Many of the most influential freedom advocates have been those that
simply said "No" to central planning and controls. Living as though you
know that you own yourself is best I'm sure, but those actions follow
even understanding that concept... and then agreeing with it.
Soon the mere act of _not_ waving a flag as the goosesteppers parade
by will be enough to be targeted for government attention (heck, this
is what is happening to returning vets now).
Adam, and others, are getting noticed for standing up for their
individual rights only because soooo many are living on their knees. And
often as effective as challenging authority is to simply ignore it.
Many millions have awoken to the ideas that support the intellectual
arguments that we are morally in the right to ignore unjust laws and
their enforcers. How you chose to do so is an individual decision.
There has to be some part of what is most admired about humanity that
is lost when we seek to pull back those that act in defense of their
own self-ownership. Like crabs pulling escaping crabs back into the
collectivist bucket, we are bombarded by images and video clips in the
Lame-Stream Media (the media that is sooooo last century) depicting
scorn for those who seek a voluntarist lifestyle, even when the critics'
lives could only be improved as well.
I personally have been thoroughly convinced for a very long time that
there is no course alteration for 'The Empire' that would end in its
continuation (other than an openly understood occupation) but there is
great hope for each of our families and
ourselves. Generations are starting to work together, petty differences
are being set aside and common ground is sought rather than ignored.
Those who do not embrace their community's existing efforts to provide
more freedoms as solutions to... EVERYTHING, will be socially and
economically shunned by their neighbors,... just when the governments
are no longer able to even claim a 'safety net' with any legitimacy.
When will we start to see a great unwinding of governments at every
level?... when a significant minority is convinced that government's central planners
can no longer justify its existence. When the threat of government's
presence is
far more feared than any of the evils government supporters claim would
envelop us without our being 'governed', -then- we'll start to witness
an explosion in an increased quality of lifestyle that will send us into
another era of humanity's climb out of the swamps.
Next... the abandonment of the swamp on the Potomac, and all that is
required is a simple realization that we should and for individuals to
just start living that way. My encouragement is that it has already
started in earnest and no one I respect is looking for a permission
slip.
That's it.
Rebellion is an individual decision or you just become another
collective. How you spend your time, what you use as currency, what you
eat, what you grow, what you teach, what you learn and what you build is
ALL a political decision. Please chose wisely.
And the best choice?... advocating that others get to make their own
choices so you can freely make yours in a voluntary society.
Peace,
Ernie
