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Coming up on 24 years ago the USgov used chemical weapons to blind, suffocate, and ultimately burning alive over 76 people in Waco, TX. How soon we forget. 

I liked your article. BLM is nonsense. I'm not a big fan of the "All Lives Matter" retort (but mainly for a nitpick of a gripe). I would say, "All Life Matters". The singular life, that of the individual, mattering before some silly collectivist categorization appeals to me.

About the only way to non-violently stop a UAV is with an EMP, which presents other issues of it's own. 

That takes some of the shine off of Stanford's brand if that's all it takes to get in.

Alex. I smile at your bug out bag, but, exactly where are you going to bug out too? That is a question many preppers have asked themselves after reviewing the potential; they just ain't no where to really bug out too because everyone else is going to be bugging out also. It will be crowded. The current trending philosophy in prepperdom is to maintain your position and build a relationship with neighbors, and defend your position. What would you advocate the elderly to do, or those with physical disabilities, or medical problems. We can't bug out. I have more fear over what the government is going to do if this catastrophic event were to take place. Please forgive me Alex, but I think you should be searching for a more solid plan than running out the door and into the woods, a your essay seems to imply. Ah! The woods. That place is going to be chuck full of preppers. Everybody and their brother and sister and mother and father are going to be in the woods hunting for food to shoot or trap or fish. Prepping is not as simple as packing up a bag and bugging. Today it is becoming more and more of an art and a science. I am not certain at this point if your are truly serious about prepping or if this is an experimental thing for you. Is it experimental, or is it serious?

The activist behind this is a wealthy internet millionaire and if he wants to do this he has the funds to, so I would ignore bleats for money. Just sayin'. Save your money or donate it to STR or like minded, independent efforts and outfits. My opinion FWIW.

Unfortunately, this wouldn't work for me. I've got family who would need protection under these circumstances, including young children who aren't in my custody. I couldn't just "bug out" and leave them to deal with whatever was coming.

If I had had this option back in the day I would have bailed on public skools after about seventh grade and just read stuff and worked on things, volunteered, travelled, etc and then taken the GED test upon turning 16 and taken a state diploma. (Just to have that peice of paper to show people, just in case anybody I care about ever asked.)

Doh!

My washer & dryer are from 1981 and 1972 respectively.  Maytag & Sears Kenmore.  Still work just fine, and even the owner of a local appliance store says to hang on to them until the very last because the new ones suck so bad.

Too bad we can't "pull" Trump for making the same claim.

Delightfully logical, Paul. You maybe forgot the Money Trees, though; I'm told they grow all along the National Mall and their fruit provides unlimited funding for anything. Even the petals of their blossom, at this season, can be used as IOUs.

Cordwood is a better choice and much more aesthetically pleasing for a perm or semi-perm structure. 

One less is better tho, Jim. I'd be more than happy if my township, county, and school board state entities disappeared, even if it leaves Michigan and the USgov untouched. Local sorts are the ones that are the most numerous meddlers in my daily life. People whine and moan continually about the federal agencies and the rest of the Big State, but honestly it's the "local" gov minions that trip me up the most. The only fed I have interacted with in the last decade or so was a federal egg inspector who knocked on my door cuz she was lost. Oh, and the Census Bureau "enumerator" guy in 2010.

I wonder how many "normies" (ie. non-ancap types, etc.) would vote (I know, I know. Voting? Reeee!) who honestly toted up on a balance sheet of pluses and minuses would vote to abolish whole classes of institutional government? But on the other hand, as with numerous instances of genuine populism when put to a vote, the deep state would find some way to thwart it, so why bother? It's getting harder and harder for the deep state to keep up the pretense that all these elections, laws, regulations, matter at all, and that's it's really all about force. The USA is coming to it's own perestroika moment similar to the one the Soviet ruling class faced in 1990. 

Touché.

Kevin, and anyone else listening, based on 34+ years experience in AA, I've never heard of a judge or PO checking to determine that the person who signed the court paper wasn't your cell mate who you met outside before the meeting and signed it for you. Of course if you are an AA member and you are trying to get honest with yourself and others, this won't do.

