Similarly, in our human societies, the leaders of the resistance to tyranny receive most of the tyrants' attention. Or more to the point in our partially free American society: those of us who point out the ravages of a bully or would-be tyrant—analogous to the gorilla above—will likely feel that bully's wrath first... just like dealing with the cops in a corrupt town... or the IRS.

Further, in the absence of a genuine impartial investigation of the attacks, all evidence (and reasonable inferences from the evidence) indicates the attacks were false-flag, black operations of the US government in cooperation with other Western-government intelligence agencies....

Speaking on "the level of effect," as carriers of the sacred truth of the way of the nonaggressor, we need to keep our eyes on the ball for every swing at the plate. Like Jesus, like Ghandi, like Tolle, those of us who choose to work and play on these 'fields of dreams'—where the vision of the simple humanity of a free world is at stake—need to stay at it....

My thoughts and good wishes are with Bernard and other victims of the American Prosecutocracy. Please, for those of you who still have resources not yet stolen by the state or its corporate beneficiaries, help the Liberty Dollar win this legal battle. Many other such battles are shaping up this year...

Well, as I continue on my walk around the community center, I recall the obnoxious 'Clickit or Ticket' banner across the street from our meeting room. It appears to be posted in front of the Jackson Police Department. Our defiant 'Enough is Enough' guy has finally found a perfect message to lampoon...

As time goes by and our need to evolve becomes apparent, as sovereign individuals we must honestly assess the political institutions that lay claim upon our living energy and determine whether these claims rightfully apply. If not, we must decide—individually, peacefully, and voluntarily—whether to accommodate the political authority or to end the relationship... establishing a better system to satisfy our needs.

The precious words written by Thomas Jefferson still take my breath away, bringing chills from head to toe. To me, and to all my kindred souls in the freedom movement, what the Declaration of Independence captures is nothing less than the meaning of sentient life in the Cosmos.

You know, reading through all the horror files of what the government is doing to men who haven't committed any crimes and aren't US citizens, I'm reminded of the so-called War on Terror. The modern US government has reverted to absolute monarchy... where the king's men exercise pure, unmitigated, arbitrary power over everyone.

To me poker has always been a 'casual gambling' opportunity, where I meet with some friends, eat copious quantities of bratwurst and starchy fillers, drink beer, tell stories, fart prodigiously, and occasionally play a hand of cards.

This morning driving with Mom down to the Wayne State area again—the university is midtown and directly across Woodward Avenue from the DIA—the one book that rolls over and over again in my mind is Jane Jacob's Death and Life of Great American Cities. I remember her classic assertion: "The cities of America did not die, they were murdered... by the city planners."

I have a young friend from the Free State, and I asked him a couple of years ago whether he was paying his income taxes. He replied, 'No, I won't support torture.' Somehow his simple phrasing has stuck with me and become a shorthand for characterizing any refusal to give money to the state based on moral principle.

Well, I wanted to start by suggesting that one shouldn't try to forcibly dictate exactly what one plans to do when you set off on the journey of life. My way, which is certainly not conventional by any means, is to set out in a certain direction that seems right—e.g. early moving to the Free State—and just let Nature take its course. As long as you keep moving, 'keep riding,' it normally works out. I've been right so far.

And so it begins, at least my two cents worth of hopeful contribution to the general cause of freedom. I've been occupied for the past several weeks on these pages in the development of the Sacred Nonaggression Principle (and book of the same name)—the SNaP basically elevates the simple nonaggression principle [the kindergarten axioms: don't hit, don't steal, be honest] to the highest moral standard in society...

This year I'm going to try to stay as current as possible with day-to-day activities, so no one has to wait for a few weeks to get the news. And news it is, at least in the Live Free Before You Die crowd, the Free State Project minions now well established in New Hampshire and planning to make their stands here come hell or high water. Things can always go our way, too, even with the advent of the Obamanon.

The Kleptocon pundits are completely correct that we need something quickly because the patient is going into cardiac arrest and will soon be a corpse. But where these power-elite intellectuals and economists would administer a shot of the same poison of statism—government spending, borrowing, plunder, and war—I propose a massive hit of the adrenalin of economic freedom.

