Freedomism

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.

America As A Commonwealth of Freedom

Bill Collier September 17, 2021

If you truly want a free country, a Commonwealth of Freedom, start by repealing the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act, both in 1913, the year our republic died but it took this long for that death to look obvious. Anybody who isn’t serious about these things isn’t serious about saving freedom from our corrupt and rapacious ruling class and is just playing silly games that don’t matter to anyone in any material way.

Beyond these things the following Constitutional Amendments, or something like them, are needed to enhance the Bill of Rights and devolve power to private persons and local communities. Whether you agree with them all or not, perhaps by sharing them we can begin a transcendent and open discussion of alternatives to the present and increasingly authoritarian system of corruption and control.

Here is a starting point for reform, dubbed “The Expanded Bill of Citizens’ Rights”:

1. Term limits and the rights of recall, petition, guaranteed majority elections, referendum, and redress, paper ballots, secure manual and publicly visible vote counting, voter ID

2. Treatment of corporate entities that exceed 5% market share, all Unions, and all financial institutions that serve the general public as semi-official bodies with a “public trust”, and that they be bound by the Bill of Rights in their treatment of their clients and the public, prohibiting them in the same way government entities are prohibited from participating in partisan politics

3. Creation of new Domestic Nations with tribal status and Homelands with the same internal autonomy as the states with the basic requirements being these Homelands be at least 100 acres in size for each parcel and the Domestic Nation have a tribal, ethnic, or fraternal bond and be similar to a fraternal benefit society of at least 25,000 members save for indigenous tribal groups which have to size requirement and granting one seat in Congress to each such Domestic Nation per 800,000 members

4. Return to the Gold Standard

5. Creation of a 1200 member Council of Censors individuals can petition to try any official in government who violates the Bill of Rights, this body being drawn by lottery from qualified Electors who pass a Constitutional Law test and who have a high character

6. Strengthening the Bill of Rights explicitly, especially the right to arms equal to a common infantry soldier, the right of free speech, Rights of conscience and free association, freedom of religion, and trial by jury

7. Requirements that all laws apply to all officials in government, that they be easily understood, and that they all be subjected to national referendum, as well as the REINS Act

8. The death penalty as the ultimate punishment for officials who violate the Bill of Rights, or at least stripping their citizenship

9. All elections use paper ballots, require ID, and all counting be live video fed to the public and be observed by all Parties and candidates designated representatives

10. Free trade that is fair trade aimed at applying the same regimen other countries apply to US goods and services to those countries and dissolution of international bodies like the WTO and the IMF, which are global kleptocracies

11. The right of freehold by which no person shall be taxed in their freehold, i.e. property taxes cannot be levied on the essential freehold needed for families and individuals

12. The right to form clustered living cohabitations for people related by blood, nationality, or fraternal bonds with up to 200 adult member-owners of a mutual benefit corporation and the internal social, cultural, and economic liberty of the same

13. The ability of 2/3rds of all States, whether by their Governor OR the legislature, to veto a Supreme Court ruling and require a national referendum in which 60% must APPROVE of the Supreme Court ruling

14. Reform of prisons to require no private prisons, no exploitation of the prisoners, and humane treatment that transitions prisoners to productive life in civil society and punishes those guards and prisoners who harm other inmates and holds all prisoners to a humane and civil standard: death penalty for prisoners who rape or seriously injure other inmates

15. Removal of government from all forms of marriage or civil unions with each marriage/civil union being a private contract, albeit absolutely prohibiting polygamy and allowing any domestic nation or religious organization to define these matters as they see fit

16. Ending federal involvement in all activities not explicitly consented to by 3/4 of all States with all federal departments being subjected to review as well as termination of all regulations not explicitly passed by Congress in detail

17. Requirement that no member of Congress vote on any bill they have not read and that unrelated items not be grouped together, with the Council of Censors having the power to try any member of Congress who fails to abide by this

18. Stripping of citizenship from any member of Congress who advocates for any policy deemed to violate the Bill of Rights in their original spirit and intent by the Council of Censors

19. Supremacy of Common Law and requirement that all alleged violations of any law be shown to involve an actual tort as well as creation of a requirement that all juries be directed as to their right to exercise jury nullification, to try both the person AND the law

20. Restriction of all Courts to the original spirit and intent of the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, and the trial of any judge by a 12 member panel from the Council of Censors who violates this with the penalty being stripping of office and citizenship

21. Requirements that every state deem Counties or Parishes as constituent and self-governing entities which are assumed to hold all the powers not reserved to the Federal Government and that 3/4 of all Counties be required to approve state functions with a review of every department, all states being sovereign republics consisting of the Counties or Parishes

22. Home Rule Amendment whereby locales may form consensual community democracies through a consensual decision-making process like unto a town meeting with maximum local sovereignty

23. Treatment of gangs, totalitarian organizations which envision the destruction of liberty as defined by the Bill of Rights, terrorist organizations, and violently racist organizations which would violate the rights of others, as deemed so by the courts, to be criminal organizations as non-lawful enemy combatants in a state of rebellion, affiliation therewith being illegal (subject to review by the Council of Censors)

