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Building A Nationwide Support Structure For Freedom Builders!

Bill Collier September 20, 2021

People struggle to build freedom mostly because they lack a support structure that gives them connections, activities, and resources that cater to them. The support structures of our present sociocultural and socioeconomic system benefit the rulers and corall and manage the serfs, they are not designed to promote or facilitate things like virtue, liberty, and independence.

What does a national support structure for freedom builders look like?

We intend to use a virtual-to-local approach to building such a support structure, we intend it to be fully funded mostly through subscriptions within a free market framework, and we intend it to support a multiplicity of freedom-building organizations, businesses, and local groups/networks all over this land. Our conception ot a nationwide support structure is based on a virtual-to-local approach where people connect and gain insights through The Freedomist and other affiliated websites or virtual communities but they use a ready-made local charter to gather and work together locally. In essence we are talking about a country-level Freedomist Network that either plants its own local franchise groups, communities, and networks or facilitates like-minded and similar, but unaffiliated, groups of people.

This website is just the beginning. Our content is meant to both inform you of current affairs from a pure freedom perspective and to arm you with ideas and concepts by which you might persuasively engage others. It is also meant to gather a massive countrywide list of freedom activists around the country, focusing in having at least 1000 “Freedomists” in every single Congressional District who support our effort as subscribers. This is both our main product, intelligence and empowerment content for freedom builders, and our crowdfunding effort. Through subscriptions to The Freedomist our goal is to build more virtual structures and to hire full-time freedom builders in every state and Congressional District who can proactively serve and support individual freedom builders.

In the event, for instance, we see at least 10 local Freedomist Communities in every US Congressional District with 500 or more members per community, we will see a massive support structure that tens of millions of Americans can access that facilitates their freedom building efforts. We could see a time when, thanks substantially to this countrywide support structure and its virtual-to-local approach, over 50% of all US Counties and Parishes have declared themselves to be Freedom Sanctuaries, or what we call “Freedom Shires”, whose elected or appointed officials, school officials, judges, and law enforcement at every level actively embrace and defend liberty as defined by the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights.

Many freedom building efforts fail because they attempt to “go to battle” without first gathering, training, and nurturing an “army” of dedicated and engaged activists who are not merely told what to do but who are empowered and given agency to decide what to do within a broad but cohesive and disciplined framework. Our aim is to build the infrastructure for a countrywide Freedomist movement of activist freedom builders who are empowered to pursue and build their own freedom and to activate local citizens until they find themselves living in a Freedom Shire.

Let’s try to visualize this support structure and what it will do for you and local groups of Freedomists.

The “end of the funnel” for this effort is a Freedomist Group of around 10-20 adults, a Freedomist Club of around 120 adults, a Freedomist Community of perhaps 500-1000 adults, and, through their activities, the eventual declaration at County level of Freedom Sanctuaries, which, when combined with local freedom-building networks that facilitate individual and local self-reliance, result in a Freedom Shire.

A Freedom Shire isn’t an entity per se, it is an achievement wherein a county parish, or city has both been declared a Freedom Sanctuary and has a local citizenry who are mostly self-reliant and self-sustaining without being dependent on any entity or system they do not directly own and/or self-govern. This is the end-goal of the Freedomist: to facilitate communications, knowledge, connections, and collaboration which would ultimately result in over 50% of all US Counties, Cities, and Parishes being both declared Freedom Sanctuaries and achieving a Freedom Shire state of being.

We cannot begin to imagine the political, cultural, and economic shift and devolution of power and wealth from the top and center to individuals and local communities that must necessarily and inevitably follow achieving this result. If over 50% of all US Counties, Parishes, AND Cities become like unto a Freedom Shire in their living, daily reality the ability of left or right authoritarians to corall people into serfdom would be critically undermined.

Let’s focus on a Freedomist Community organized around Groups and Clubs and what activities it would promote, facilitate, or conduct. The Freedomist Community would be responsible for the following primary types of activities:

1. Providing hosting and meeting facilities to engender social activities and gatherings among Freedomists and to engage the local citizenry in a Town Meeting system of instruction and guidance to all local officials and entities of any kind that hold a public trust (Clubs would have their own local facilities)

2. To create a mirror structure of all local official and corporate or non-profit organizations and entities whereby “Mirrors”, individuals who mirror their actual counterpart, and their 5-10 member Round Table Groups, shadow and track all activities and, at the behest of a Town Meeting of all Freedomists, engage those officials in a transparent civil discourse

3. To facilitate the development of a local intranet through mesh hubs whereby Freedomists can connect and communicate without using corporate controlled platforms, communications services, or the internet which can also be connected to all such networks via our own satellite communications

4. To act as and build a local people-centered free press using the RAWE News model where RAWE stands for Resource, Advocacy, and Watchdog coverage that is Entertaining and Educational

5. To facilitate the printing and distribution of a free “underground newspaper” that speaks the truth and mobilizes peopld to take positive, peaceful, and effective action for freedom

6. To provide educational, inspirational, and practical information and local training and cooperative activities that tend to help individuals, families, and free associations to be prepared for disasters and emergencies, to become materially self-reliant and independent, to be safe and secure, and to have legal protection of their rights, persons, and property from all hazards

7. To educate, inform, motivate, and mobilize voters to take The Freedomist Pledge, participate in local Town Meetings and Caucuses to guide all local officials and organizations, and to vote in elections based on a Freedomist litmus test

8. To find constructive and consensus-based solutions and answers to actual injustice and inequity which affects local people and through which the result is a local culture that is based on a free and pluralistic society of equals

9. To facilitate and nurture, through our own alternative Chambers of Commerce, a true free market, a Freedomist-based capitalism that puts people first as opposed to the cronyism masquerading as Capitalism, whereby economic exchanges are based on freewill participation for the profit and benefit of all (even if you don’t like the word capitalism, we hope you embrace our concept of a truly free market that is just and equitable)

While our goal is to work with everyone who will work with us, our initial focus must be on finding, gathering, organizing, and mobilizing a core of Freedomist activists around the country until there is a vocal and visible Freedomist presence in every US Congressional District.