Stated for the record, my objective is to quickly and effectively spread and teach the SNaP. I want to see the SNaP become the mother's milk of human civilization, its sine qua non, its political alpha and omega, its new social metaphysics. As I mention in the subtitle for the SNaP field manual, the advance book is particularly addressed to teachers and public servants.

In the former installments we've proceeded from the general uneasiness that freedom-sensitive people feel, to who we (and they) are, to the spiritual calling toward liberty that comes from our kindergarten lessons, finally to the 'sacred argument' that insofar as the nonaggression principle goes... there is none higher. In this chapter we come to the fueling of a grass roots movement dedicated to that proposition.

What we learn in kindergarten—don't hit, don't steal, keep promises—suggests that an adult society without coercion should be a straightforward achievement, the rule rather than the exception. Alas, we see this isn't true, that humans indeed seem be losing out in a world of the 3 Fs: faith, force, and fear. Why?

To me the little boy in the Kleptocon living room the five-year-old kid who knows that the answer to our problems lies in what he and his peers are taught in kindergarten: don't hit people, don't steal their stuff, and keep your promises. And that is especially true if you work for the government, since the purpose of government is to protect people from aggression.

So 'what if' the main reason people insist on initiating force is 'for the good of the whole' (an altruistic argument)? Then 'what if' we counter that the good of humankind cannot be achieved by violating the highest moral concept possible to humankind—the (sacred) nonaggression principle?

To answer my own question, on the peace and civil liberties front, will OP stand and deliver? I think we can clearly state right now OP's administration will stand head and shoulders above its predecessors... or at least head... perhaps forehead only. But better, okay?

The empire gets a free pass because we've been led to believe—through our government schools and our media and our court intellectuals—that what's truly important is whether Anna Nicole Smith is abusing drugs, or Paris Hilton deserves jail, or Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes can reconcile their religious beliefs...

I seriously believe 2009 will witness the full propagation of the crack in the Monolith—the Oligarchy, the Kleptocracy, the Whatever 'They' Is—that brings that wretched, trembling old Wizard out from behind the curtain once and for all... where Dorothy and the rest of us can keep an eye on the pathetic little psychopath...

It's becoming an epidemic, one journalist or columnist after another blaming the free market for the financial failures of recent times. Only the term they use as emblematic of the failed policies of the Bush Administration is "laissez faire capitalism." Arianna (Huffington) is the latest celebrity journalist to join the chorus in her column last week...

Here's a comment from investment leader Jim Rogers, which I found particularly illuminating. He's the first one I've seen saying anything about the immorality of loaning money (ultimately taken from competing businesses that have acted prudently and are successful) to firms that are not acting or have not acted with similar financial care or acumen.   

The sad irony is, too, that by government's distortion of investment information—turning a proud economy that was once capitalized to make real-man stuff like Oldsmobiles and bridge trusses into a pantywaist marketplace of Starbuck's franchises and sliced-and-diced loan papers—so many of the solid product advances made by the Big 3 were artificially obscured to would-be buyers or investors.   

Anyway, it may not be intuitively obvious, but liberal—widely distributive of freedom—gun laws that enable American citizens to arm themselves with appropriate firearms in public consistent with the Constitution are an essential quality of a free, civilized country. I believe if you saw what it's like in the Free State, you would feel the same way.   

Times are tough and we're coming up on Christmas, which can be a time when temptations are high to invest in activities that promise to bring in a healthier amount of the legal tender.  I'm offering this column as a public service to readers who may be so tempted, hoping they'll profit from my own missteps in the newfangled world of "online businesses."    

So many others in the freedom movement are continuing to work toward self-government, too. I see the combination of these forces as virtually unstoppable, and I view this incoming literate administration —regardless of its tack and pomp—as a catalyst toward liberty, even despite itself.   

For continuing to prosecute the nonaggression principle, I believe the Obama election made it easier to do so successfully, as well as less difficult to let go of the strain of politics addiction.  For one thing, we seem to be getting a new administration in which what we say and think and write matters.   

The question is will That One tune into the freedom vibe.  Yes, I think so, at least partly.  Clearly Barack enjoys conversing with others, indeed, with all Americans—recall the footage of his eye-to-eye chat with 'Joe the Plumber'—and he listens as well...  