24. Community policing through a citizen’s constabulary led by ward level elected constables and the elected Sheriff to replace local police and state police, with greater access to weapons for volunteers who participate, creation of a county level 120 member Council of Censors who both oversee the entire Citizen’s Constabulary and who protect the Bill of Rights from violations by elected or appointed officials and government entities

25. Requirement that Constitutional literacy, especially the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, be taught and tested in High School, be a condition of receiving the right to vote as an Elector, and be taught at a higher level to obtain any degree or professional license

Such reforms are necessary to save the country and transform America into a commonwealth of freedom, a free society of equals which leaves nobody behind. We can debate these ideas but we need a new set of Amendments to fortify the rights of citizens and devolve power from state and federal governments and mega corporations to individuals, private free associations and enterprises, and local communities.

The Federal Reserve Pretends To Do An Ethics Review On Itself

Bill Collier September 17, 2021

If the stark architecture of the Federal Reserve building looks a bit like Albert Speer designed it in “neoclassical-fascist”, akin to the Soviets, the Nazis, and other dictatorship such as Italy under Mussolini and Spain under Franco, perhaps it was a subconscious admission as to the true intentions behind the creation of this financial and monetary behemoth.

1913 will forever be a dark year in American history: the 16th Amendment allowing the creation of the IRS and the Federal Reserve Act of the same year laid the groundwork for an emerging authoritarianism and gross levels of corruption our country may just find to be fatal to the republic.

According to CNBC, the Fed is “under an ethics review” after Senator Elizabeth Warren sent letters to 12 Fed Presidents “demanding stricter ethics in stock buying.” But the “ethics review” ordered by Fed chairman Jerome Powell is unlikely to deal with the fundamentals of our 1913 mistake, a mistake as awful as the bit in the Constitution that allowed for slavery, only through the IRS and the Fed, every American who isn’t in the corporate and political ruling class has become mostly subjected to these two freedom-busting organizations.

The CNBC article said, “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell directed staff to review the central bank’s ethics rules for appropriate financial activities after disclosures that several senior central bank officials made multiple multimillion-dollar stock trades in 2020, while others held significant investments.”

The very notion this is anything but theater meant to assuage deeper, legitimate concerns about the Fed basically “monetizing” all Americans’ labor for the benefit of the few is itself either naivety or the ultimate form of propaganda collaboration between a phony press operation and a corrupt ruling class. The obvious investments by these bank officials are paltry compared to the true depths and breadths of thievery being officially sanctioned and facilitated by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

The only solutions are to repeal the 16th Amendment, devolve almost all Federal power save for national defense, repeal the Federal Reserve Act, return to the Gold Standard forthwith, and create new Constitutional Amendments to establish term limits, a balanced budget requirement, the creation of a Council of Censors to try all officials who violate the Bill of Rights in their most generous interpretation, and to establish Domestic Nations and Homelands for them with ownership by their tribal governments and not the Federal Government.

None of these measures, save the last two perhaps, are likely to gain purchase among America’s elected officials who will decry them as impossible, fantastical, and even radical. The Fed will hold its “ethics review” that will make surface suggestions and then keep pillaging our economic productivity in favor of the extremely few at the expense of almost everyone, especially productive workers in the middle class.

One may see in the creation of such Leviathan-like institutions the obvious signs of a civilization in deep and alarming moral, spiritual, and ethical decadence that cannot be managed or changed by the present political system because the massively corrupt ruling class is using that system to protect itself.

The Federal Reserve is a creature of a ruling class that arrogantly sees every human being as a commodity and pawn in their own games, all meant only to serve the benefit of that ruling class. Its ethics inquiry is pure theater.

Authoritarianism Has Infected Our Society and It Must Be Defeated

Bill Collier September 13, 2021

Authoritarianism isn’t a strictly Democratic Party thing, it’s a malady afflicting almost all people with a high position, in government and corporations, whose first reaction to most problems is to force people and to delegitimize dissenters and opponents. The very rhetoric common to elections, in which the other side is painted in the grossest terms and with exaggerated caricatures, is an authoritarian tactic when you cannot win with ideas and/or your audience, the voters, lacks the mental discipline to be won by ideas rather than personalities and slick marketing.

Unfortunately none of us, including the Freedomist, is immune from this malady in our rhetoric and, while we must call out true authoritarianism and corruption in uncompromising language, our collective conscience as a country has been perverted into this authoritarian instinct toward the “others” outside our group. If our forefathers said something like that our form of government required a virtuous or moral people, surely civic virtues must be included in that “morality”, not just our own convictions about love, marriage, family, and decency.

