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Practical Ideas

Action to Take

I’m always looking for practical steps to take as so many people seem to focus on presidential politics where you are nearly powerless. Focus on living the life that leads to building the kingdom of God and to less dependence on government for you and your neighbors and friends. I guess this guy is thinking some of the same things as me. I might emphasize or deemphasize some of his items, but it’s a good list.

Some steps to consider, especially in light of recent events.

1. Don’t go offline or camp out some little right-wing ghetto apps (i.e. Parler). Stay active on the main platforms. But expand and “back up” your online network “offline.” Big Tech will cancel, censor, and silence anyone that speaks against the zeitgeist.

2. Build an analog library of important books and documents. Also, download ebooks/PDF to an external hard drive.Big Tech will delete works that undermine their plans and speaks against the zeitgeist.

3. Find a community that is a “winnable and worthwhile hill.” This is a place that is small enough for you to have influence, large/strategic enough to have some cultural, economic, and/or political significance.Ask “Could this town/county become a city-state? Put down roots.

4. Get to know your neighbors. Share meals, build trust, and learn to enjoy each other. And then look for ways to improve your community that builds a coalition around the common good. Make yourself a central part of that work.In other words, be a leader.

5. Buy local whenever possible and reasonable. Open business in your town. Buy and rehab old buildings on “main street.” Encourage others to do the same.Strengthen the local economy and make it attractive to likeminded people.

6. Run for any and all local offices and encourage all likeminded community members to do likewise. You want your neighbors (the ones you’ve grown tight with) to be the depart of health official, the sheriff, head of polling, etc.

7. Belong to a church in your actual community. Be willing to compromise on some secondary issues if it means being more at a local congregation. If there isn’t a single good church, help one get started.

Work, play, and worship together. Get deeply invested locally. County before Country.

Christianity, Practical Ideas, Reject Socialism

Vote Harder This Time

The 2020 election is the most important election of our lifetime. How many times will Sean Hannity say that on his radio show in the next year?

I guarantee the Democratic candidate will be an utter despot and tyrant limited only by the tattered vestiges of the Constitution. We already know that is what the Republican candidate/incumbent will be. Trump is a New York liberal, a RINO, who is only a hair’s breadth better than whoever the Democrats put up.

Voting for either the Democrat or Republican candidate is a waste of time–from the president down to the local city council. You’re voting for people who will fight over how to best spend stolen money. The only time it might be worth voting is if someone campaigned on drastically cutting government spending and services and cutting taxes.

Christians could control who the Republican party nominates, and I think we already do. But the pulpits refuse to teach what the Bible says about politics, and that the Bible demands godly leaders. They refuse to apply God’s law to government, teaching that Satan controls the world, and the Bible is really only about getting people to heaven.

If you want to do something to help the future of this country, voting is one of the least useful. What you can do to help the country is:

  • Find a church that speaks out about what Scripture teaches about government.
  • Stop giving your money to defeatist churches that only care about snatching souls, right before the gospel and the church are defeated, rather than the advancement of God’s kingdom.
  • Don’t let your kids set foot in K-12 government indoctrination centers.
  • Care about your neighbors, and try to work out differences and help each other rather than calling police.
  • Refuse to accept government benefits, and government will shrink.

Here’s a fantastic quote from Bojidar Marinov:

“What most outside observers – and most American Christians as well – often miss about the US is how much this nation is driven by what’s preached from the pulpits. The statists know it very well, though, and that’s why they have worked so hard to capture the pulpits. And I am not talking about the liberal pulpits here: The pulpits in the so-called “conservative” and “Reformed” churches are just as much accomplices to statism as the liberal and the Charismaniac churches.”