Seriously, as purely evocative as the words seem, I'm convinced they point to a fundamental reality. And most cats—at least at a certain stage of life—'get it.' And what I miss most about my mom's cat is when he was stretched out in a catsleep on a chair absorbing the energy of the sun...  

And as much as I regard the freedom credentials of Bob Barr as a bit shaky, I'm glad he's our nominee. He's respectable, he's polling in double digits in a few states, and he's going to probably take more votes away from the neocon-lunatic Republicans than from the seriously flawed yet essentially-and-redeemably human Democrats.   

If an explosive projectile can strike a building (or in the case of WTC7: alien brainwaves) causing it to free fall symmetrically into its own footprint, then wouldn't controlled demolition companies all over the world clamor to develop that technique? It has to require considerably less money and time than the intensely laborious multimillion dollar technology they use today.   

It's fine, definitely not the Taj Mahal of senior-care facilities, but certainly not One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, either... if you'll forgive the mixed, and stretched, metaphors.  Even though the floors are clean and the staff seems professional and caring, candidly, the place unsettles me.    

And I'm looking forward to discovering how spirituality, especially in the Buddhist/Tolleian vein, can invigorate and elevate our freedom movement to center stage. I feel the Sacred Nonaggression Principle I have articulated is a start.     

But if a leading CL messenger like Dr. Paul believes in Biblical creation, that blows the nuts clean off the buggy.  He may as well believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny... and hey, doc, how about bleeding your patients to cure cancer?!     

With Obama securing the Democratic nomination, what are the bets on him seeing through the Kleptoconic ideological filters and tacking, as I have hoped (or wishfully thought, depending on who you talk to) toward the planet-saving principle of Constitutional liberty (CL)?    

Did our fathers die on the beaches of Normandy so we would cave to mandatory seat-belt laws, smoking bans, drug testing, and 0.08 BAL? (etc.). A heckuva mess, but nothing that a little Ghandi and Thoreau can't solve.     

So as liberty seekers, let's apply the Law of Attraction to our own ends... recognizing that 90% of success, of reaching the fairway of our imagination, is a) grasping the nature of what stands in the way and b) joyously struggling together with other creative souls to remove those impediments.    

Over the past four years, I feel I've come to understand the essence of what has stood in the way of liberty's success.  The obstacle is at once far more specific than commonly understood while also being cleverly concealed from general awareness of its victims...   

I've made my own move [to the Free State] and can tell you from experience that if you really want to be part of the resurrection of freedom in this country and on this planet, some kind of connection with this (mostly) young vanguard in New Hampshire is highly practical.  

But, as we read in David McCullough's book or see in Tom Hanks' series, American freedom would have been stillborn had not men of conviction—John Adams appears to have been the leader in this regard—stood their ground, worked together, and told King George and his corporate lackeys to stick it where the sun don't shine.  

Most of the arguments around the dinner table will proceed as if the choice between Democrat and Republican exhausts the available options. Of course, readers of this column—as politically noncomatose Americans everywhere —know the Libertarian Party (LP) has been around and running presidential candidates every year since 1972... and this year will be no different.  

Race—or more precisely, racial conflict—is mainly what I want to talk about today, especially the black/white American issue, which has become a much warmer button with the emergence of Barack Obama as a potential presidential nominee.  

Keep in mind, with Clinton or McCain, we have absolutely no hope of economic liberty... or civil liberty or peace; each is hopelessly in bed with the real enemy of us all, the Cartel Pathocracy (CP). With Bama we at least stick it to the enemy on two out of three salients (civil liberties and peace), and give the enemy potential trouble on the other salient (economic freedom).  

A conversation with fellow engineers with whom I've worked.  Recently, I joined Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and I conveyed to these fellows some of my reasons for coming to believe that the official conspiracy theory of the 9/11 attacks represents a blatant lie and coverup.  

Rational Review refers to its five-step program generically as a Bill of Rights compliance program through recognition of the BoR as the fundamental law of the land, holding all government officials to The Law, and refusing as citizens to obey any statutes that violate The Law.