Whether it was George Bush the second and his war on terror, along with his “Patriot Act”, or Biden’s vaccine mandates on all companies who have over 100 employees, the basic instict, left and right, is to use the hard power of authoritarianism rather than trust people as individual, families, free associations, free enterprises, trust communities, and local governments to make the best decisions for themselves. In an environment where everything outside state and federal government has the most power to choose and where these bodies of people and individuals choose what is best for them, the best and smartest ideas triumph over foolishness.

Devolution of corporate and political power from the few to the many is an essential element in any kind of freedom agenda. This must be coupled with caring for the places and people in our country who have been historically and presently left behind and denied equal and just access to the “American dream.” This is a vision of liberty with justice for all and prosperity through a combination of merit and equitable opportunities, regardless of race, ethnicity, income, status, sex, or anything else.

The desire to have a free and pluralistic society of equals where merit is matched with absolutely equal opportunity leads to an instinct that is averse to using the hard power of authoritarianism. Nothing, not even a pandemic that has less than a 1% chance of killing the afflicted, justifies authoritarianism, but for most politicians, every crises is an opportunity for self-aggrandizement or to do favor for cronies who helped them into power.

The Biden administration’s reliance on authoritarianism is becoming intolerable for those who disagree with his neocommunist ideology and his perverted hedonism. But for those who endured Trump’s ideology and who saw his ideas as undermining social justice and fomenting divisions, the same sort of angry opposition was the result. Trump’s rhetoric was hostile, crude, and lacked decorum and was almost always meant to engage in character assassination rather than engaging in ideas.

We are not losing our collective minds over Trump’s rhetoric and, while we reject such behavior in any leader, the truth was that President Trump did not materially assault our core freedoms as most Democrats do, but other Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Kevin Brady, have no compunction with using authoritarianism. Both, for instance, support the ideas of taxing miles driven and installing a breathalyzer or something like it in every car, all gross violations of our human dignity and human rights.

The attitude from those on the right, which we as Freedomist have long been associated with whether we mean it or want it or not, is for those disadvantaged by our society to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps”, and to stop whining about racism or social and economic justice or historic wrongs like slavery, native genocide, or prejudice. When being black and living in certain cities is a guarantee of lack of equitable and fair opportunity and of societal prejudice, the right response is to rally around such people and demand restorative justice without violating anyone else’s rights in the process.

The wrong response is to demonize all white people or to use this as a justification for authoritarian measures, like “outlawing”, now via corporate monopolies, “hate speech”, and broadening the definition therof to include any idea not in harmony with the enforcer’s pet ideology. The wrong response is to deny this injustice and to hire mercenary occupier cops who treat the populace like the entire community is one vast slave plantation.

Authoritarianism as we define it is the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to corporate or governmental powers/decisions and policies at the expense of personal freedom and self-determination among voluntary bodies of people, usually coming from a lack of concern and respect for the wishes, concerns, needs, or opinions of others.

This definition of authoritarianism is accurate and useful as a plumbline to determine whether an official, corporattion, or any entity, including the so-called “press”, is acting out in an authoritarian manner. We find thereof that aspects of authoritarianism have pervaded our culture and our very discourse to such a degree that one hardly realizes that it is present on their side but readily sees it on the other side.

If your response to something is to want to make it mandatory, whether by corporate or government power, and to show a lack of concern or respect for others who may have different opinions and needs, then you are afflicted with this malady. You are also part of the problem. We are part of the problem!

Freedom is built on virtue, liberty, and independence. Included in virtue is social and economic justice that leaves nobody behind. Included in liberty is equitable opportunity to have a fair and even chance at life. Included in independence is the country-wide mutual assurance and restoration of people and communities who have been left behind so that they can become materially independent.

As Freedomists we want all the freedoms associated with the right in their rhetoric, things like free speech and self-determination, self-preservation and a free market. We think our friends on the left should also embrace these things because without them social and economic justice are just words used to make people angry and get votes without actually helping them.

But as Freedomists we also embrace the virtue of social and economic justice by which nobody is left behind. We embrace equitable opportunity and fairness so everyone has the same even chances based on their true merit of character and skills. We embrace mutual assurance to help people in crisis and restorative justice to lift up people and communities left behind until all can become materially independent.

We urge our friends on the right to see in these things not a leftwing plot to impose comminism, though actual necomm progressives are using rhetoric about these things to move us toward authoritarianism. We urge our friends on the right to realize that if we can address these issues and needs then our entire free and pluralistic society will flourish and freedom will prevail.

For instance, white shaming isn’t restorative justice. Restorative justice is when a disadvantaged person and their community are given a hand and assistance to become prosperous and to take back their power in a way that matches their needs, wishes, and beliefs. The end goal of restorative justice is for every person and every community to have the same platform and opportunity to prosper and succeed and to always enjoy the same human dignity and human rights which leads to human flourishing as everyone else.

We must both purge ourselves of authoritarian thinking and we must discern, expose, confront, and overcome authoritarianism wherever and however we can, and that without partisan favor or prejudice.