Today we have a free email list of around 584,000 American Citizens and an activist list of around 78,000. We have far to go but we have a good start and with your help we plan to go much further. Our network reaches many thousands of people every day, but we need to reach multiple millions and we need them to be from all over this land amd from all major demographics.

The Freedomist is NOT “Republican”, our core is freedom with justice for all people equally and fairly without favor or prejudice. We are not “Democrats”, our concept of freedom is founded on virtue, liberty, and independence at the individual to local level and through freewill participation among equals.

The Democrats today lead the charge in freedom taking activism using bogeyman fears and utopian promises on one hand and suppression and corporate censorship on the other hand. But that could change in the future as the Republicans are today collaborators with this freedom taking agenda and were in the past in the vanguard of this execrable movement away from freedom.

To Republicans freedom has been basically limited to doing whatever you like for profit and the social consequences or social injustice be dammed. To the Democrats, freedom is mostly limited to sensual life in the form of sex and recreational chemicals while in all other matters their corporate monopolies or the government are in total control of your life.

Neither the Republicans or the Democrats are a pro-freedom party. Neither truly advances freedom based on virtue, liberty, and independence for everyone equally, fairly, and justly. The policies of neither Party could ever result in an individual and local community centered free and pluralistic society of equals.

By building this countrywide support structure we have a chance to stem the tide of leftwing and rightwing anti-freedomists whose agendas tend to do harm to the rights, persons, and property of average people, albeit each Party tends to favor some demographics over others.

India Working to Become World Model for Digital Caesarists

Freedomist Editor September 20, 2021

India is paving the way to justify a digital caesarism based on opaque and ill-defined standards of fake news. The end goal is to allow an essentially reactionary and authoritarian government to control digital speech by means of anti fake news rules.

These rules are applied to platforms that themselves unofficially censor the speech of people who disagree with the particular brand of Caesarism their owners embrace. So we have an right-leaning authoritarian government going up against the left-leaning censorious platforms in a battle that true freedom lovers cannot win.

See below for original reporting that is stunningly devoid of the deeper critique a true people-centered free press would exercise.

New IT Rules prevent fake news, misuse of freedom of press: Centre tells HC

From www.outlookindia.com
2021-08-31 16:14:30

Excerpt:

The Centre has defended the legality of the new Information Technology (IT) Rules before the Delhi High Court, saying that the rules seek to “prevent the misuse of the freedom of press” and protect the citizens from fake news in digital media space which used to be largely unregulated.The Centre, in its counter affidavit filed on a challenge to the constitutional validity of the new IT Rules, has submitted that although the right to freedom of speech and expression, including the freedom of press, is critical for a vibrant democracy like India, citizens “cannot be treated as passive consumers.”

While submitting that there have been “past incidents of disinformation on digital media leading to disturbance of public order”, the Centre has asserted that digital media “allows sensational content being re-circulated in a different context leading to misinterpretation by the audience”, making it susceptible to being used as fake news.

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Rebuilding The Social Fabric- A Upadarian Kinship Group

Bill Collier September 16, 2021

Totalitarianism, upheaval, and even the collapse of a whole civilization are the fruits of the lack of a strong social fabric that connects people on a purely freewill participatory basis. This social fabric connects people from the individual to a very large scale and provides a sanctuary against the centralized and top-down hierarchies of control, which always devolve to serfdom for the many for the benefit of the ruling class.

The social fabric of human civilization exists within such known structures as marriage and the family, but also within more ancient and weakened or even forgotten structures like the extended family, kinship groups of around 15 or so adults, and kinship communities of around 120 adults, all with some form of shared faith and ethnic/national identity. Rebuilding such social fabric is not about reform or using politics and laws, it is about both using our own models and blueprints and it is about imparting these ideas to others but mostly through a living witness and example they can see and interact with.

Eventually, networks of such kinship communities form the basis of larger distributed communities (we call them “Shires”) like unto free cities, cities of refuge, or spiritual city-states all based on spiritual as opposed to political sovereignty. In this manner we build the genesis structures both for a new qnd globally-distributed nation and a new civilization of many such nations even in the midst of the decline of old civilizations whose cultural and spiritual life has been politicized and corrupted.

We both propose our own model, the Upadarian Model based on our spiritual nation as a vanguard people of a new civilization, and the broader adaption of its more universal principles to other peoples and nations around the world, all based on Kingdom essentials, like the core of historic Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy.

We begin with a Upadarian Kinship Group which you and others can unilaterally and autonomously build together using our blueprint qnd framework. Aside from the need to secure a very low cost “license” to use our brand and nomenclature, the development and management of your kinship group is controlled by you and can connect to the larger global Upadarian community through our website and eventually our platform.

A Upadarian kinship group is a more formal extended, but intentional, familial group of around 10-20 adults who treat one another like an extended family in terms of mutual support, mutual self-reliance, and a shared purpose. Imagine 20 other adults who live near you and who care for your well-being, success, and happiness as much as they care for their own and where you feel the same way.

A Kingship Group is like unto a small extended family, but it does not replace your own blood kin. In fact, many such groups may form mostly among people already related by blood, though blood relations are not the sole basis of a Kinship Group and every adult member is both a Christian and a peer of our spiritual nation. But, that being said, Kinship Groups do not replace your own blood relations to whom you have mutual obligations.

