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Guest Post: This Is The Only Way To Change The System
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
This Is The Only Way To Change The System
Late in the evening on November 4, 1605, an English soldier named Guy Fawkes took up his position deep in the cellars beneath the House of Lords in London’s Westminster Palace. He was armed with 36 barrels of gunpowder and intended to blow up the building, taking King James and most Members of Parliament with it.
Fawkes was discovered hours later, just after midnight on the 5th. He was captured, interrogated, and tortured, ultimately revealing details of his co-conspirators in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot.
History never let it go. To this day, the 5th of November is still commemorated, officially as a celebration of the government’s triumph over its domestic enemies.
[As an etymological note, the word 'guy' is actually derived from Guy Fawkes; it was originally intended as a term of derision but by the 20th century evolved to its current meaning of any male.]
As you can imagine, the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot was anything but comfortable in England. The country became an all-out police state– arrests, interrogations, and inquisitions were all commonplace as the government attempted to smoke out its enemies.
Four centuries later, not much has changed.
Earlier this week, the federal government arrested a quartet of elderly men as old as 73 on terrorism charges. Like Fawkes, they are charged with plotting attacks on politicians and government buildings.
US Attorney Sally Quillan Yates said that the case is a reminder that “we must also remain vigilant in protecting our country from citizens within our own borders who threaten our safety and security.”
In a COMPLETELY UNRELATED MATTER (naturally), major hotel chains in the United States began rolling out the ‘If you see something, say something’ Homeland Security ads across all of their properties.
As of yesterday, US-based Marriott, Sheraton, Holiday Inn, and Hilton hotels will subject their guests to short videos on the hotel welcome monitors. In this particular video, Johnny DoGood calls the police because he sees… wait for it… a man standing next to a taxi.
Meanwhile, Tennessee recently became the first to implement Homeland Security’s VIPR program statewide, essentially placing ass-grabbing TSA agents at various checkpoints along the state’s freeways.
And in just two-months’ time, you can look forward to the FBI rolling out a nationwide facial recognition program. This, after FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that the bureau would make greater use of rules which allow agents to surveil Americans, even if they have absolutely no ties to terrorism.
This police state is the ultimate slippery slope. Once you start fondling people at airports, you might as well take over the train stations… at which point you might as well do the bus stations too. And highways. Shopping malls. Sports stadiums. Grocery stores. And of course, schools… can’t forget the kids.
This only gets worse with time. Soon, any semblance of civil liberty has succumbed to Lingchi, the Chinese torture of ‘death by a thousand cuts’.
It’s understandable that people are angry and demanding change. Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators thought they could change the system through violence. They were wrong.
And even if violent revolution does create change, it usually works out poorly. Russia got Lenin and Stalin after their revolution, France got Robespierre’s Reign of Terror… followed by Napoleon’s military dictatorship.
Others are deluded into thinking they can change the system in the voting booth… and with one year to go until the 2012 showdown, there are certainly a lot of people pinning their hopes on this idea. Most forget how surprised they are when, in election after election, their guy turns out to be just as bad as the old guy.
George Carlin once said, “When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.” He was right. Politics creates problems, not solutions.
In fact, as Rousseau outlined in his Social Contract, the very nature of government requires that people sacrifice some personal freedoms in exchange for certain conveniences. But more and more, the costs in freedom are rising, and the conveniences become rather… inconvenient.
Truthfully, elections are simply clever parlor tricks anyhow, designed to make people think they are in control. They’re not. The only thing we can actually control is what we do ourselves.
Governments are like primitive cannibals feasting on a great treasure trove of sheeple. You can’t force them out, and you can’t vote them out. But you can sure as hell starve them out. When enough people pick up and leave, essentially voting with their feet, it accelerates the system crash.
This is the only way to truly change the system.
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he needs to work on a few "kinks" in his platform to live up to your platitudes - like his stance on a woman's right to body sovereignty, which is just blatant pandering to the Xtian vote.
amrka doesn't need more religiousity in the power seats.
