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As you are reading this, I am developing a new way to plan and coordinate activism that will enable us, as individuals in the libertarian movement, to plan and coordinate mass-campaigns of activism to place us in a position to achieve our long desired goals. I call it Strategic Action Management Planning, based on some techniques the government uses to assess all types of situations, and we can do the same. Imagine if we had plans for every contingency, to never again be caught off-guard or at a loss for words. This is a completely peaceful approach and in no way advocates force.
What we need is a core of dedicated activists to train and work together and to network with every organization within our movement and close allies outside the movement to work together as a network to decentralize but still plan strategically. This SAMP-Core could guide the movement by providing well-researched insight into how our causes can bear fruit, and what responses we will illicit as well as planning for actions taken against us.
What you can do to help is build a network of volunteers from across the movement that can act as this much needed SAMP-Core, and to work together with coordinating planners to create a mass-movement of libertarian activists in strategically-vital methods based on hard research. This coordinating team will also need input from the grassroots, so please provide us with your most successful methods of promoting change.
It is our Constitutional Right to demand from the government a redress of grievences and it is our right to peacefully assemble.
We must secure liberty and bring our country back to peace, freedom, & prosperity.
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I have already spoken about the merits of Non-cooperation, but I do not believe I have made myself clear enough in certain areas. Non-Cooperation is not only a form of protest, but also a form of resistence. Too often today, we see empty protests for substantial causes. Just recently I attended the "End the Fed" Rally in Boston. There were many people there chanting, shouting, making noise and discussing their dissent for our government's financial system. As righteous as their cause was, they failed to grasp the purpose of a protest: it isn't just about expressing oneself and making noise--thats a demonstration--a PROTEST has to be a form of public resistence. I discussed this and they seemed to udnerstand this, yet how can they understand it when they applied for a permit and complied with every single police order? The government won't want to do away with such a huge money-making scheme as the Federal Reserve just because a bunch of people don't like it, they would only do away with it if business-as-usual was disrupted in such a way that they had no choice but to comply with the will of the people, and the Constitution--the supreme law of the United States.
Making noise and rasing awareness has been the goal of the Libertarian Movement for over forty years, and nothing has been gained from it. Libertarians have never truly "resisted" any infringment on constiutional liberty--at least not on any worthwhile scale. The result has been an increase in government, more and more morally atrocious wars & banking schemes, terrorist attacks, and an increase in domestic and foreign militarism on the part of the West. The "End the Fed" Movement would have worked if it had been enacted without permits nationwide, and not dispersed when asked by police. That is resistence, something the Civil Rights protestors knew and the Hippies lived their lives by. Yet now we see utter conformity in every aspect of life. Do you really think the government will give up all the tax revenues from the Income Tax--give up MONEY, the driving force of every war in history--if they aren't forced to? The system is too corupt to be changed from within. According to the Supreme Court, the income tax has to be apportioned, yet it isn't. Why? Because the Supreme Court has no power to enforce such a measure, and because nobody gives up money unless they are forced to. The system to too corrupt to change from within, so our actions must weaken the system so that those in charge will have to settle disputes with dissenters. In this case, violence will not work on the dissenting side. Rather, the dissenters should remain passive-resisters while the Establishment institues violence against them. In other words, protest without a permit and when the police come, let them harm you because in the end their violence will win the overall struggle for us. Non-violent RESISTENCE will help us achieve our goals, not vocal dissent under compliance.
Getting back to the "End the Fed" Protests, perhaps some other methods of protest may have been more effective. First of all, a sit-in may have been more newsworthy than a rally on a weekend when the Branch was closed. On the same note, a sit-in during operational hours would have disrupted bussiness-as-usual, especially if it was being done at all the Branches.
We need to peacefully resist in any and all ways we can. Activism was once a form of resistence, not recreation. We need to reaffirm our goals and our convictions, and we need to try to meet them. There has not been a single liberty movement that has succeeded until it disrupted business as usual.
