Molon Labe! (43 page)

Even though SS is a "third rail issue" the Republican presidential candidate truthfully warns the public that the current SS program is
"doomed by long overdue reality"
and that an immediate reduction in benefits is the only way to prevent collapse. The Libertarian candidate is even more stern on SS, stating that the elderly have
"bought into a false retirement that will soon evaporate before their eyes."

McBlane declares that SS benefits will remain in force regardless of the taxes required. This is precisely what the Gray Lobby wants to hear, and the McBlane/Connor Democratic ticket is elected by their vast support.

The two party system...is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that two could be one and one could be two and had probably been fabricated by Hegel for the American market on a subcontract from General Dynamics.

— I.F. Stone

Evanston,Wyoming

December 2012

To the Editor of the
Evanston Herald

Dear Sir,

Your article on the tax dilemma was most appreciated. Here is the
dignus vindice nodus
. Here is the core problem. The American people
finance
their own oppression through federal taxes. Let's say that a state got uppity and tried to assert its rightful domain in the matter of traffic laws, such as speed limits, seat-belts, helmets, open-containers, insurance, etc. Technically, these are not federal laws but state laws enacted under the federal blackmail of withholding highway funding. Who collects that federal highway tax money in the first place? The states do, at the gas pump!

It's one thing to endure the withholding of federal highway funds, but it's yet another to make their withholding irrelevant by refusing to collect federal excise taxes at the gas pump and increase the state tax to cover the shortfall. Coldly analyzed, the states really don't
need
the USG involved in their highway programs. Knocking the feds out of the loop is conceptually the most simple and elegant solution, but the one fraught with the most risk.

Another example: the so-called "income" tax applied to simple wages. How free can a people hope to become while they allow a
third
of their paycheck to be withheld?
Half
of their inheritance to be stolen?

So, until the issue of locally-collected federal taxes is taken head-on, no real reduction in federal tyranny can ever occur. As long as victims continue to finance their oppressors, they will remain victims.

The first rule of warfare is to not support your enemy. In fact, giving aid or comfort to your enemy is the very definition of treason. The word derives from the Latin
trans
, give +
dare
, over. Isn't paying taxes to an oppressive government "giving over" to your enemy?

It was a shame that your article was published
after
the elections instead of before. A month ago, it might have woken up some voters.

For Truth, Justice, and the American Way,

Barbara Adams

Bear River, Wyoming

To the Editor of the
Evanston Herald

Dear Sir,

I read your feature story on IRS abuses with detached interest.

I don't pay income taxes for the same reason I don't bowl or golf. It's simply not in my nature.
"But you can reduce your taxes to zero if you have a home office and write off blah, blah, blah!"
folks tell me. Yeah? So what? Taxation is theft, and income taxation is the worst form of it. I will not jump through the IRS hoops of deductions and allowances in order to reduce this theft. If they insist on stealing, fine, let them steal with no illusions — just like any highway robber. But to insist that we also play some game culminating on every April 15th is obscene. If the IRS can find somebody sufficiently dishonest or cowardly to withhold 30% of my earnings, well goodie for them. But I will not rent a warehouse to store years of receipts; I will not ruin my eyesight by reading their mountain of regulations in 8-point type; I will not squander dozens of sun-filled hours every year filling out their damned forms. Whatever percentage I could reduce my income taxes by "playing the game" just isn't worth it.

The IRS is a rapist promising to be "gentle" in exchange for your monthly love letters.

While I may not be able to make the IRS irrelevant financially, I
can
make them irrelevant in every other area of my life. I absolutely
refuse
to keep track of mileage, cell phone usage, or T&E expenses. I will not plan my vacations around business opportunities for the tax write-off. My life exists for me to
enjoy
, and playing the deduction game is like trying to enjoy a fine restaurant dinner with a calorie counter.

I live by the
calendar
year, not the fiscal.

The IRS wants to be the thief? Fine, they can steal what they want and then piss off. Take "their" 30% and go away, leaving me free not to have to think about the IRS until next year. That 30% I will simply consider A Cost To Living On This Planet. With the other 70% remaining, I will live fully — unsullied by thoughts of thieves and parasites.

Let's say the IRS comes after me, steals all I own, and sends me to prison. OK, they get to take care of me for five years before they let me go. What then? I would live the rest of my life in a tent in some National Forest rather than sign onto their feudalism.

Government has an invisible gun to all our heads, and that's just the problem. The gun is invisible, yet we still pay as if a muzzle ring of barrel steel is pressed to our temples. Why are we giving up over half our lives to taxes, inflation, and regulation because of an
invisible
gun? The mugger armed with a revolver can shoot only six people, so why is a seventh threatened? Or a hundredth? Because of leverage. His leverage of our fear. Nobody wants to take bullet one through six. Nobody has the balls to confront his assailant. Yet if enough of us
do
, he will run out of ammunition and the rest of us will be free.

All we must do is call his bluff to neutralize his leverage. It is not the six bullets in his gun which give him power over a crowd, it is our unanimous cowardice. Truly, it is the slave which makes slavery possible. You cannot tame a badger or a wolverine for they are implacably ferocious. There are no Cape Buffalo in yoke, no mustangs in harness. We, however, have allowed ourselves to become domesticated sheep by our fear of invisible — and hence increasingly imaginary — threats.

