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Prospects For America 2021-2022

Bill Collier July 16, 2021

Being a predictive analysis in brief of the next 18 months leading up to the 2022 mid-term elections.

The prospects for America remain highly mixed and volatile as a cross-current of interests and powers are acting within the socioeconomic and political space to manufacture their desired outcomes. At the same time legitimate organic movements, historic processes, and natural events are disruptive of any centralized “management” being applied. No group of human beings can control everything and attempts to do so, which hearken back to Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, will never succeed, though the pain and misery they cause will be substantial.

The leading power includes a temporary alliance of corporate shot-callers, influencers who benefit from more libertine social policies, the press who thrive on chaos, and top elected officials all within a framework run by a group of shot-callers who’s main vehicle of power is the dominance of the Democratic Party. It isn’t necessary to specifically name these shot-callers, their comity of action can be seen in the way certain narratives and claims become broadly parroted across all institutions.

It should be noted, the typical wacko (and frankly racist) conspiracy theories about rich white guys, Jews, or aliens, or what have you, are not what we mean by shot-callers. This simply means individuals and/or groups which act in concert who have an outsized influence. These actual shot-callers can and will change from time to time but the general trend in terms of the type of goals and policies they support or nudge seems to have the logic of a consistent and cohesive leadership when, in truth, it isn’t really quite like that.

The spiritual perspective is best desribed in James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Extrapolating a certain logic from this, we often say of certain groups, whose fruits and stated goals defy God’s standards of righteousness and justice, that they are “set in their course by hell itself”, in other words the genesis of their bad ideas is not so much the human imagination as the imagination of the rulers of hell. If hell can set your own tongue on fire which can set the whole course of nature on fire, then surely the motivation and agenda of certain people can also be set on fire of hell.

From there, however, it’s hard to speak of a “second” power as would-be opponents of the Democratic Party alliance (controlled indirectly by the actual shot-callers) are themselves divided and almost as unfriendly to each other as to the Democratic shot-callers. These include the establishment type moneyed interests who still mostly control the GOP, the uncontrollable and somewhat disjointed Trump crowd, and business/corporate interests outside the Democratic alliance but desirous of their favor or at least not wanting to cross them.

The US is a duopoly and the various competing elements, the truly influential and powerful, really have to work within and through one or both Parties at all times. What we do assess is that the shot-callers behind the Democrats, who also have their tentacles in the Republican Party, seem to have a fair degree of unity and cohesiveness, for now. This can and will change over time. The Republicans seem to be riven by three groups, including the ones more aligned with the shot-callers who control the Democrats, the shot-callers who gain from the Trump base and America First crowd, and the Chamber of Commerce types who are caught between two sides and haven’t really made a stand on their own.

We cannot emphasize enough that there is no formal or cohesive organization or structure for these shot-callers. We identify the comity of action and track who and what groups of interests benefit from certain events to broadly define this as a shot-caller group.

Economic factors include rising inflation, supply chain disruptions, government debt spending, Chinese aggressiveness on the world economic stage, and the potential for new Covid-19 variants. All the things we listed above will act on the economy, from the machinations of the shot-caller groups, led by the groups controlling the Democrats right now, to organic movements and natural events as well as historic processes.

Geopolitical factors include the growing closeness of Israel and its neighbors, Russia courting Israel, the US vacating the Middle and Far East, Chinese aggression against her neighbors, and Turkish aggression.

As for the political landscape in the US, the real problem is fourfold:

1. The press are as heavily focused on propaganda and whitewashing bad news about Democrats and good news about Republicans that the things that may lead to a big loss for Democrats in the midterm may not even raise to public consciousness

2. The data on actual public sentiment is unreliable and is driven more and more by how it is framed, audience sampling, amd the blatant political bias of the pollsters

3. It remains to be seen if a majority of actual voters will ever care about the things they once did, like the economy or perceptions of government corruption

4. Without any hints of illegality, it remains true the the election process itself has now becomes politicized and the rules and methods are all being bent to suppress one side and boost the votes of the other

At present, the shot-callers who control the Democrats and some Republicans are in the apparent assent, but they are neither without real opposition by other less powerful but not weak opponents nor immune to organic movements, historical processes, or natural events.

