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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Harmonious thriving communities

« on: June 24, 2016, 06:00:53 PM »

I've been wondering the same thing for years. I'm assuming when the time is right, one of these will drop into my lap. 

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Child board suggestion: Surveillance State

« on: June 24, 2016, 05:58:59 PM »

I regularly log onto Googles tracking site to see where my movement has been tracked to. The results are quite hilarious. They're working off towers my phone is pinging, and a lot of times they are miles from where I actually am, as well as some places that show up in my history that I know neither I nor my phone have been to. On the one hand, I do hate the surveillance state, but on the other, I love all my tech gizmos. 

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The Philosophy of Freedom/Libertarianism/Doctrine of free will / Re: Molon Labe

« on: June 22, 2016, 10:34:39 PM »

Great blog. Fits about 100% with my views.

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Strategy/Organization/Ideas / Re: Committee to make the Libertarian Party libertarian again

« on: June 22, 2016, 10:25:06 PM »

These go here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGK-IbEW3LQ&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/JuTks_ikfuc?t=244

(Skipped Adam's part)

Patriot- Act/ Iraq war supporting Bill Weld? Yeah, that seems like a real fucking march towards freedom.

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Current Events / Re: Ted Cruz is no libertarian

« on: June 22, 2016, 05:31:40 PM »

Going to disagree Adam...

Your analogy would be more logical IMO if you considered the act of voting as being apart of taking in part of a robbery.  Because without people to vote, elections would be completely meaningless and pointless. Voting is like being the get away driver...

There are many schools of thought when it comes to anarchism / voluntaryism / libertarianism that it's inevitable disagreements take place. I personally see the act of taking part in the state (be it voting or running for office) as a hypocritical act...especially when you denounce statism.

The theory of "plants" inside the voluntaryist community COULD be likely, but again, so many different schools of thought inside this community leaves me to believe it's just difference of opinions.

I wish this post had been answered. Very spot on mister. Voting for anyone who does not follow the NAP is completely in opposition of my moral code and beliefs. And since none of them do....

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The Philosophy of Freedom/Libertarianism/Doctrine of free will / Re: Is it moral to take a federal grant?

« on: June 22, 2016, 05:26:24 PM »

But doesn't that add to the "demand" for more taxes? Or in other words, we are demanding the gunmen steal more money to pay for not just their bombs to send into hospitals around the world, but also to pay us for whatever we got them to agree to pay.

Is it moral for me to rob my neighbors houses so I can pay to build a playground in the neighborhood? Nope. What if I hired some thugs to rob the neighborhood and they only get a cut of the action so I could still build the playground? Still immoral. Why is doing it through the government any different?

As for morality being tied to survival: I fundamentally disagree. We are meant to Thrive, not merely survive. Survival implies a struggle to exist or continuing to exist. But through a life of love, or as Adam put in in his book, happiness, we can then live freely. Freely living isn't simply surviving, it's thriving.

Let's pretend that your taking a grant directly translated into a tax increase. It will eventually get to the point where people will have had enough. Some of us have found ways that no matter how many grants are given, it is zero impact on our lives. Besides, they're going to do whatever they're going to do anyway. That is to say, they will take as much as they need to without regard to anyone's well being. I have a feeling income taxes are more of a suppressant of the everyday man than a a financial need. They get all of their money from importing smack from Afghanistan, selling water to aliens, whatever. I understand your moral dilemma, but you may actually be helping to crash the system, thus liberating the people trapped within it right now.

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Adam's YouTube Channel / Re: Adam Fails

« on: May 21, 2016, 05:06:12 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6M3ltvrNkU
Here's an example of private policing and its effectiveness.

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Adam's YouTube Channel / Re: Kokesh endorses McAfee

« on: May 20, 2016, 05:26:31 AM »

As I just said, I don't categorize everything into one of two polarized opposites.  There are many shades of grey in the world and nothing is purely good or evil.

Really? Nothing purely evil or good? I'll give you that that may well be true most of the time, but if you don't think that the people who people who orchestrated 9/11 or Sandy Hook or any one of 100 other staged events were full of pure malevolent intent (whoever they might have been), I fear that with that mindset we are far away from the mark of truly freeing anyone, including ourselves. For a person I've noticed is willing to move forward at a barely perceptible rate of growth concerning the removal of these terrorists, you sure did speak in an absolute right there.

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Adam's YouTube Channel / Re: Adam Fails

« on: May 20, 2016, 05:16:10 AM »

The loss of law enforcement as a deterrent to crime? Really? Like when Di Blasio pissed off the NYPD and they had an intentional slowdown for about 2 months? I'm talking where summonses for things like open container, jay walking, and other revenue generators were all down like 80%.... And what do you know, crime dropped. It's easy to show high crime numbers when everything is a crime, thus fostering the belief that we "need" these gangsters policing us. More people in the populace armed is a much better deterrent than the police because if a would be criminal doesn't know if you're armed or not he is a lot less likely to target you.

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Peacekeeper: the app that will replace police.

« on: May 17, 2016, 05:07:14 PM »

How does it work?

You start a group... Can be family, like minded people, your county, whatever. You set your radius, in other words the max distance you'd travel to help. Then you send out alerts if something goes sideways. The app gives you specific scenarios (pulled over by police, cop blocking, broken down being BULLIED for fucks sake), the ability to live stream video (while your phone pretends it's off). I know a bit more about Cell 411 as I've had it longer and the PeaceKeeper app was a bit buggy, which is I'm assuming why it's down for retooling. I have yet to really use it (Cell 411), and the one time I "tested" it by sending out a general alert about the DOT being in a church parking lot in my home town to generate revenue I got massive feedback about people coming to help me. I fucking panicked because I said right in the alert that it was an FYI and a test more than anything else, but I started getting all these responses. "so and so is 25 miles away and on their way to help!" and the like. Just grab it and check it out for yourself. You can always uninstall it if you don't like it.

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Peacekeeper: the app that will replace police.

« on: May 16, 2016, 03:23:32 PM »

FYI the app is not available at the moment in the Android store. Their website says they'll be back up with a new version soon.

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New York / Re: New York State Organization

« on: May 16, 2016, 02:12:02 PM »

Great! Can I put you both down as County Coordinators then? What contact information of yours can you share here?

Sure. askandrewanything@gmail.com

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Preparedness

« on: May 12, 2016, 09:34:43 PM »

I guess I'm a half assed prepper. I have some food long term stored, and a supply of seeds. I'm pretty well trained in survival in multiple theaters, but I'm in no way ever looking forward to having to use it outside of training my son and the occasional camping trip.

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Peacekeeper: the app that will replace police.

« on: May 12, 2016, 08:34:26 PM »

http://peacekeeper.org/vision/

Peacekeeper will allow for self-organization of community-wide self defense and emergency response.

Can individuals protect themselves and their community? Certainly!
Can the idea catch on and become a mass movement? And if so, how soon?

I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

Love it conceptually. Not a large enough community yet to be practical. Another great one is Cell 411. Peacekeeps did however send me a nice free t shirt lol.

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Current Events / Re: Ted Cruz is no libertarian

« on: May 12, 2016, 08:16:34 PM »

I just can't follow that. Not that I lack the mental facilities to do so, I just can't. There is not one single person I can name anywhere withing 50 miles of me who is currently holding or running for public office who in any way represents my interests. No one, when elected is going to relinquish any of their power of office. I'm glad you have that belief to hold onto though.