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The Freedomist, often called Freedomist-MIA because we have a joint partnership with the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, a 46 year old private intelligence reporting service, is led by President and Publisher Bill Collier, a political advisor and digital marketing/pr professional who is also a renown researcher.

Collier co-authored The Capitalist Manifesto with Ralph Benko, a book endorsed by Steve Forbes, and has played a key role in the Tea Party movement as a national promoter as well as many political races that ended in upsets against the left.

Our whole team cannot be “named”, we prefer to keep their identities somewhat private, though some names include Paul Collier, our Editor in Chief who has decades experience in digital promotions and activism and Michael Cessna, our military technology and news Editor.

We also have Ralph Benko as our official DC Ambassador who worked in the Reagan White House and who has won many prestigious awards for his online acumen in building powerful political alliances and movements.

Writers include people actively engaged in global cybersecurity issues and on-the-ground correspondents in world hotspots. As noted, it is best not to name them as this might be a problem.

The whole Freedomist Team are dedicated to the central proposition that liberty as defined according to the most freedom-minded understanding of the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights is something every single human being deserves.

Publisher Bill Collier loves history, he depicts good guys and bad guys from WW2 especially, lest we forget the horrors of authoritarianism, intolerance, and hate and allow the creeping neocommunist, corporate fascist syncretism of the modern corpostate establishment to blossom into an an entire international order where freedomists are oppressed and persecuted.

Whether it was Hitler and his minions or Stalin, WW2 and the Cold War that followed was a struggle of the free versis the freedom takers. Today’s threat has different names and nomenclature and even different “favored” versus “hated” groups, but the battle remains the free versus the freedom takers.

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We are going to engage in “information warfare” against the fake press establishment.

We are going to organize a massive army of millions of digital activists to fight back against the cancel culture and give them a taste of their own medicine.

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Have you noticed that wildly popular ideas, like terms limits and a balanced budget amendment, are always stopped while wildly unpopular ideas, like property tax and income tax, somehow get through and never go away? Have you ever noticed that the more our leaders tout “democracy” and use fears of any “threat to democracy” the less free you are to own your own property, make a decent living, speak your true mind, or just live your life and choose who to associate with?

We cannot ever have a real democracy. This is not about whether it’s a good idea, it’s just as impractical to say we can have a democracy as it is to mandate that every ride to work on a unicorn. Democracy requires total transparency, absolute free speech, truthfulness, and equitable participation by citizens only in a voting regimen that is 100% fraud-proof. To even have informed consent, we would need a free press that is assiduously dedicated to fairness, truth, and accuracy and that would never cater to partisan interests or corporate sponsors.

We cannot expect a true free press without bias, we cannot prevent a quasi-monopoly of a few press companies and platform owners from bottling up information dissemination and preventing any save their favored voices from being heard. To think otherwise and to somehow “manage for results” is untenable in the long-term, the best you can hope for is market disruptions that tend to shake things up and explode the number of voices before new dominance emerges and new disruptions are needed.

The internet of the early 2000s disrupted the information monopoly of the broadcast news and major newspapers, which was already under assault by talk radio. Today’s platforms and the press outfits favored by them have again created a controlled quasi-monopoly and partisan/biased bottleneck of information that once again renders any legitimate informed consent as to real issues and events impossible.

Having a system that is responsive to the sentiment, needs, and wishes of those it serves is desirable. The alternative to “democracy” isn’t autocracy. Our concern here, however, isn’t with a form of government, it is with the cause of justice through freedom and freedom is, in practical terms, a condition of maximum control over your choices being limited to you and those you freely choose to connect to. A perfectly competitive free market without monopolies and with maximum accountability to standards of equitable and just treatment of all participants is far more like a “democracy” than a system of potentially unfair elections where voters who cannot possible render informed consent decide who will dictate things to everyone else.

The movement away from top-down, centralized control and hierarchical “managing for results” which renders most people little better than children must take new forms outside of pure politics. This movement for real freedom, practical freedom, demands new private structures and institutions that have a more fraternal and/or market-based means of responding to the needs and sentiments of those they serve.

While the government and the monopoly corporations must be compelled on moral grounds to give way and respect as well as serve these new structures and institutions, their inherent right to exist stands outside and above any political law or corporate policy. In other words, private groups of people, within a broad freedom and justice standard, have a right to form their own freewill participatory arrangements as they see fit and all other existing institutions have a moral duty to respect and honor those arrangements and not impede them.