In a normal scenario, minus massive and sophisticated media manipulation and untruthful reporting as well as the massive election legerdemain now being engaged by both sides, it would be potentially hazardous for Democrats who lost ground in the states and barely held on to the House. The election process in Georgia in particular leaves many feeling like some sort of unfair, even if “legal” process gave the Democrats an undeserved victory in taking the Senate by a 50/50 tie only broken by the Vice President.

This may sound like a Republican versus Democrat thing, but the DUOPOLY is the arena in which the battles between the ruling elements in our civilization can be most clearly seen. In 30 years we may see a Republican Party used by a different set of shot-callers that is as much a hazard to liberty and prosperity, for different reasons.

All in all, the “most popular President ever”, Joe Biden, won because the press contributed BILLIONS of dollars in campaign support and propaganda which they called news. It doesn’t takr being a conspiracy theorist or accusations of outright fraud to posit the idea that the election process was hijacked by Democrats and other election officials who went outside the strict letter of the law to make ballot harvesting and the overall process favor Democrats only. On the other hand, it may be wishful thinking on the part of Republicans to dismiss the idea that the voters themselves may have simply wanted anything but the manufactured chaos orchestrated by the US Intelligence Community to run Trump down.

It wasn’t a clean win on merit when all the supposed referees, including the Press and the courts, were in the tank for Biden. But it may have been perfectly legal. After all, “democracy” is a system where whoever controls information, communication, education, and culture creation can manufacture or manipulate popular consent for almost anything, even to the harm of those who voted for it.

We now live in a world where all news is filtered solely from the perspective of how it helps or hurts Democrats so any real crisis, which will blow up regardless of whether it gets coverage, will take everyone by suprise who isn’t paying attention off the platforms and outside the press. In short, the stronger group of shot-callers has decided to push for a single-party system, like in California or New York, where the other party is barley token resistance. The institutions and structures they collectively control are all in for this agenda, to transform the US from a duopoly into a one-party state.

The public is, however, getting sick of the crises after crises and the alarmism being used to manipulate them. This is bringing real pressure on the ruling class groups to normalize life again, somehow. We predict that before next May things will be made to stabilize, the worse actors on the authoritarian left will be shushed and the worse excesses will be curbed. The need to preserve a Democrat win in 2022 is vital and normalizing the country must take place first. Again, this is based on our assessment that a general consensus among the strongest group of shot-callers is that a one-party state is best for them.

In the meantime, like anyone putting off an unpleasant task, the Democrats won’t seriously consider reinging in their riotous and intolerant mobs, both on the streets and kmljne, until around next April or May. As for the economy, the shot-callers will enage in profit taking and exploitation, likely until next March, when it will be necessary to tamp down the chaos.

Efforts to capture the GOP from Trump and his people are the only guarantee that even a GOP win in 2022 will benefit the ruling class, their goal always being to control both parties. Look for massive new scandals, real or imagined, and lawfare against anyone who remains useful to Trump. The plan, whether it succeeds or not, is to defame and ruin Trump and marginalize his more ardent supporters. As the potential benefits of this plan include either capturing or destroying the GOP, and the downside is minimal since no real accountability and pushback is possible, this is almost a certainty.

Instability, more lawfare against Trump and his ardent supporters, market manipulation, especially in cryptocurrency and real estate, coupled with ongoing egregious and violent acts by the Democratic Party’s paramilitary irregulars will plague the next 6-9 months but, by next May, normalcy will be restored, at least in appearance.

Will the Republicans win back the House or the Senate in 2022?

The short answer is, probably not, but not because the voters are happy with the Democrats. The courts, the media, and election process legerdemain mean that unless the Republicans in key areas hold a 10 to 15 point lead in real numbers, they cannot overcome these headwinds.

But will the shot-callers who seem to be on the ascent now win the day and transom America into California, where only one party rules? This is best left for another analysis, but the short answer is that there are opposing shot-callers and dynamic historic processes that will make this highly unlikely. The opposition to the current dominant group will ultimately find its footing and marshal its defenses. While weaker, the opposition isn’t helpless and their chances of finding ways to weaken the dominant group are even.

New Alliance Tackles Pandemic In Face of Political Headwinds

Bill Collier July 16, 2021

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a group of highly published, world-renowned critical care physicians and scholars are striving to find ways to effectively mitigate the effects of Covid-19 through early treatments. Their website is here- FLCC

The FLCCC Alliance – with the academic support of allied physicians from around the world – works to research and develop lifesaving protocols for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in all stages of illness. Their MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol, introduced in March 2020, has saved thousands of patients who were critically ill with COVID-19. Now, the FLCCC’s new I-Mask+ Prophylaxis and Early At-Home Outpatient Treatment Protocol with Ivermectin has been released – and is a potential solution to the global pandemic.

