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Americans have lost many of their freedoms, and have been lulled into submission and compliance by time and by coercion. The right to travel has been declared a "privilege" granted in return for various futomobile fees, drivers licenses and airport molestations. Slavery has been instituted by direct taxes on labor and wages. Public debt and obligation has been imposed upon Americans when they had no part of creating that debt. The State no longer protects the rights of individuals, it now protects mainly government itself at the expense of private individuals' money and freedoms. Police forces have become militarized. Many of the benefits and principles of the American Revolution of the late 1700's have been lost and are no longer truthfully or adequately taught in our public schools. Children are taught not to value freedom, but to accept State control and become dependent on institutional patronage, so the coming generations will have little capacity to mainatin a free State without major educational efforts from the privatye sector.

Several generations of Americans have traded rights and freedoms for perceived "benefits" from government. The results have been massive public debt, wars that make no sense and never end, state sponsored assassination and torture, millions of Americans dependent upon redistribution of public largesse, crippling taxes of all kinds that, when totaled, exceed 70% of personal earnings, massive and ongoing expansion in the size, wealth, authority and secrecy of government, major government intrusions into personal privacy, and major perversions and violations of America's founding principles by deed and statute.

FREEDOMTAKER.COM endeavors to be one of the ways that Americans recover their rights, self-sufficiency and prosperity, not to mention our integrity and global reputation.

FREEDOMTAKER, GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND MAXIMS:

He who fails to assert his rights has none. (This is not how it should be, but that is how the courts treat people, so we all must know, and be prepared to assert our rights at all times.)

If you must ask for freedom, you are not free. The only freedom you have is the freedom you imagine for yourself and actively require others to observe.

It is a duty to take freedom for yourself, and it is a crime to take the freedom of another.

Freedom does not come to you from the Constitution, the government, the Bible, God, your parents, a company, politician or bureaucrat. Freedom exists at the instant you claim it, and it usually vanishes when you fail to defend it.

FREEDOM IS FREE unless someone is trying to take it from you, which is nearly always the case. That means it is useless to generally favor freedom as a concept, we must be vocal. We must deal directly and firmly with the person who would take our money or property, or who would stand in our way when we have harmed no one.

America is not made great by people pledging as servants, but defending their rights and property as sovereigns.

There are those who believe that freedom is granted by God. While everyone has a perfect right to their religious beliefs, and we grant that many of the principles of freedom originate from the moral teachings of religions, this site does not attempt to affirm or expound religious principles. It may be said that God gave us the power to claim our freedom, but God did not give us the freedom itself as can be seen by the billions of people on earth of all religions who are currently suffering from various deprivations of freedom. We can't give them freedom because we don't own their freedom. We can only help them know that they do have the right to freedom and the power to take it for themselves. This is a website for people, regardless of religion, to find information, assistance and inspiration in the exercise and defense of their freedoms. Freedom must be seen and protected for its own value, not as a means to affirm religious principles. Freedom and religion may be mutually supportive, but they are not mutually dependent. You may need freedom to exercise religion but you should not need religion to exercise freedom.

FREEDOMTAKER does not use the American flag, the eagle or the star to identify the FreedomTaker concept. The concept of freedom is larger than any country, race, civil or social system. Even animals require freedom to have a certain quality of life. While efforts like FreedomTaker may be identified by some symbol or logo, freedom itself has no logo, symbol, members, leaders or oath. To be human is to have the right of freedom. Just as freedom cannot be prescribed or granted, only claimed and taken, the look and feel of freedom is only what the individual makes of it for himself or herself. There are as many different kinds of freedom as there are individuals who see themselves as entitled to freedom. Freedom is not what you may do, it is what you do. Freedom does not exist when it is claimed, defined or declared, freedom only exists when and how it is exercised.

Freedom, as any endeavor, is best achieved through non-violence, however, because freedom is a natural and essential right, when freedom, life and property are assaulted they sometimes must be defended in kind.

The concepts of "safety", "security" "order" and "necessity" are the most common excuses used to deny freedom. Almost invariably when those things are promised, all that is delivered is a reduction in freedom and an increase in institutional control and exploitation of private individuals.

We are easily made afraid by disorder. We forget our need for freedom but we never forget our need for "order". That is human nature. Tyrants may therefore easily enslave us by causing chaos and fear, then offering us some kind of contract promising order at the expense of our freedom. Thay way they do not have to force our compliance, we simply volunteer for slavery. Our willingness to trade freedom for order is a low-level primal impulse easily exploited by narcissists and agressive personalities. This is well unbderstood by power hoarders. They know, to maintain power and control, they must continually create fear and chaos.

Failure to protect your own freedom is to weaken and threaten the freedom of others. Those who assault our freedoms point to the compliant as normal and the non-compliant as deviant. It is just the opposite. The highest condition of power and consciousness for any individual is to be master of all that affects him or her. Attainment of freedom is only the beginning of individual empowerment. Learning and creativity are muted and corrupt at times and places where freedom is denied.

Taking the wealth, earnings and property from someone by force with the feeble excuse that it must be given to someone else is not compassion, it is tyranny.

Freedom is not possible in a system of "majority rule", or any other system of "rule" by a collective or central authority. Freedom is only possible in a republic where those who wish may live as self-avowed sovereign individuals protecting in their own ways, and to the extent of their personal abilities, the rights and freedoms of themselves, their family members, neighbors and all others within reach.

Taxes on personal labor and earnings is slavery.

Corporations are fictitious fabrications and they have no rights or entitlements as are native and natural to human beings.

Taxes, fees, licenses, permits, penalties or other encumbrances on harmless behavior is oppression and is morally not permissible.

