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Messages - Adam Kokesh

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Alabama / Re: Alabama State Organization
« on: June 10, 2016, 03:04:33 PM »
Thanks, Jacob! We already have 9 going and 12 interested on the event page!
https://www.facebook.com/events/283436188661180/

Can you please send them a message introducing yourself as the State Coordinator, thanking them for RSVPing so early, and asking them and encouraging them to help promote the event? THANKS!

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Mississippi / Re: Mississippi State Organization
« on: June 10, 2016, 02:06:01 PM »
Renea - Great emailing with you and excited to have you on as State Coordinator!!!

Canaan - Can we put you down as the County Coordinator for Desoto? What contact information can you make public? Can you help Renea promote the event and recruit other County Coordinators?

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Nebraska / Re: Nebraska State Organization
« on: June 10, 2016, 12:58:51 PM »
Updated with you both! Lynn, thanks for stepping up by email as State Coordinator! Kurt, I got you down for Hall. How about you focus on filling in all the other spots for County Coordinators?! Lots of Counties with no coordinators in Nebraska!

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Strategy/Organization/Ideas / Social Media Response Team
« on: June 05, 2016, 09:27:12 AM »
I have heard from several potential volunteers that they would like to do the kind of online social media campaigning that people like Clinton pay millions for. I would love to see this come together in a way that brings our talent together to devise effective strategies and ensures our efforts are synergistic, rather than redundant. Wouldn't it be nice if every statist comment on the internet received a rebuttal? Maybe that's an exaggerated fantasy, but the reality we create will blow people away!

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Strategy/Organization/Ideas / Re: Media Team
« on: June 04, 2016, 01:42:29 PM »
Amanda! Welcome aboard! It was great talking to you on the phone and getting you spun up. I'm going to start recruiting volunteers for this and sending them to this thread. How would you like people to be able to contact you? Please post the press release here soon as it's ready! Let's make some waves next week!

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Strategy/Organization/Ideas / Re: Media Team
« on: June 04, 2016, 09:33:54 AM »
Stradog - "handling your media and PR" right now is just me responding to emails and scheduling interviews. I'd like to be able to do a lot more and more high-profile interviews, but we need help with the outreach! It's very easy and anyone can help significantly in just seconds. Following someone on Twitter you'd like to see interview me? Send them a tweet with my handle, @adamkokesh. Local newspaper? Send and email and follow up with a phone call. TV? Same thing! Radio? Call in and do it live! Speaking of which ...

LOCAL MEDIA PROMOTION FOR THE TOUR!
While we're traveling the country, most days, we'll have some time to do local radio interviews the day of the event in each city. We have to be at the venue at 5 every day, but anything before that is an option, including pre-taping. This kind of coverage is really good for bringing people out to events, so if there's a station in your city where were having an event, please reach out! It's not too early to schedule something in advance. Please just direct them to email me at adam@thefreedomline dot com and we'll set it up.

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Current Events / Re: Ted Cruz is no libertarian
« on: June 04, 2016, 12:18:49 AM »
Saying that voting makes you an accessory to a crime is a logical fallacy. It would be the same as if there is a robbery in progress and you yell, "Stop!" That doesn't make you an accessory to the robbery.

I wonder if people who are so rational except for this are just too frustrated to apply logic to this particular non-dilemma. Some of them are probably plants to keep voluntaryists from getting involved. It's even worse when they say that running for office is statist. So much fallacy. So much fail.

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Current Events / Re: just a few thoughts
« on: June 04, 2016, 12:00:47 AM »
Well yeah but ... we're working on it.

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Satoshi - Thanks for a great intro here!

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Nonviolent Communication
« on: June 03, 2016, 07:46:23 PM »
Andrew - LOL! That approach is easy to explain. The opposite takes a bit more thought!

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Preparedness
« on: June 03, 2016, 07:44:51 PM »
I think waking up to voluntaryism makes you appreciate the value of being a prepper, but they are separate and everyone has to weigh the value for their own situation.

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"Every cent you can get from them to survive better is one cent less they have to bomb a hospital half way around the world. One cent closer to their inevitable collapse."
THIS! If you are not violating the NAP or encouraging unethical behavior in taking the money, then do it.

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Question definitely needs more specifics. At any given time, you are doing both, because you can't be constantly expressing all your beliefs, and yet by existing, you are at least expressing some of them.

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Magnaniman - WOW! Can I hire you to be me? Great answers.

Taylor -
"But what happens in the event of the dissolution of the federal government to the constitution? In other words, how do we protect ourselves from cops who won't immediately stand down and will still throw us in jail for unconstitutional reasons?"
The Constitution is only as relevant as people make it, and right now, it's only relevant for justifying power, not as an effective check on it. I've been arrested more than several times by police acting contrary to the Constitution, and never once did that piece of paper fly in and intervene. What the police do is determined by what the people support and tolerate, not what the paper giving them an excuse to do it says.
"Also, will there be any affect on healthcare?"
Magnaniman's answer here is great. Healthcare will immediately be much cheaper, and there will be much better ways to pay for it. We can only predict just how much better, as without federal regulation in the way, long-stifled entrepreneurship will finally be let loose on the healthcare industry.
"How does the actually dissolving of the government start?"
It starts right now by withdrawing your consent and support! As for the administrative process, whomever is elected on this platform will have a very specific mandate. There are a lot of gradual plans, but mine is the ethical one that immediately absolves the government of any authority by executive order. By the time anyone could be elected on this platform, the dollar will be useless, so it's hard to predict how much government will actually be left. I imagine this will be a matter of picking up the pieces, cleaning up the mess, and giving the land back to the people as equitably as possible. Please see my thread on the "Freedom Dream Team" for a bit more of the specifics. http://thefreedomline.com/forums/index.php?topic=665.0

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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Got any advice for living the dream life?
« on: June 03, 2016, 07:25:45 PM »
Taylor! I would hope this forum is the perfect place for this conversation! (Just not this exact subforum, so I moved this to "Living Freedom.")

I would hope that when someone comes across my YouTube videos, that they don't just keep watching videos, but rather get what they need and get back to living. How many hours do you spend a day watching videos? Does it enrich your life? What is the point of diminishing returns? I would imagine it's when you complete your worldview based on thinking for yourself.

Matt said, "not everyone has the means to pack up and live off the grid." With the rare exceptions of severely disabled people, I strongly disagree. You may not be able to live comfortably right away, you might have to save money for a while to make the leap, but living off the land is, you know, ... what everyone used to do! The rest of Matt's advice is outstanding and doesn't need repeating. I just want to emphasize something very important to me in this: Living free and happy is EASIER than being miserable. If you want this, you have to reframe and understand it this way.
Working a slave job is hard. Being your own boss is easier.
Paying taxes is hard. Not paying as many taxes is easier.
Living dependent on others for your food is hard. Making your own is easier.
Being miserable and frustrated and enslaved is hard. Being happy and free and empowered is easier!

I'm honored to be hosting this conversation.


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