Hooray for this post!
OPT OUT. You don't have to participate in the kleptocracy.
It can be done and is being done.
Don't let
Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt
stop you.
to starve the government out one has to stop paying taxes.
This is where shadow economy comes into place
I disagree that this is the only way to change the system. If we had good representation or cooperative effort in DC things might be different.
Also, during the ousting of the Markos in the Phillipines the police and military refused to fire on their own citizenry. Too bad NY's 'finest' didn't learn anything from that.
Good point, El Viejo
I read a great book on that successful revolution, "Four Days of Courage", by Bryan Johnson. One thing I think we are missing, however, that the Philippine people had was a strong and abiding faith. I think our multi-cultural system has given us something of a hodge-podge moral code that is not very conducive to spawning such a courageous revolution, and particularly helping to protect the people because the military adhered to the same moral code.
Burn me at the stake if you must, but is this the stuff we're reduced to at ZH? Really?
Chin up Wilber!
Simon's back from milking sheep (for roqfort cheese I'm told) in Japan. Just in time to tell us to vote with our feet and leave... God Almighty to where? Peru seriously, I've been to Peru, Chile ditto. Texas? North Dakota where seriously and if your there first and everyone else then votes with thier feet how non-violent will your new shangra-fuckin-la be then? Simon YOU CANNOT RUN!!! At some point you will need to stop, turn, and hold your ground. You may die sooner than you had planned. You may live to see the Age of Aquarius who knows.
As for violence it really doesn't matter. OWS has shown that littering, looking like a bum, and not having the proper permitts to protest are considered violent by the Gub and MSM. They will declare you what ever they want to. That's fine it how this game has been played for a long time. My opinion, as monitored by the FBI, CIA, NSA, and FED is that we should start the ball rolling in small ways.
1)Stop buying shit you don't need
2)Wean yourself from all comsumer credit
3)Teach your children and family to face their inner-sheeple and destroy it. Think!!
4)Pull your cash out of any bank with international ties
5)Stop voting
6)DIY, barter, reuse, recycle
7)Plant a Victory Garden
Anyone could do these (violent) things
If you have the stones move up to level II
1)Don't pay your taxes
2)Only vote 3rd party ever!!
3)Collect all coins starting with pennies and nickles. (remeber Shay's Rebellion)
4)Put all non-necessary fiat into gold, silver, or other hard assets.
Level III is only for you Henry D. Thoreau types
1)Civil Disobediance of any kind (what the fuck ru signing up for the draft for?)
2)Go off the grid, make all you own stuff including power
3)knock down any and all survallence cameras, while wearing a Guy fawkes mask and signing God Bless America
4)Make home made thermite and use it to bring down high tension power lines.
5)Dump diesel fuel into all munciple water suplies
6)Use a home made EMP generator to disable electricle substations
Full Rebellion Level IV
1)Shoot when you see the whites of their eyes.
I myself have only made it to number 4 level 1 next week I will tackle number 5 level one. Wish me luck
Bravo! My observation exactly - there is nowhere left to run too. The wilderness maybe, but nowhere civilized.
Going "off the grid" and living in the middle of the woods IS running. How is that any better than leaving the country for greener pastures?
Opting out of civilization is running. Opting out of American society and living like some hermit pariah is running.
How about for those of us that like technology and the trappings of civilization, but just want it without the police state tyranny? I don't think you've thought this through.
You are not special. You will not change the world. And if you opt out of society and go live in a cabin the woods, there will be 20 illegal aliens to take your place on the consumerist conveyor belt.
Baaaa....
Simon Black - you've stated everything i state on this matter except you just pull your punch on the final solution. You say people should "walk away". Presumably you mean not vote
What good does that do precisely? ...you're still supporting the Govt by paying your taxes. You'd still be sponsoring Govt, the Police State and your own suppression/oppression. Govt has never given a fuck what anybody thinks so long as your money keeps rolling into their pockets
The only solution I've found and the only solution that'll work is to Stop Paying Your Taxes.
