I met Adam Kokesh in Miami January 17th, 2017. He had come to my hometown to debate Christopher Cantwell. I went to troll the Cantwell because of the racist rhetoric he’d been spewing online on his Radical Agenda show, masquerading as a libertarian.
While I was there to troll Cantwell, Adam impressed me with his concepts of Voluntarism; but admittedly, I wasn’t convinced by that one event. I took one of his “FREEDOM” books, which he graciously autographed for me. I read it and the concept of true self ownership was intriguing; but I’ve been so wrapped up in the historical concept of imperial conquest, which is the basis of all governments who rule by force of arms, and is still the basis that title companies use to claim ownership of our lands and homes today. I wasn’t ready yet to be Free to say the least.
But now I am ready. Are you?
Why Vote for Adam Kokesh for Not President? Because he’s a voluntarist and as such doesn’t believe in slavery.
He’s the only candidate I’ve seen with the Integrity to stay true to the Ideals of libertarianism. One who won’t sell out (once elected) to the special interests to keep the current paradigm in place. As we’ve seen time and time again.
He’s the moral choice promising to dismantle the nation’s immoral institutions who spend our extorted revenue and plans to curtail its ability to prosecute wars and conquests by force of arms for the empire that should have never been built in the first place.
This blog entry is to educate the people who seem to have been indoctrinated into believing in the concept of conquest which is the concept by which our government claims both its morality and legitimacy. But! As Adam points out, “We are a free and beautiful people”; who have been turned into slaves of the empire.
Taxation is Slavery. It is the result of our being conquered by force of arms. We eliminated slavery based on genetics only to reintroduce it with Income Taxation and the 16th Amendment.
Personally, I don’t see doing away with all aspects of government and I don’t think he does either. But don’t stop reading here because I said that... Humanity needs rules, not rulers. With rules comes a need to enforce them but in a tax-less society the market will have to figure that out naturally without codified statutes or written codes, excepting codes that will restrict government itself.
I’m not going to opine on how a voluntary tax-less society can work because how doesn’t matter. Slavery is an abhorrent institution and must be abolished simply for that fact regardless of the benefits the violence it exerts over us, to the economy and/or beneficial public works projects.
There are plenty of Anarchist books that delve into how to make a free society work that I’m not going to get into here.
Basic natural morality and respect for other people’s lives, property and treasure must be the basis of any free society and we must make it work with these tenets.
I see three basic things our society needs to restrict government from doing that will accomplish or rather result in becoming a voluntary society; a society with rules but no rulers.
Again, If you want more information on what that means get a copy of Adam’s book FREEDOM. Again, That’s not what this blog entry is about.
This entry is focused on the main restrictions on government that we need implemented to be free. There maybe more but these are concepts that society at large needs to be enlightened with.
1. Taxation, because it’s the result of slavery. What is important for society to understand is that the initiation of the use of force is a moral evil. With that in mind, we can approach the problem of Public Services and Works Projects more clearly and how they can be accomplished privately and morally.
First of all, public works projects are currently funded through the initiation of force to collect taxes. The use of violence is the central issue, not what might potentially happen in the absence of violence or the benefits of the violence itself. Does anyone really want to defend the benefits of violence?
Again, Slavery was abolished without regard for the economy and taxation must be abolished for the same reasons also without regard for the consequences.
All attempts to describe how to alleviate the negative consequences of eliminating taxation are pointless. Once the rule is set, the market will adapt itself voluntarily; Like no one could have anticipated or planned.
2. Dispute Resolution. (Courts). In addition to ending involuntary taxation. Our society can stilll exist on a voluntary basis with a voluntary, elected but privately funded courts. ( think user fees).
Humanity will always need a civil structure to resolve disputes and claims to property and to keep the peace. Society needs rules and a framework to enforce the ability for private parties to prosecute crimes against each other; to be made whole of injured. But the state cannot be allowed to be a complainant/victim. That’s counter productive.
How to authorize or elect judges without providing for salaries will be solely be resolved at the local level.
3. No Public Property and Money. Existence as a society with no public treasury or national coinage of money; No Exchequer to manage and no official national or stately participation in foreign bodies like the United Nations; eliminating borders and border control and ending the concept of building national empires.
I see everyone’s minds racing with foreign invasion of nefarious armies who have sworn fealty to each other to our detriment, But we Already have that problem internally. I think that’s something a society who prides itself now on having a second amendment can resolve voluntarily.
But in closing, how we can exist in a truly free society cannot be planned. We simply must introduce the concept of zero tolerance for taxation; “No Slavery” indelibly into our consciousness as “Free and Beautiful Human Beings”.