Everyone on this side of the grass who's given it a second thought knows we're at a crossroads in the epic conflict between the Grand Imperial Collective (GRIC?) and the rights of the individual.

So here are the seven fundamental arguments why I believe we have the bad guys on the run for good starting this epochal season of 2008.

And the general sense of the golf community comes courtesy the Palm Beach Post golf writer and blogger Craig Dolch: "If Woods doesn't have a problem with it, why should anyone else?" 

The Coffee Coaster began in the latter months of 2006 with a general notion to comment on public affairs from a homey "rational, spiritual, libertarian, transhumanist" perspective.  

Socially maturing, finally, through my 40s I found that I looked forward to personally writing Christmas cards every year... to the point I'd plan to spend several hours normally through the week of Thanksgiving sending up these heartfelt messages.

Just as the Holocaust and the allies bringing (some of) the Nazi leadership to justice impelled (we hope) the broad mass of Germans to purge themselves of brutal dictators, exclaiming 'Never Again!', so, too, bringing our pathological power elites to justice will set up a whole new humanitarian system of free minds and free markets.  

Now that Dr. Paul occupies center stage on the world's emerging pathway to political and economic liberation, why won't he at least speak up for widely known and respected immediate victims of wanton government aggression?  I mean in particular the federal raid and confiscation operation on the Liberty Dollar (LD) organization conducted November 14, 2007.  

Seeds of CI were planted back in the days of the Cryonics Society of Michigan in the 1960s, based on the 1962 radical life-extension masterpiece The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger.  In 1976, CI was founded for the express purpose of providing "cryostasis services: careful preparation, cooling, and long term patient care in liquid nitrogen."

On the morning of Wednesday, November 14, 2007, a dozen agents of the FBI and Secret Service raided the offices of the Liberty Dollar company (LDC) in Evansville, Indiana.  The Liberty LDC is a private precious-metals and value-based currency business that seeks to provide competition to central bank government debt-based paper notes (Federal Reserve notes (FRNs)

Michigan's budget for prisons is approximately $2 billion per year.  As with other state jurisdictions in the so-called Union, roughly half the people languishing in Michigan prisons have committed no acts of aggression on others.  If you cut the prison population in half by freeing the nonaggressors—to be fair you must also expunge the convictions of all victimless "criminals"—you easily save more than a billion dollars.

Keep in mind the average level of play for the typical company league is anywhere between bogey and "why bother?".  But because the scramble format—you take the best of four shots—tends to lift all games to par or better, if you can get over some of your own abysmal strokes, you can actually feel the elation that would come if you were ever to reach par or birdie all by yourself for an entire 18 holes....

Oddly and tragically, this government is also guilty of a serious crime of omission: not a single Congressman has issued articles of impeachment against a warmonger president. Moreover, in light of these deepest transgressions, what's amazing is no massive civil disobedience seems to be in the works 

This is the time of year boys from teen age to middle age huddle around dining room tables drafting mythical football teams consisting of the best players in the National Football League (NFL).  It's become big business, or rather big unbusiness... 

The Danes were also hugely pro-American from the earliest days, about 1 in 10 Danes coming to the States during the 19th century... escaping unemployment or for political freedom—since 1912 Denmark has celebrated America's Independence Day. 

Elaborating on Part 1. If someone were to come up with a pro-Randian group with a name like "Reasonable Objectivists of the Libertarian Left" (ROLL), or even simply Reasonable Objectivists for Humanity, I'd certainly consider enlisting.

Hence, a peculiar and relatively dangerous affliction—dangerous because the views one refuses to change are manifestly antireason and thus antilife—is what I have come to call the Right-Wing Randian Blankout Syndrome (R2BS). (The blankouts mainly take the form of denials):...

The feds and probably some higher level pols at the state level have already tried to make hay out of I35-W, proposing increased funding of this or that.  Both honest left and honest right seem focused on making sure the real infrastructure, i.e. bricks and mortar, will get more attention...

And this what is so special about Rabbi Wine.  Yes, he had a scintillating personality that stirred the brain cells if not the blood.  Yet he essentially transformed a small part of an existing faith-based religion, Judaism, into a reason-focused one. 

