I take the approach of the lazy free man. I do the minumum of what I have to do to keep them off my back, and concentrate my efforts on caring less and less every day about more and more things. When you don’t care about your stuff or your dog or the people around you who make your life hard, life gets easier. The only things you should care about are your principles and your character.

I watched a documentary about some famous Auzzie outlaw who got a gang together and started going around freeing all the prison work gangs at gunpoint. At one site, the warden or overseer or whatever he was(I don’t care) stood in front of the outlaw and taunted him.
He bared his chest and said, “Go ahead and shoot. They’ll hunt you down and kill you if you shoot me you coward!”
So the outlaw shot him.
You see? That’s freedom. He didn’t care. He only cared about the fact that this jackass had just insulted him.

Come to think of it though, they did hunt that outlaw down and kill him. Hmmmmmm….
I guess I’m on a collision course with the state too.

Whatever. I don’t care.

I have never filed for any taxes. I plead the fifth.

I belong to no party.

I eat what I want to. Often raw.

I drink what I want, occasionally moonshine.

If they ever come to shut down my black-market catering company, I’ll return the favor.

I have no SS#.

I hold no [strike]permission slips[/strike] licenses.

Three friends have been named in SPLC reports as political enemies of our new fuhrer (BHO).

I’m a 3%er. (III)

I don’t have any ID of any kind.

If the JBT’s know who I am, I’m probably on more than one watch-list.

I’m using a friend’s computer so I can’t be tracked with the IP address.

I’m using an alias. Irwin Mann is a character from [i]Unintended Consequences[/i], which is a banned book.

If I want privacy when e-mailing, I triple encrypt, and then bounce it all over the world. My encryption code is unbreakable.

When the above are all combined it makes me free. Whining won’t make you a free man, action will. If you want to live free, then you have to make an effort to escape the grasp of the totalitarian police-state. No one is going to do it for you.

Lately I have been reading A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor, a history of world economic development — or rather, why economic development occurred in some places and not others, what improvements in the lives of ordinary people accompanied that economic development, and the processes by which it took place.

In brief, where peasants gained improvements in their lives and economic development advanced, a power diffusion process took place whereby, generally due to dire necessity, peasants won concessions from their lords. Over the centuries in Europe, these gradual concessions led to a point where the idea arose that any man was equal to any other, that underlies our society today.

Today, we see progressives encouraging the reverse process: they are giving up power and allowing it to re-centralize, in exchange for a few trinkets. It’s clear from a historical perspective what will happen if this continues: they undermine their own goals, to the point where eventually, when enough power has been centralized again, we will once again be serfs, wholly dependent on the lord for our very lives. I don’t know if this is what they intend, but it’s not what they say they intend.

I can’t believe you ever showed any interest in anything Michael Moore ever had to say. My heart soars like a hawk to see that you have moved away from that line of thinking. It’s a sign of good character you know, that you would feel compelled to admit something like that.

Michael Moore is a parasite who makes a living by bitching about everything but offers no workable alternatives. If he was in charge, things would be way worse and what’s more, he wouldn’t have a clue why because he’s an idiot. There’s three kinds of people. People who do, people who don’t, and people so useless that they can only criticize.

And the other 3 kinds of people are those who can count and those who can’t.