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Apparently There Is No Alternative for some! So it’s TINA, business as usual.

Update Re: Jack Lloyd

“…but few can articulate a practical policy which can shift our government expediently into a fully voluntary society.

To fill the gap, I would ask for the libertarian movement to get behind the “not-for-profit” government model.”

https (colon) //volcomic.liberty.me/from-tyranny-to-liberty-a-practical-solution/

And

Re: Jack Lloyd, “The policies laid out here are recommendations to help reduce institutional violence by ensuring that the government’s only chief functions are to enforce laws which have actual human victims and to remediate historical harms due to government theft.”

https (colon) //volcomic.liberty.me/the-not-for-profit-government-model-concurrent-policies-in-reshaping-america-for-liberty/

And

Re: Michael Rhymer replied 5 hours, 24 minutes ago
“Voting is the means by which we peacefully change power. It is an unprecedented advancement of civilization. Not voting is a vote to revert to a less civilized means of transferring power. It is similar to the Amish choosing not to use electricity or the fundamentalist Muslims refusal to recognize the rights of women. It is a rejection of the progress of civilization. Not voting is an indication that you do not intend to make a peaceful transition of power work. That you are waiting for the previous method of changing power by blood and death.”

Ref: https (colon) //veksler.liberty.me/five-reasons-why-im-boycotting-the-vote/

And

Justin Hale posted an update 2 days ago
“Does anyone have any pragmatic means of going from where we are now to Libertopia? Moral suasion doesn’t seem to be working. Just wait for the Crash and hope we are the ones left to rebuild? We all understand the theory. We all understand live your life as free as you can and don’t worry about it. That’s great. Some of us however would like to see some progress before we die. Any thoughts?”

I’m doing a Work-It-Out of THREE Alternatives with links (for those who bother to read my prior posts and links on Onar’s site regarding Dennis Wilson’s Libertarian Dream City; Jeffrey Tucker’s Atlantic City; and Dale Brown’s Threat Mgtment in Proto Dystopian Detroit with Private Security excerpts).

All THREE were written by well “respected” libertarians ( author/innovator; author/founder of this site; and a very successful security entrepreneur/innovator respectively.)

Someone who has actual “respect” for ideas that do NOT involve Enslaving others would be thanking me when 3 REAL Libertarian City/Zones–“Utopias”–are offered on a libertarian/anarchist site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

I also offered evidence of recent and relevant Grand Scale Models of INTERPOSITION* and blossoming of Privatized Security and Volte-face by “Nation” states…Russia, Germany etc…

Ref: See Interrogatory/Comments with Onar Am
https (colon) //onarchy.liberty.me/racist-skittles/

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As to further TINA SOLUTIONS, I am supposed to provide?

Why bother to “make an impact in American government”?

What a colossal waste of irreplaceable personal time, energy and resources!

Instead of trying to “stop” the avalanche (think fall of Roman Empire and the similar status of the USA Empire), consider personal secession options and join other like-minded peoples and form small communities for trade and self defense. Free State efforts in Wyoming and New Hampshire are an example, although they suffer from the same problem of working with government, but on a smaller scale.

Instead of goals which are impossible for you to achieve, such as trying to save or change the corrupt, failing system, think in positive terms which are ENTIRELY within YOUR personal control, such as how to secede at the personal level. Apply those energies toward BUILDING a system that will continue to serve you when the Evil Empire (please don’t make me explain) collapses from its own corruptions.

Consider forming or joining small personal secession groups or zones. The following are some of the “lifestyle-choices” that liberty lovers may be seeking.

It takes two people or more to form Voluntary Groups such as Friendships; Marriages; Agorist, Anarcho-capitalist, Anarchist and Survivalist Communities; Objectivist “Galt” Gulches and similar Societies; Redoubts; Family/Community Farms; Free State Groups; Temporary and Permanent Autonomous Zones; Supersedure Zones; Sea Steads; Independent Territories; Private Apartment Buildings; Home Associations and Restricted or Gated Communities, ZEDEs (Zones for Employment and Development of the Economy) and more.