Take our concept of a privately created and run extended kinship community of people whose sociocultural and socioeconomic arrangements reflect shared belie, values, and convictions that are themselves essential to their shared identity. These groups of, say, around 120 adults ought to own the same right to create domiciles, perhaps little villages, for themselves that are regarded in the same legal framework as the private home of a nuclear family

We aren’t for gutting the fair housing law to allow discrimination, the point here is that what we consider family needs to be broadened, if we wish, to encompass what used to be larger extended family groups which by and large did cluster together for maximum mutual support based on shared beliefs, values, and convictions. We would not want whole towns to be made exclusive to one group, our aim being a free and pluralistic society of equals, but the idea an extended kinship community could not cluster together as in days of old is itself designed to atomize individuals and make them more pliable and controllable.

This is just an example of how we need to reshape public policy to devolve control from the corporations and the government to individuals, families, extended families, and local communities. Regardless of form of government or arrangements by which magisterial and civil/civic functions are supplied, even if through a more client-provider relationship, if the individual, the family, kinship communities, and local towns and cities have maximum practical freedom, no system of government can easily become autocratic.

On the other hand, if these “new” freedoms of freewill participation and the basic freedoms are not respected and if people cannot form their own private associations and networks where most of their needs are met through freewill participation, then an autocracy is inevitable. So we say, “democracy, no”, because “democracy”, even a republican form thereof, is practically impossible but “freedom, yes” because there are many ways to promote freedom regardless of the system of government.

It’s almost a distraction to focus so much on a form of government and so little on a real devolution of power and wealth from the mega corporations and centralized governments to individuals, families, extended families, and communities of different types, mostly based on freewill participation.

By Bill Collier- There are many things and people that impact your life, often by way of not fulfilling their role or promise in anything approaching an ideal manner. Parents, governments, spouses, children, and friends can and will fail us or even violate us, they will not be consistent, always keep their word, or even respect our welfare or dignity as human beings. Indeed, if we consider our own lives from this perspective, our own inconsistencies and flaws and how they affect other people in our lives and relationships will drive us into self-condemnatiin, unless of course we are totally lacking in self-awareness.

Faith in God is a very useful antidote to the failures of society, our institutions, people we are connected to us, and ourselves. But sometimes faith in God is harder to realize and other times it becomes a wilful closing of our eyes to reality and an unwillingness to own responsibility for our lives and actions. Faith in God transcends all these things, but it doesn’t replace or negate them: indeed true faith in God should nurture self-awareness and personal moral and material responsibility with an eye toward the truth God can and will enable us to transcend this earthly and temporal life and build the foundation for an eternal existence as kings and priests in His Kingdom.

Passive acceptance of life’s circumstances without taking personal responsibility and owning our own spiritual sovereignty is not faith in God. In this case it is surrender to the temporal using God as an excuse. This is approaching taking the Name of God in vain!

We are destined for an eternal life in the Kingdom of God as members of some form of a nation, there are many nations in the New Creation to come, and as kings and priests who are joint-heirs with Yeshua. If we understand this we realize that the time to begin learning and practicing our spiritual sovereignty as kings and priests unto the Lord, is right now and that part of that is taking personal ownership over our own lives.

Your life has a narrative. This is a storyline that essentially defines the possibilities and limits of your life. If your narrative is that you are a spiritually sovereign king and priest as a joint-heir with Yeshua it presents different possibilities than if your narrative is that people and institutions have abused you and are keeping things from you that they owe you.

It may be, it probably is, that people and institutions owe you something. Perhaps your parents never honored their obligations and abandoned you. Perhaps the justice system failed to punish a criminal who did you wrong or punished you for a mistake in disproportionate to your crime while others far worse got off scott-free.

It takes emotional energy to dwell on these things and every time you do there is pain and suffering added to your heart and soul. Thinking on these things, complaining about them, beyond just getting things off your chest (which you should do), doesn’t bring healing, doesn’t change anything, and leads to more pain. Focusing on these things can become an impediment in your mind to owning your own life, in stewardship to God, and can stop you from taking material control over your situation.

You may feel God let you down, after all doesn’t He control everything? But if you feel this way, and that is perfectly understandable, then you may not be seeing Creation in the proper light or the process of Creation in the proper light. A life free of suffering and full of purpose is the destination of Creation but the process, especially in this temporal life, involves trial and sorting. We don’t like or understand it, but many human beings will reject the path of destiny and life and embark on a road of eternal destruction.