In an ideal world, using historical examples as our inspiration, kinship groups generally occupied the same property. But in the real world where people have leases and mortgages and cannot just up and relocate, or may not wish to, such groups may be “distributed”, as in people who live near each other connect and gather at some sort of common space or in each other’s houses. Either way, it is possible to reconstitute a modern version of the ancient kinship group whenever a group of people meet the criterion for such a group and choose to practice mutual self-reliance and support in pursuit of shared goals.

We propose that nationhood, as in a form of shared identity that can be shared with two people or more and that can scale upward to include millions without a neee for some centralized hierarchy of top-down control, or something like it, is an essential criteria. A kinship group requires a deep degree of shared beliefs, values, and convictions about daily life and practices, otherwise the only form of cohesiveness that is possible would be through some form of charismatic and/or authoritarian leader, which is most certainly not what anyone needs.

When the connections and bonds of unity are organic, that is, from the heart and strictly voluntary and open-ended (free to enter, free to leave), then the need or tolerance for top-down control is almost zero. It should be zero. The difference between a healthy kinship group where people’s individual destiny and happiness are served and a cultish environment where people’s individuality itself is subsumed may in fact be this organic cohesiveness.

Cultish behavior is considered by Upadarians to be one of the greatest threats to human dignity, happiness, and autonomy as God intends it. People lording it over others and forcing or manipulating them to conform for the good and benefit of the few is a gross sin against God and your fellow human beings.

Where something like nationhood as we define it, on strictly voluntary and spiritual grounds and through freewill participation and adoption of shared ideals and the such, is applied, we have organic cohesiveness that is open-ended and that enhances the individual’s quality of life. In theory other forms of organic cohesiveness may be created, but unless they embody shared social, cultural, economic, and even civic virtues and standards that guide the whole and reflect the actual beliefs, values, and convictions of the participants on a freewill participatory basis, then the opportunity for some form of top-down control to emerge is there.

Through our 17 Protocols, for instance, we can spell out what those things are on a very transparent manner and people can then decide, on a voluntary basis, whether or not these things reflect their own beliefs, values, and convictions. It’s not a matter of us saying “you need to change to relfect these Protocols”, it’s us saying “we are being totally transparent about the things that guide us and IF AND ONLY IF this REFLECTS your own beliefs, values, and convictions and FITS AND SERVES your own destiny and happiness, then perhaps these 17 Protocols are yours as well, perhaps you already are a peer of our spiritual nation.”

It is not unusual for one of us to tell people that their choice to affiliate with our spiritual nation, by making a pledge between themselves and God alone to be guided and inspired by these 17 Protocols, is entirely their own and should only be made if they are ceertain this fits and serves God’s best for their lives. If we maintain this stance and Upadarian kinship groups and communities emerge around bodies of people autonomously pursuing the use of these Protocols to have and experience mutual self-reliance and support, then every Upadarian kinship group will be a launching pad for the dreams and visions of each individual participant.

As we must often say, Upadaria isn’t a church or denomination. As a spiritual nation, any person, anywhere in the world, can adopt this form of nationhood, call it an intentional spiritual nationality, without formally joining any organization or buying anything. There is no hierarchy of control deeming who can become a Upadarian nor how using the 17 Protocols best fits your life, your needs, your dreams, and your circumstances.

Likewise, while every Upadarian kinship group will use these 17 Protocols as a guide, just how they do this, in what order or priority, and in all the details and specifics, is up to that autonomous and self-governing body of people. While Upadarian structures, organizations, enterprises, and institutions can and must exist, no Upadarian, by virtue of having taken the Pledge, is obliged to subscribe to our join or otherwise be governed by any of them. If you choose to adopt this spiritual nationality in addition to your political citizenship or ancestral ethnicity/nationality, and layered within and subordinated to your identity as a follower of Yeshua and citizen of the Kingdom of God, that is totally and solely, to be abundantly and painfully clear, between you and God!

Upadarians are first and foremost Christians, followers of Yeshua and citizens of the Kingdom. That, and not Upadaria, is our core identity. Being a Upadarian is a diversity expression of nationhood as prescribed by God who ordained a multiplicity of diverse nations of people whose God is the Lord. Not all Believers are called to our diversity expression of nationhood in Christ.

So even as we propose and lay out frameworks specifically for Upadarian kinship groups, the broader principles apply to all, and at the heart of this must be some form of organic cohesiveness like unto those who, through adopting the 17 Protocols, have become peers of our spiritual nation on a strictly voluntary basis.

This is the most difficult concept for people in the West especially because they live such atomized, as in separated to the smallest scale, lives. They are individuals and at most nuclear families that are easily and lightly separated by a form of divorce that has no deeper mutual commitment than what satisfies each individual person’s lower order needs. Such an atomized life is easy prey to any cohesive group with more wealth and power in society, for which reason slaves were never allowed to develop their own nuclear families on a long-term basis (mates would be separated and sold out, for instance, and children were taken from parents). They certainly weren’t allowed to create extended family groups or cohabitations with them.

The idea of a grand scale form of voluntary kinship which includes both people related by blood who maintain the same connections and others who aren’t blood related but who you have a spiritual connection to is difficult to envision. We cannot say “here is a modern example that is exactly what we are talking about.”

Historic examples existed and students of history know that from hunter-gatherer bands to the first village-size settlements, for most of human history, most human beings were connected to, but did not lose their personal identity within, bands and villages of around 15-20 adults which were usually connected to larger community groups pf around 80-150 adults. What has been lost and is being suppressed is that we “modern” humans have not by any means lost our needs for these kinds of social, cultural, economic, and civic connections based on a shared form of identity, like nationhood. The number one reason why we are seeing corporations and governments run amuck and violate basic human rights with impunity is their deliberate suppression of the social fabric.