Political headwinds are the only real hindrance to further advancing the treatment options for patients and their efforts are meant to publicize research and findings while documentation successful treatments.

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance was initially formed as a working group under “emergency” conditions of the early COVID-19 pandemic in response to multiple early reports of COVID patients with an inexplicably high need for prolonged mechanical ventilation and an excessive mortality associated with the prevailing “supportive care only” recommendations disseminated by the majority of national and international health care organizations.

Tioga County PA Commissioners Defy Voters, State Senate Over Audit

Bill Collier July 14, 2021

Bill Collier- Tiny, in population, Tioga County PA, where, coincidentally, The Freedomist is based, is at the center of efforts to audit Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results, which, it is alleged, are suspect. Every court so far has denied this, but it is still alleged an audit is needed.

The amazing thing about Roger Bunn, Mark Hamilton, and Erick Coolidge is that their county, the county where the Publisher of the Freedomist (myself) lives, 74.7% voted for Trump and one can gather well over 50% of all voters likely want an audit.

These three Commissioners are an interesting phenomenon where even the most conservative areas surrender their line offices to people who lack the vigor and passion of their own voters. What is more fascinating is that these usually cardboard cutouts for local officials who make no waves usually also lean in the opposite direction of their voters. But, because local politics are usually more about potholes than principles, they never show their true nature or beliefs.

So, while a County of over 40,000 may by as much as 74.7% demand an audit, the Republicans they elected to lead them, for so long and without any real challenge, have proven to not really be Republicans at all.

Having myself watched these men since the first time I came to the County in 2009, I am not even slightly surprised that these three all agreed to disagree with almost every single person who ever voted for them in order to avoid rocking the boat. They’re not bad guys, really, they just got elected by sleepy voters who didn’t vett the people who would lead their County, assuming that of they were Republicans that was good enough.

Again, let’s be clear, whatever one feels about their decision, they have their reasons no doubt, the issue is that we all keep letting people into office who don’t, when push comes to shove, reflect our beliefs and values and nor are they informed by them.

Introducing The Concept of “Nine Governments”

Bill Collier July 14, 2021

The concentration of power and authority coupled with decision-making processes not suited to specific needs and functions is leading many organizations and governments toward forms of centralized control that border on authoritarianism.

We introduce the concept of nine governments. Basically, we envision governance focused on specific areas of human action and interaction to promote human flourishing and to protect both human dignity and human rights. The present 20th century model of “one big system” (OBS) at the top of everything and everyone, is archaic and outmoded.

We have unique names for our “governments”, which give some substance to the concept, but you aren’t limited to our terms or to how we delineate corporate functions for bodies of people. The important thing is to get the concept.

The nine governments in our concept of a national regency of any people group include three primary governments; the Regium, Magisterium, and Ethnium.

The Regium is the unifying government that balances the other two, but is also accountable to both.

The Magisterium is more in accord with the Romans 13 concept of the magistrate and is limited to that role. It has three affiliated governments, however, like the balance between the Regium and the other two primary governments, it is balanced by its three governments: The Governate which is a civil government, the Civitas which is civic government, and the Agorate, which is an economic government.

The Ethnium is the government mostly associated with the Biblical concept of nationhood as a sociocultural and spiritual construct caring for the whole-person needs of individuals and maintaining a voluntary-based sociocultural standard. Its affiliate governments, which also balance itself, include the Ecclesium which is all Believers within a community or people group, the Societas which oversees social services, and the Comunis which provides the social safety net and mutual assurance through cooperation.

So we end up with a national regency, or any scale regency, consisting of some version of the Regium, Magisterium, Ethnium, Governate, Societas, Civitas, Agorate, Ecclesium, and Comunis.

Again, your breakdown may differ, as may your names. But the concept of nine governments means they balance each other, their decision-making processes fit their function, they engage all stakeholders and everyone their impact, and they work both for the good of each individual and the common good.

We also call this plurality of leadership, the idea of multiple mutually-accountable leaders who serve their constituencies as opposed to lording it over them, and with respect for human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing.