Zero Tax = Zero Govt
Why compromise with some half-baked, half arsed non-solution where you play dead while still allowing the crooks and parasites of society to still rob your pocket/living. Nothing kills stone cold dead all our problems faster than withdrawing our sponsorship of this rotten to the core toilet of humanity called Govt
re: "Zero Tax = Zero Govt"
Unfortunately, I don't think your equation holds true in a government in control of a fiat money system. They can print &/or borrow whatever they need. It has been written by economists that taxes are truly no longer needed, other than as a means to influence people's decisions via the old "carrot vs stick" phenomenon.
I think F.A. Hayak is spot on in his book "The Road to Serfdom".
I agree that those in power may thwart Ron Paul's agenda, even if he were to overcome the barriers they continually throw in his way with respect to the elections, and yet, I think he too is spot on that the Fed and our fiat money system is at the root of our economic problems.
Good points both of you.
We live in interesting times.
Vote with my feet. Hmm. What the fuck am I supposed to do, wade across the Rio Grande into Mexico?
I'm a broke ass American, not some jet-setting take-my-ball-and-go-to-Chile twat. I'd rather stay here and try to make this place better anyway.
I seriously considered moving to Chili several years ago. --- Until I found that they have the same problems we do, only worse, and a few others too. Furthermore, they are full of elitists.
I heard an interview on NPR (I know, I know) about #OWSer's in Cannes at G20. SOme younger? woman speaking in complete sentences said she was in NYC and wanted to lend support in Cannes. I thought, "On whose dime"? Do all #OWS 99%ers bounce over to the French Riviera for protests? Kill 2 birds?
http://youtu.be/94veoCPi-y8
November 5th
You guys are forgetting the real power of a victory for Ron Paul:
It would show TPTB that they're out of ammunition, that none of their propaganda worked, and that the people are awake and sick of their bullshit.
"It’s clear that this is civil war. It’s clear that the government has voluntarily abrogated all legitimacy. America is at war with economic terrorism in the form of the banks and corporations, and the government is their thug. Nothing could be more clear than this. And yet the people remain complacent, meek, even smug. Even as they’re being liquidated in real time, they think only of how to continue to party. It’s clear that the mass consciousness is not organically reaching the brink (though as with the bubble, that could change quickly). So my question is, does it follow that the growing few who understand all this should, for the time being, forget about trying to figure out how to “reach the masses” and instead focus on slowly growing and protecting a movement of self-selected activists?"
http://attempter.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/basic-question-and-thoughts/
http://attempter.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/basic-movement-strategy/
George Carlin : You Have no rights....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E&feature=related
Suppose.....
Enough people all moved to the same state, voted out the current politicians at every level and redesigned the state govt: if it was successful, many other states would follow....
BS...Ron Paul will change all of that...help elect RON PAUL DO SOMETHING TO PROMOTE HIM DAILY...if not, then we are surely doomed to these scenarios
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00000286
Romney top WS recipient, the Squid leads the pack of donors
Good article up to the end... Where exactly are we supposed to go when we vote with our feet? Haven't you noticed they seem to have pretty much the whole world locked up in their fascist ponzi scheme?
This article is spot on. The very nature of government is a conspiracy against the well being of the individual. It always has and always will be and there's nothing you can do about it. Voting is a farce and it only gives your consent to be ruled. They could make voting mandatory and I still would not do it. Fuck them and their system and fuck their systems that follow. There's no solution and the system we have now is not so bad compared to the systems our ancestors had. Enjoy it while it lasts. Only primitive people without money know what liberty is and as for us we have no clue what it is. Bureaucrats are a useless bunch that wouldn't exist without money considering they won't take pay in berries and rabbit meat. Bureaucrats and politicians are the problem but they'll always exist and they're a parasitic class that lives off the labors of others; nothing good will come from that bunch.