During the Indian Indepdendence Movement, the followers of Gandhi and the Indian Congress were arrested, beaten, and even attacked by all-out military force. Their victory was the greatest blow to the British Empire since the American Revolution. The Civil Rights workers in America during the fifty, sixties, and seventies were arrested, beaten by police, had the fire-hoses turned onto them many times, and many were killed for their efforts. If the Libertarian Movement in America is to succeed, we must face these threats and challenges, because they signify a threat to the status quo.
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Our Goverments do not want us to speak out against their policies. This is because any serious inquiry would lead to the realization that many of the institutions and traditions we hold dear are mere illusions. As we well know, the Democrats and the Republicans are essentially the same party, with no major philisophical distinction. Their arguements are minute and tidious, but because they never debate any Party besides one another, most people are ignorant as to the possabilities for real change. All the the laws regulating First Amendment Rights--such as protesting and demonstrating, election Debate regulations, Election coverage, Speech Laws...are all deseigned to create in the mind of the average American person, the small world-view under which a Democrat or a Republican are considered "correct". Therefore, we must not only lobby for our goals, but also go against the rules meant to keep us at bay.
On Constitution Day of this year, the We The People Congress were supposed to have had a large hunger-strike in Washignton D.C., in an attempt to recieve from the government a Redress of Grievences. However, they were denied a permit because--as the City claims--it is illegal to sleep in the park. The We the People Congress responded to this in the worst of ways: they cancelled their protest. In a proper Non-Cooperation Campaign, they should have carried on without permission. These are the movements that make changes. If reformers and liberty-activists in America had always acted this way, we would still have slavery, women would be treated like pets, and we would probably still be British Colonies. The We the People Congress failed us by following the hegemonic rules that they should be against, but where they failed we shall suceed. The only way to protest oppression is to not cooperate with the authority that institutes it. Next year, every Liberty- Acvtivist in the country should go to Washington D.C. on Constitution Day and sit in that park and have that hunger strike, without even applying for a permit. That would be the perfect protest, one that would make strides in restoring freedom to this country.
I have read that "sit-ins" are the perfect form of protest because they are non-violent, less "in your face", but they get the message across better than any other form of protest. Non-violence is key, for violent insurrectionists are often labelled, jailed, and discarded and their cause loses all gravity. If we follow the example of Gandhi and King, we shall overcome. If we can suffer the economic, social, and political crises our American governments have caused, we can suffer a little more mistreatment at the end of the long struggle for freedom. Sit-ins are a direct form of Non-Cooperation, and thus go against the rules put in place to stifle dissent; because of this, it is crucial that a sit-on demonstration not end when the protestors are asked to leave, but when they are moved by force. Leave the governments their monopoly on force and violence, we have no use for it in our revolution.
Another travesty is the requirement of permits for public protests. This is a severe violation of our rights, and can be changed. First, we must gather in the thousands and decide on a place of importance--Washington should work. Next, we gather and march in our numbers. They will send the police and perhaps the National Guard, due to the erroneous notion of the "illegality" of such a protest. Then, we will march on and be dispersed, but we must never give in to the temptation of violence, especially when we are attacked. A few marches like these, and we will see a decided change in Congress. Morever, picketing and waving signs outside of State Assembly Buildings, Local Federal Reserve Branches, and other important symbolic places will be useful in provoking change. Meanwhile, the unconstiutional laws surrounding protesting will be challenged, and perhaps overturned.
Such Campaigns must be organized. If it begins in one part of the country, other parts must follow suit. Protestors in Massachusetts should be met by equally provocative protestors in Texas, California, Arkansas, Florida, and Kentucky...We must send the message: we will not shut up, we will not go away, and we are not blowing off steam; we are here to stay. Liberty is here to stay.