Why People Vote For Authoritarianism

Bill Collier August 22, 2021

Incredible as it sounds, most voters most of the time are likely to vote for some degree of authoritarianism if the person or policy promises benefits based on shallow needs and wants and/or parochial interests. It’s not a left or right, Democrat versus Republican, thing. Regardless of your left or right leanings or your party affiliation, you have been subconsciously indoctrinated through socializing agents and acculturation to not think deeply or according to ideals and principles, which makes you relatively easy to control.

Today we make note it is mostly Democrats who are keen on authoritarianism, but they are not the sole progenitors of authoritarianism! Authoritarianism is basically a monopoly of power and control by a snall hierarchical cadre, often but not always led by a dictator or monarch, without any practical accountability to anyone.

Democrats are not the problem, at times past especially, and probably in the future, Republicans also bend toward this trait. The Republican leadership typically offers reactionary resistance to most anything that addresses poverty or racism or any real social injustice. This belies their claims to be all about freedom and prosperity, because if you deny justice and equality to some, even if just through neglect, you are not truly for freedom and prosperity. Just as the left wears justice and equality as a banner to repaint their authoritarianism, so the right tend to wave the banner of freedom and prosperity, neither side’s leaders actually live up to these branding claims.

Why then do Republicans in primaries and general elections often promote authoritarians like Mitt Romney and the Bushes? Why did the GOP become essentially a sort of fan club for one man, Donald Trump, whose own behavior and some of his views also tend to go against a true freedom and prosperity agenda? (Being for or against Trump isn’t the issue, the issue is that many simply follow Trump and don’t really have any other reason to support Republicans.)

Why do Democratic voters let people control their party who genuinely reject the fundamentals of civil rights whenever it is convenient and/or hurts their opponents? Why do Democratic voters tend to support an abundance of laws and regulations that fail to deliver on their promised benefit while simply making life harder for more people?

The basic question is, why, after one scratches the surface and finds a politician and/or a policy that tends toward authoritarianism do voters in both parties vote for these people and policies? More basically, why do voters vote for authoritarianism?

The average person and the mass mind follow basic animal instinct, they judge every book by its cover and they weigh most every choice on shorter term personal gain of the most basic of needs and wants. The average person and the mass mind live in a shallow way, they don’t dig too deep or look too high, they cannot see very far in the future or very far into the past. The entire premise of marketing is to understand and influence the instinctive aninal brain and to depend on a population not being trained to dig deeper, to know history, or to use logic and critical thinking to ascertain long-term future probabilities.

If you were to explore, learn, understand, and apply the deeper and more sublime ideals and principles of freedom, the balance of virtue, liberty and independence and the core ideals, you would find that you are not very free, that most all your political options tend to oppose these freedom ideals and principles to some degree, and that you can be more free. But most people don’t think in terms of ideals and principles and they don’t consciously or with any discipline evaluate anything on the basis of ideals and principles.

The word “indoctrination” is usually a negative term for people. When schools stop teaching essentials and skills and seek only to indoctrinate children into following a radical leftwing authoritarian ideology, even though it is not presented openly for what it is, we think of indoctrination as something very bad. But indoctrination is just the internalization of doctrine and if the doctrine is good and the indoctrination process is open, transparent, and engaged in freely, it’s just a way to internalize a compass that gives direction to our decisions and behaviors and thus increases our chances for success and happiness.

The insidious and deliberate use of socializing agents of influence and control to subconsciously inculcate us with what are bad doctrines rooted in authoritarianism is the kind of indoctrination we need to guard our hearts and minds against. The use of this form of indoctrination has never been worse or more prevalent in human civilization. On the other hand, we have never had more information and insight into how socialization and acculturation work than we do now, so we can protect ourselves from this like never before.

Most people are not self-indoctrinated to understand freedom ideals and principles, therefore they can be made to support people and policies that undermine their own freedom, do them injustice, create massive inequalities, and reduce prosperity for most people. It is true that justice, equality, and prosperity matter and tend to promote success and happiness, but the foundation of these things is freedom.

To be clear, our concept of freedom is not to be confused with the brand of freedom used to help elect Republicans. Often this is itself rather shallow and limited and doesn’t include freedom from abuse, injustice, and exploitation.

Freedom exists when you are mostly governed by a combination of your own individual choices and the common standards and norms of your own free associations with other people. Justice happens when all laws and policies by ALL institutions equally and consistently protect your freedom and both respect and nurture your human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing without bias or favor, privilege or prejudice. Whatever other needs and wants are promised by any politician or policy, if they tend to shift the governance of your life towards coercive systems like the system set up by monopoly corporations or the state, then they will tend to be a drag on your life, not a benefit.

But most people cannot fathom this because the causal relationship isn’t direct and immediate, it is indirect and more long-term in its effects. An authoritarian policy can bring short-term benefits to some people, usually the targeted voter base of the party proposing such policies, but the longer term effect is that those very same people experience a decrease in freedom and an increase in cost that doesn’t justify the benefits of the policy.