I can't read every comment today, but has anyone suggested running for office yourself? It is not hard and will scare the bejeesus out of the incumbents. In most cases, a few hours gathering nominating petitions and a few hundred to a couple of thousand FRNs filing fee is all that is required. Remember that every seat in the house is up for grabs every two years. One third of the Senate seats are up for grabs in this election as well. You are not limited to federal office either. Run for your state legislature if that floats your boat. There are plenty dumbasses there that are begging to be retired too.
This might be the election where a large number of voters decide to boot their incumbent. Your name will be on the ballot give them the alternative. It does not take a lot of money or time to run a basic campaign. I ran for Congress in a primary once, spent next to nothing, and lost the nomination by less than 100 votes.
Just say that you are a private citizen running to take the country back from the jackasses who have been running it into the ground. Add in your contempt for Obumma and you are on your way to a government paycheck for at least two years. You will have to live in the DC sewer part of that time, but on the other hand, there are a lot of women who are hot for men in power. Just be discreet while reaping the fringe bennies.
I'm not saying that you have to be a man to run, ZH women might even have an edge over men in getting elected. But I don't think there are a lot of men who are hot for women in power. Just sayin.
And, if you are elected, please don't become like the sellout douchebag you replaced.
You don't have to leave the country to leave the system. Just stop playing their games. Use PMs as your savings vehicle instead of banks, stocks, bonds and other paper crap. Barter or use cash to buy things. Start a graden. Live off the grid. Stop consuming. Home School (so your kids don't get indoctrinated). Etc.
Vote with your feet?
No.
Lacking the vigilance that is necessary early on, and then displayed consistently throughout the functioning of a Republic, the only path to change (after a point) is patience, building knowledge and gaining wisdom, virtual collapse of the corrupted system, THEN some violence (it's gonna be necessary-sorry peaceniks), and then finally, reformation...with a renewed emphasis on vigilance.
The final solution: Obadiah lines 17 and 18.
That is what they believe; that is what they are so afraid of.
Those events happen immediately after they have obtained global dominion or broken free of the rule of Jacob (that is, of good men). They have now almost achieved that. That prophecy can also be found in Jubalees. There it is all in one place, instread of being scattered around, here-and-there, as it is in the Bible.
There was a dinner-speaker at Bohemian Grove, during the mid-1970s, who's theme was that the elites would try to follow Biblical prophecy, step-by-step, because many sheeple would consider what happens to be God's will. --- It ends with the Banksters and their kin getting toasted. --- I suspect that some of the elites include that in the plan.
Well, I'm truly thinking that Simon Black is a globalist in sheep's clothing. As much as he advocates defeating the system, he does so by advocated borderless, soveriegnless, and along the lines of George Soros's open society type agenda along with the ability to perpetual travel or technically migration workers/travels are able to perpetually travel, which without borders/sovereignty is by definition migration rather than persay. In other words, the migration or perpetual travelers travels the seamless world in search of opportunities created by globalization. How so?
"Why Migration Matters" 2009 by Khalid Koser
This cups into:
"Globalization and Its Contents" 2004/2005 by Peter Marber that it's argued that despite globalization means different things to different people, but prosperity is enhanced by the decrease in boundaries (borders) between people.
"It's a Flat World, after All" by Thomas L. Friedman, a summary of his book "The World Is Flat" that argues how globalization has enabled a new way of people doing bussiness
"The first event was 11/9. That's right-not 9/11 but 11/9. Nov. 9, 1989, is the day Berlin Wall came down, which is critically because it allowed us to think as a single space" (A single space is borderless/capacity to travel across the space). This occurred after Friedman praised Globalization 1.0 of Imperial Conquest and Globalization 2.0 the Colonial Era, but Globalization 3.0 kicked off using enterprise [Big Bussiness and International Banking like Goldman Sachs whose been bailed out by the US, Ireland, and etc thus far. Oopsy].