Hedonism and the destruction of the family and extended family through atomized libertinism are the hallmarks of a society headed toward some form of tyranny or collapse, or both. While we would not mandate who you loved or lived with or how you define marriage or family, it is our conviction and belief that a man and woman raising their own biological and/or adopted children in connection with a larger extended multi-family community of like-minded souls is the ideal and perfect fractal of human civilization.

It is not for you to agree or not. Our holding to the dream of creating our own scalable social fabric on this basis alone, to the exclusion of all other arrangements, is not a threat to your holding to other opinions and ideas in your own connections and relationships. We believe that in a sick society, politics and the corporate world tend to create, or impose is a better word, a top-down culture that atomizes individuals and that thwarts efforts to create a more positive and voluntary social fabric. In a healthy society politics and corporate policy serves culture, it doesn’t impose sociocultural norms throughout coercive or manipulative means from above.

The idea in Western Civilization that one can change culture to change politics is idealism. One must so change politics that it retreats from culture and thereby also prevents the emergence of monopoly corporations that also use their influence and economic power to punish those who don’t adhere to the corporate ideology. But it is also possible to find and create carve-outs from even this political-corporate regimentation of atomization of individuals into an amorphous blob. While one ought to engage whatever powers are engaging them, by all reasonable means at hand, the deliberate creation of these kinship groups and the restoration of the social fabric of human civilization on a unilateral and freewill basis could eventually become pervasive enough that politics and corporate policy will change.

To create a kinship group with people who have adopted the 17 Protocols of Upadaria as a guide for their shared identity, conduct and behavior toward each other, and goals and purpose, is to walk away from the atomized life of top-down control and opt for more individual liberty and self-sufficiency using this most successful model for human flourishing. It is a change on lifestyle, particularly who you spend time with, where you spend that time, and how you spend that time, and even how you use your wealth, property, talents, and resources.

Changing from the atomized collectivism of a centralized command culture that serves the ruling class to an organic cohesiveness in connection to a kinship group based on a shared spiritual nationality is a major shift for most people akin to moving to an entirely new and alien land with a different sociocultural framework than you have ever known. It is an ancient way of life that is readily adapted to modern needs and possibilities, but for most people it is as novel as an imagined culture on an alien planet.

Part of why we have “Experiences” that start on the basis of you being a “refugee” is that the understanding of this form of social fabric is outside most people’s previous experiences within Western Civilization. Reconstituting these ancient norms and connections in modern form will take some effort and it requires a careful balance to prevent abuse: forming a strong social fabric should in no way subordinate or bury your individuality or allow anyone to control your life. The opposite should be the case.

A Upadarian kinship group just using the 17 Protocols has the basic foundation upon which to build organic cohesiveness that is positive, beneficial, and empowering to each individual. Participants in such efforts will find that more and more of their lives are liberated from the top-down control of a corrupt political and corporate ruling class who lord it over an amorphous mass of atomized individuals.

US Navy Tests Umnammed Navy

Freedomist Editor September 15, 2021

US Navy Fifth Fleet Task Force Will Test Unmanned Ships and Systems

From www.nextbigfuture.com
2021-09-12 23:49:40
Brian Wang
Excerpt:

U.S. 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59 will stand up on Thursday and be the second testing outfit for the Navy’s unmanned ships following Surface Development Squadron One (SURFDEVRON) establishment in 2019. They will expand the operational use of unmanned platforms in the region and experiment with their concept of operations.

This will not just be unmanned aerial drones but manned ships and submarines.

These ships, drones and submarines are all developed as separate projects. There needs to be an integrated data gathering system for robotically controlled systems like what Tesla is doing for self-driving. There will not be a widespread advance to a robotic navy if all of the robotic systems are siloed.

The 135 Sea hunter robot ship first launched in 2016. Sea hunter was supposed to be deployed after two years of testing.

In 2020, Sea Hunter was still only seen in occasional fleet exercises with unmanned experiments.

These navy ship systems do not look like they are becoming like…

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What Follows If America Ceases To Be A Commonwealth of Freedom?

Bill Collier September 10, 2021

What will happen if freedom itself dies in this land at the hands of the woke communists and their neocon collaborators?

America cannot remain the world’s predominant freedom commonwealth uniquely blessed by God if our people are willing to follow a godless ruling class and their prescriptions, which violate human nature, the laws of Creation, and God’s standards of righteousness and justice. These things may be protected by law, but they cannot be mandated by law, they either come voluntarily from the heart or they will eventually be involuntarily outlawed. A society of people who willingly embrace depravity and authoritarianism as the norm will never tolerate anything other than total submission.

Imagining that we can, or should, change the fundamentals of human nature in how we create things like marriage, family, and community is a deadly and foolish undertaking that will surely lead to ruin. But the majority of Americans are clearly willing to submit ir tolerate leaders and people with a public trust who do these very things and who desire to shun, shame, and outlaw those who refuse to go along with their godless social, cultural, and economic norms.

What then follows if America as a country ceases to be a commonwealth of freedom and devolves into a savage, alt gendered, totalitarian state where only a few corporate and political shot-callers control politics and where politics controls everything else? What happens is that God raises up new peoples and new countries to fulfill that which America, as a whole country, first ceased to defend and then began to attack.

We can foresee a day, unless the current path is changed, when those who love things like freedom founded upon virtue, liberty, and independence will be a persecuted minority who can only survive through parallel structures that have no dependency to the godless, anti-freedom structures which then dominate this land. But those parallel structures can emerge and, with God’s protection and provision, no power in hell or on the earth will be able to prevent them from emerging and thriving.

Indeed, if America as a country is to be redeemed, then the emergence of new structures for an entirely parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic infrastructure and civilizational paradigm cannot come soon enough. The alt-gendered, hedonistic and authoritarian “woke communism” with its cancel culture extremism is aimed, by hell itself, at the heart and soul of God’s intended manifest destiny for America.