When a computer behind the scenes behaves as a random-number generator, too many people accept the numbers without critical thinking.  The results are sometimes comical, but such lapses of mental independence can lead to the more dangerous affliction of "blind obedience to authority."

Rarely in history do freedom people get the opportunity to leverage three simple pieces of national legislation into a massive victory over the Forces of Darkness: the Hinchey Amendment, the Industrial Hemp Farming Bill of 2007 (HR 1009), and the Kucinich resolution to impeach Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).

We haven't discussed much about the etiquette, sociology, or even some of the performance characteristics of social golf in the provinces, mainly because it's such a big subject and it's been covered in books by professionals.  Still, let me give you a few parochial insights:

I guess you could say it just clicked. By 1994 we became a Regular Foursome. I use the initial capital letters to suggest that a Regular Foursome is one of the bigger deals in the universe... like the mating of wild yaks:

This weekend, watching the 2007 US Open golf championship, one of the more brutal contests in the game (where par is an achievement), it occurs to me these men are playing a game "with which I am not familiar."

The wait is over.  They have money, they have numbers, and they're motivated.  The idea of Ron Paul and the ideas of Ron Paul may galvanize millions of people looking for radical liberty, seeking a way out of our mess, eagerly anticipating a zero-BS restoration of a potentially great country.

Little John is a former bartender for the E.G. Nicks' establishments.  John was my primary mixologist toward the end of my alcohol-laden primetime...  We've stayed in touch occasionally via email over the years as I sobered up and he launched into SE Michigan entrepreneurship....

These are the days of neverending self-righteous political hand-wringing and pandering about "illegal immigrants."  Today in the paper a poll says that most Americans want to throw out these hordes of alien invaders—especially those south-of-the-border minions that "take our jobs and ..."

And it appears genuine humans are going to have some sayso in this campaign.  Ron Paul on the two TV debates thus far has led phone-in opinion polls; Kucinich has done similar in the Dem forums.  Both Dr. Paul and Mr. Kucinich have appeared effectively on Bill Maher's HBO program Real Time.

I wanted to work the insights into my rewrite of New Pilgrim Chronicles where I describe what's happening in the Free State on the leading edge of the freedom movement.  Catalyzed by Forrest's character, particularly his naturalism and love of children and animals, I reached an epiphany of sorts.

... As they made the uneventful crossing into the new Mexican paradise of liberty and abundance, Kevin and Kate unfurled two Bill of Rights flags, then set them securely, one on the north side in English, one on the south side in Spanish...

If we give up the bogus War on Terror and the insane War on Drugs, the government would have a cool trillion to play with, like right now. That could buy a lot of 'pushing people around to make sure they have their papers.'

Retired police detective Howard Wooldridge rides high in the saddle to end the drug war.  Not high as in buzzed, but in taking the high road.  He's the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) education specialist for Congress and in town at Michigan State for a lecture on how to end the War on Drugs.

Let me add my three cents on the Don Imus affair.  Does anyone remember the adage Sticks and Stones?  What's the best policy for constructive human relations?  How about some 'Getoverital' and focus on serious matters.

Reminds me of Velda back in 2002 when New York implemented a handheld-cellphone-use ban. She heartily agreed, saying 'Here, here! I'm tired of being cut off by some bimbo-princess in an SUV bubble-gumming her girlfriend!' 

Aaron Russo starts off with an inquiry as to whether or not the income tax is legally valid, then proceeds to make some scary discoveries. We heal our world by living free, by unleashing our individual creative spirits...

Next time you take that slow aromatic, sumptuous draw on your favorite independently crafted India Pale Ale (IPA), pause for a moment to salute the moral achievement it represents, a simple manifestation of the best within us. 

The real people of the world are the ones screwed the worst by the 'synthetics' (big oil, big pharma, big government), and they'll rise up and free the American 300 million.

Sometimes you don't have to be on the right side of the social causes, just fix the downstairs toilet.

Take a breather and learn how to chill with a cosmic hookup to the universal life force. Columnist Brian Wright shares a simple meditation technique for helping you to 'maintain an even strain.'