“The solution to America’s slippery slope to statism and tyranny is actually very simple: purge the pulpits of any preacher who doesn’t preach righteous rebellion against unjust authority. Yes, even the celebrities. Yes, even those that are otherwise orthodox and preach really good sermons on the doctrines of grace or the five points of Calvinism. And even those that are good men and wonderful pastors. If they fail to take the right side in the great conflict of our day, they are useless and even dangerous. Kick them out. Replace them with preachers who will fearlessly oppose the Beast. Restore the Black-Robed Regiment.”

Abolish The Police, Christianity, Practical Ideas, Reject Socialism, Taxation, Theonomy

What Am I Willing To Do To Make Government Irrelevant?

Why is government so involved in nearly every aspect of our lives? Because Christians have been disobedient. We weren’t supporting our parents and grandparents, so the government gave us Social Security. We weren’t taking care of education properly, so government gave us public school and so on.  Once the government started doing those jobs, we really gave up doing those jobs.

What is the solution? How do we shrink the size of government? We have to start doing those jobs again, and do them better than the government is doing them. Someone on Facebook said that sounds nice, but what are you willing to do? Here is what I told them:

1. I’m willing to homeschool my children in spite of being forced to pay property taxes that are used to educate other people’s children.
2. Lord willing, I’ll be able to rip up my Social Security checks in spite of being forced to pay into it.
3. I’m willing to come when my neighbors call to help to protect them from intruders, so that we don’t have to call the cops.
4. I’m willing to never call the cops/government on Christians because I’d rather be wronged than go to unbelievers to solve disputes as Scripture commands.
5. I’m willing to help my in-laws in their old age so that they might tear up their Social Security checks, as Scripture commands.
6. I’m willing to help orphans, widows and foreigners as Scripture commands.
7. I’m willing to listen to ideas for other ways we can make our antichrist government irrelevant and demonstrate the inferiority of secular humanism to Christianity.

 

 

Abolish The Police, Practical Ideas, Reject Socialism

How to Replace Police

I believe police should be abolished for many reasons. However, they do provide some valuable services that will have to be done even after they’re gone. In fact, maybe if we implement these solutions now, it will hasten their abolition.

Others have pointed out that many of the services that have been taken over by government monopolies have been taken over because of a lack of involvement of Christians. I think that applies to many of the services that police provide.

In the vast majority of emergency situations, the cops show up long after the emergency is over. What happened before police existed (mid 1800s)? I would imagine that you would ask your neighbors for help, and as we’re commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, people would have dropped what they were doing to help, even to the point of laying down their lives. In the 1800s, it would have been difficult to communicate your need in an emergency. Of course, that’s not the case anymore.

Maybe those who are committed to not using police except where legally required should prepare for an emergency now. It could be as simple as getting a text group where neighbors can send out a quick text to each other asking for help. There are also apps like Cell 411, which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be widely used. This requires getting to know your neighbors, and maybe having more involvement than the ignoring them that I’ve grown accustom to.

As those of us who wish to not call police are still being forced to pay for police services, this is also a cost-effective solution. I guess it would be the analog to homeschooling for those who reject government education.

I believe this would be an effective solution to the fear mongering objections of those who are opposed to abolishing police. In fact, it is a superior solution, as your neighbors will probably have a much better response time than police anyway.

Capitalism, Christianity, Practical Ideas, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God, The Way Things Ought to Be

Freedom Will Win

There’s a lot of things to get down about. The thing that is most depressing to me is that Americans don’t know what freedom is and don’t seem to care.

However, the Christian worldview, with freedom and capitalism being part and parcel of it, will be victorious. The march of time and technology will benefit us, and here is one such example that makes me exited and optimistic.

The government will henceforth always will be powerless to control guns.  Want to do something for freedom today? Buy one of these machines and start making guns.

Practical Ideas

Mexico Is More Free Than the U.S.

He makes so many good points in this video.

It’s time to consider moving to a free country, or at least becoming a perpetual tourist in a free country. America isn’t free, and anyone who spreads that falsehood is either confused or lying. There isn’t freedom for the unborn and there isn’t freedom for anyone else. As he referenced in another video, you have to jump through hoops to buy milk. Give me a break.

