Freedom.
It is the word that strikes to the heart of the matter – to be free, one must first decide to be free in their mind, and that means to disallow any other man to make them think other than what they would think. In other words, you refuse to cow to anyone elses orders because “they say so”.
This is all well and good in theory, but in our country of America – the land of the free, how do we live free under an increasingly progressive liberal collectivist state? The answer is complex, but has some essential parts:
1.) When possible, we live free by force. This means we forthrightly disobey laws and their enforcers when we have the might to destroy them if they try to stop us. Let’s talk examples: you live in a small town of “off the grid” thinkers – free men and women who just want to be left alone. A progressive liberal environmentalist from the EPA comes to town with a bunch of “gov-co” cops to stop a sausage factory in town because they are violating some made up enviro-idiocy policy. They are never seen or heard from again. Mmmm, pass me another plate of that tasty sausage.
2.) When necessary we appear to be “law-abiding” citizens. Actually obeying the laws in America is impossible, of course, because the gazillion cross connected and contradictory laws on the books are designed to allow the “ruling elite” to get you if they want to. So what we do in this situation is to monkey wrench the system at every opportunity by using the contradictory laws to destroy the system from the inside – now I am talking about destroying the system of liberal collectivist bureaucracy so that we can get back to being actual Law abiding citizens, where the Constitution is the only law. Again, some examples are in order: The aforementioned enviro-wacko tries to get you to remove a fence you put up around your yard for safety and protection because the a-hole thinks it is his right to dictate how you use your property. Some well placed calls to various government nanny-state offices (ATF ? “That guy is running a still in his garage” or “I think there is a ecstasy lab there”) could get them to leave you alone – on the other hand, you don’t want to justify the existence of such organizations, but this provides an example of grid-locking multiple bureaucracies. There are many good books over at Paladin Press on how to use these laws to turn these departments on themselves by targeting the people who work in them.
3.) Double-O-Seven. This is when we work in spy mode, destroying the collectivist system on purpose and (by their account) “unlawfully”. This is most dangerous because you do it forthrightly and for the express purpose of bringing the socialist machine down, and so you have to do it clandestinely. This is the guy who sneaks into a government facility such as the Department of Education and copies and distributes the memos so that we the people know what is really going on, or the two people who posed as pimp and hooker and exposed ACORN. This is the lone hacker who breaks into the computers of the global climate change pseudo-scientists and shows the world the lies and evil they are spreading (those files are available here). These are true patriots as they are willing to go the distance and bet their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor on the idea of liberty.
The person who lives by the tenants of practical freedom knows that he is not living in a system that values a mans mind or his life, and so he must at times use force and at other times use subterfuge to continue to be free.
I have a real world example of this. Go to this link where you will read about a couple who took the stand that they are the parents and know best how to raise their children. They home-schooled them (which immediatly means those children are smarter than about 50% of adults, and smarter than somewhere in the vicinity of 92% of all public school educated children, but I digress). They were “arrested” for not registering with the school district. Well, I don’t see that in the Constitution as something they have to do. This is, of course, bulls**t. I applaud this family for telling the government to go to hell — and I hope they keep fighting. Here is the link.
We all need to do these kinds of things until the government becomes so hamstrung that it literally is destroyed. Then we can put it back the way the Founding Fathers originally did. The bottom line, of course, is that our form of government (as originally envisioned) cannot exist without a moral foundation in the people, one that is based on Judeo-Christian ideals. If that bothers you, you are the one with a problem because it is the founders of our country who said this, not me.
I hope that some of you would be willing to post commentary on other ways we can destroy the gigantic liberal collectivist government. Any portion of our government that goes outside or beyond the boundaries of the Constitution is illegitimate and should be targeted for destruction. All of the ABC agencies, all of the bureaus and departments, and endless welfare programs. The federal reserve system, IRS, and all the rest of it needs to be destroyed, and we the people, the ones who know and love liberty are the only ones capable of doing it – we are the only ones left with enough brain power to even understand why it must be done.
At this point, some of you reading this might think I am a nut to says these kinds of things – but I am simply a person who wants to be free and left alone, and I am willing to fight for that God given natural right, and these are the justifications and practical principles for that fight. If you got a better idea, I would sure like to hear it (it has to be an idea that would actually work, not some unproven theory).
David T. McKee
