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An Endless Election Food Fight

Bill Collier September 29, 2020

Time was, election season lasted around 6 months before each vote. Then things settled down and normalcy returned. The heated rhetoric slacked off, at least for most people other than the political junkies. We remember those days with fondness.

Now, we have an endless election food fight and even those who prefer their politics in light doses once every 18 months, at most, find it hard to avoid the partisan talk fest. Every hour of every day every issue and breaking news items is presented with the hysterical voice of one proclaiming an incoming disaster of Biblical proportions. Indeed, calling politicians themselves the antichrist is favorite sport for some partisan hacks.

This endless “controversy” and rancor may eventually prevent us from seeing when a real disaster creeps up on us or it may cover up the real crisis of the hour as we angrily debate the fake crises being shovel-fed to our wide-open mouths. We eat it all up like it is the true national pastime.

Is it really necessary and inevitable to have an endless election food fight and can we at any point escape the partisan rancor?

The answer lies within. We can choose to tune it out and not let ourselves be forever drawn into the latest, almost always passing, contrived controversy. We can decide to focus on elections within a few months of each vote, weighing the Party platforms and the candidates based on something more solid than anonymous sources and endless sound-bites.

What does your Party stand for compared to your own true north, comapred to your own beliefs, values,and convictions? By the way, if you don’t know what those are and cannot articulate them, understand that you are easily played by any emotional manipulation anyone wants to use against you. And the airwaves are filled with that! Know your own beliefs, values, and convictions, know why you hold them, know what they mean, from your heart, and be able to articulate them from your heart in your own words.

Too often we see people simply regurgitating sound-bites and narratives fed to them from the outside, all the while proudly boasting that they are “independent” or above the fray. They cannot articulate their own beliefs in their own words or why those beliefs are valid or useful to anyone.

I can tell you that I stand for freedom based on the virtue of our core ideals, on liberty based on the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, and on independence through self-reliance, a free market meritocracy, and and mutuality. I can tell you what those things mean and why I cherish them. I can compare Party Platforms and candidates with those things and give you my take on which of these things supports what I believe. I know this and do not listen to anything outside of what a Party and a Candidate will do or has done in power.

Is Joe Biden’s son a criminal and did Trump cheat on his taxes? It’s not that these things don’t matter at all, it’s that we cannot know for sure and these things are distractions. The actual things these two men have done in power matter to me: one tends much more toward what I belief in and the other seems hell-bent to go completely against these things I hold dear.

If you let this be about accusations and character when these things won’t matter if someone in power abuses your beliefs and values, then you are off the mark. You are easily misled and manipulated. You have no independence and you cannot think for yourself.

The endless election food fight is something you can watch from afar and not get involved with or it is an unnecessary drama that can suck you in and add stress to your life, which reduces your life span.

What is your true north and what do you believe in? Spend more time figuring that out and less time chasing headlines that, within 72 hours most of the time, will have lost all credibility.

The endless election food fight seems custom-designed by the politicians to keep you in reaction mode, to conceal their magic tricks and slight of hand, all meant to fool you into focusing away from the real heart of every issue. Center yourself on who you are, on what you really believe, on your own interests, and on what you think the truth is. If you do this, you will find more peace and calm in the fake storms and passing fads, you will know who you are voting for and why and nobody will be able to move you with emotional claptrap or fool you with smoke and mirrors.

Food Freedom Through New Victory Gardens

Bill Collier September 26, 2020

Creating local Victory Garden Clubs is a practical way to increase your freedom and prosperity, especially what we call “food freedom.” Food freedom is basically the ability to meet your nutrition needs primarily through resources you own, co-own, or that are located in your local vicinity. Food freedom meand you don’t have to rely on powers or resources outside of your own reach or control.

People talk about freedom in some abstract, like your rights to protest, or your religious freedom, and some really focus on freedom to love whomever you want on whatever grounds you choose. Such freedoms may or may not bring positivity to your life and may never bring progress to humanity.

Freedomists are all about a kind of freedom that is positive, has virtue, is purely voluntary, and is immediately practical. We look for ways to be more materially autonomous from anyone or anything that doesn’t respect or nurture our values and way of life, whatever those things are for each of us.

The Victory Garden plan is something you and your neighbors can do to move away from food dependence toward food freedom. It is a concrete plan for taking direct control over a major part of your life-necessities that liberates you from external influences and control. People who enjoy food freedom are lesss susceptible to economic and supply-chain disruptions, they have access to healthier nutrition, and they are more connected to positive people who so value freedom in a practical way.