Being afraid to confront and resist the violent perversion and attempted redefining of such sacred instruments of God’s will for human civilization, such as marriage, family, kinship, nationhood, and community, exposes our own pusillanimous hearts. Such a people who cannot or will not arise and resist the siren call of hedomism and authoritarianism will have their lights extinguished and God will raise up a new people, new nations, and a new commonwealth of freedom.

The idea God’s arc of history for human civilization will be prevented from being fulfilled is an idea born in an absence of faith and truth. As the worldlings grow in their wickedness, so too God’s people, if they heed His call, will grow in virtue, and as the worldlings become less free, the nations of people who follow hard after God will become ever more free.

At no point in human civilization will the power hungry, perverted, morally reprehensible forces of totalitarianism whose every idea is born in hell gain world dominion. Pockets of human flourishing rooted in God’s blueprint for human civilization will always remain somewhere, until the time when God removes His People from this present world.

We envision the deliberate creation of alternative, parallel structures, beginning with a virtual commonwealth called “Upadaria”, as a platform that promotes freedom based on virtue, liberty, and independence and that emulates a non-territorial “country” that adheres to God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations. We believe the creation of these structures, which also includes distributed free cities, hubs of refuge and support, and clustered living options, could help restore America to its true manifest destiny or, in a worse case scenario we do not want to see happen, create an ark of sorts for people during times of great unrest and ruin.

People who either embrace our virtual commonwealth as e-Citizens or who embrace our alternative nationality, as peers of a globally-distributed spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, will find options and alternative solutions that tend to enhance their level of freedom and prosperity while empowering them to become more influential as a witness for the Lord to others. In the end, this could become the basis of what follows IF America as a country ceases to be a commonwealth of freedom and abandons its true manifest destiny. It could also become the rallying point and foundation for restoring our country to its God-given purpose.

We hope, pray, and work toward creating these parallel ideas, relationships, connections, and structures toward the end of saving our country from being dominated by perverted and corrupt authoritarians, the woke communists and neocon collaborators, whose only god is their own self-pleasure.

But we also know and acknowledge that if Americans do not reject and resist, with spiritual weapons and not the weapons of this world, the wanton destruction of our culture and way of life, then what follows will be the demise of our country and the emergence of new nations of people and a new country who fulfill God’s intention to always have a commonwealth of freedom on this earth.

First, Free Your MIND

Bill Collier September 8, 2021

To free your mind from spiritual and then also social, cultural, and economic serfdom at the service of the ruling class, you must take aggressive control over the mental constructs you have accepted and allow your life to be defined by.

Mental constructs are how we define our reality in terms of the reasonable norms, acceptable behavior, and expected laws of cause and effect. If we look at an institution or organization and categorize it a certain way, the category that colors our mental construct tells us what to expect within and from that institution.

Words like nation, country, government, state, politics, church, marriage, family, kinship, community, and society, among others, conjure mental constructs which we usually inherit or become acculturated to by socializing agents, like our churches, media, or schools. If our mental construct of these things changes, so does our expectation and perception about how they should function and the type of things they should do.

If church in your mental construct conjures images of a church service, a member of the clergy, or a church building, then your entire range of possibilities, expectations, and acceptable behavior and norms will be limited and defined thereby. If your mental construct of church, as in ekklesia, is based on seeing the whole Body of Christ within an area as a spiritual city-state and the gathered assembly thereof as its ruling council, then your entire range of possibilities and etc for what church should be and do and how it should function will change.

Imagine seeing the church as a civic and sociocultural as well as socioeconomic body based on a foundation of personal and shared spiritual sovereignty. The religious functions of local congregations within the whole would not define the whole, for example.

We could go through many of these things and ask challenging questions about the accuracy or, more importantly, desirability and benefit of such mental constructs. If we resort to an intentionality about such matters, if we seriously question whether our mental constructs truly come from truth or what we are used to even if it isn’t true or useful, we may both see ways we have been controlled and ways to end that control.

To purposefully interrogate your mental constructs means you ask hard questions like:

1. What has been the historic view of this?

2. Have cultures expressed, or do they present express, different mental constructs about this and do they tend more to favor me than the ruling class?

3. What are the spiritual, logical, historical, and scientific foundations or known roots to my own mental construct about this?

4. What are the Biblical roots, if any, of this mental construct or does this contradict Biblical truth?

5. In studying all references to this entity or institution, like the state/magistrate, governments and kingdoms, family, and etc, do my mental constructs about these things harmonize with their treatment and description in the Bible?

As we approach these subjects (like “what constitutes a good magistrate in the Bible?”), we may find that the Biblical view and our accustomed view are at variance. We are then forced to decide the comfort of keeping to our old view, insensible to contradictions and the angst they cause, or we may choose to discard our old view and adopt the Biblical model and then let the chips fall where they will.

What we have discerned and bear our own witness to is that there is often little harmony between the historical and Biblical mental constructs about many vital institutions within human civilization and the way we have been acculturated to view them. If one truly wishes to emulate the more advanced and civilized mental constructs of most civilizational institutions and structures, like the family and marriage, one must be willing to discard, as inconvenient as it is, the old mental constructs.

Once the old and decrepit mental constructs we were spoon-fed by unthinking socializing agents (like teachers and even, sadly, clergy, and the press and entertainment industry) are discarded and new mental constructs rooted in truth, history, and the Bible, are embraced, a change in thinking and behavior is necessitated.

