Customer Reviews

Theft By Deception

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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?

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

(...)

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.

One reviewer seems to suggest that since the author, Larken Rose, is in jail, the information in Theft By Deception must be false. Has the government ever shown just exactly how the information in TBD is false? No, it has not; nor has anyone else. Has the government, in lieu of a rational discussion requested by literally thousands of people who have written to it, tried to prevent the sale and distribution of TBD? Yes, it has. Has the IRS ever given anyone false or misleading information about tax law? Have courts ever made rulings based on political pressure as opposed to objective legal analysis? If you don't know the answers to the last two questions, perhaps you should watch Theft By Deception.

I would recommend this video to anyone and watched it several times. Graphical representations were used to aid in the understanding of some complex subjects. Carefully reviews the text of the statutes and regulations as well as numerous supreme court decisions.

In an effort to refute Mr Buck09's comments below. Which incidently, appears that Mr. Buck is an IRS employee or another of America's lost and decieved sheep. But, Just because the IRS and dishonest judges choose to prosecute and incarcerate a person doesn't make them right or lawful. Mr. Rose is right-on in his deciphering the Tax Code. But, you have to want the truth more than fear the IRS or our farce of a judicial system and government. Don't get me wrong. I love the united States of America. But, the lies and deception has to end.

Theft By Deception is available on DVD, and can be ordered from Larken Rose's website, larkenrose.com.

The video is not, and has never been, "tax advice." Nor has it ever been marketed or presented as such. Anyone who says it has is probably an IRS agent trying to scare you away from learning the truth. Theft By Deception is about the history of the income tax, and what the law really says. It reveals a colossal government fraud going back about 80 years.

Larken Rose wanted YOU to know the truth, and the feds put him in prison for that (for 12 months). Please do him the honor of finding the DVD and watching it. What you DO about it is up to you.

Larken Rose has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for failure to file. If you follow his advice and the IRS prosecutes, you will lose. The information in this video is 100% false by the rulings of the IRS and dozens of courts in the prosecution of those who took Rose's advice. This IRS is aware of people using the fraudulent information in this video and screens returns for people making frivolous arguments such as this.

The IRS has a publication entitled: "The Truth About Frivolous Arguments" - Larken Rose's arguments are among those in this publication.