Regardless of your understanding or acceptance of whatever you think God owes you or humanity or whatever you think anyone or any institution owes you, the plain and inescapable fact is two-fold: your fate in this life is largely up to you and your eternal status and standing is your responsibility. If you live your life focused on what God or anyone else owes you, you will always be unhappy and you won’t reach your potential.

You have to live or die. You can choose to die, but your soul will not cease to exist, therefore your ownership over what happens to your soul is yours alone and you do yourself no good debating why the rules and laws of Creation are what they are or why you don’t like them. It is useless energy wasted on useless things that brings no benefit to anyone. The determination to own your life, both in this world and the world to come, and to understand how you should conduct YOURSELF in light of the laws of Creation, whether you like them or not, is the ONLY path to true and eternal success and happiness.

Let’s be clear: inquiring as to why God allows this or that or why certain laws and rules exist in Creation is an intellectual exercise, but if the goal isn’t to understand the truth and apply it usefully, then it is a sad waste of time and energy that will sap us and decrease our chances of happiness and success.

One chief objection is this idea that God creates us, we don’t ask to be born, and that He then demands we love Him or face eternal domination. It’s not that simple, but even if this were true, and trying to convince people it isn’t is hard to impossible, what of it? God actually owns a right no human owns, the right to demand absolute loyalty and obedience. As it says, “will be pot say to the potter, why have you made me?” It is a question we are not ALLOWED to ask and God owes us no reply to.

We cannot judge the Creator by human standards, He lives outside time and space and He literally OWNS US. This is something people struggle with and we recoil at God owning us and having a right to dictate to us just as we might do so for another human being. But it isn’t so, we don’t have a right to demand that God be reduced to a human status and “respect” our equality with Him. We are not equal to God and do now own the same rights He alone owns, including the right of ownership over ourselves.

Even if we own our own life, we own this only in relation to nature and man, not in relation to God. In relation to God, we are owned by Him, we are His Creation, and we have no right to question why He made us or why He governs His Creation as He does.

It is a hard thing to accept but those who desire eternal happiness must come to terms with the nature of God and His Creation. Every ideology and idea that recoils at the absolute and unquestionable sovereignty of God also recoils at the spiritual sovereignty of each individual in relation to nature and man.

Owning your life in relation to man and nature, while acknowledging and accepting God’s ownership over your life as His Creation, despite the fact you did not choose to be born, balancing what you cannot choose with what you must choose, is essential to success and happiness.

God created you and He didn’t need your permission. Your parents likely chose you to be born, again, there was no way to choose your existence. God meets His obligations to you based on the rules HE created, because He is God and not a person. Your parents owe obligations to you based on God’s laws which they cannot alter or defy without denying God, and yet they will and they do fail these laws even if they want to follow them because, as Paul the Apostle said, “the good that I would do, I do not do and the bad I don’t want to do, I do!” Only someone who has raised children understands how deeply and truly we struggle to meet our God-given obligations to our children or how imperfect our attempt is!

What others owe you may be real. You deserve to be treated with equal love and supported by your parents, you deserve to have the same system and standards of justice as everyone else, you deserve to be respected and honored by every institution, you deserve to be given the same chances for success as everyone else.

Often you hear, “people don’t owe you anything”, and we all have said it, but people do owe things to each other, according to the laws of the Universe and common sense! This is not the issue. The issue is that imperfect and flawed human beings won’t perfectly live up to these moral obligations to each other, neither will you! The second issue is: what are you going to do with that information, spend your time angry and upset about what is owed you or focusing on owning your life in relation to your fellow man and nature while accepting God’s ownership over your life as His right?

In relation to God, you are owned by Him. In relation to your fellow man and nature, you are a spiritually sovereign person made in God’s very likeness.

Owning your life means you accept that all or most of your reality moving forward will be determined by you, that you will give yourself what others who owe you don’t, that you will ruthlessly choose your companions based on their fidelity to mutual and positive obligations to each other, and that you will not be focused on what others have or haven’t done to make life harder for yourself. If you don’t do this you will be very unlikely to experience a lot of success or happiness.

Whatever you think God should be or do, whatever others should be or do, you must choose to be and do for yourself and seek arrangements that enable you to begin to claw back control over your circumstances and your choices. It is far more frutiful to be the ideal you desire in others than to feel powerless unless and until they do what you know or think they should do.