Guest Post by Freed Radical
They say we are now two nations in one, the left and the right, liberals and conservatives. Let’s leap ahead and make it official. Today we found the nation of the Free People of America.
What is this new nation? It is an overlay nation, a nation of people living within another nation. You have seen the county by county 2020 election map of America. The overlay in this case corresponds to the red areas:
(image credit: brilliantmaps.com)
This is not a new concept, and if some other freedom loving American has proposed this idea, I assure you the duplication is not plagiarism but simply a case of thinking too long under a hot shower. The easy parallel is a second passport, or dual citizenship. Many Americans have applied for second citizenship in other countries, due to their heritage, or as a means of escape when America crashes. The overlay nation is something like that, but occupying the same territory. There are also native American nations within the US borders.
People who are citizens of two nations follow both their laws, and necessarily one nation is more free than the other. I suppose during the cold war there were a few people with dual passports from the US and some Soviet bloc country. They were more a slave in one and more free in the other.
This is presently the case with dual citizenship between the United States of America and the Free People of America. Guess which is which.
Is this just another gimmick? No.
The purpose of the Free People of America is to encourage people to live in community, free yet responsible in our new nation, untaxed by a central authority, and able to flourish and grow under the sunlight of freedom. Yet we are, for now, still subjects of the US government, in the other nation. Here’s how it works.
We have a creed in the nation of the Free People of America:
I pledge to live free and responsibly, and to respect the freedom of my fellow citizens.
That’s it. But those sixteen words encompass a universe of truth.
The word I is the first person pronoun, and this nation is about the people, the I’s that make up the nation. The United States of America is apparently about some coagulation of political and regulatory entities, with scant concern for the people who give it life. Without respect for the I’s, the US has sickened, and suffers its last death throes. The nation of the Free People of America is a nation of, by, and for the people, not the government. You have heard that there was another nation based on that principle, but it soon went astray.
The word pledge implies that person is making a commitment. In the US today, the concept of commitment is antiquated, where marital commitment is obsolete, commitment to the country is offensive, and commitment to ideals and particularly morality is gauche. But we in the Free People of America have personal fiber strong for commitment, and the fortitude to keep our commitments in the face of opposition.
The verb live free contains an understanding of the effort, work, and treasure required to not only live free but preserve that freedom, at all costs. Living free is not easy, and never has been. Despots see free people as prey, and our living free is a mortal threat to them. Our creed is poison to them. The nation which we overlay is threatened and scared by our freedom, and that nation is acting as our slave master.
The word responsibly is the other side of the coin of rights. Too often in the US we demand our rights, while abdicating our responsibilities. I need not provide examples; you can provide numerous ones from your own experience with irresponsible people who demand their rights.
Responsibility prompts the question, Responsible to what? Or whom? Our creed does not mention God any more than it mentions gravity or Euclid’s Elements or the basic truths of science, but these are assumed and valued, not taken for granted. Our responsibility incorporates the principles of Godly human interaction, including the Golden Rule, respect for others’ lives and property, telling the truth tenaciously, and living out virtue, courage, and honor. Our responsibility stretches from returning a lost wallet, to raising our children right, to risking our life for our neighbor as their home burns.
Responsibility also extends to the defense of freedom. We all know, or have been, members of the military whose lives are on the line to protect our freedom.
Respecting the freedom of our fellow citizens outlines those things we will not do. For example, we will not demand a day’s pay without working. We will also not stand idly by while our injured or sick neighbor who cannot work starves. We will not enslave our neighbor. We will not falsely accuse our neighbor. We will not spread gossip or lies. We will not steal. We will not support governmental systems which put our neighbor into economic or physical or medical bondage. And we will not manipulate the systems we create to oppress our neighbors simply because we disagree with their course of action or specific beliefs, or we want their wealth.