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The truth of the matter is, the American people are getting ripped off. Poor and middle class communities are suffering from Government agencies controlling families, such as the various so-called Social "Services" which divide & dictate to many families; law enforcement agencies enforcing drug laws and unconstitutional social restrictions ruin lives daily; Taxes of all sorts, such as property, sales, excise, mandatory charges--such as driver's license fee's, and hidden taxes--such as bank fees (instituted by the Federal Reserve), and the worst: inflation. Inflation is the "invisible tax" because it cannot be measured in monetary amount, only buying power. These taxes--many of which are illegal, are harming our economy and our lives in a variety of ways. Inflation is primarily stealing from the middle class and the poor, since the rich aren't nearly as affected in their daily lives, because their wealth provides a shield against inflationary losses. Moreover, most of us have savings and retirement accounts. If we, the poor and middle class of America, have $100,000 dollars saved for retirement and there is an annual inflation of 2-3%, over time we could lose over 20%. In the short term, this harms buying power, and impacts savings. With 2% inflation, savings accounts are losing 2 dollars on every hundred. Meanwhile, the cost of living goes up because the currency is worth less, and wages stay the same. This causes strain on the poor and middle class families when they are attempting to keep their homes, put their children through any level of school, pay the legal taxes; this also makes buying food, clothing, fuel, and the other necessities of life all that much more difficult. This combined with all the other taxes is causing tremendous strain on the American economy, as seen by the Crisis in the Financial Markets, which was caused by inflation and government subsidies. We, the people, should no longer put up with such undemocratic policies, and fight this injustice. Many would say that it is foolish to resist the government, and in some ways it is. It would be foolish to do so violently--as some have attempted in the past--after all, America part of the problem is the militaristic tactics the Government is using. Further, violence solves nothing, as we have seen in the War on Drugs, Terror, and the War in Vietnam--where 60,000 American soldiers and many more Vietnamese lost their lives for a War in which Democracy lost. Since then, Vietnam has instituted reforms and we have solved in peace what could not be solved in over Twenty Years of war. And since every major Non-cooperation Campaign in the Western--and even Eastern--World seems to have suceeded to a large degree, it is evident that our current predicament is a problem which can only be solved by non-violent civil disobedience, and the namesake of this tract: Non-cooperation. A people so oppressed must end that oppression by ceasing all compliance with injustice.
This has been done before, both in America and abroad. The Civil Rights Movement, which is credited with beginning with the civil disobedience conducted by Rosa Parks, now a national icon, when she refused to comply with the laws regarding the Segregation of busses--this movement changed America forever, and for the better. Now we have black children and white children, Catholics and Protestants, and all variety of ethnicities and religious people coming to gether and become friends and allies regardless of these superficial differences. Moreover, this movement is a working example of how Non-cooperation can and ultimately will--if the cause is just--succeed. However, it is necessary first to look an earlier example, to illustrate how this can make changes on an even wider basis.
The Indian Independence Movement evolved when Gandhi brought his Non-cooperation Campaign to India, after his strides against apartheid in South Africa. Now in Champaran & Kheda in 1918 he led impoverished farmers, mired in social evils such as unhygienic conditions, domestic violence, discrimination, military oppression, oppression of women & untouchability. On top of their miseries, these people were forced to grow cash crops like indigo, tobacco and cotton, instead of food, by the government without compensation, thus causing starvation and numerous financial problems. In addition, they would have to pay taxes despite a famine. Due to Non-cooperation, the people in these regions won the largest victory against the British Empire since the American Revolution: the cessation of taxes during famines. This Non-cooperation movement consisted of people quitting government positions, boycotting government services and law enforcement, boycotting the courts, boycotting government goods. These measures led to major problems for the British when there was a communcation blackout when every telephone, telegraph, and radio operator ceased work. Meanwhile, the Salt march led to a major blow to the British Monopoly on Salt in India, a vital resource in many areas in the economy and life. The result: the eventual rise of an Indian Nation-State, the goal of the movement. All of this was accomplished with widespread Non-cooperation, begun at the local levels.
This too, must be our goal: to cease cooperation on the local level, which will lead to the rise of more such movements, and eventually a national one will emerge and reign victorious. The Indian Non-Cooperation Campaign did the equivalent of what Americans must do: break the two-party system, abolish the Federal Reserve & return to sound money, force the government to respect our civil & human rights, return to the Constitution, and cease the U.S. role in the militarization of diplomacy. More on statement of methodology in Part 3.
