what does freedom mean to you?

i had two main reasons for going to keene recently

1. to find out what freedom meant to them


2. to understand their principles/values/priorities

for some, freedom meant smoking pot. for others, the freedom of religion. for still others, it meant the opportunity to build a life - they were fleeing oppressive states

a few new ideas presented themselves

• volunteer society


• what do you (does the state) have to do to prevent someone from doing something?


• big tent freedom (strategy of inclusiveness)

here are some more that i already valued

• non aggression principle


• self ownership


• non-obligation (Rand/Objectivism vs communism "from each")


• gun in the room (Stefan Molyneux)


• the immorality of victimless crimes


• morality of self-defense

i recommend that you spend some time researching the above to solidify your principles/values (ala Glen Beck). note that there may be an act (ex freedom to practice your specific religion) that may be abstracted to a more generic idea (freedom of religion/expression/association/non aggression)

free keene!

I am writing this post from Keene, New Hampshire. For those of you who don't know, Keene is the heart of "Free Keene" a movement to create a society on the libertarian philosophy of volunteerism. It is loosely related to the "free state project" which has libertarian roots, and is strengthened by the state's official motto: "live free or die".

Like most movements, there is a passionate core here, and hangers on who are more interested in the social aspects. But a few examples:

• every night they perform civil disobedience by openly smoking marijuana in the town square
  




• when challenged by the police the movement gained so much strength that they ended up smoking the plant in the police station
  




• when false flag anarchists defaced a local church activists (with a majority of atheists!) repainted the building


• they openly carry firearms on occasion, though all I met were dedicated to non-violent solutions


• they like to enjoy life by co-ordinating social events like movie nights and taking the group to Halloween events


• they have found ways for people to participate as they like - civil disobedience for some, active politics for others

yes we koran

this would be a funny text to a political cartoon with obama and his core (radical) supporters as the image - talking about the ground zero mosque, burning, etc

is the president still commander in chief?

i'm wondering if the military is still under control of the politicians, or if they've gone rogue and there's a cover up. i got a sense when obama increased troops in afghanistan, that it might not have been a willing act. now that we've pulled out of iraq, except that we haven't - does the source of the double talk originate from politicians who want to be in the war but also want to get re-elected, or is it from the military-industrial complex that wants to placate the public through their controlled talking heads?

reminds me of rome - beware the visigoths!