As an example, if your mental construct of the word “church” envisions the ruling assembly for a spiritual city-state of the Elect, which includes all Electors, as in all citizens of the Kingdom of God, then your expectations and even how you organize constituent bodies of people of that spiritual city-state (family, extended multi-family households, local congregations, and the such) will change significantly from the IRS-approved 501 c 3 church-as-religious-club perception of the church. The “new” mental construct is not like the old! The “new” mental construct is, however, both more ancient and more advanced than the “church as religious club” model.

Mental constructs control you mind and poison your soul when they are at variance with the Heavenly Blueprint for human civilization and all its constituent communities, institutions, and structures. One may individually be right with God and their salvation secure and yet find that their scope of action and fulfillment in this life was severely limited by faulty mental constructs that kept them in their designated place as a mere serf toiling for the benefit of the ruling class.

It is our sole moral and intellectual responsibility to not allow our mental constructs to be dictated by rote internalization through the powerful and corrupt socializing agents of this depraved sociocultural and socioeconomic order. We must understand and acknowledge that the present civilizational paradigm is a porridge of embedded assumptions and mental constructs that defy the Heavenly Blueprint for human civilization in every detail. Sadly, these negative and freedom-taking assumptions have also infected many establishment ruling class, clerical leaders as well as leading personalities and thinkers in the “church world.”

Every socializing institution of the present civilizational paradigm, from churches and schools to the press and corporatations, has accepted the embedded mental constructs created by the ruling class to regiment society and bind most people to a state of dependency. Basically, unless we reject the embedded assumptions and mental constructs of the ruling class we will always be serfs in their service.

How we see these present-day structures and institutions of human civilization dictates the limits and possibilities that will either constrain us or liberate us. Is marriage simply a private contract between two consenting adults for mutual pleasure and benefit or is it a holy fractal emulating the relationship of Christ and the church and meant to perpetuate and grow both the human race and the Body of Christ through reproduction and childbearing?

We certainly believe that the latter is true, even infertile couples can nurture and support spiritual offspring, and at the same time we believe you must be free to choose your mental construct on things like marriage and the family according to your own beliefs and convictions.

As we explore institution after institution and structure after structure we may discern, “society needs a rewrite.” But rather than impose our ideas and concepts about such a rewrite, it is better, we propose, to focus more on our own personal choices and views and to intentionally connect and build anew with others whose mental constructs closely approximate our own.

Being deliberate about interrogating our own mental constructs about every structure and institution that governs our life is extremely liberating to the mind, soul, and spirit. Just leaving the mental prison of accepting embedded assumptions as truth without critical analysis can begin to improve our decisions and actions, relationships and associations, and inner quality of life.

Xi Xinping Thought is Like CRT But With More Coerv

Xi Xinping Thought is Like CRT But With More Coercive Power Behind It

Mark Clouse September 3, 2021

Opinion – Chairman Xi has been moving forward aggressively reshaping the socio-cultural reality reinforced with state lethality control, strict and broadly applied death governance power.

He has been working diligently to clip the wings of the nuveau-riche billionaires of China’s Silicon Valley. He ended, in 2017, the three-person council as the final word of the current Communist Policy and made it all about his edicts alone. He revised the Maoist custom of writing “Thoughts,” really dicatates to the society about what society indeed was and the general pentalties for violating what the society is as defined by these thoughts. Mao had his Mao Thoughts and now XI, in 2017, issued his own Xi Thoughts.

He adds to the thoughts as he sees fit. But, until now, the distribution of Xi Thoughts has not been especially forced on others. A whole generation has little knowledge as to what Xi Thoughts even are and what they might even mean. But now, all this has changed, as now Xi seeks to inject his particular version of society to the children, and to the adults, with companies now coming under scrutiny for violating the beliefs, the ethics, really, of Xi Thoughts.

One can see some parallels between the DNC pushing its particular remedy to solving injuustice and inequality, whatever you want to call it (as of the writing of this article, the going favorite label is ‘Critical race Theory,” but, as usual it’s more complicated than that, even though there is enough truth in that label to use that phrase from here going forward), and the CCP pushing Xi Thoughts to all ages through coercive means.

In the case of the DNC, the real power limits on their ability to move as nearly unopposed as Xi will be able to move is a shadow of what Xi is capable to do from the beginning of an idea to the execution of an idea.

He can do that in a nation-state that has 3 times the people within it that we Americans do. For good or for ill, Xi has the power to make the dream real at a a massive scale, and with great haste, far beyond what any human being has on this planet in the here and now. He is the apex of all apex existentials within our earthly frame.

And he is about to become, for the generation in primary education age, the very DNA they will either build a lifetime of options around, or a lifetime of overcoming. This is also what falls upon many of the children in America today, but Americans, at least for now, have the venue to dissent from the presupposutional ethos of the authorities that choose to inject such beliefs into our public schools.

How America comes out of this, or doesn’t, remains to be seen, but at least, for now, we still have options and the power to dissent.

Xi Jinping Thought, for children

From www.economist.com
2021-09-02 14:48:27

Excerpt:

Sep 4th 2021

ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and their replies are surprisingly unhelpful. Even simple questions elicit waffly answers. Take an ongoing campaign to clip the wings of some of China’s largest firms, notably technology giants. The authorities have variously accused such businesses of seeking excessive profits, harming national security with a cavalier approach to data, abusing workers, bullying smaller firms or exploiting young consumers with addictive video games and online fan clubs. Is Mr Xi revealing himself as an ideologue, bent on re-imposing Communist Party control over the economy at the expense of growth? Or is he more pragmatic than that: a nationalist strongman who is helping to make China stable at home and mighty abroad? There is chatter among the country’s grandees, but no consensus.

Given such confusion among grown-ups, this is a bold moment to issue a new series of textbooks to all students in Chinese schools, colleges and universities, with the aim of explaining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, as Mr Xi’s political philosophy is formally known.