Formation of such groups begs for (screams for!) an answer to the question: “What *IS* the bare minimum that two people need to agree upon, in order to live together peacefully and productively?”

For additional things to consider use Dennis Wilson’s article, “The Bare Minimum”, (reconstruct the link below) as a possible starting point to begin some personal brainstorming…:

tinyurl.com/The-Bare-Minimum
Dennis Wilson
Signatory: Covenant of Unanimous Consent

Ref https (colon) //denniswilsonlibertysite.liberty (dot) me/whither-now-libertarian/

Indeed it is How I Freed Myself
https (colon) //connect.liberty (dot) me/how-i-freed-myself/

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Well, if the evils done in the name of “authority” and “government” ever get so bad that you are willing to re-examine a few fundamental concepts and principles, then read “The Most Dangerous Superstition.” Until then, keep trying to cage the omnipotent monster that you continue to create, and see how well that works…(which is great for TINA racketeering, master/slave fat cat fascist mercantilist relationships)

http://tinyurl.com/scaredoffreedom

Dear Reader, as Harry Browne points out in his book How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

“Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, “See, if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.”

…in 2002 Harry wrote, …”Since our politicians have no regards for [limits]* we can expect the following headline on a newspaper in the year 2032: “Middle East Violence Continues”

“A solution for the Middle East,” WorldNetDaily (April 11, 2002)

“Why Government Doesn’t Work (1996)”

Ref: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Browne

I address* that aspect as it relates to Immigration here: https (colon) //connect.liberty.me/a-response-to-jonathan-gillispie-alleged-liberty-lover/

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As a people that have long puffed out their chests for having the most free and richest country in the history of the world, it is hard for Americans to come to grips with the fact that their country is now a toilet (hat tip to Sean Gabb for this phenomenal metaphor). The country they have long viewed as a bastion of liberty and free markets is now nothing more than a bankrupt, run-of-the-mill police state, but many Americans have been slow to recognize this, and they continue to flail away at issues that are completely irrelevant or quixotic. The prime example of this is the fact that many Americans still waste their time trying to get Congressman X or Senator Y elected, as though it really matters whether the man in Washington robbing them to fund war, government eavesdropping, and corporate welfare is from the Donkey syndicate or the Elephant syndicate.

There is a very fine line dividing the cautiously optimistic from the hopelessly naïve, and I fear that an overwhelming number of Americans have slipped into the latter category as they wistfully imagine that their government and their economy can be salvaged in the voting booth.

The truth is, no amount of voting and no amount of electioneering can make the American government or the American people any less bankrupt. No amount of voting and no amount of electioneering can roll back a government so militarized and secretive into a government circumscribed by the Constitution. No amount of voting and no amount of electioneering can save the American people from the excruciating economic depression that is coming, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies.

Last, but certainly not least, no amount of voting and no amount of electioneering against so-called “illegal” immigration will save this country from any of its present or impending ills. This country was turned into a toilet by Americans in the voting booth, not by so-called “illegal” immigrants, and it certainly won’t be saved by spending more time in the voting booth.

What is even more troubling is the fact that most Americans never think about the consequences to themselves that will follow from building giant fences and hiring even more armed thugs in order to keep out the “illegals.” They apparently assume that there will never come a time when they themselves will need to move to another country in order to escape from the economic and political nightmare that is erupting all around them. Drunk on the chauvinistic view that America is and always will be “NUMBER 1!,” these anti-immigration ostriches use their own hands to help to build the fences that will bar their own escape in the future.

My advice to you, the next time you hear some hyperventilating, flag waving jackass going on and on about how we need to keep the “illegals” out of America, is to congratulate him for his sensitive humanitarian impulse to keep those innocent foreigners from falling into the reeking hell hole we call “America”.

http://tinyurl.com/7o5fqdq

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Today it is easier to attack a politically correct shadow with a pitch fork than the statue–the elephant in the room–that darkens the landscape. And thereby avoid the controversial causes and any taint of stigma.