The word freedom does not mean freedom to do just anything, of course, but the freedom to be a whole, contributing member of our society, enjoying its benefits. You are not free to be a moron. Freedom empowers rich life, but is not free and comes at a cost, sometimes a great cost.
Last, the term fellow citizens implies that we have brothers and sisters of all colors and creeds who are living free. It also implies there are others who are not fellow citizens. There are always evil people in the world who would enslave and use us. Those people are not our fellow citizens. They must be fought and defeated, else we would in the end become their slaves. As an example, consider the United States of America, which is full of would-be slave masters, many of whom are highly successful at enslavement.
A poor or oppressed person reaching our shores penniless but ready to work can certainly be a fellow citizen, as has been the case in the past even in the United States. A person seeking the welfare state can not.
The creed incorporates so many virtuous ideas that have been poisoned by the economic slavery and political power greed we see in the US. For example, environmentalism has been co-opted by the liberals as a vehicle of economic suppression and political control. But the basic notions of clean air and water, good stewardship of the land in agriculture, and not poisoning the country in which we live are all right and proper. A responsible person farming their land responsibly in the nation of the Free People of America will take care of the land because they know it supports their life. They love the land. The left despises the concept of land ownership, but only when each acre has a ‘lover’ as a land owner does it thrive. The red areas on the map above are beautiful because they are loved by their responsible owners. Thus, stewardship of the environment reaches full adulthood through a free people, without the burden of greedy politicians or government regulations.
Our banking system in the US is corrupt, being easily manipulated by those in government. For example, why are interest rates near zero percent for individuals and businesses who would put money on deposit? It’s because the banks are receiving free fiat money from the government, through the Federal Reserve. If they receive free money, why should they pay you interest for yours? This is a crime and a distortion of the marketplace. Economic responsibility extends even to those who would be bankers in the nation of the Free People of America, so that they would never participate in such a criminal scam to debase and inflate their own currency.
Isn’t this simple?
How do we grow our new overlay nation? Well, when you run into another person who is chafing at their economic slavery, the high taxes, and the criminal irresponsibility of government at every level, tell them about the Free People of America. If they respond favorably, and agree with our creed (which you of course recite from memory), offer to confer upon them citizenship. The only requirement, at this time, is that they recite and agree with the creed. The power they have under the creed and in our nation is to confer citizenship on others, and to live free!
Now citizenship in this new nation is not to be taken lightly, and never should you confer citizenship upon a room full of people you hardly know. This is to be done person to person, one on one, or family to family, to spite current government which looks on us as faceless slaves. Freedom incorporates relationship, and conferring citizenship is an act of love.
What about security, when the nation on which we are overlaid accelerates its persecution of us? Well, the only citizens you know are the ones you have conferred citizenship upon, and the one who did the same for you. It will take the despots 1000 years to fully map out who is part of the Free People of America. And in our defense, we as free people never harm the slaves of another nation, but reach out to them to teach our principles and kindle in them the fire of freedom.
Our nation, at this time, is a nation of simple principle. We do not have a bank account, and certainly not 501(c)(3) status! We do not have a membership list, mailing list, Facebook page, Twitter account, etc. You know how to contact your nearest citizens. That’s all we need. There’s no central repository of information for any hostile governments to exploit. It’s not a cult, political party, militia, or anti-government group, but a bunch of people who love freedom and its fruits. There is no logo, hat or t-shirt, and no dues, flag, or national anthem, only freedom. Your ‘challenge coin’ is your love of freedom. If you want to print some small cards containing the pledge for new citizens you recruit, go for it.
If somebody trademarks the name “Free People of America,” or puts up a web site trying to create a national organization, it is of no consequence because that trademark will only be recognized in the overlaid nation, the US. You are smart enough not to play along. We are free, not Free®. Freedom is not a corporate stunt, at least in our nation.
We also do not have a national leader. We have millions. YOU are our leaders, in your family, church and community. You are leading the cause of freedom and responsibility, and you are teaching these principles to young people who later will become citizens.
