Free and Unashamed

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Read something today. It struck a chord.

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= A Declaration of Separation =

==== To The Governments & People of Earth: ====
We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it.
We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We merely
wish to be left alone.
All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long
time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury
and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.
We no longer see any benefit in working through the world’s systems. At some point,
working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.
Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain
and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold
the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and
opposed to humanity.
We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We
will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it.
We did not choose this – it was forced upon us.

==== To The Governments of Earth: ====
You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded
into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate
control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You
claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.
Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not
believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no
right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer
your citizens or your subjects.
Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not.
We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and
grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and
engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives.
We are on every continent.
This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept
unearned suffering as our role in life.
For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no
actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back
again and again, we have given up on your systems.
If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so.
We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us.
- From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave
you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly.
But if you come after us, there will be consequences.
You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women
among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon
this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of
the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do.
You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free.

==== To The People of Earth: ====
We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you.
All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and
generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy
employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children.
We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to
our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer
acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to
any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life.
We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with
us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish;
we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it.
We wish you peace.

==== To Those Who Will Condemn Us: ====
We will ignore you.
We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose
our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing?
We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we
will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet.
Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or
philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence
in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us
than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed
every sufficiently independent human.
You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we
know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state;
don’t forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next
to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as
you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you.
Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public
image.

==== What We Believe ====
#1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We
accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things
happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our
own interest.
We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are
willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences
thereof.

#2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever
they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life,
liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion.

#3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or
trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to
deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us.
We agree to see to them ourselves.

#4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary
and honest, no other party has a right to intervene – before, during or after.

#5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

#6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute.

#7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with.
We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

#8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate.
We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

#9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice.

#10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more
of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

#11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish
to exercise power upon others - either directly or through intermediaries - and those who
have no such desires.

#12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely
upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient
tools.

==== Our Plans: ====
We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking,
cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging.
Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely on voluntary arrangements.
We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of
value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the
right thing.
We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of
negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice.
We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm -
although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any
use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal
proceeds.
We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old
regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all
means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe
these lies, at least at first.
We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses.
Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in
furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and
cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

We are The Free and The Unashamed.
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