I've received a few emails from folks wondering what it would take for people to figure out that the United States government is a police state. And, also, what it would take for people to look beyond it towards a different system. However, there are some things we must consider carefully here. For example, if we were to say that we wished to create a new country, are we not then making the very same mistake? Was this not how the United States government came into existence, after all?

Before anything can be done, we must examine where people are getting these ideas about government, to begin with. The idea that some fictitious concept is "better" than the rest of them around the globe is an illusion, after all. That is to say, the United States saying it's the "greatest nation on Earth" is a dogma to which the American people cling in order to say this: "I know thus-and-so to be true." True according to whom?! The United States government, of course, who told them that. Because if one carefully investigates the facts, a nation that has cities with vast numbers of people sleeping on the sidewalks cannot call itself "great", save for its ability to extend military power. And destroy the planet should a military gambit fail and a "last ditch" threat is then required to make good on. Therefore, do we wish to re-create a system such as this? Of course not.

Again, the first thing that needs to be liberated is one's own mind. As long as people are attached to this concept of "The United States", nothing whatsoever can be accomplished except departing from said country or simply ignoring it as much as possible. People are attached to the dogmas that proliferate from the United States government because their own egos need to be able to say, again: "I know thus-and-so to be true." That is, I know I am an American and live in the greatest nation on Earth. I know the United States military will win the war in Iraq. I know we will defeat terrorism. I know the War On Drugs can be won. However, none of these things are true. These are illusions the government creates to keep people imprisoned in the best concentration camp ever devised, which is their own minds.

One cannot simply create a new State and economic system and suppose everything will just magically fall into place. After all, that is precisely what happened after the Russian Revolution that birthed the Soviet Union. They had high hopes for a totally new, never tried system that would ensure everything they dreamed of. But what happened was they dragged in all the same problems from Czarist Russia and added new deceptions and illusions and created a Potemkin Country where before existed Potemkin Villages. The very first thing that must occur is people need to shed concepts of a "State" where thus-and-so takes place and this-and-that is done for them, regardless of what those things are.

The concept of revolution itself is as follows: A man comes to a river and wishes to get across. Thus, he builds himself a raft and ferries himself across the river. But upon reaching the other shore, he says unto himself: "This raft has served me well. I have spent a great deal of time constructing it and this gives it value. It would be a waste to abandon it here on the shore. This is what I shall do! I shall now construct a cart with which to carry it along with me!" Can this man be called wise? Of course not. The whole mission was just to cross the river. But this man then turned it into a mission to preserve the raft he built to accomplish the mission which was only to cross the river! This is exactly the entire premise behind a revolution to install a new government.