Remember the Tea Party? The liberals were looking high and low for a single leader to decapitate. There was none. The Tea Party is a nationwide organic reaction to the economic slavery of a certain corrupt administration. Our new overlay nation is even better for us, and much worse for them. They’d have to kill us all to stop the cause of freedom. And they may try (for they have no moral impediments to murder), but they will fail.
What about citizenship? No one is born into citizenship. Citizenship in the nation of the Free People of America must be born into you. When a kid is old enough to do a hard day’s work, shun stupidity, despise slavery and understand our principles, he or she is old enough to be a citizen.
Please note that this nation is not connected with the sovereign citizen movement. And I’m not telling you to evade taxes or disobey laws. Just live free. (Let the existing government choke on that seeming contradiction.) If you want to keep trying to improve the failing US system, please do. Just live free.
Spread the word. Send this write-up to your friends, while we still have the freedom to do that.
We do not yet have a constitution, because a constitution constitutes bodies of people making laws, levying taxes, restricting freedoms, and so on, which we do not as a nation need at present. We also have no territory to administer, which lightens the requirements for government. We are not anarchists and there will come a time when we need a constitution, but that day is not today, and we leave that for the future. Certainly there are free men and women who are bright and studied in this area who will be at the ready when the time is right for us to write our constitution.
Please also understand that freedom does not mean conformity. One of the best things about free people is that they express their freedom in different ways. You may choose to band together in a tight group and live in close proximity with a set of agreed guidelines to preserve your freedom and encourage responsibility. There are benefits to that, but the closer we are to each other, the more guidelines we need! Alternatively, you may choose to live in a looser orbit with other freedom lovers in your area. Free and responsible people are naturally flexible, and respectful of one another, and this is all good. Not all freedom looks the same. Learn from other free people.
What is a nation without land? When the time is right, and we will know collectively when the time is right, we shall have land. Nations based on slavery do not last forever. They rise, and fall hard, and when they fall their land is available in a fire sale. Nations fall all the time.
For the next few decades, until some land becomes available, we are a nation of free people, without national land (beyond that which we control under the other nation), but with our dignity, courage, virtue, and honor. We are growing, building, learning, and strengthening, and teaching others about the value of freedom and the personal responsibility that secures it. We are the Free People of America.
Would you today be a founding citizen of the Free People of America? Recite and memorize the creed and live free as a nation occupying another. “I pledge to live free and responsibly, and to respect the freedom of my fellow citizens.” Spread our principles. Build free community.
There’s nothing before us but blue sky. Or should I say red sky?!
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we already have one of these, it’s called “Oathkeepers”.
You mean the FBI-Asset Oathkeepers?
No blue in only two states.
WV and OK
There’s only two in Kentucky- Fayette and Jefferson counties. Lexington is in Fayette- a Democrat urban sprawl hotbed, and Louisville is in Jefferson, a real Democratic Communist shithole town that repeatedly votes for Jew politicians.
OKC has the largest employer in the state. AIrcraft repair by the largest federal employee union.
Tinker AFB is blue.
As a meme I saw recently said:
“There are NO blue states, only red states with corrupt blue cities.”
Hmmmmm…..,perhaps those cities need to be “relocated”.
Lets all pitch in as a country and help them move,you know,in unity and all that.
Just another reason why I have no empathy for the crime, death, misery, decay, and downward spiral of blue cities.
The vast majority of blue is either a leftist, shithole city or a town with a university.
Or an indian reservation, feather not dot.
Flagstaff (university) and the Indian reservation on the map in AZ.
I find Martin Armstrong’s take on this whole situation fascinating. He’s the fellow who predicts trends with his Socrates computer program. He says by 2022 there will be nonstop civic disorder, and that a real civil war will be start around 2026 to 2027. Shortly thereafter, the dollar loses its reserve currency status in 2028, and that by 2032 Washington, D.C. will have no power over anything, resulting in the Collapse of American Imperial Power. He also says that if the States cannot agree to return to a Federal System with vastly limited power not unlike that before World War I, then we will see the dissolution of the United States.