Welfare as constructed and provided has gutted the family unit and rendered whole cities third-world-like nightmares riven with corruption and violence. Few will ever understand that voting for the party that offered these “benefits” is the reason they were raised by a single parent, went to crappy schools, have brutal police who see them as animals, can’t find a good paying job, and can’t find a faithful mate who will love them for life. Most of these people would never even read these words because The Freedomist itself isn’t endorsed by their quisling leaders who sell their communities to the Party for a pittance and then peddle bogeyman fears and utopian promises as a hallucinogenic.

People vote for authoritarianism because they cannot or will not indoctrinate themselves with a freedom ideology that they can internalize to make better choices, including their own daily life and who and what they vote for. Few people will ever agree to and embrace the truth that ideals and principles should guide our choices, including how we vote, or that every choice should basically be subjected to the litmus test of those ideals and principles.

A quote wrongly attributed by H TrevorRoper to Joseph Goebells, Nazi Propaganda Minister, sums up the methodology of all authoritarians:

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be “the man in the street.” Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

The only counter to this is to have and hold a deeper freedom ideology based on sound logic and reason and that promotes success and happiness both broadly and for each individual. Yielding to anything, whether force or empty promises to meet shallow wants and needs should never be an option. But history shows that such intellectual and moral courage and discipline is always the exception for individuals and almost never the rule for the masses.

Obtaining and internalizing a freedom ideology isn’t just a good way to make better voting choices, it is a secret formula for personal success and happiness that, if you use it consistently, will tend to make you more free and more prosperous and will tend to protect you from injustice and unequal treatment based on bias, prejudice, and bigotry. If you want justice, you must start with freedom, but to protect freedom, you must uphold and advance justice.

Until we see a new day emerge where most voters follow ideals and principles before promises and shallow parochial interests, we will always see authoritarianism gain some support from most voters.

Building Local Gaps for Freedom Is A Group Project

Bill Collier August 17, 2021

What building local gaps for freedom looks like is a happy neighborhood that is free and prosperous and that isn’t under the thumb of a corporate-government monopoly seeking to undermine faith and family in order to create an atomized society of cogs in a machine that benefit only the ruling class.

Gaps for freedom basically means anything that allows more freedom than the systems and structures of society normally permit if you depend on them. If you depend on the monopoly corporate platforms to express your political views or the monopoly corporate payment processors to get paid from clients, then you are not very free. If, on the other hand, you can get your message out past the censors and process payments without the monopoly corporate payment processors, then you have found a gap for freedom.

Even official edicts are often couched in conditional “dependencies”, like if your business is public-facing they will demand you comply with things that violate your conscience, or if you want to cluster together with others of a same mind but use traditional means to buy and sell or lease property, you don’t get to choose the people who live right beside you. In both instances, there are ways to find gaps for freedom: a business that only caters to members of a private club or a mutual benefit corporation that only sells shares to members of a private club, are good examples.

Building freedom locally is the best way to eventually pish back against and defeat the freedom takers, unless they wish to go full violent totalitarian oppressive, in which case the consequences of upheaval would be theirs alone.

Unless you are rich and can command a small army of staff and personal security to isolate you from the greater sociocultural, socioeconomic, and political environment, you will find that your options as an individual are limited, Buying food in some places and getting supplies without a Walmart or an Amazon are virtually impossible for an individual, but not for smaller groups of around 120 adults who can grow food and use bulk buying, even paying a member to travel and get supplies not locally available. Indeed, this group could even create a sort of private “general store” that knows what everyone wants, buys in bulk, and then lets members buy with a private trade scrip.

If you want to be free from an increasingly authoritarian and intolerant ruling class and their corrupt national institutions and mega corporations, you have to be willing to network with and share resources and work with fellow freedom seekers who desire the same kind of life as you do.

People who desire the kind of life that is represented by millennia of Christian moral and doctrinal orthodoxy are the most vulnerable to the freedom takers in their bid to reshape society through manipulation, bullying, and coercion by the corporate world and the government. Their vision for society is an alt-gendered mass of atomized individuals whose “freedom” is limited to pleasure-seeking without any nod at all to the kind of morals and virtues needed for a society wherein most children, most of the time, are raised in a living home by their own biological or adopted parents.

It isn’t enough if you do not demand or desire anyone to follow this way of life and if all you want is to be able to live this life, express yourself, and even organize your own private associations and relationships on the basis of those standards and norms applicable to this life. Not only don’t the ruling class want you to share your views or express yourself along these lines, they don’t even want you to be able to live such a life, which they deem to be “out of bounds.” What this means is that the ruling class believe, or they want everyone to believe, that a man loving a woman and both raising their own children together and being wed for life is itself ‘oppression” and “evil” and that we must do away with both the propagation of this idea and with anyone trying to live out this idea.

But, the problem for them is, they cannot be open about this and if they use hard power, if they attempt to close off all gaps for freedom and make it legally impossible to live at peace if you both live our and express this way of life, they will find themselves unable to control the resultant uprising.

