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Great article and superb collection of quotes. The one that stood out most to me was John Locke's comments: "Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are THEREUPON ABSOLVED FROM ANY FURTHER OBEDIENCE." Rather than fleeing to "safer" states to escape tyranny and reclaim more freedom via running from tyranny, people must understand that this is only a temporary relief and if things are left unchecked in the places from which they fled, the tyranny will increase unchecked and metastasize and will eventually overtake all parts of the country. Then where do you run? The key to ending this tyranny is to remain where you are and DO NOT COMPLY, first small things, then larger things, and do this continually. You have to spread the truth in small ways that are digestible to the uninformed and unaware. A lot of small actions lead to larger successes and this spreads. These ideas lead to the great Samuel Adams quote: "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men" and equally Margaret Mead's comment "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." I would argue that perhaps it was a not a terribly large group of equally committed but evil people in the world who have tirelessly worked to make the negative changes we are increasingly living under right now. They did this in small but continual ways and it was right under our noses that it happened while not enough people noticed. This global control movement started incrementally, and involved relatively few people, but then it spread and involved larger and larger groups of people over time. So similarly, to counter this it first takes a group of awake, aware and committed citizens to work tirelessly to halt this global movement of power, control and ultimate slavery. As more and more increasingly aware and similar minded people observe and see this, they will join in. It starts at the local level. It doesn't have to be via enormous groups of people demonstrating in ways that can get out of control and be squashed by their currently more powerful opponents. Small groups of opponents who are spread throughout all parts of the country can ultimately become powerful enough to stop the bad players and their plans.

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Howard Steen's avatar

That is quite a teaser! Thank you for a very insightful and useful article in a series I will look forward to following just as I look forward to developing new skills in the resistance effort. I agree with diversity of approach towards the common goal we all share: To be left alone by governments and elites to live our own lives and not the ones they try to make us live.

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