"At this point I should confirm the reader’s guess: I have been arrested for breaking the drinking laws, afterwards coerced into AA. Moreover, a recent episode (I won’t detail here) in my life saw me not just inside the meetings, but also another drug treatment flock, to whom I was to bring said-signatures to..." Kevin, Among other epithets, I would describe myself as a voluntaryist (a.k.a., pacifist/anarchist), a disciple (a.k.a., student and follower, however haltingly) of Jesus of Nazareth, an alcoholic and a member of AA. I used to "take" AA meetings into the local county jail, where those who were allowed to attend had to have their judge's approval, and since I always brought some good donuts to go with the jailhouse coffee, a lot of those at the meeting were just there for the donuts, but almost to a man over ten years and maybe 200 of these meetings, I can't recall even one attendee who wasn't at least courteous and a little curious about what besides donuts we (usually 2 of us) AAs had to offer. Of those who had their judges' approval to attend, I suspect most if not all had more than "your honors" permission. They were order to go. At most if not all of these meetings, I would point out to them, as I point out to you and as you point out in your essay, that they could not be coerced by any judge to attend AA meetings. This always brought a reaction: "My judge told me if I didn't attend AA 3-times a week for two years my probation (or parole) would be suspended and I'd have to finish my two-year sentence." Me: "Well let me tell you, a United States Court of Appeals has held that it is a violation of your civil rights to be forced to attend AA. I can assure you, if you bring that to the judges attention he will back off and won't send you to AA. Of course he may make you do your two years, but he can't make you go to AA. So if you don't want to go to AA, don't go. The worst the judge can do to you is send you back to jail. I don't know for sure because I've only spent less than 140 days in jails, but I'm sure I could do two years standing on my head if I didn't want to be coerced into attending AA. I think I understand what motivates your animosity to AA, and I can't say I blame you. But I once went to jail because I refused a judge's order to do the IRS's bidding. And I'm not at all happy about AA's general (not 100% by any means) cooperation with the courts by signing papers to prove attendance by those who are court ordered. Some groups refuse to sign them, and that I think would keep the court-sent perverts away. But the crucial point I would make is that in my 79 years of life, about 50 of them as a libertarian, I have never known a more freedom-oriented group than AA. No dues, no fees, no taxes, no rules, no regulations. The Traditions say "the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking," and I like to add no one will ever check your desire if you want to attend meetings without it. You become a member of AA by saying so to yourself. The traditions also say "our leaders are servants the do not govern." No one in AA can tell anyone to do anything and make it stick, and the few who might attempt to do so are usually gone in a few years at most if they don't change. The libertarian tradition of AA tends to drive control freaks away. I assume some of them go away like you, dissing AA, but that's okay, AA has broad shoulders and most of us aren't upset by dissing. As one who looks forward to the demise of the violent nation-state, I think AA serves as a model of how well a group of people can operate in the absence of coercive authority. As for Bill Wilson, whatever his shortcomings, some of his writings are the essence of libertarian "doctrine." In at least two he pays his respect to the concept of anarchism. In my book, for that reason, he can't be all bad as some of his detractors would have it. I was never "sent" by a court to AA, although my wife who has more power than any court sent me. But if it had been the state's doing, I might still be "out there" slamming 'em down--or, much more likely, dead. Keep the faith, Ned

http://everything-voluntary.com/letting-go-social-change

No surprise here. This is "what democracy looks like!"

It's far easier to draw people into a nice clean well ordered nation like Germany is. Esp if it's got generous welfare benefits like she does. Why would they ever want to go back to home to their African or middle eastern shit holes? And it's why govs shouldn't trawl for migrants.

Poor taxpayers. Pay to let them in pay to get them out. With no visible means of support, why were any of them (women children & injured excepted) allowed in? Able-bodied uninjured single men aren't refugees.

Nonsense. Panarchy is for losers. Also see the current ZGBlog.

Between what's in the AR-7 magazines and the 26 extra rounds, that's 50 total.  Plus 10 rounds total for the .38 -- I think that's a good balance.   And yes, as stated, there's certainly room for other items and modification of the list -- especially depending on time of year.   But again, weight and travelling light is a paramount consideration.