Sadly, for most Americans, there will never be a massive majority who resort to this way of life again, who are vocal about it, and who will use whatever gaps for freedom they can to get around the “soft” and conditional restrictions imposed by the corporate and political world. What this means is that, the tolerance for the minority who would use these gaps for freedom will be driven by both a fear lest being overt creates an uprising and out of a belief that if only a few people are doing this, it won’t seriously interrupt their plans.

Building freedom locally demands that you find and connect with fellow freedom seekers and that you become or find freedom builders, people with knowledge, skills, and resources to build gaps for freedom by the use of technology, financial arrangement, mutual benefit corporations, private clubs, and the such to shift how you spend your time and money from things the ruling class controls to things you and your associates control,

Freedom Will Have Its Homelands

Bill Collier August 10, 2021

Freedom is under assault and will always be the target of freedom-takers of every religious, political, and philosophical persuasion, but freedom is as stubborn as life itself and will always gain purchase on some ground, somewhere. The trick is to know where, when, and how that freedom will emerge and gain purchase so you can be there instead of stuck on some plantation, toiling away in a drone-like animalistic manner.

We will unilaterally build freedom in new ways, with new structures, and in the form of new communities and spaces ruled by the ideals and principles of freedom as defined and provided for by God!

If bondage is the natural state of humanity without the presence and influence of the Kingdom of God, then freedom is the transcendent state of humanity where the Kingdom of God in its essentials and elements is being activated in people’s lives. Too often we focus narrowly on the machinations and capabilities of the freedom takers without considering the superior power and supernatural resources of the freedom builders who, inspired by the Kingdom of God among us, are not limited or defined by the intentions of the bad guys.

Eschatology, the study of the end times, has done more to shift our focus from truth and light to danger and darkness than anything else. The perception, now over 170 years old, that the antichrist is at hand and that now we must but endure the tribulation and become martyrs has crippled the people of God and sent the forces of freedom on Christ into headlong retreat.

Those who do not accept the possibility of victory in this life are a miserable and sad lot who also tend to not be happy until everyone around them also joins in this pessimistic worldview. Their God is a God who leaves them powerless in this life, mere prey to the enemy, because somehow this glorifies God and is necessary in order for the end, and final deliverance, to come.

In the event the ACTUAL tribulation, not the hard times that weren’t the tribulation but that led Christians to abdicate the field to their foes, comes it is, at worse, 7 hard years followed by a massive victory. It is not the next hundred years being treated like an animal and only responding by saying this is proof the end is near.

The Kingdom of God will advance on this earth and nations will be converted right up until the end, the final battle. Never will the entire earth be free and neither will the antichrist ever gain total control. Our expectation is that the influence and witness of the Kingdom, mostly measured in saved souls and then sociocultural and socioeconomic impact that shapes the kingdoms of this day, will always advance, in many places it will prevail as never before, but the battle against the forces of darkness and bondage will also become more intense.

Darkness will become more vile but we will also see greater and more faithful fidelity here and there to God’s blueprints and frameworks for human civilization, for the nations, and for the Body of Christ. The faithful will gain insights, wisdom, and favor to advance into a more glorious future but those mired in darkness will stoop to lower depths and invent even more depravity.

The “trick” is to be in the side that is avdancing, to know what God is doing to advance the Kingdom, when, where, and how, and place yourself and your family right in the middle of that flow.

We posit that God is raising up a new Kingdom nation as the vanguard of a new Civilization predicated on Kingdom ideals, namely Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. The revival of older nations who once knew Christ, the conversion of nations who are alienated from the Kingdom, and the birthing of whole new nations whose God is the Lord is, for us, the future of the Kingdom advancing among us and it is in this work real freedom will be found.

The globe-trotting, morally barbaric ruling class who see humans as but a commodity to serve their happiness imagine they have the money, the armies, and all the major institutions and, therefore, resistance to them is futile. Sadly some Christians, equating these rulers with the antichrist and the end-times, also see in their power an invincible force we cannot escape except through a martyrdom or staying below the radar. The idea of confronting and overwhelming these freedom taking loons and building freedom which they cannot assail is unthinkable.

The new birth of freedom we envision will come through a Biblical concept and application of nationhood that is spiritual in its genesis, is unilaterally embraced and practiced in community with people on a freewill participatory basis, and that is protected by God in the same way ancient Israel was protected from the Midianites.

All over the world, whether it is your piece of land or an intentional community, a refugee camp or a whole city of refuge privately run by an international Christian society, freedom will gain new homelands and if or when the worldlings, whose hearts are set on their course by hell, turn their wrath toward this work of God, they will be throwing themselves into their own pit which they have themselves dug.

For those who cannot believe in such a hopeful and glorious future, for those who see giants in the land, and for those who fear stepping into our path lest they gain the attention of the ruling class, we cannot but pray for and love you. As for us, our focus is on building the new gaps for freedom, developing new structures, around a Biblical model of nationhood and a prophetic insight into the emergence of a new civilization.