This will be presented in our new platform, Upadaria, and community governance, services and benefits, and governance will be guided by and reflect the nine governments concept. In general, if you have a community of people seeking to meet the whole person needs of individuals and the whole community, some version of governance functions related to these nine governments, by whatever name you call them, will be beneficial.

To this concept of nine governments we add the five leadership skills which must exist within each government. These include building (apostolic), guiding (pastoral), forthtelling (prophetic), proclaiming (evangelistic), and imparting (teaching).

When guided by Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law, as understood from a Biblical perspective and as practiced in balance with each other, such a governance approach will optimize all functions, allow for larger scale cooperation, and not tend to concentrate power in too few hands.

Missional Living Isn’t The Absence of Proclaiming Truth

Bill Collier July 14, 2021

The so-called “emergent church”, which has devolved to “progressive christianity”, has tended to embrace missional living. But it’s not what you think.

Pictured above- Freedomist Publisher and Upadaria First Founder Bill Collier, asks, “Are you living a missional life in serving the King (Yeshua) and His Kingdom or are you serving another gospel that isn’t rooted in historical Christian orthodoxy as found in the Bible?”

While real missional living that does justice to Biblical truth does include concrete things to serve others, especially people in need or crisis, it is not the absence of a simple and direct, and unapologetic, proclamation along the lines of, “repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.” The emergent church tends to emphasize corporate redemption, like whole families, communities, and nations, albeit mostly through good works and, increasingly, some form of centralized state handouts of benefits.

Missional living from a Biblical standpoint is absolutely “holistic” in the sense of addressing the whole person in all their needs, living out the Gospel with your whole person and in all aspects of life, and, in ADDITION to seeking the conversion of individuals, seeking the conversion and redemption of whole bodies of people, including whole national peoples.

The key aspect of missional living is a balanced application of truth (as found in Scripture, science, logic, and historic orthodoxy) with experience (spiritual encounters, personal maturation, instinct, and being led by the spirit), to serve others, proclaim the Gospel, and see both individuals and bodies of people converted and redeemed by Yeshua

The stark de-emphasis by the emergent church’s “missional living” of truth and historic orthodoxy, replaced by radical deconstructionist ideas rooted in Marx, and the shift from redemption as in salvation from sin to collective “redemption” measured in purely material terms is alarming and it isn’t missional. One cannot be said to pursue missional living and yet not be on mission with Yeshua the Christ and the Gospel of the Kingdom as it applies first and foremost to the conversion and redemption of individual human beings.

What we used to see done through physical missions, like the Alamo, is needed for us today to provide through our lives and in our homes and neighborhoods, even though the building of new missions facilities is also something that may be necessary.

In missional living we seek to proclaim the Gospel, comport ourselves ethically and morally so as to be a good example, demonstrate the effectiveness and power of the Gospel by walking in the Spirit to practice our faith, being an influence insofar as we are able through our positions and duties in society, and distributing the benefits of God’s blessings to His People for helping those in need and crisis as advocates and in providing aid and shelter.

We thereof have proclamation, exampleship, demonstration, influence, and distribution as the five core elements of missional living, with the provision that in all this we stay true to the Gospel, in accordance with God’s Word and historical Christian orthodoxy, and we keep Yeshua as the head and center of all we do.

Missional living is too much of a buzzword that is becoming watered down to something weak and pale, and, frankly, political and pro-authoritarian. It isn’t missional and it isn’t living, not as God intends living. But true missional living is to see yourself always as a missionary from the Lord to bless fellow Christians, your inner circle of friends and family, the lost, and your community, with attention to mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health in alignment with God’s standards of righteousness and justice rooted in grace, truth, and love.

Cuban-Americans Demand US Action, Democrats Exposed As Pro Communist

Bill Collier July 14, 2021

Cuban-American protestors shut down the Palmetto Expressway near Miami amid demands the US end comminism in Cuba shouting, “Estados Unidos, acaba el comunismo!”

The Cuban connunity in Florida numbers 1.53 million and plays a significant role in swaying elections at the state level, including presidential races. The community are generally unhappy with the tepid response from the current US President who is barely giving lip service to the Cuban protestors and who is doing nothing as the Cuban regime clamps down on dissent.