"Second [was when Netscape went public" (What do ya know another decrease in borders through the use of the Internet otherwise known as the World Wide Wiretap), which also triggered the Dot Com bubble and subsequent burst. Friedman even openly admits as much, yet it's praised as a flattener of globalization.
Wait there's more to this interconnectedness and erosion of borders and soveriegnty; there's the interconnectedness related to Security, which is a form of Welfare and includes man-made global warming. Then, there's the ability to perpetually migrate to follow these pretty opportunities abroad with pure loyalty to interconnectedness, globalization, and Developmentalism. Do I really need to quote more pieces that exposes you for what you truly are? A globalist opportunist who knows that without perpetual migrationism; globalization fails to flatten the world to the point borders must be removed to enable the International Banking, Central Banks, and Big Bussiness to exploit workers at cheaper rates; than, their parent country's regulations and laws would allow prior to being forced to be repealed to allow perpetual migration to return and thus share the planet's resources.
So, Simon 'The Globalist Fluffer' Black, why exactly do you advocate very similar details as other Developmentalist and Globalization proponents like Soros in actuality advocate? Yet, you take great pains not to refer to your travels as perpetual migrant worker or migrant opportunist derived by globalization, yet it is quite evident in your works. Could it be that it may force you to consider that you're making political solutions derived by financial opportunities derived from the very status quo; you merely claim to be against as your actions state fluffer. You're no more soveriegn than anyone who can't or don't decide to fuel pro-statistics of the very 'beast' you present yourself against.
maybe he feels being a globalist is being on the winning side. Nobody like to be loser.
the pendulum of civilisation moves from monarchy to Oligarchy to democracy and back to Oligarchy etc.; all agree that anarchy is the worse of all solutions. The equation is very simple: civilisation is about power. Power is not easy to hold especially for the biodegradable species like us. Whence the pendulum. So its always dynamic and unstable the equilibrium. Just a question of time frame. Solutions are created by events; and events by power struggle. Today our world is now in unstable equlibrium as the power structure has decided to liquidate its historical base; the people from which it has emerged. Now it feels it has no country, so its liable to nobody except its true power base, expressed in material riches aka capital.
Nation states are now totally depassé and floating in existential limbo. As are the Oligarchs. hard landings, but who will be the survivors...?
Put all that into a formal article and email it to TD FP....
No. I don't want to leave the U.S. so voting with my feet is not an option. Ron Paul 2012.
The U.S. left you and other liberty loving individuals already. You only get one shot at this life, and there is no reason to spend it wallowing in misery and fear as you watch the U.S. descend further into police state tyranny.
Get out while you can, if you can. 60% of Americans can't handle an unexpected $2,000 expense and have 0 effective savings. If you're lucky enough to have the monetary capacity of voting with your feet, I suggest you give it serious thought.
By the way, running off to Montana or turning your crappy wooden house on 2 acres in bum fuck nowhere America into a fortress IS running. Planning to shelter in place if/when shit hits the fan IS a form of running. Leaving fortress America and enjoying peace and liberty somewhere else seems the wiser choice to me.
Adios..and good ridance. Now where is it you plan to RUN to?
Simon gets a lot of hate in the comments on this site but he's right with this article. The fact is the American sheeple WANT to live in a police state. So long as they are provided with comfort and security, they care not for liberty. So there is nothing to struggle against except the democratically chosen governance of the United States. The "awakened" folks that know about the federal reserve, monetary history, the constitution, etc. are an extreme minority.
Those of you dreaming of a violent revolution are deluded. There will be no such thing. Not as long as the cheap entertainment continues and the SNAP card buys the snacks and Taco Bell. Again, the American people want to live in a police state. Safety and comfort are what the sheeple want. Liberty implies risk and danger, and that is not representative of the American spirit in the year 21st century. We are not a nation of brave adventurers any longer, but a nation of cowed sheep, desiring material comfort above all else.
Case in point, Occupy Wall Street. They are not railing against the government and the police state, no. They want to wield government as a weapon to take money from others and give it to themselves. Make no mistake, that is their only goal - to increase their personal levels of material comfort.
