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My Crazy Project

For those of you who have been following my last two posts (Redefining Law and Personalize your Own Government) you should have probably gotten the idea, that not only do I believe that we are not operating under rule by law in the US, but that as a form of protest, a form of preparation, and even an odd hobby I would like to setup the infastructure for my own government. No forceful takeovers, merely the hypothesis that a genuine free-market approach can be applied to government as based on the idea that people can realize that authority among humans, only comes from the consent, of the followers, be it willing or forced. Since I believe that respect is more far more powerful than fear, I think the willing approach is the best way to go.

But with setting up a new government (even if you only have an eccentric club of citizens, and even if your nation is only three people big) there are whole series of challenges. You need to know what has been tried, what has worked, what has not. Why things have gone the way they have gone. What you don't like, what you do like, a reason for your preference that you can explain to others, and most importantly, a vision. My vision is that in the event of a worse case scenario, such as a US holocaust that there will be one or more seperate infrastructures, that people can turn to. I want to break up the monopoly of government, by introducing competing systems that people can choose of their own free will to follow.

Would this lead to civil war? Honestly, if everything goes well, this will be nothing more than a series of study groups for activists, survivalists, the independent minded, and people just interested in sociology. If, on the other hand, martial-law is declared, the bill of rights is annulled (further than it already is) or some other disaster of that scale occurs, than the US government will have already declared war on the people. I am hoping, that if there is a seperate infrastructure already in place, that violence could be reduced to a minimum, which brings me to one of the first questions one must ask for this kind of a project.

What do I believe the purpose of government is? The Declaration of Independence paraphrased says that we are granted by God (and for the agnostic/atheist by the mere equality of being just as human as the next bloke) certain rights that no one has the right to take away, and that it is to defend these rights, that governments are created among men. It goes further to say, that if said government ever violates these rights, than it is the right of the people to overthrow said government (or at least try something new, like what I'm attempting). Now I was once told by Constitutional Scholar, Micheal Badnarick (writer, activist, scholar, and former presidential candidate) that Ben Franklin wrote in a letter, that these rights were originally listed as life, liberty, and property. I was told that property was changed to pursuit of happiness because he did not want his words to be twisted to try to take away emotional or religious rights. Either way, there is some defining of rights which must be done for my project, and the theme of rights will be my next article.

On that note, I'm going to leave you with a quick video to watch. The ideas in this video are based off of French writer and philosopher Frederick Bastiat's "The Law" (the link is well worth bookmarking) Bastiat has been very influential on my thinking, and I test many of my own ideas with his lines of thinking. Without further ado, "The Philosophy of Liberty"