A local Victory Garden Club is somewhat like a community garden. See this picture of individual plots in a typical community garden:

But unlike a community garden, a Victory Garden Club isn’t restricted to one piece of land, even if it has some sort of common land like that pictured. Also, unlike a community garden, a Victory Garden Club doesn’t require everyone to have a green thumb.

The four elements of such a club inlcude the people who manage and administrate the club, landholders who set aside space for the club to plant things, green thumbs who oversee activities and ensure success, and general members who contribute time and/or money to the effort. All participants receive “food shares” from all food produced based on their level of participation.

The club assigns shares to each type of participant and also sets some aside for sale to cover monetary costs and for the poor and needy. Each club would figure this out and adjust their formula for assigning shares are things proceeded.

A word of caution is needed here.

We do not recommend broadly inclusive clubs that are open to anyone in the the locale. We do recommend broad cooperation of all local clubs based on the broadest goals of lcoal food independence and sustainability. But each club must have sociocultural cohesiveness, in other words its members should share the same beliefs, values, and convictions.

Clubs designed around shared relgious or sociocultural grounds should not be based on race or ancestry for two reasons: first, sociocultural similarities transcend mere biological differences in genetics and skin color and, second, fostering anything that elevates race and blood above freewill association tends toward breeding intolerance and conflict. We do not envision a “this-race only” basis for any Victory Garden Club that claims to be freedom-centered.

What we envision is in each locale networks of Victory Garden Clubs, each having sociocultural cohesion, forming a local Victory Garden Society to foster food freedom for all individuals and food independence and sustainability for the general community.

Food freedom is a positive step toward real freedom that is practical and beneficial to all people. It removes you from someone else’s sphere of influence and control, it protects you from external crises, and it saves you money.

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Freedom Is Beyond Politics

Bill Collier September 25, 2020

By Bill Collier- The words “freedom” and politics seem interwined. If I speak to someone about freedom they may say, “I don’t want to talk about politics.” But is this really the proper response?

Freedom, when we break it down, includes “free” and “dom”, the domain of the free or the dominion of the free. A Freedomist is one who believes the free should basically be in dominion. Once you see this, it becomes easy to spot every bad idea by unfree people who promise results at the expense of your free dominion.

What is politics? In short, and broadly speaking, politics is rooted in the old Polis, it is the public life or public sector. And since just past the stone age human civilization has always tended toward some concept and practice of the public life, we might assume it is somewhat useful to human welfare and progress. This is debatable by some, but what it true is that some aspects of our lives with human civilization have for thousands of years involved some form of public life.

What is public life?

In terms of ownership, if we think of it from that perspective, it includes things that are not owned by any single private person. But in the past, under monarchy, a lot of what we consider public now was considered the monarch’s private property. In reality, the monarch’s private property tended to mostly serve a public good, their parks and roads were often used by the general population but maintained at royal expense.

In terms of power, if we consider public life we tend to see that control over resources and rules goes to some form of government system or structure, be be royal or democratic. The individual and their private associations or enterprises doesn’t have much say or power in comparison, at least not in those spaces considered public.

Now, let’s return to the domain or dominion of the free. What is in that space?

What is in that space is everything that is owned and ruled solely on the basis of some form of private ownership or shared ownership in total freewill association. Unlike the public space, which you cannot easily choose or control, the free domain is totally up to you whether or not to enter and how to rule it.

The idea that freedom is interwined with politics is, to me, absurd. It misses the point. Freedom is everything that isn’t public life and too much public life creates an imbalance and tends toward a loss of freedom and a corresponding loss of humanity. While it may be argued some public life is essential to human prosperity and progress, the truth is that private life was the primary life known to humanity until after the stone age.

Basically, the free domain is essential to our humanity and public life may have value but we seem to be able to survive without it or with very little of it. When the free domain shrinks too much we lose our humanity and dignity, we stop moving forward, and we even lose our wealth and prosperity.

The petty and surface arguments of those who imagine a world where public life is supreme and private life is severely limited are smoke and mirrors. They conceal the true issue and cover up the true flaws behind their nature: the nature of all these collectivist policies and programs is to reduce the free domain of private life to a shadow of what it needs to be.

Freedom isn’t political. It is depolitization of as much of our lives as possible. When you either vote for or refuse to vote against public life supremacists, you ensure that more and more of what you thought was and should be private and controlled by you will become public and controlled by others.

Looking at the photo below, we see protestors are often riled up by the press and financial backers to essentially demand less freedom and more utopian promises. These seductive promises are like a drug that initially gives you euphoria and then becomes a life-controlling and costly addiction.

