I'll let you in on a secret you may not be aware of: cars are illegal in America. Don't believe me? Then just try driving around Albuquerque, or any other populated area, in a car and see what happens when you are found to be in possession of that car. Not a "licensed and registered car", but just a car. Even if you pay the State all the demanded fees, simply being in possession of a car is an excuse to be stopped and searched by enforcers at any time without any warning. Anything as heavily regulated as a car can not honestly be considered "legal" anymore.
Most people are complacent in their ignorance. They may grumble a little bit about all the fees that are extorted from them yearly for the "privilege" of "owning" a car, but they fail to see that the situation illustrates a harsh truth. They don't want to see it because it would mean that their freedom has been destroyed and their rights have been violated by a government that is their mortal enemy. A government that far too many see as a "necessary evil" or even as a friendly father-figure.
I used to think that people would finally rebel when guns are outlawed, yet the realization that they have allowed their transportation to be outlawed, except within narrow boundaries and at the cost of thousands of dollars a year in governmental extortion, and done nothing makes me realize people will tolerate anything if it is presented to them dishonestly enough. This realization has had a positive effect on me.
It is up to individuals, who will be painted as "sociopathic cranks", to live their own liberty in any way they can. I read a question just the other day that keeps sticking in my mind: "What happens if millions of people just took off their license plates one day?" I don't know, but Liberty in America depends on something like that happening very soon.
You may think the current economic situation is grim, and it is more grim than people know if they listen to government hacks, yet unless a great many more people get serious about asserting Liberty, in spite of, and in open defiance of, government at all levels, the coming dark ages of tyranny will completely overshadow the economic collapse. You have been warned. Now what will you do?
This is a time of great opportunity for those who are willing to face the facts and then roll up their sleeves and get dirty to build a more free future for themselves.
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Show us a plan for dealing with the po' when they stop us. Help us out with a template to follow and what to say.
My drivers license expires in 2012 and I don't want to renew it. I need your help with what/how to do to stay out of jail. Do you have a formula?
I don't think "a formula" is possible. I think it will always depend on the situation, the individual LEO who is assaulting you, and your own personality and cleverness.
I would recommend this book for starters: javelinpress.com/you_and_the_police.html
But the best plan is to avoid cops as much as humanly possible, however you can.
John,
Part of the point of civil-disobedience is TO go to jail. In so doing, you inspire others to resist-it worked for Gandhi and King. The best "formula" I know of is Gandhi's-I'd recommend his auto-biography.
It would be better if the "gang of thieves writ large" who impose violence upon non-violent people did not exist-but they do. It would be better for rabbits if hawks didn't exist as well-but they do.
This is, though, just why millions won't(including me)take off license plates-the consequence is too great. And that is the reality, there is and can be no real imposition on freedom, just the creation of consequences. Those that create consequences almost universally do so by the use of force.
You can, for instance, drive without a license, and many do, but you make yourself the target for violence. If that's a hill you're willing to die on, you've got my respect-but there's no effective way to have your cake and eat it too, the system can't be dodged like that.
Oh, I don't know about that Mike. What if they gave a war and nobody came?
The trick is that enough people have to decide not to show up. And license plates are not likely to be the catalyst. Goons coming door to door, the total collapse of the economy... something like that maybe.
Kent, I was surprised to see nothing in your essay about vehicle mounted weapons. Rocket propelled grenades? No? What about a few molotov cocktails? Ever so much fun at parties.
I'm confused. Since I don't own any vehicles, the license tags are not my responsibility. Nor my problem. On the whole, it doesn't seem to me that the license tags are much of a deal. Why own property when the state claims a prior ownership? Unless you really like paying rent to the scum.
At some point, some luckless American is going to be on his last straw when some even more luckless pig pulls his car over. When that pig is found hanging from a highway overpass by his own entrails and that American goes on a rampage destroying police vehicles, things will just be starting to get interesting.
Or as TE Lawrence once said, "It's going to be fun!"
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