The civil rights movement grew in the local communities. The Movement can be traced back to the Radical Republicans in the 19th Century, but the modern movement began in 1955. One of the Movement's earliest Non-cooperation campaigns was the famous and glorious Bus Boycott, as mentioned previously. This Campaign grew out of local congregations, and met at the Church of Dr. Martin Luther King, whose actions in subsequent years made him a Nation hero. This local movement recieved Nation attention, resulting in a major victory: Alabama's racial segregation laws for busses were deemed unconstitutional. There was still work to do, but this was one early example of the power and success of Non-cooperation.
We too, must gather people at the local level through useful agents. Together we as a Nation can rise up in defiance of Government policies, uniting together through religious centers, town centers, and political action groups. however, we must be careful to remain decentralized; centralization will only lead to our movement becoming an easier target for attack, both violent and in a propaganda sense. The usefulness of a decentralized Non-cooperation is that it does not rely on central leadership. Therefore, if a prominent component of our Movement is somehow taken out of the picture, the other numerous groups can continue the struggle.
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Greetings to all those who may read this, and noble are those who will spread it.
In times of great peril and tribulation, when the power that be have decided in favor of elite governance by the self-interested, it is required that those under this system of hedgemony learn of their oppression through any media which may grant the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and enslumbered to awaken. Through this hour of challenge from the Great Powers of all things, we must focus our vision to adequately turn away and shut out the hurricane of silence that entombs and imprisions us. It is in such an hour that the people, led by a self-sacrificing few, rising above the shackles of the status quo, and the indoctrination thereof, will overcome all obstacles and reign in an era of victory for all. This rhetoric is no mere complaint, but an organized statement of grievences against a system designed to work without the people who are required by it to turn the wheels with the toil from their labors.
Every generations has it's share of injustice, and its taste of reprisal. Yet, when the injustices from one generation are thrusted upon the shoulders of another, all the way down the timestream, it is then evident that a change of a monumentous proportion is necessary if humanity is to further the progress that has been the objective of all the ancestors of all families, of all tribes, of all peoples. Our forefathers, and their constituents, fought for Seven Long Years to bestow a better opportunity for such progress than they themselves had, upon all posterity. And though there were sundry problems and injustices yet to be solved, on the day when the war-drums fell silent, every generation from the Founders until the present day, triumphed. Though abolition, equal protection, and universal suffrage were not yet enacted, they were now possible.
Yet with every good possibility, there is always many destructive ones. None could imagine that the Constitution would be ignored after so much had gone into it, that Centeal Banks and Government Departments would replaces the people's Representatives as the Lesiglators. While once the idea of a Monarch was a laughable occurence, we have seen many Presidents take upon the role, with the cheers of Congress behind them. We have seen two Major Parties become one, we have seen Private Ownership detested by those at the recieving end of it's generosity, and we have heard ideas trampled, overpower the voices of those that have oppressed it, to no avail.
But we must always remember that through the leaps in progress, we have seen former convicts become national heroes, we have heard speeches that break through all barriers and unite us in celebration and sorrow, and we have seen all that Disobedience can do for the world. Disobedience is the difference between a protest, and a Revolution; between a losing battle, and a victory. Disobedience stopped the draft in America; it toppled the British, French, Roman, Egyptian, as well as Three German and Two Russian Empires; it saw to the end of segregation and apartheid in the Twenitieth Century, and slavery in the Ninteenth; it made the Transcendentalists, Beats, and hippies respectable historical movements; and finally, it made sure one shot was heard around the world, for well over three hundred years.
The United States are the greastest Nations on the Earth. We heard about their greatness often, but never of they're mistakes. They have violated their own sacred Document in favor of an Anthology and a Manifesto; they have broken with their Republican Principles and invaded soveriegn Nations without due cause; and they have entered into alliances which have stripped them of all economic freedom. And finally, they have propped two indistiguishable Parties upon their shoudlers through various conspiring and dangerous Organizations, with the purpose of stripping the United States of their liberty and property. We may take comfort in the fact that a people long oppressed, cannot remain so forever.
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