The Freedom Rider recommends moving to the Free State as the best means of achieving a free society in our time.

From Cheney-Bush to Hillary? Do the horrors of King George mask the hazards of Queen State? In part two, discuss whether Hillary a good choice, what are some better alternatives.

From Cheney-Bush to Hillary? Do the horrors of King George mask the hazards of Queen State? A review of the Bush years and the several crimes against humanity, against the environment, and against the Constitution. Is Hillary a good choice?

Just a humorous bit of copy making its way around the Internet, probably some older terms like prairie dogging, but several that I haven't seen.

In the Free State a bill has been introduced that will legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for personal use. This is a small step for reacquiring our constitutionally guaranteed rights to self-ownership persons.

The issue of excessive compensation for corporate executives has been around for a long time. We can solve the problem by removing special government privileges. Minimum wage legislation is NOT a solution.

Ann Coulter is wrong about the 'war' for several reasons. And she is not alone. The Coffee Coaster shows some real solutions for the occupation in Iraq that don't require blaming people who didn't want to go to war in the first place.

A Michigan woman is unjustly headed to jail for sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy. What can we do to prevent such cruel and unusual punishments for natural sex... even if it shows poor judgment?

Dr. Bette Erwin dies from gall bladder infection. She was a leading figure in the Libertarian Party of Michigan in the 1970s and the 1980s, as well as a leading PHD psychologist-therapist in Southeast Michigan. Her spirit lives on in all who love reason and liberty.

Lauren Canario, the woman twice arrested and incarcerated for protesting eminent domain in Connecticut, is a perfect inspiration for growing the Sacred Nonaggression Principle in society. Let's all get behind the Public Official Nonaggression Pledge (PONaP) program.

The next step is education.  People are still fairly unaware of what aggression is and what it is not; this phase provides the training.  Finally we hold public officials to the SNaP by pledge.

The Sacred Nonaggression Principle provides the solution to all major problems faced by humankind. Here's a summary and prognosis.  First step is making the SNaP "sacred."

We all have fat friends, and we all worry about their happiness and health. Oprah's way of eating, the Bob Greene "best life diet," offers hope to everyone with eating disorders. The numbers of people affected are staggering.

The laws on handicapped individuals make matters worse for everyone. Whenever a "need" makes a right, the ones with take back seat on bus of normal human compassion.

Why not form a new political party for normal people who don't want to live as corporate-state drones and do want to live in a healthy community of individuals who live for their own sakes without sacrifice of anyone to anyone. Could we possibly agree on a Society without Coercion? That would be a libertarian dream to be shared with everyone.

Is Wal-Mart scorching the earth with its special treatment by the state and lack of concern for the communities it inhabits or the people it employs? A nice complement to the movie, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices.

Ann Coulter, the Queen of Demean, despite her predilection for eating children is not always wrongheaded in her political opinions. Here she gets it close to being right, arguing sensible airline policy to profile Islamic clerics... especially when they are chanting anti-American slogans and holding one-way tickets.

Bernard von Nothaus and the Liberty Dollar organization endure federal threats to bring Americans honest money. Round One: freedom fighters.

The challenge is to find the connection between what relatively few people are now doing in the Free State and what community activists are doing all across the country.

The basic argument of New Pilgrim Chronicles and the Free State Project, itself, is citizen empowerment through application of the Sacred Nonaggression Principle.

Can't resist a reflective take-off on Johnnie River's ditty: Corporation Man, sung to the tune of Secret Agent Man. The swan song for the corporate wretched excess.

Michael Moore writes a letter to the former Republican majority and to disheartened conservatives about the recent mid-term elections. Michael, you need to have the ideas of liberty explained to you; here's my letter to you and the others, both Republicans and Democrats.

Two very good exemplary men die in the same week: Bo Schembechler and Milton Friedman We have a lot to be thankful for in their lives and a lot to emulate.

The Mid-Term 2006 elections are significant in forestalling full-blown fascism in this country. Unfortunately, the winners were Democrats and they miss the point the voters were trying to make: we want peace AND liberty.

Commentary about the breakfast menu at McDonald's, it's cheap and filling, gets you going in the morning, cutting the corporate giant some slack.