We do not expect easy sailing. But we will give better than we get, we will be more a problem to the rising class and the forces of darkness than they could ever be to us. Our expectation and hope is for victory!

More Intolerable Acts Circa 2021

Bill Collier August 10, 2021

The “infrastructure bill” is part of a long line of intolerable acts aimed at voiding the Bill of Rights and transferring wealth from workers and producers to the ruling class who produce nothing of value for society at large.

Bill Collier- For lovers of liberty and American patriots who don’t absolutely hate their own country, like the ruling class do, the “infrastructure bill” is the latest in a string of intolerable acts which appear to evince a design of tyranny. From wasteful spending to requiring a breathalyzer or other “alcohol monitoring” and even cameras in new cars to a per mile user fee that turns all roads into toll roads, this intolerable act is yet another example of top-down control and wealth redistribution from the workers and producers to the uber rich ruling class and their core of voters.

Cryptocurrency miners and blockchain software developers dodged the bullet of being required to act as brokers with privacy-busting reporting requirements to our lecherous IRS, those “swarms of officers” whose locust-like parasitism on our wealth is notorious and getting sinister. But the number of devilish details meant to fund the ruling class, further transform average people into serfs, and buy off a zombie army of mindless drone voters, in this bill, supported by the GOP and the Democrats, may be too numerous for anyone to add up. At over 2700 pages, this bill is a mass compilation of bad ideas that make the ruling class richer and you less free. It is an affront to the Bill of Rights, common decency, and the free market all designed to create the groundwork for a one-party authoritarian regime.

Finding ways to get over and around its onerous provisions will be a virtual cottage industry and any alleged good it fulfills will be greatly outweighed by its baneful impact on your liberty and wealth, unless you are part of the ruling class or a target of their vote-buying largesse.

Back when being an American meant something more than just living in this country, back when it meant a passion for freedom and a strong and courageous determination to stand for liberty and vanquish freedom takers, bills like this would be responded to quite differently. The officials behind these bills would become pariahs and new elections would sweep them all out of power.

The tyranny is real and the intent to defraud the public and transform this country into a one-party authoritarian regime is also obvious. But the outrage is a murmur, a pale whisper, and nobody appears to back justice against the freedom-taking ruling class and their collaborators in Congress. Neither local governments nor states and certainly not the faux opposition party, the Republicans, stand with average Americans who just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace.

Those who desire freedom have a high mountain to climb and the odds are stacked against their efforts to push through and obtain freedom, prosperity, peace, and safety. But the battle to pursue freedom and defeat the freedom taking ruling class is incumbent upon us all, whether we desire it or not, because we, the average people, are the target. What is more, as these intolerable acts pile up, and given the totalitarian bent of the Party in power this is just the start of their war on freedom, you will have no way to avoid the baneful effects of their efforts.

The infrastructure bill is another intolerable act that is, as all such acts, aimed at the heart of freedom and designed to further plunder your wealth.

The Four Core Ideals To Equitably and Justly Build Freedom For ALL Human Beings

Bill Collier August 8, 2021

Freedom will win and enlightment will overcome deception and lies because no human or natural power on this earth can forever prevent the eternal universal laws of causality (the laws of Creation) from operating in their full effect. Freedom and enlightment are the elevated state of humanity in God’s ordained plans, bondage and deception stem from a sin nature inherited like a curable disease from our first ancestor, Adam.

The laws of Creation all bend toward a movement and evolution in the direction of freedom and enlightment: people and whole civilizations that remain willfully locked in bondage and lies will experience the consequences of defying the laws of Creation. When an old civilization becomes mired in the sin nature and its proclivity toward bondage and deception it fails and in its failure it causes widespread destruction and harm to anyone who remains dependent upon its structures and institutions.

Our focus is not on the sin nature, the fact our present civilization has become mired, or the coming catastrophic upheaval that will wreck this civilization over the next decades. Our focus is on another outcome that attends the collapse of old civilizations: namely the emergence of a new civilization from within and outside the borders of those lands dominated by that old civilization.

Those who embrace the new, if indeed the new is based on the ideals of freedom and enlightment which come from our elevated state, find ways to escape the negative consequences of the old civilization’s moral and spiritual collapse and, if enough people embrace this, can help entire lands and nations of people transition peacefully from old to new!

We can see the future by understanding the cycles of history and seeing both where we have been and where we are going. We can see what is possible and what is inevitable. We can see the present civilization is in rapid moral and spiritual decline and yet we can also see the emergence of the new civilization.

The four core ideals of the new civilization include a Judeo-Christian understanding and balanced application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. These are not ideological platitudes! If you understand both their inner harmony, like “Democratic” versus “equality” and “Unity” versus “diversity”, and their interdependence with each other, like how each ideal is balanced by the others, you arrive at a disciplined approach to action, interaction, lifestyle and governance that is guided by wisdom to produce mutually and individually beneficial results.