Despite Biden’s open-door policy for migrants to the US from Central America and Mexico, migrants known for supporting Democrats and socialism according to some, the New York Post reported his DHS has issued warnings to Cubans and Haitians not to come to the US.

According to The Post:

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had a stern warning Tuesday for Cubans and Haitians thinking of escaping the ongoing unrest in both countries by sailing to the US: Don’t even think about it.

“The time is never right to attempt migration by sea,” Mayorkas said during a news conference. “To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

In other words, “if your community isn’t reliably supportive of Democrats, you aren’t welcome in America.”

Famed chess champion Garry Kasparov, generally a supporter of Democrats and the current President, was not amused with the Administration’s response.

“Bad news for the Biden admin when I agree with Rubio & Cruz!” he posted on Twitter. “The people of Cuba deserve vocal support from a US government that isn’t worried about offending its Socialist members by speaking for freedom.”

The Democrats’ collective penchant toward totalitarianism, witness their overblown histrionics about the January 6th riots at the Capitol, which they use to label all legitimate dissent as sedition, is welle established. Their brand of woke communism through a cancel America crusade is still not waking Americans up to this quisling threat to their very national existence as a free country.

At the same time, Florida’s governor DeSantis is vocal in supporting the Cuban community but the recent law passed to make it a felony to shut down roadways and to not prosecute drivers who push through crowds rather than be surrounded and attacked, could be used against these protestors. No arrests were reported and no incidents took place. But the irony this kneejerk law in response to BLM riots may be used against a group favored by the governor wasn’t lost on anyone.

The Biden response to the Cuban protests exposes a bedeviling problem for Democrats in Florida and among Hispanics, who generally oppose actual forms of communism, including modern woke communism, and the divisive social issues/cancel culture extremism that controls that Party.

According to an opinion piece in the Hill, “Biden won Miami-Dade County by just 7 percent, compared to Hillary Clinton’s 30 percent margin in 2016, a decline that put Florida’s electoral votes well out of reach. Democrats also lost two House seats that they thought were safe. Trump won more than 60 percent of the Cuban American vote – the most since Bush in 2000.”

Biden’s current inaction on Cuba may be an admission that the Democrats have essentially given up on Florida for the foreseeable future. If Democrats don’t think this seals their brand as pro-communist, then someone needs to wake them from their wokeness and show them reality.

While it isn’t America’s job or responsibility to free the Cuban people, it is within our rights and interests to more robust support them and to demand the Cuban regime refrain from further abuses or face real action, including potentially arming the dissenters.

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Is The Post Office Waging An Online War On The Right?

Bill Collier July 13, 2021

The political weaponization of every institution they can get their hands on is the playbook of the woke communist core who run the Democratic Party and it appears, according to this report in REASON, that the woke communists have captured the United States Post Office for their political ends.

The report details an ongoing use clones, fake people posing as real people, hacking, and facial recognition software to focus on “the right”, especially on platforms they might frequent to both monitor and disrupt their activities. Literally, if this report is true, the Post Office is acting as a paramilitary cadre to the Democratic Party to disrupt their political foes.

It seems a sensational claim and we would caution more evidence and investigation is required, certainly by Republicans who are the alleged target of this rogue effort, if indeed all this is accurate reporting.

If indeed it turns out the Post Office, a private entity chartered by the government, is acting as an agent of the Democratic Party to not only spy on Americans but to target and disrupt opponents of the Democratic Party, then this would be sedition and rebellion against these United States by virtue of the gross assault upon the Bill of Rights liberties that are being violated.

Reputationally, the Post Office, having allegedly aligned itself with only Democrats as their special institution, would lose massively and if or when Republicans gained power again serious efforts to dismantle such a rogue entity would likely be considered.

The Post Office has some explaining to do and if anyone was using its resources to violate the rights of any American, those people should be tried and, of found guilty, sent to jail for treason.

South Africa Is Not Collapsing Despite Violent Looting In Two Provinces

Bill Collier July 13, 2021

In a rambling speech, President Ramaphosa sought to calm the situation as looters raged throughout numerous locales in an apparent protest against the jailing of fomer President Zuma. While the looting is a serious problem, causing the call-out of the Army and a meeting of all political party heads to develop a unified repsonse, the sensational headlines that claim South Africa is collapsing are inaccurate.