As the academic year began on September 1st, teachers and lecturers began distributing these books, tailored for each age-group, down to children as young as six. The use of stand-alone schoolbooks devoted to a serving leader marks a break with decades of caution. The last time that hundreds of millions of youngsters clutched books devoted to the wisdom of one man was under Mao Zedong, the object (and instigator) of a disastrous personality cult.

Books for the young are especially revealing, for they have to keep their messages simple. Primary schools have long taught the general rudiments of ideology. Via courses with names like “ethics and law”, children have studied…

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Nation-Building At Home Through A Spiritual Air Force

Bill Collier September 2, 2021

To nation-build at home, The Freedomist plans to create a country-wide “spiritual air force” of freedom building activists within every US Congressional District and County/Parish. This spiritual air force will be based around very local Freedomist Guard Flights of 10-20 activist freedom builders who conduct peaceful local activities to build freedom locally first and foremost.

As the US learns the lessons of foreign nation-building in a land that rejects the values upon which that effort is based, what about the situation at home where a majority of people at home lack trust in major institutions? Who will engage in and upon what basis will they engage in nation-building in America’s neighborhoods and communities?

Nation-building at home is all about building or restoring LOCAL institutions, including entities that influence government and other institutions or that have a public trust, and making them trustworthy in the sense they protect and honor the human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing of every person in that community, showing no favor or prejudice toward any, and with both the individual’s good and the common welfare in mind, always.

Too many efforts to nation-building at home are disjointed, narrow on focus, and not broadly backed by an organized polity of any kind. Often, projects we may call aimed at nation-building and freedom and prosperity building efforts, are hit or miss, reactionary, and short-lived in their scope and impact. People suddenly respond, rally, demand something, and are usually ignored, then the moment passes and the issue becomes another in a long line of frustrations until the next dramatic rally.

To nation-build at home would demand the deliberate gathering and organizing of a cohesive polity who are capable of influencing a strong plurality of voters and consumers who will take their cue from them and actually vote, petition, demonstrate, boycott, or buycott, en bloc. Building a strong polity of freedom loving people who can and will act as one with discipline and focus is a necessity that must presage the rallies, votes, and etc that are often launched by a few vocal people as a strong reaction to a controversy or offense.

It is argued that one needs a cause or issue to elicit the kind of response upon which to build a movement. It is certainly easier to use an issue and generate meetings, activities, and rallies. But it doesn’t last without a serious outlay of funding and professional leaders and organizers being paid. An army of all volunteers motivated by an issue of the moment is ineffective in the long-term.

The war we are fighting is a war against diverse ruling class factions, to the left and the right, who desire to own our possessions and suppress our God-given human dignity and human rights and to thereby deny our human flourishing. We must gather a country-wide digital army of freedom builders in every Congressional District and County until we have depth and breadth on an unprecedented scale.

The Freedomist List, for now, is gathering people interested in our content but we aim to find, gather, organize, and mobilize Freedomists in every US Congressional District and County until all these places have at least one active Flight of 10-20 freedom builders and on Club of 120 or so activists and we can mobilize over 100,000 Americans for any visible rally, event, or peaceful demonstration at any time or location.

If we do not focus on building both a volunteer and professional activist corps of freedom builders then we will always be at a disadvantage to our diverse opponents and those masses they have fooled into following and fighting for them. If we want to nation-build at home we must begin with building a virtual-to-local Freedomist corps of freedom-building activists who have a presence in most all or all Congressional Districts and Counties.

Just what this network does will be as diverse as one may imagine. They may enage in a boycott or buycott, they may conduct an awareness and education campaign with public events or parades, they may canvass for ballot initiatives, they may perform opposition research on the ground and/or virtually, they may lead local efforts to pass a Freedom Sanctuary Resolution or Ordnance in their municipality or county, and the list goes on.

The main concept here is sort of like a spiritual air force, organized like an air force but the only “weapons” are things like prayer, peaceful public events and outreach, information, legal actions, and the such. Still, however, the spirit and vibe should come off as a sort of spiritual air force and not some hodgepodge, indisciplined, “leaderless movement.”

We want to find, train, and fund leaders, organizers, and experts/professionals who will support the many millions of people we envision joining this “spiritual air force” to wage unrelenting spiritual and then information, economic, legal, and political warfare, albeit 100% peaceful and within the law, to defeat the freedom taking factions that rule this land right now. We aim for a total transfer of power from the top and center to the People in their families, free associations, local communities, and the states and away from the Federal power and monopoly corporate powers.

Subscribers to The Freedomist will be crowdfunding this effort.

Organizationally, we plan to find provisional leader candidates to help, on a voluntary basis, build the core infrastructure of this spiritual air force, consisting of chartered clubs and chartered Freedomist Guard Flights of around 10-20 activists.

The Flights are more active freedom builders who are committed to making a visible showing for freedom in their locale, including participation in parades, setting up booths at events, providing ushering and basic unarmed security for events like rallies, doing door to door canvassing, and assisting people with things like understanding gun laws, home safety and security, amd disaster and emergency preparedness.

The Clubs will also be activists and freedom seekers and will focus on creating a local mirror structure to hold all government and other entities with a public trust accountable to the Bill ofRights, gaining the signature of voters for the Freedom Sanctuary Resolution and to get them to take The Freedomist Pledge, and having a space for gatherings and social activities.

If we say the Freedomist Guard is the “military” branch of our movement, we don’t in any way mean anything beyond a spiritual warfare and the symbolism of a spiritual air force. We are not advocates for any kind of militia that isn’t regulated by local, state, or federal authorities and we are definitely strongly opposed to violence in any form or fashion. But we do believe that a “military theme” in our approach engenders the spirit of our efforts as a form of peaceful spiritual and information warfare in defense of freedom with justice for ALL Americans of every demographic grouping or identity in this land.

