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The Freemen Standoff In The Independent Country Of Montana
(Anonymous)
The first shot heard round the West was fired at Ruby Ridge. Since then,the Freemen of Montana have decided to succeed and take control of theirlives. In so doing, they have drawn some fine lines of distinction. Theyhave expropriated the fraudulent paper money supply for themselves, declaredthemselves Nationals and not Citizens, and redeclared the concept of freeland possession by free settlers.
The Freemen have developed a perfect method for satirizing the failuresand successes of the illegal American monetary system--the Federal ReserveBoard--by floating useless paper money without any backing and claimingthat they are following the precident of the Federal Reserve Bank--e.g.,printing worthless money and placing it into the economy, then, charginginterest on that money in one the greatest frauds in history.
In addition, the Freemen have successfully pointed out that the Americangovernment's claim on the lands of Montana and other western states is useless,because a property must first be held and maintained by settlement, priorto expropriation. This land has never been settled, having been artificiallyremoved from pioneers wanting free land.
Think of it this way: The first Europeans setting foot on American soilin Provincetown, Massaschusetts did not apply to the federal governmentfor permission to settle. They just took the land and used it for theirneeds. This continued until the "closing of the frontier," a fraudulentexpropriation of settlers' rights never before utilized in American jurisprudence,except through the "fantasy" of selling lands that had merelybeen surveyed in the wilderness to persons who had never seen it or heldit, except on paper. In fact, the first persons there to hold the land andpay taxes on it, the squatters, were the true owners. Hence, the proof ofthe fiction that the land in the West belongs to the government. It doesn't.It belongs to those who take possession of it.
"I ain't a citizen unless I think I am, and I figure that is up tome and not you.
That's the way I feel in my heart, if you know what I mean."
The land was there far, far longer than the federal government which wascreated by a vote in 1789. This vote did not give the government suddenland ownership. On the contrary, the government owned no land. The westernlands were obtained through agreements with Mexico, Spain, England, andFrance, none of whom possessed the land first, only "claimed"it. "Claims" and "possessions" are different, and thephrase, "Possession is 9/10ths of the law applies."
The Freemen claim to be American Nationals as opposed to American Citizens.They point back to the original "Common Law" of America whichincludes and predates the U.S. Constitution. This is a distinction whichis so powerful, it has a potential to tear apart the fabric of the federalgovernment which is supposed to be, according to the Freemen, a Republic--or,as they put it, a mere corporation, a business, so to speak, whose mainreason for existing is to control the borders and make agreements betweenregions over their own border problems possible.
The end of the Freemen Movement would be the total elimination of thecentralized planning system--e.g., the federal government--and not the continuedincarceration of the Freemen in Montana Jails.
The Freemen Movement is a symptom of the new world view. The internet andworldwide cyberspace are rapidly becoming the new communications realitythrough which the monopolies on speech and thought control in America andin other centrally governed countries will be ultimately broken forever.With internet, a geographical country may simply cease to exist, because,as long as the people in that region are still connected to cyberspace,they are connected to mankind at large--all without the need for a government.The governments--due to cyberspace--may become a mere bump in world realitiesand nothing more than a few web pages.
As we enter a new age of unfettered speech, governments may well witherinto museums of political scandals which can no longer hold together immenseregions as they do today. A cheap computer breaks the monopoly communicationhold on reality that governments used to hold through their access to limitedmedia links such as television, radio, newspapers which were carefully licensedand controlled. On the internet, everyone with a computer is potentiallyan instant television station.
The catholic church lost its hold of 1,200 years on Europe with the inventionof the printing press by Gutenberg. This invention suddenly allowed eachEuropean to be a newspaper publisher if he could just afford a wooden screwpress. With this and a few hand carved letters and numbers the Europeanmight print a single page of news that could reach everyone in Paris orLondon which had only 5,000 persons each.
The Internet is the new Press, the World Press, which reaches everyone thesame moment it is published, just as did the old printing presses in Gutenberg'sEuropean cities.
Today, the church is a museum, and the centralized government, the churchof political ideas in a secular world of material, will be surplanted bycyberspace which is totally different and over which this government cando nothing except try to police all 300 million Americans publishers onit, which is not possible in a world where the government already admitsit can't control much of anything.
"Shut up and don't talk until I tell you to."
The Freemen, The Militias, and other Western Independence Movements aresymptoms of the change in reality. Republics, like the monarchies and castle-militantsof Europe, are becoming irrelevant. The Freemen and other Western Statesare forerunners of the new revolutions whose leaders, unlike Marxists, areseparatists who believe in the exact opposite views of Marx: They believein getting government and everyone else out of their faces. And, if governmentsare not in people's faces, then governments do not exist.
Under the Internet rules, the people themselves are in the government'sface and not the other way around, because there are millions of "us"and only thousands of "them." Besides, in many ways "they"are "us." The government does not have a chance. Their old waysof force and imprisonment are far less usefu, because incarceration of offenderscannot control the transmission of NEWS about what the government mighthave been doing that is wrong. In addition, to put social activitists injail does not stop the transmission of their ideas, and if governments shutdown the internet they cut off the very technology they need to keep upwith other countries, so they cannot do that, either, without becoming aninsignificant player.
That's why some people truly believe that governments are finished, exceptas museums. Computer-linked people are part of an entirely new relationshipbetween the people and themselves in which government is just a hindrance.
If this is true, for government, it is over. It is now only a waiting game.A few more spasms, and government will become another Humpty Dumpty.
Like the Kings who watched industry overtake their old aristocratic connectionsbased on land ownership and render them antiquated, government is decayinginto meaninglessness. If so, government's elimination, like that of theKings of old, may be merely a matter of time and evolution.
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