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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2011

What led me to be so skeptical about the value of political action.

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  • STEF'S MESSAGE:

    "I do not want to make Slavery 90% better. I want to make it 100% nonexistent."

  • Stef I'm happy to send you $10 large (Canadian!) every month! Nobody does it better than you!  Get Block on your program and debate him! BOTH of you need a worthy opponent!

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  • Complete and pure scepticism?

    You mean the Socratic method of maieutics?

    I think that's exactly what we need to do.

  • Here's my take on it. Ron Paul running for president has given A PLATFORM to expose the masses to the freedom movement and ideas. This means more people join us. This also changes public opinion to freedom ideals. It doesn't mean that all those people will do anything for freedom, but they will be receptive to the ideas and changes we will be making in the society. Vast public resistance is never good to dissemination of a system change. Stefan's methods then need to be employed in conjunction.

  • @snaz27 ... not be easy... You will effectively be swimming against the tide! Some people already do this, but we need to connect everybody that is! So we can begin to support each other through the tough times we'll face... I don't think stefan agrees with me because I've heard him speaking about avoiding the law at all costs! To me that is the talk of a slave! no offence stefan lol... Anyway sorry for the essay, I'll summarise by saying my vote is for non aggressive disobedience!

  • @snaz27 ... Now this leads me onto what I think we should do... Lets just take back our freedoms! Live our lives by our morals, and I mean that individually! I find libertarians fighting over the small stuff, when in essence we all want the same thing! Freedom to do what we want! Of course as long as that doesn't harm someone else without their consent!... So don't pay tax, if you feel it right not to! Grow pot, if that's what you want! etc etc.. It will no doubt bring about arrests, it will...

  • @snaz27 ... government control, or even government itself... Has it ever? The closest I can think of is ghandi, but then did he advocate protests? I wouldn't really say so, I would say it was more non violent disobedience! ie marching to the salt mines to take the salt that belonged to them! It wasn't really a protest, they just went to get what was theirs! Instead of screaming and shouting or perhaps fighting the soldiers, they queued up and got beaten one after the other, without fighting back

  • This is the debate we need to focus on! Thank you stefan for bringing it up... I'm with you, political activism is not going to work, it's kind of like a gambler, he wins some small bets, hell many even a sizeable one every now and then! But eventually you are going to lose! The victories merely lull you into a false sense of achievement... Much like when people protest to have an innocent man released from prison, it's great and does work, but it will not when applied to bigger aspects of...

  • @freefallfalcon OMG thanks for telling me, this is something I've been daydreaming about for a while now and their actually doing it! My biggest concern is this:

    "the idea of a land free of government control isn't entirely new. In 1967, Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa funded the construction of a 400 square meter platform... The so called "sovereign" nation didn't last long. Italian government assumed control soon of the structure, and the Italian Navy used explosives to destroy the facility."

  • @Hashishin13 Peter Thiel just donated money to the effort.. google 'Tech Billionaire Funding Creation of Artificial Islands'

  • @freefallfalcon I just did a search it looks like they are just building an airport, 100% in American waters. Can you give a name/link or something?

  • @Hashishin13 i don't think so... i think the are 12 miles out so they are in 'international waters' or something.

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