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“If I only had a brain!” sings the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, imagining what he could do if only his head weren’t filled with straw. The wizard couldn’t give that strawman a brain, so he gave him a diploma and told him that was all he really needed. And surprise, surprise, the scarecrow immediately began spouting intelligent-sounding sentences.

Unfo-rt-nately, in real life, a diploma can’t make up for a critical thinking deficiency, and only someone with a head full of straw would rely on information that merely sounds intelligent.

There is no substitute for researching information upon which you intend to rely, especially when your life and liberty depend on it. It is a sad commentary of the Patriot movement that many merely repeat others’ ideas without giving them a second thought, let alone critical analysis. The Internet has allowed much nonsense (even if well-meaning) to reach multitudes who, by all appearances, either can’t or won’t be bothered to verify even the simplest “facts.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve called the bluff of some tax guru wannabe who rattles off nonexistent quotes from court cases or government documents. One person, rather than acknowledging his mistakes, accused me of being a government agent because I had bothered to read the cases he misquoted. But those cases weren’t obscure; many were even on the Internet.

Patriots need to be careful, even when dealing with other self-described Patriots. This is especially true when there are severe consequences to acting on mistaken beliefs, such as is the case with a Patriot myth now re-making the rounds: the issuance of Bills of Exchange (BoE). This myth is another incarnation of the strawman (if I only had a brain) theory.

Constitutional attorney Larry Becraft posts the indictments of some of those who have swallowed this poison; criminal charges are often filed years after BoE’s are used, while the promoters of this dangerous nonsense want you to believe that a lack of response is proof that the government accepts them as valid. This is definitely NOT the case.

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