It is time to realize that all this is a
war
and the frontline is daily life. There is no rear. There is no safety. It is Total War and all of us are soldiers under barrage. All of us will die, so why are we squandering away our lives as if we're immortal — fooling ourselves with some implicit infinity when a measly century is about all we'll get? It's not how we die that's important, but how we have lived. I'll take 40 years of full-bore, no-compromise living over 100 years of surrender and cowardice. I'd rather live 100% for 40 years than 40% for 100 years.

I'll suffer what taxation theft I can endure, but I am not infinitely compressible. At some point, I may just "go Drega" on them, and won't they be surprised! But until then, I consciously make these parasites irrelevant. They can steal that 30% from me, but not a single moment of joy for being alive.

Yours for a free Republic!

David Furr

Evanston, Wyoming

Casper,Wyoming

December 2012

There were several gun shows in Casper each year, which the Prestons never missed. James, Jr. loved to chat with the veterans, especially a 92-year-old Marine who is Casper's last survivor of Guadalcanal.

As they walk out to their truck, they can't help but notice that every windshield in the parking lot has a flyer under the wiper. They take one and huddle together to read it. Within seconds, they are howling with laughter.

"Dad, is this thing a
joke?
" asks James, Jr.

"It sure is, my boy — but whoever wrote it didn't know that."

Juliette smiles at Preston. "It's going on your office wall, isn't it?"

Preston is still laughing. "How could it
not?
"

"The author," Juliette wisecracks, "just
has
to be from Boulder."

"Where's
Boulder
?" asks Hanna.

Preston squeezes her hand. "We'll take a field trip there sometime."

Submissive Inviting the Sharing of Suppressed Yearnings (SISSY)

Our goal is to expose once and for all the real cause of criminal violence. Crimes are violent only because the "victim" might resist. If the initiator could
peaceably
get what he wanted, he would
forsake
any violence in doing so. Makes sense, doesn't it?

The root of "coercion" is one party not willing to
share
.

Let us therefore go directly to the heart of the matter. We must simply
outlaw resistance.
Those who "defend" themselves are
willing partners
in the deadly dance of violence. It takes
two
to Tango! Turn him down!

Self defense has
no
defense!

By mandating submission, we remove the reason for violence. Do you see the elegant simplicity of this? Eliminate resistance and you eliminate violence!

Make a fist — Go to jail!

We propose the registration of all Carnally-Generous men ("rapists"). Thereafter, all Carnal Gifts shall take place by random selection. The Carnally-Generous simply chooses his preferred Receptor, who reports for Submission Duty. (This is scheduled at
mutual
convenience — fair is fair.) No fuss, no muss. "Rape" without violence is just sex, and any woman's reluctance to accept a Carnal Gift is
elitism
.

No more "rapist." No more "victim."
No more violence!

The Submission Program can also be applied to "muggings" and all other so-called "crimes of violence."

A nonviolent society through submission!

Imagine the tax savings from closing down all the unnecessary "Sex Crimes" police units. This would free up law enforcement to investigate
real
crimes such as: hate speech, homophobic discrimination, unregistered gun trafficking, suspicious cash transactions, underground homeschooling, spanking, vaccination evasion, sedition, and hooliganism.

There can be no peace until we embrace the will of others.

The only real evil is
not sharing
.

Join SISSY today!

Wyoming life

DSA, Inc. (the FAL battle rifle manufacturer) had enough of Illinois and was enticed by the economic freedom and shooting culture of Wyoming. By next year, the superb rifles will be made in a new plant outside Douglas.

Ron Smith of Smith Enterprise (formerly of Tempe, Arizona) relocated his forging operations and machine shop to Guernsey in May. Catering to
serious
users of the M14 system, Ron has brought the venerable rifle into the 21st century. His forged receiver 18" barrel gun with gas-block front sight and direct-connect Vortex flash suppressor is lightweight, reliable, and 1¼MOA accurate with quality FMJ. Special Forces operators love it, and have made kills on the enemy out to 800 meters.

Wyoming now has two battle rifle systems manufacturers. Perhaps an HK91 firm would "complete the set" by relocating to the Riflemen's state.

2013

Washington, D.C.                   FBIHQ

January 2013

The Bureau assembled a special task force solely for "The Leopard" in anticipation of his next biennial February homicide. Agents are focusing on a roster of all surviving VIPs and politicians within a 200 mile radius of D.C. still on the KK risk list. Extra security has been provided to these potential targets, in the hope of catching the elusive killer in the act.

Wyoming

2013

By now the Cowboy State migration was a fairly open secret. What had been a surprise in 2006 and half-known in 2010 was now the subject of national discussion. Nothing in conservative or libertarian politics had ever been so proactive, and it was causing quite a stir. The freedom-loving American had chafed at his restraints for decades. He was tired of liberals taxing him for something he would have done anyway, and then doing it poorly or not at all. Worse still was taxing him for something he
never
would have done, and then actually doing it.

Now he had somewhere to
go
. Everyone did. Instead of banging their heads against a wall in New Jersey and Missouri, instead of slowly being crushed by the regulatory grindstone of California, instead of seeing their beloved Arizona and Colorado and Oregon being taken over by socialist yup-pies, they simply moved.

The exodus to Wyoming had reached "critical mass" in 2008 and was growing rapidly on its own. The last general election in 2010 garnered the libertarians seven more counties, for a total of 12 of 23. After the congressional election of 2012, they controlled 40% of the legislature. Libertarians had grafted themselves onto Wyoming's "DNA" and were enjoying the increased freedom for which they had worked so hard.