Through our spiritual air force, the Guard, and our parallel civic/social structures in the form of Clubs, the Freedomist aims to build a strong freedom movement built on Judeo-Christian values while respecting the human dignity and human rights of all fellow Americans and promoting universal human flourishing for them as well. Our cause is to build the Freedomist as a strong and well organized, if also decentralized, movement for freedom that serves all Americans without exception.

What this movement does, the battles it fights, such as so-called “critical race theory” or the lying corpostate press establishment, or specifically ballot initiatives and candidates it supports, will emerge both through leadership and through the People engaging in the decision-making process whereby these priorities are set.

But FIRST we must BUILD THE MOVEMENT!

Building the Freedomist Movement through The Freedomist, as crowdfunded by our subscribers, is the key to nation-building at home.

GETTR, the Safe Haven for Conservatives, Has a Heavy Ban Hammer

GETTR, the Safe Haven for Conservatives, Has Censored Roger Stone

Parker Davis September 1, 2021

It appears the so-called safe space for conservstives, specifically Trump conservatives, Gettr, is having a hard time managing its content creators. From the beginning, it was promised that Donald Trump would build a social media answer to all the baddies, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. That became a blog site that Trump sometimes posts stuff on. Later, we heard about Gettr. Initially, it was thought to literally be a Trump-led project, but, in fact, it had no real affiliation with Trump at all, it was just a social media platform that marketed itself as a free speech social media platform specifically friendly to Trump supporters, especiallly those that had recently been axed from one of the baddies, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

The recent Gabs by Roger Stone, another free-speech-promising platform, this one billed as an alternative to Twitter, suggest that the site is using its power as a gatekeeper not unsimilarly to how the baddies use their position of power advantage as gatekeepers of little accountability to the ones they serve.

Roger Stone is complaining about the free speech platform, Gettr, silencing him, censoring him, because, he alleges, he said something bad about the Gettr founder, Jason Miller, as well as Steve Bannon. Given what Trump has said about Bannon in the past (he essentially called him an amateur, he threw Bannon under the bus hard), one is doubtful that even Trump would have that much of a problem with anyone talking smack about Bannon. This appears to be about protecting a certain faction’s particular useful narrative, and that faction might just be a Bannon faction. Regardless of what Jason Miller represents, making factional gatekeeping decisions makes you one of the baddies, sir.

Of course, all of this suppses Stone is being totally truthful and transparent in what he relates as his version for why Gettr has censored him. The story itself though is telling in that one member of a larger faction, the Trump faction, seems willing to cast into doubt the legitimate credentials of Gettr as a bastion for conservative safe-spacism. This would not be done lightly, even by Stone, so that leads me to believe there was some degree of real throttling of this man’s voice on Gettr because he broke a factional narrative, this one being, at the very leas,t the Jason Miller faction, which might just be Jason Miller alone, given factional power, so to speak, by share weight of his controlling of the filter on the Gettr platform.

Gettr, to me, is yet another example of a good idea for a group of people, say, a faction, to get behind, the idea of building a people-reaching free speech platform to counter the controlling social media platforms we now have, and a few people with deep pockets or relationships with networks of people with deep pockets, slap together some stuff to co-opt the idea and turn it into a quick money maker and/or prestige builder that ends up being an unprofessional cringe fest that implodes within a couple or so years (if not sooner) leaving everyone highly discouraged at ever trying the actually good idea ever again.

Let’s hope Gettr doesn’t discourage others for finding way to build such social media platforms, but don’t let’s make them just safe spaces for conservatives, make them actually as extremely free speech as human to human contact on a digital platform can be.

Trumpist Gettr Social Network Continues To Speed Run Content Moderation Learning Curve: Bans, Then Unbans, Roger Stone

From www.techdirt.com
2021-08-26 16:45:00

Excerpt:

Remember Gettr? That’s the Trumpist social network run by former Trump spokesperson (and vexatious lawsuit filer) Jason Miller that promised to be supportive of “free speech.” As we point out what happens with every new social network that jumps into the space with promises to “support free speech!” and “not censor!” before long they will begin to realize content moderation is required to keep your site running — and soon they discover that content moderation will involve difficult choices. And, sometimes, it involves making mistakes.

Of course, whenever Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or whoever else note that they made a “mistake” with a content moderation decision and reverse it, there are always some people who insist it couldn’t possibly be a mistake and must be [insert conspiratorial reason here]. So I find it hilarious that on Wednesday, Gettr got to experience all this as well. First, Trump buddy and admitted “dirty trickster” Roger Stone went on Gab — another such social network — to whine about how he was “censored” by Gettr, claiming it was because he had made what he believed were disparaging remarks about Miller (and Steve Bannon).

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Texas Now Prevents Local Governments From Closing Churches

Freedomist Editor August 31, 2021

Texas churches can not be forced to close doors under new law

From myparistexas.com
2021-08-30 19:51:31

Excerpt:

Even during a worldwide pandemic, the government is unable to force religious outlets from closing its doors in the state of Texas.

“A government agency or public official may not issue an order that closes or has the effect of closing places of worship in the state or in a geographic area of the state,” according to a bill which was enacted into law immediately after being signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Abbott signed the bill about a year after shutting down the state of Texas in which churches and places of worship were deemed nonessential, forcing them to close. Faith leaders took to lawsuits against Abbott’s orders and called for houses of worship to be designated as essential.

“The unprecedented closure of churches, mosques, and synagogues in 2020 negatively impacted many who were struggling with isolation and stress during the pandemic,” Texas House Republican Caucus said in a statement after the first version of the bill passed the House in April. “These closures were ultimately overturned and are unconstitutional as they infringe on 1st Amendment rights.”

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