To march toward freedom is less about politics, though it does include the need to engage the public powers, and is more about building your own robust private life and private free associations with people of like convictions and values. Freedom is a process of seizing your own agency as a spiritually sovereign human being created in the image of your Creator!

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Face Mask Shaming

Bill Collier May 28, 2020

Bill Collier Jr., Publisher- I don’t wear a mask to show that I care, I wear one because I have a cough and I do care.

People who shame others to wear a mask deserve to be shunned!

THE TRUTH is that, unless you are in a heavy breakout area, the chances of an unmasked person who is not actively sick getting YOU sick are almost NIL. There is growing evidence, look it up, that people who are sick but don’t have symptoms have a .01% (1 in 10,000) chance of getting you sick. The virus isn’t active enough or at such a volume that it is contagious. People can debate this, the science isn’t settled.

Nonetheless, I think that masking the world, and all the breathing problems that entails, instead of just actually sick people with symptoms, is a form of mass abuse.

To allegedly “save just one person” millions of people with breathing issues are either being masked and put at risk or shunned and shamed to such a degree that it is either causing mental problems or keeping them from getting their necessities!!!

This is especially true if you decide to keep a distance from them. The risk versus burden is unbalanced here: the burden demanded isn’t warranted by the actual risk.

And the “if it only saves one life” trite is sophomoric dribble! That argument can justify almost anything and remove any need for proof or accountability. It’s a garbage argument and if you use it, I’m leaning more and more toward shunning you as you seek to unjustly shun others.

Trump Throws Down With Jack and Twitter

Bill Collier May 28, 2020

By Bill Collier, Publisher- Claiming to be doing his civic duty to clear up falsehoods, while at the same time saying he isn’t the arbiter of truth, Twitter’s Jack has stepped into a personal battle with the President. He also made a virtual declaration of war against the right.

At issue: Twitter decided to add an opinion piece from notorious political hacks (masquerading as “journalists”) to the President’s OPINION about mail-in ballots and the potential for voter fraud. The opnion piece presumes there is literally no evidence for or debate about voter fraud and mail-in ballots. This is not true, there is genuine debate and real evidence. (Even if, like myself, you don’t think mail-in ballots equal fraud, it’s not a closed debate!)

What these platforms are doing is raising the stakes. They have gained a dominant market position, so much so that it is not reasonable to think an American citizen can equally participate in the public discourse if they have limited or no access to these platforms.

Now, the solution for some may be to regulate the platforms. This is a fate for which the leftist trolls who run these platforms have only themselves to blame! Even if you instinctively recoil at the thought of regulation of this nature, watching these hamfisted tech lords get a little payback might be satisfying at some level.

The solution for others, such as Gab, a platform I own shares of, is to present themselves as an alternative and to tell the President to simply leave Twitter and move to Gab. Parler and Minds are taking a similar approach. It can be argued that if indeed the President takes this action, even if he doesn’t leave Twitter, it could change the dynamic.

In the end some believe these platforms will not always enjoy their dominant market position and if they artificially hinder the emergence of competitors, anti-trust actions could apply. For instance, issues related to payment processors punishing people and platforms for speech and thereby aiding platforms they have an interest in should be investigated.

The hypocrisy and selected enforcement by these platforms, which is always heavily focused on the most uncharitable and harsh judgment of the right and the most gracious and liberal judgement of the left, is beyond dispute. Let’s just say the science is settled and move on.

But do these platforms have a right to put their thumb on the scale? It’s a classic debate. I think the market WILL eviscerate them over this as and when new platforms emerge, and they are already beginning to. But I can only blame the close-minded political bigotry of the leftists who own the dominant platforms for provoking even anti-regulatarian conservatives into wanting to over-regualate their little empires into oblivion.

In truth, the shareholders should rebel and demand the leadership serve the market, and thus their shareholders, and leave their political bigotry out of their decision-making OR step aside.

When you take a proverbial wiz into someone’s cereal every morning, eventually they decide they’ve had enough with the insult. And the right have just about had their fill of the arrogant, condescending, self-righteous, political bigotry of the left and the platforms they now control.

We get that you lefties think the ONLY valid opinions are yours, that you don’t think you can be wrong, and that whatever you think or want to be true should be treated as “settled fact.” But we don’t care and we aren’t playing your little game by your assinine and unfair rules. That is the basic sentiment of the right, and these tech lords with their political bigotry are cutting away their market position. One day it WILL collapse. They will find that without the right, they will eventually not have a near-monpoly of the market and they may wither away and die.

Will Trump act on his threats and take action against Twitter, will the courts stop the President as they are of a wont to do, and what will Jack do as he faces the full rage of the President and the entire right who are none too amused with his doubling down over this misdeed?

