DVD for the same or less from the author's web site -- Theft-By-Deception dot com. I alert people to this because I wasted money buying a used copy of Zeitgeist on Amazon for the same amount that I would have payed at Zeitgeist Movie dot com.