If you haven’t taken the time to learn econ and ensure your ideas don’t hurt people, you can’t claim to care about them. —Hannah Cox
Tag: Activism
We are going to make the Libertarian Party something libertarians can be proud of. —Dave Smith
We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble: “But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.” We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence.
When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance, it displays on its banner and proclaims: “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!” But violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.
And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth will not be an easy path. Perhaps, but it is the easiest among those that lie before us. Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. No, not an easy path, but then we already have among us people, who have for years lived by the truth. And so: We need not be the first to set out on this path, Ours is but to join! The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all! If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us. If we will grow to tens of thousands—we will not recognize our country! —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Secede from intellectual isolation. Talk to friends, family, and neighbors to spread liberty.
- Secede from dependency. Become self-sufficient with regards to food, water, fuel, cash, firearms, and physical security.
- Secede from mainstream media. Ditch cable, ditch CNN, and ditch the major newspapers.
- Secede from state control of your children by homeschooling or unschooling them.
- Secede from college by rejecting mainstream academia and its student loan trap.
- Secede from the US dollar by owning physical precious metals, by owning assets denominated in foreign currencies, and by owning assets abroad.
- Secede from the federal tax and regulatory regimes. Be as tax efficient as possible.
- Secede from the legal system by legally protecting your assets from probate courts.
- Secede from the state healthcare racket by taking control of your health, and questioning medical orthodoxy.
- Secede from your state by moving to another with a better tax and regulatory environment.
- Secede from political uncertainly in the US by obtaining a second passport; or secede from the US altogether by expatriating.
- Most of all, secede from the mindset that government is all-powerful or too formidable an opponent to be overcome.
All of us can play a role in a bottom-up revolution by doing everything in our power to withdraw our consent from the state. —Jeff Deist
- Secede from intellectual isolation. Talk to friends, family, and neighbors to spread liberty.
- Secede from dependency. Become self-sufficient with regards to food, water, fuel, cash, firearms, and physical security.
- Secede from mainstream media. Ditch cable, ditch CNN, and ditch the major newspapers.
- Secede from state control of your children by homeschooling or unschooling them.
- Secede from college by rejecting mainstream academia and its student loan trap.
- Secede from the US dollar by owning physical precious metals, by owning assets denominated in foreign currencies, and by owning assets abroad.
- Secede from the federal tax and regulatory regimes. Be as tax efficient as possible.
- Secede from the legal system by legally protecting your assets from probate courts.
- Secede from the state healthcare racket by taking control of your health, and questioning medical orthodoxy.
- Secede from your state by moving to another with a better tax and regulatory environment.
- Secede from political uncertainly in the US by obtaining a second passport; or secede from the US altogether by expatriating.
- Most of all, secede from the mindset that government is all-powerful or too formidable an opponent to be overcome.
All of us can play a role in a bottom-up revolution by doing everything in our power to withdraw our consent from the state. —Jeff Deist
Imagine what a committed, coordinated libertarian base could achieve in America! Ten percent of the US population, or roughly thirty-two million people, would be an unstoppable force of non-violent withdrawal from the federal leviathan. —Jeff Deist
At what exact point, should one resist? When one’s belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one’s home?
How we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
If … if … We didn’t love freedom enough. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Those whose libertarianism is based on utilitarianism are oftentimes willing to sacrifice liberty in a doomed attempt to achieve an important goal. In contrast, those with a moral commitment to liberty are unlikely to betray liberty by endorsing government force. —Ron Paul
Let us not be mere spectators. With our pens, with our voices, with our contributions to our great cause let us give history a push in the direction of freedom. —Lew Rockwell
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can’t lead to a good conclusion. —Julian Assange, Founder of WikiLeaks