I recommend Tom Woods and Stefan Molyneux Take On Wall Street to begin to understand this issue!

Woods asks the Right Question: Would there likely be Less Wars and Bailouts–that ENRICH the military-industrial complex and POLITICALLY CONNECTED FAT CATS–Or More if the Fed Gov had a magical money machine? This is not a hypothetical question. They–all the above–Do have such a machine and access to it: it is called The Federal Reserve System.

As Hayek (a Nobel prize winning student of Mises) points out money is half of every transaction economy wide. And Woods makes a cogent connection: Is there a chance that this magic printing machine has a tinsy chance of creating economy wide up and down Boom, Bust, Volatility and Classes of People Herded, Corralled and Enriched by Govt?

This is not the same as the pyramid of ability or comparative advantages of a division of labor society (remnant of hands off–laissez faire–anarcho–self-rule–capitalism. What’s changed? There is now MORE impoverishing Wars and the same for Bailouts than can be supported or hidden.

Woods and Molyneux further discuss: Seeing thru the duality of what is bad, evil and corrupt in the private sector magically rendered good in the public sector. It can only occur on the scale we have via a “coercive” monopoly that can be wielded by the politically connected to bypass the competition of free market.

There is a reason that “Atlas Shrugged” is becoming a political “Harry Potter”. Ayn Rand SHONE a spotlight on a problem that STILL exists today: Not pre-1989 Soviet commmunism, but 2016-style State capitalism (mercantilism/fascism)..

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The Covenant of Unanimous Consent gets one out of all this “We” stuff–there is no We–and back into dealing with *I* and perhaps you and me. Where do YOU have a problem with the Covenant? Or where do you agree with the Covenant?

Dennis Wilson ties it all together from what Ayn Rand says about the gulch in her letters; Judge Narragansett’s activities in the closing pages of Atlas Shrugged; Galts Oath NAP/ZAP and the L. Neil Smith’s Covenant of Unanimous Consent. The Covenant also satisfies the objections noted by Lysander Spooner
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle379-20060806-03.html

https (colon) //denniswilsonlibertysite.liberty.me/whither-now-libertarian/

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Is there a difference between those who seek to build a system, and those who only seek to build?

In the copy below, emphasis has been added…
http://tinyurl.com/There-is-NO-WE

When it comes to FREEDOM, there is no “WE”.

There really is only ONE person that you are capable of freeing and that is yourself. A person with the attitude of a slave cannot be free anywhere or at any time. Here is a link to a picture of such a person…:

http://tinyurl.com/American-Sheep-pic

THE CONTEXT of the statement is that when it comes to solving problems without using the Collective, the Government, the State (the WE), a person must adopt the ATTITUDE of an individual instead of a collective, one must think for himself/herself. For an example of switching from “WE” to “I”, Ayn Rand’s book “Anthem” comes to mind. Another example that springs to my mind is when the Lone Ranger says to Tonto “We are surrounded by hostile Indians. We are in real trouble.” and Tonto replies “What you mean ‘WE’, white man?”

To elaborate on that example: Someone says that the State solution to such and such problem isn’t working, we are in real trouble, what are we going to do about it. The essay “Freedom Has No ‘System” very nicely answers with the equivalent of “What do you mean ‘WE’, Statist?”

Such an approach puts the burden of freeing oneself onto the Statist. It UNDERSCORES the fact that the Statist has NOT bothered to think of solutions that do NOT involve enslaving other people. As pointed out in the article: “…[watch] my fellow humans squirm when asked to think like a free people…”.

Ref:
Stephan Molyneux’s Handbook to A Statist.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/molyneux/molyneux4.html

Note: There is only one entity that can pit the poor against the rich, the young against the old, the white against the black, this country against another and thrive thru divide and conquer. Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged presciently warned of ALL of this…

It is the state that creates conflict where none need exist…

Original Ref: Interrogatory with Onar Am
https (colon) //onarchy.liberty.me/racist-skittles/