Coal,
Halfway through this novel…has a plot similar to Armstrong’s prediction…enjoying it!
VICTORIA: A Novel of 4th Generation War Paperback – April 18, 2015
When Captain John Rumford, USMC, stands up for the dead Marines of Iwo Jima against the forces of political correctness that have invaded his beloved Corps, he is promptly cashiered for his trouble. But upon his return to his native Maine, he discovers that even in the countryside, there is no escaping the political correctness that has spread throughout the United States of America. And when what begins as a small effort by some former Marines to help fellow Christians in Boston free themselves from the plague of crime in their neighborhoods turns into a larger resistance movement, Captain Rumford unexpectedly finds himself leading his fellow revolutionaries into combat against an ideological enemy that takes many different forms. Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War is a vision of an American restoration.
For some it will be seen as a poignant dream, for others, a horrific nightmare. But Victoria is more than a conventional novel and involves considerably more than mere entertainment. In much the same way Atlas Shrugged was the dramatization of a particular philosophical perspective, Victoria is the dramatization of a new form of modern war that is taking shape as the state gradually loses its four-century monopoly on violence. It is a book that informs, even teaches, through example. And sometimes, the lessons are very harsh indeed.
great book!
Great book. Read it couple years ago!
Love him or hate him, Armstrong has been right more than he’s been wrong. Also stated by 2032 the center of the financial world will shift from the U.S. to China.
I really can’t see that timeline playing out. “Non-stop” civic disorder will continue for 4-5 years? I guess it depends, but I don’t see how it wouldn’t escalate faster than that. And while a real Civil War could take years to play out, I think it would progress faster than anyone imagines. The reason is the gird….just too easy and too effective to cut off the power to large swaths of enemy territory. Won’t be like any previous war when there either was no electricity or, during WWII, a much lesser general decency upon it. The Grid is the really demarcation in my mind. Without it, there is no modernity, there is no real-time communication and Washing DC will have no power over anything. Without the Grid DC would be Mad Max in 3 weeks.
It’s not about living peacfully with each other, its about power and control.
Great idea, but communism is as communisim does.
My Father drilled this into me…he lived it…and I toasted him with it at the family dinner after his funeral:
“Walk you’re post from flank to flank
And take no shit from any rank.”
He and his Father, my Grandpap, who I shared a bedroom with for 7 years as a boy after he lost a leg, sat me down many times and warned me about Communism, banks, and politicians.
My Dad told me a number of times:
1. Communism is slavery with slogans.
2. After you shake hands with a Banker…count your fingers.
3. Politicians give liars a bad name.
Communism is only a tactic of the Luciferians. It’s a spiritual war, the headwaters are spiritual…flowing down from the spiritual follows the culture, then politics, and then economics.
We have collectively turned our back on God (through 9 lawyers in black dresses (and did not tar and feather them) not revolting to the turning, hence the culture is a filthy sewer polluting the politics, and the ponzi scam Bankster fiat economics is riddled with liars and thieves….fleecing us daily…none of us have any fingers left.
Without a revival, a massive turning away from our collective sins, and a Great Awakening we will continue to be completely lost, and looted as a nation.
I believe TLPTB (L= Luciferian) will do whatever it takes to start a Civil War in America as that assures our Superpower destruction no matter what happens, then they can get on with the rest of the NWO/Great Reset (backing China), then deal with the Balkanized US later, eating that elephant one regional power at a time.
Of course somewhere along that time line the little horn shows up.
I pledge to live free and responsibly, and to respect the freedom of my fellow citizens.
I thought he was describing Libertarian thinking. It was kind of Ron Paulish.
And here I was thinking that Ron was a (retired) career GOP politician.