The application of these core ideals of the new civilization, which alone is guided by four core ideals and not just one, opens doors and enables you to navigate life, relationships, and scaled-up associations with others in a profitable and stable manner. Every civilization is based on their own version of one, possibly more than one, of these ideals: they are the essential ideals of human civilization itself.

Those who properly understand these ideals from a holistic and people-centered perspective, with the aim being to harmonize with God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations, can more effectively build freedom on an organic and emergent basis with minimal top-down centralized control. We would say that without fully understanding these ideals en toto your methods and processes will struggle to produce freedom within a franework of righteousness and justice and on a purely freewill participatory basis.

The four core ideals are not our answer to racialist/racist systems, like nazism or identitarianism, nor to right-wing and left-wing authoritarianism.

The symbol for these ideals, the Upadarian Cross, is in many ways seen as the antithesis of the swastika or the hammer and sickle, but only because its invention came after these hateful symbols became infamous.

The two lines that cross each other and form a cross, one with hashes on its end and one without, represent diverse individuals or groups intersecting and connecting. The surrounding diamond represents the four core ideals which gives them organic cohesiveness without violating their individual spiritual sovereignty, their shared regency, or self-determination, in freewill participation with one another. This cross represents the idea that all human beings are created equally in God’s image and are owed respect and protection for their human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing by any society deeming itself righteous and just. Tolerance, respect, righteousness, justice, equality, and equity are the catchwords of the Upadarian lifestyle and governance discipline.

We prefer to say that the Upadarian cross represents the core ideals for a just and righteousness civilization, one that is fully based on freewill participation and not coercion. These ideals predate the baneful totalitarian and/or racist ideologies, and so we recoil at the notion the Upadarian cross is somehow our “response” to the swastika: the racist swastika is a counterfeit symbol rooted in hate that is a response to God’s love, it is the anyithesis of justice and equity, these things, as represented by the Upadarian cross, aren’t the antithesis to nazism, communism, racism, or totalitarianism!

Put another way, the Upadarian Cross represents core ideals that are fundamental to a just and righteous society based purely on freewill participation, while symbols like the swastika and the hammer and sickle are the antithesis to the Upadarian cross!

Whoever uses the Upadarian cross is affirming their love and respect for humanity as beings created equal in God’s image and is committed to tolerance, acceptance, and respect for the human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing of all other human beings on this planet. The Upadarian Cross is the symbol of the new civilization which we envision emerging in this world on a purely freewill participatory basis, that is, by people and voluntary groups or intentional communities, adopting these ideals as their standard of self-governance.

If you see something like Democratic equality and you think this means “majority rule” or “equal wealth distribution”, then your understanding lacks balance and harmony. This doesn’t mean you aren’t smart or noble, it is just what has been crammed down your throat without being shown the inner harmony of this ideal, its Judeo-Christian roots, or its understanding in light of the need to balance it with the other ideals. What is also lacking is an understanding how this and the other ideals can and should be used on an individual basis and within strictly voluntary groups and communities, instead of as a political buzzword that had no real value in everyday life!

The four core ideals are a blueprint for building freedom in your own life, relationships, and associations and by studying their deeper meaning, inner harmony, Judeo-Christian roots, and balance with each other, you begin to form a proper, balanced mechanism for mutual support and advancement that has no peer. If two or more people make these core ideals, again with their inner harmony and in balance with each other, the guide for their conduct, standards, and norms, they will tend to produce good results for all concerned.

Indeed, even if you simply use these ideals to make smarter decisions, once you learn and internalize them, your decision-making will improve and your habits will begin to organically enhance your life instead of dragging you down and holding you back.

Like the four core ideals, the Upadarian Cross stands firmly against things like racialism, racism, bigotry, intolerance, exploitation, and authoritarianism. But more than standing against these things, the four core ideals and the Upadarian Cross stand FOR the advancement of equitable and just freedom for all human beings, without exception.

A Plan For Saving America

Bill Collier August 1, 2021

The Freedomist plan to save America is a threefold approach:

– promote material independency and the increase of faith, family, and community

– promote local civic activism aimed at turning municipalities and counties into Freedom Sanctuaries that are self-sustaining and self-governing through a Town Meeting system

– develop an online and street level activist core which can mobilize thousands in any Congressional District and millions around the country

It is in part through our broadcasting of this vision and arming readers with reliable and actionable intelligence that the Freedomist hopes to gather enough supporters to fund this effort. As and when support grows, our intention is to invest in reaching and gathering people, providing them with key infrastructure to facilitate cooperation and collaboration, and to pay people at the state and Congressional District level to lead efforts to mobilize and support activists.

Without people on the street showing the banner of freedom and confronting the woke communists in a visible way that media cannot conceal, because everyone can see this, it is impossible to begin to reverse the tide of woke cancel culture extremism and the march toward authoritarianism. Our aim is to stop, reverse, and end the woke communist threat against our Union and its regimen of freedom for all citizens.

The very first step you can take to support this effort is to become a subscriber to The Freedomist for as little as $4.99/month. Subscribe now as we grow our audience and content and so we can implement this plan.