Whatever happens, Jack has escalated the war between left and right and drawn a giant target on himself and his platform, as well as all the others.

Welcome To The Freedomist 3.0

Bill Collier May 25, 2020

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The Roadblock to “Progress”- Freedom and Liberty

Bill Collier July 24, 2013

Obama’s greatest roadblock to advancing his agenda is you, The Freedomist.

Read on to discover how Obama and the Progressives he represents have a major impediment to their State-Centered Ideology, the Freedomist:

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Delaware Left Calls Chris Coons A reverse Robin Hood- Delaware News- Senate Race

Bill Collier September 20, 2010

Chris Coons, Delaware News, Delaware Senate Race, Christine O’Donnell, Election 2010, Politics, good government

Is Chris Coons a reverse Robin Hood in democrat clothing? Delaware Left accuses Chris Coons of soaking the poor and paying off the rich in a bad example of good government practices.

Green Delaware, A left-leaning, ‘good government’ activist site, may have just run the best reason why Independents, and even democrats should not vote for Chris Coons in the upcoming Delaware Senate Race, the current County Executive of New Castle County, Delaware.

Apparently, while the Political Class in the media attempt character assassination with Christine O’Donnell , they are missing some very real issues which speak to the very heart of the Coons candidacy, government integrity. At a time when less Americans support Congress than support lowering the speed limit to 50 mph, this latest assault from within Chris Coons’ own base is more telling than any character assassination attempt in today’s voter climate. From Green Delaware, here is the crucial quote that warrants second and third looks by the voters of Delaware;

“Lets look at the other side: The Democratic candidate is Chris Coons. Coons, as I’ve written more than once, is a cockroach. His term as New Castle County Executive has been marked by harassment of citizens and servility to developers and polluters. He does a good-cop/bad-cop shuffle with Council President Paul Clark, but the two represent the same interests.”Paul Clark and Chris Coons evidently have some explaining to do to the Delaware Voters. Why would Chris Coons stop his pandering to the Ruling Class money-holders if he becomes Senator of Delaware? At the national level, the money handlers will have far more attractive offers for the venal Coons than the local Ruling Class can offer him at the county level.The Ruling Class Czar of New Castle County had recently proposed the largest tax hike in Delaware History the year before re-election.

From http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-castle-county-executive-chris-coons.html ,

On the heels of Wilmington Mayor Baker’s promise that the city government will raise “taxes, fees, and anything we can”, now comes blow # 2 to the double-taxed Wilmington residents, as well as a blow to all other home and property owners in New Castle County : a WHOPPING 25% increase in property tax rates.

Coons Seeks 25% Property Tax Hike
The News-Journal March 18, 2009

If approved by County Council, the tax hike would be the second biggest in county history and would raise an extra $21 million to help balance the $234 million budget for the 2010 fiscal year that begins July 1.

The average annual property tax bill would rise by about $100 to $501. Coons’ spending plan also calls for a 10 percent increase in sewer fees.

The overall budget reflects the impact of the recession, particularly in housing. The county has depended heavily for years on a share of the statewide real estate transfer tax to balance its budget. Revenues from that tax have plummeted as home sales swooned.

“I think we’ve just gone overboard — we’ve overspent,” said civic leader Frances West, noting that residents will have to adjust to having less. “It’s like raising kids. If you give them luxuries and then take them away, they’re not going to be happy.

Coons’ spending plan would trim personnel costs by $4.8 million, an amount he said could be achieved by laying off 75 to 100 employees.

More from this site on Chris Coons’ own personal finances:

He is a personally very-rich Democrat, freshly-re-elected, making a tidy 6-figure paycheck on the public’s backs while trying to carve himself out an incumbency career in Delaware politics.

Property taxes are but pocket change to someone as wealthy as Coons. Coons lives at 2301 Delaware Avenue in a nearly-4200 square foot, 6-bedroom, 4-bath stone mansion that sits on nearly half an acre of land in the high-dollar Highlands neighborhood in Wilmington. To give you a sense of the value, the property sold in 1981 for $225,000.00. Of course, what Coons paid for it is masked by a deed that cleverly states a purely-nominal sale price of $ 10.

The democratic party is supposed to be the party of the common man, the poor, the working class, yet Chris Coons seems far more interested in lining the pockets of his wealthy neighbors at the expense of the working class who will have to fund his extravagances, WHILE seeing services cut.

We thank the Green Delaware, a “good government” site for exposing the fundamental bad government that Chris Coons represents, not by words, not by promises, but by deeds.