Abolish The Police, Power Trip, Practical Ideas

Bad News

I have some bad news. I was found guilty at my speeding ticket trial today. The cop did a really good job of presenting his case, and didn’t screw up the things I thought he might.

I also screwed up a little bit on the jurisdiction line of reasoning. Rather than say, “Why do you believe the law applies to everyone in the state of Colorado?” I said, “How do you know the law applies to everyone in Colorado?” He said because he has peace officer certification. So that tripped me up a little, I got side tracked by that and asked a few questions about that rather than going back and rephrasing the question. Obviously, the law applies to everyone in Colorado because he’s a peace officer is a misunderstanding of the question, and I blew it.

I eventually got him to admit that the peace officer certification is based on the law, and the right to pull me over is based on the law, but the judge stopped that and said something like, “I wanted to give you some leeway on that line of questioning, but the court determines what law applies.”

So to the judge, I said, “Can I ask you a question, then?”

She said, “You can ask, but I may not answer.”

I said, “What is the legal reason for why that law applies to everyone in the state of Colorado?”

She said, “I’m not going to answer that question.”

So I asked several questions about the tuning forks, and I cited a case that said the tuning forks have to be proven to be reliable for radar evidence to be valid.

Ultimately the judge said that the cop’s testimony about eyeballing my speed would be enough to convict me, regardless of what the radar gun said.

There is some good news. The trial took 30-45 minutes, and there were three cops sitting around waiting for the trial, so they were off the streets for that long. There were also two clerks sitting there the whole time. So, it cost them much more than the $190 they got out of me.

But the question of why the law applies to everyone in the state of Colorado goes unanswered. There is no answer, and the system is based on a blind faith religion, albeit an antichrist religion.

We will go on pretending that the laws given us by half-wits in Denver is sacrosanct.

I hope I never get another ticket, but I would like to do better next time.

Practical Ideas, Secession, Theonomy

How About This?

Here’s an idea for peaceful secession.  Someone opens a small office somewhere, and puts a sign up saying, “City Hall”, “County Courthouse”, “State Capitol” and maybe even “Capitol of the United States of America”.

The current government is based on circular logic. The law applies to you, because the law says it applies to you. If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me. The law of the new government will apply to me because the new law says it will apply to me. In reality, it should apply, because it will be a government submitted to Christ, and His law applies to everyone.

The beauty of some dinky, cheap little office is that that is what government is supposed to be–dinky and cheap. What we have now is a grandiose, expensive monstrosity. The Pueblo County courthouse is like a cathedral with beautiful paintings, a great rotunda, gold leaf (I don’t know if it’s gold leaf or gold paint). I would guess the clerk and recorder’s office has 25 foot ceilings.

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The inside of the [state capitol] building is adorned with what is believed to be the entire known supply of Colorado Rose Onyx, a rare rose marble from a quarry near Beulah, Colorado. White Yule Marble from the quarries near Marble, Colorado, was also used throughout the building for the floors.
Fremont County has a beautiful, though slightly less luxurious building. But the Colorado state capitol is an ostentatious building. It dwarfs the Pueblo County Courthouse and it is dwarfed by government buildings in DC. Government ought to be small and plain. Every piece of gold leaf in the state capitol was purchased with stolen money.

So, if this office to be opened would be an alternative government to the existing monstrosity. There would be no taxes. It would not be executive (making laws) but strictly judicial as Romans 13 explains. The only purpose of government is to punish evildoers. Not to issue currency, build roads, educate children, help the poor, etc.

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The Declaration of Independence says it is our right to institute a new government. That is their document. That is what they’ve based their government on. They have no other basis. They’ve abandoned the Lord Jesus Christ as a basis.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip, Practical Ideas

Another Idea for How to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket

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I’ve discussed this argument in the past as a presuppositional refutation of American government (at least the American government of the last 50-100 years which has declared Jesus Christ to be unconstitutional). But I’m going to discuss how it would be applied to get out of a traffic ticket. This argument has been successful in getting people out of tickets, and I’ve stolen it lock, stock and barrel from Marc Stevens. You should check out his website and Youtube channel.