The American people have chosen to embrace the police state over liberty. You either stay here and accept it, or you vote with your feet and head elsewhere.
The founding fathers knew that for our republican government to survive, it would require dilligence and action on the part of an active citizen. We lost that over time, especially since the advent of TV and other modern entertainment scemes. The people have, not been put to sleep, but put into a coma. I don't know what it will take to awaken the 'mercun sheeple. I have lost all hope at this point. As long as there is NASCAR and the NBA, "The Real Wives of Wherethefuckever", and those electronic gadgets keep flowing, I don't have much hope. Read "The Gulag Archpeligo" if you want to know how this all ends, it ends with that pounding on the door.
Is it just me, or does SM not answer the implied question of the article title at all, and instead - as always (you really can count on it for EVERY SM article posted) only offers "moving somehwere else where everything is happyfun land and especially.... cheap"? Why, yes of course.
Sure, the article on first sight looks like higher quality than a typical SM article... actually, it spends about 95% mentioning a lot of things that are going wrong, none of them anything new though. Sure, that's a good reminder of what kind of shit situation exits.... but what new information does it offer? What proposals does it offer? Why, your bogstandard SM "emigrate to somewhere else" mantra.
So, what this article is, is stating the obvious, and providing nothing that SM hasn't been saying in every single SM article.
What people seem to forget is that the US is largely a nation of meth-addicted white trash losers who are getting EXACTLY what they deserve. Who cares if they leave - they are usually super-patriotic assholes who love Homeland Security and for this they and their descendants should get fucked in the ass for all eternity. The rest of us are the ones scoping out a new destination in South America or Asia - give me four more years and you'll never see me in the US ever again.
Some of us have known about the police state for quite some time now. It just did'nt come into being with the Patriot Act, all that did was accelerate the powers of the state. You HAVE to watch this video about a REAL american hero, many have never even heard of him before. His story is nothing short of shocking:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNyY9hDxO0&feature=related
Maybe we should just go with a monorail..................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_yLodI1CQ&feature=related
Tyler, you are totally off on this one.
The system can be changed through voting in the right people. America has been consistent in voting in centrists like Bill Clinton and George Bush, Obama and friends which do very little to improve the system itself, they simply "tweak" it one way or another. They are not men of vision but of cheap ideology. We need a true leader who understands what needs to be done, such a man has yet to come forward, but there is hope.
There is no alternative to our current system besides a parliamentary system of democracy. What else is there? Monarchy? Communism? lawless anarchism? What is there? You provide no solutions but criticize all the options.
Voting in scripted elections for bought men and women whereas our votes are counted in secret by private corporations by their machines? A true leader to come forward? Who were you expecting? Superman? And there is a alternative that is already in place, known as the republican form of government already ensured by our constitution. Our remedy lies with We the People, not the de facto corporate state or Superman!
Remedy found here:
http://republicoftheunitedstates.org
Discouraging, all these words
singing the same thing same flock of birds
go home please and lock down inside
leave us alone
we've a wild one to ride
moved
"You walk away - that's how you beat it" - Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM&feature=feedwll&list=WL
Nice article and ... though in practice it will just suck ... and suck ... and suck some more ... THEN change will occur with a great and seemingly endless squall of violence, simply because the 'other' side pre-decided that this is how they will play it ... i.e. they assume we'll not be prepared to be as violent as they already intend to be (just look at your photos) ... so we will thus inevitably lose, and they conversely inherit the 'win'.
But of couse, the real outcome will be that they're utterly wiped from the earth ... this time.
Guy Fawkes was a Jesuit who wanted to restore Vatican/Catholic rule in England.
How has no one mentioned this yet?
V for Vendetta was a good movie, no doubt, and there's nothing wrong with re-defining historical figures to suit our taste in heroes.
But still. The historical Guy Fawkes was no freedom lover.
Nice to see you back. But you are posting to an article that is almost two weeks old!