South Africa is in crisis, and all such crises CAN lead to an unraveling, but the forces of civil unity appear to have the upper hand overall, at least for now. Troops have been called out in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, with the latter being Zuma’s homeland. But the looters can hardly be said to be legitimately “protesting” and many doubt this is more than an opportunistic event than an actual public outpouring of support for the former President.

Perhaps real blame lies with Economic Freedom Fighters Party head Julius Malema, a fireband radical neocommunist agitator who has threatened genocide against whites and the rich. Malema’s party has promised to “join” the looters if the Army was called out of barracks. The EFF have been working hard to destabilize South Africa and conduct their own revolution which would plunge the country into race war, not just whites against blacks, but all the racial identifies with one another, and the rich against the poor.

While it is too soon to see if the looters themselves were organized, as it is alleged, by payments from EFF backers to key agitators, it is certainly something that authorities will have to investigate.

Former President Jacob Zuma on 29 June 2021 became the first South African president since the end of white-minority rule in 1994 to receive a prison sentence. South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a 15-month sentence for contempt of court after Zuma defied an earlier court order to return and testify before the Zondo Commission.

On 7 July 2021, Zuma handed himself over to the police and was admitted to the Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Zuma still has his backers, and some say this current dustup is really an internal power srruggle, but the former President was widely believed to be corrupt during his almost 9 years as President, from 2009 to 2018.

President Ramaphosa’s speech, in which he urged calm, was widely panned but all parties save the EFF agreed to back his present measures and to do their part to calm their supporters. But with the army deployed, the looting continued.

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala told the press on Tuesday morning, “Yesterday’s events brought a lot of sadness. The number of people who have died in KwaZulu-Natal alone stands at 26. Many of them died from being trampled on during a stampede while people were looting items.”

The total death toll stands at 32.

The looting and violence are mostly limited to Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

“What we are witnessing now are opportunistic acts of criminality, with groups of people instigating chaos merely as a cover for looting and theft,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a late-evening address on Monday.

Looting is bad, and it could get worse, it may be insitgated by the EFF and/or the Zuma wing of the ANC, as he challenges his sentencing, but South Africa isn’t “collapsing” and most of its people are standing against the madness.

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Safety In A Time of Uncertainty: The Home Security and Safety Cooperative

Bill Collier July 12, 2021

Safety and security within your home when riots or violence are nearby, or against criminals, should be of utmost concern to responsible adults. Simply leaving these matters to the police or hoping for the best, or just having firearms yourself when if you use them some prosecutor may punish you, isn’t enough. This is especially true in urban areas or areas bordering them.

One idea to consider is the home security cooperative. This is a cooperative owned in some combination by its workers and by its customers. This would be a fully vetted and licensed armed security service working with customers not only to patrol and monitor, and respond, but to help them with basic home safety and security preparations and with firearms safety and training, something everyone should applaud.

Within our fictional story about Upadaria, set as a history looking back from 2147, the world enters a major crisis of massive and violent upheavals and the response is a Civic Guard, basically a security and safety, and civil defense and emergency preparedness, cooperative. The Civic Guard in the story has a global structure to pool resources and provide training and support but operates local franchises owned by workers and customers, the customers being members of an international association called a “Commonwealth.”

While this idea is partially inspired by the fictional idea, and in the platform we are building their “Civic Guard” is mostly just a color guard and paintball league, it can be adapted to your own neighborhood needs in the real world.

What this isn’t is a private “militia” of any kind. Let’s be clear, this is a legitimate security company set up by homeowners to meet their home security needs and provide professional backing, training, and support. There is absolutely zero politics involved and this is directed at gamgs, criminals, riots, unrest, and actual disasters and emergencies, including medical, not “the government.”

Indeed, for those concerned with the mercenary nature of some police or those who desire reform, the local security cooperative could become a workable and efficient alternative to burying cops who aren’t connected deeply to those they serve.

The privately owned neighborhood or local home security cooperative, perhaps maybe even call them the Civic Guard, could become a strong means for local people to take their power back from the bureaucrats and corporations and become more materially independent of the influence and control.

This concept is consistent with a Freedomist principle that states:

Whatever you can do privately on your own, through free market exchange, or by collaboration and cooperation, should be done in order to increase material independency and decrease being under the influence and control of others who interests aren’t aligned with your own.

Your own locally owned and operated home security and safety cooperative that fully supports and engages the homeowner ensure your safety, without compromising your independence, even against hazards beyond the scale you as an average person can handle.