For my recent ticket I was planning on using yesterday’s argument, and if that was not successful, I was going to use this argument. The argument is that the cop who wrote the ticket and the law he cited you under don’t have jurisdiction over you, or at least that they have to prove jurisdiction to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you’re guilty of a crime.

It is a pretty simple argument, and here’s how it might go:

You ask the cop for evidence or facts to show that the law applies to you.

The only thing he can really say is that the law applies because the law says it applies. You would then point out that that is an invalid answer, because it is circular reasoning. And then you would repeat the question. When he isn’t able to answer, you would move that the case be dismissed for lack of evidence of jurisdiction.

To further explain the issue, I would give an example. You could take a notebook and write “Sam’s Law for the state of Colorado” across the front. Then you write in (in very nice handwriting), “Law 1-1a: This law applies to everyone in Colorado.”

Why doesn’t Sam’s law apply to you (assuming you’re within the boundaries of the state of Colorado)? An enforcement agent of Sam’s law would say, “Look at Law 1-1a. It clearly says it applies to you.” But Sam’s law can’t apply because Sam’s law says it applies. That would be circular reasoning. In reality, Sam’s law is every bit as valid as the laws of the state of Colorado. It’s just that Sam’s law doesn’t have thousands of armed enforcers willing to kill you.

If you check out Marc Steven’s website, linked above, you will see that this technique has worked to get people out of tickets and other legal attacks.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip, Practical Ideas, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

Ideas For Getting Out of a Traffic Ticket

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I’ve been to court to evict tenants in the past. While waiting for my case to come up, I’ve seen two different traffic tickets coming up for trial. On both cases, the defendant won. The system says you’re innocent until proven guilty. If you put forth a plausible argument, you’ll be found not guilty (in my experience).

This bears out because they try at every opportunity to get you to pay up and go away. They offer to deduct fewer points if you pay quickly. They offer a plea bargain if you show up to plead not guilty. They want to get you to pay up and go away so they don’t need to pay a judge and a cop to conduct a trial. They count on the fact that you don’t want to take time off of work, and you only get a few traffic tickets in your life, so you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re intimidated by the process so you just do anything to get out of it.

Here’s how the two people I saw win their trial won. I can’t remember exactly what the charge was in the first trial, but the guy’s defense was that the bush was blocking the stop sign. So the judge found him not guilty.

The other trial I saw, the guy had a lawyer. The state patrolman presented his case, and the lawyer said, “Does the state rest its case?”

The judge asked the state patrolman to answer the question, and he said that he had rested his case.

The lawyer then said, “I would ask that the case be dismissed, because the state never identified my client as the accused.”

The judge said, “Your client came up when I called the case.” The lawyer kind of just shrugged, and didn’t really say anything. The judge was silent for 30 seconds or so, and said the case is dismissed.

I would always attempt that defense. If the judge doesn’t go for it, you move on with whatever else you had. I think as long as you can offer any plausible argument, you will be let off.

That being said, some people hope for the cop not showing up. I guess there is always that possibility, but the cop has always shown up in my experience. Actually, I remember a third trial where a guy got a ticket for not wearing his seat belt. He didn’t show up, but the cop did show up. He was found automatically guilty and got a $50 fine.

It would be my guess that their policy is that the cop always shows up to avoid getting the reputation that if you fight the ticket you might get off easily.

I think at this point, our goal as patriots and secessionists would be to make it as difficult for government as possible–make our compliance as costly as possible. Only comply at the last moment right before the cop shoots you or they’re going to cost you more than you get out of it. Fighting a traffic ticket is one way to fight them.

I have one more method to try at a trial, that I know has been successful, though I haven’t personally witnessed it. I’ll discuss that tomorrow.