Seceding from the Nanny State

I have been thinking quite a bit about the state of freedom here in America. I believe that freedom is defined by the non-aggression principle, and I believe that our current government is consistent in committing grave violations of this principle. The violence that is being done to us, constantly, is too much to be ignored, and yet we do ignore it. It is killing our culture, it is destroying our hopes and dreams, and yet we do nothing. I think that it is high time for some sort of revolution. I’ll work on explaining why at a later time.

Don’t get me wrong though, I do not want a violent revolution. I do not want to harm or kill other humans, and so I prefer, strongly, a revolution that does not cause such a thing to occur. There must be a way to destabilize and remove power from the federal government that does not involve violence. Hmm.

I think I have an plan. I didn’t invent this plan; it is actually a philosophy known as “agorism”. This plan calls for individually “seceding from the Union”, but at this point, what is the Union but nanny-state totalitarianism? Anyway. It will need private defense forces, and off-shore online currencies (like in Cryptonomicon). We trade day-to-day goods on the black market. We do business using these online currencies. We defend our property rights using private defense forces. We smuggle goods over state lines and the borders of our country to avoid the trade restrictions and tariffs handed down by the State. To make this work, we will need to make using the black market be much more attractive, especially in terms of cost (i.e. it will be cheaper to “secede” than to stay with the federal government); I do not think this will be hard, considering the size of the nanny state.

Anyway, think about this while things get worse in the coming years. I think you’ll find that revolution of some kind is going to be necessary, and that the secession plan is preferable to outright violence. However, if it does come down to fighting, I will fight.

A quick plea.

Do not ask the government to help you with your personal problems; the government always ends up hurting the rest of us. Fix your own problems; we’ll end up with a better government.