Seek no benefit and pay no tribute to distant collectives. Maintain your individual sovereign authority against all threat and temptation.

Taxes on, or revenue from harmful behaviour (profit from destruction) constitutes a moral hazard for the taxing agency. Taxes on harmless or beneficial activity is detrimental to the public interest. Taxes are punishment, damage and harm. Voluntary charity and compassion are far more effective and just than institutional redistribution.

Government may never presume any right or entitlement to private wealth and property.

No government may rightfully adopt the posture or character of anything but servant.

Excess power and wealth, if an offense, is better defeated by individually empowered organized social opposition (boycott, non-compliance) than by creating and empowering even more wealthy enforcement institutions to "fight against" the power and wealth of other institutions. It is better to not authorize power and wealth than to authorize it then try to limit it.

Any collected wealth may be diverted to corrupt or unintended application, and history shows that it always is. Therefore the collection and management of of wealth should not be allowed to any public entity, agency or officer. Wealth and property must never be seized or diverted from the individual who has earned it by exchange for his labor.

Centralized and collective power and wealth are always corrupt, self-serving, secret, unaccountable, divertable, wasteful and impossible to contain in size, wealth and greed.

Centralized power must be agressively and continually reduced and maintained at the minimum level and never considered to be a device of general social or economic solution.

If there were no law or government most people would be peaceful and harmless to each other and would, untaxed, have the resources to defeat bad actors. There is no need or net benefit for centralized control or exploitation of human beings.

The illusion of central control causes individuals to fail in responsibility and personal excellence. When the state claims authority to control society and intention to "provide for the general welfare", then individuals no longer see themselves responsible for their own actions.

An individual's power lies in himself, his family and his immediate community and nowhere else.

There is no such thing as a global leader.

Those who see a tyrranny growing and try to warn others can feel some resentment as the tyranny grows if others are deaf to the warnings.

The most trodden by tyranny will be those who, because they failed to heed warnings of tyranny, find themselves trodden by both the tyrants and the champions of freedom.

Just as it is not moral to take the freedom or rights of another, it is not possible to give freedom or rights to another. If something is given, loaned or sold, it is a benefit or privilege, but it is not freedom or rights. You must concieve and secure your own liberty and you must defeat those who prevent that.

All contracts must be intentional, voluntary, subject to recission and recorded to be enforceable.

An individual may not be obligated by his silence or by presumption or implication.

Fiat (unbacked) currency is worthless and subject to abuse by its issuers against its users. Debt-based fiat (unbacked) currency is fraud and theft because it may be created by one party to the obligation of another.

The use of interest-bearing debt is unsustainable, unnatural and unwise.

Charity is done by people, "redistribution" is done by theft. Institutions that are morally flawed enough to steal wealth for "redistribution" have no moral capacity to distribute it justly or honorably. Control of wealth and property may only rightfully be performed by the original earner and holder of the wealth and property. Judging someone to be "too wealthy" is subjective and cannot be fairly administered in any codified or coerced manner.

The above statements are simply declarations of individual freedom. If you feel empowered by them you may benefit from participating in this web site. If you feel threatened or disturbed by them then you may be wrongly taking the freedom of others for your own benefit. This site is dedicated to non-violent and race-blind restoration of freedom to individuals who seek it while recognizing the social and economic damage done by those who take the freedom of others.

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DEFINITION:
"Collective": A system of rule by a central authority. Most forms of government such as Democracy (majority rule) Communism, Facsism, Dictatorship, Monarchy, etc. are collectives. In a collective individual freedom and determination is subordinated to a centralized authority outside the individual. A collective imposes any number of obligations, behavioral expectations and/or promises benefits common to all members or conscripts or redistributes benefits from a slave class to a privileged class. The term collective refers to, for instance, virtually all forms of government, large employers and idiologically oriented membership organizations. In a collective, individual thought and authority is given over to a general set of policies which may be rigid or controlled buy an elite cadre. To promote collectives as "for freedom", propaganda may employ terms such as "Freedom Collective", "Freedom Organization", "Freedom Club", etc. Those terms are oxymorons. Freedom is manifest by individuals for themselves, not by organizations upon individuals. If an organization provides it, it is not freedom, it is a benefit of that organization as a collective. Preservation of freedom for individuals can only be done by preventing and limiting the power and authority of collectives.
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FOR HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE RESPONSIBLE?
Many people are attracted to collectivist systems for a sense of personal security. They wish the State or some large institution to take responsibility for their personal security and well-being. They assume that forced redistribution of wealth will work in their favor. They believe that if they are, or appear to be needy or poor they will experience the up side of the redistribution. Of course most of the redistribution winds up in the hands of the collective's elites and insiders, and "the poor" often contribute more than "the rich" and then the promised benefits are often denied or fail. The benefits do not cause individual prosperity or security, only dependency and control. Even if equitable redistribution were possible, the illusion of individual security under collective patronage has one very obvious flaw. To gain that illusion of personal security we must, in the case of national collectivism, volunteer to personally guarantee the security of 300 million other Americans including millions of bureaucrats, undocumented aliens, political insiders, war makers, corrupt contractors, foreign dictators, failed bankers, pork barrel squandering and of course greed and skimming at all levels by all sorts of players. So the simple question is this: Are you better off taking responsibility for yourself or millions of greedy and corrupt strangers? A system of redistribution loses most of it's resources to waste and corruption. Propserity for individuals is far higher in a "keep what you earn" system. For instance, the poverty level in America has grown to four times its size per captia since the creation of the welfare state under Lyndon Banes Johnson.
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