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Leif Smith
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Explorers Foundation, Inc.
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Denver, CO 80209
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Open space is characterized by limits that serve quest. Closed space is characterized by limits that obstruct quest. Human social systems exist on a continuum between closed space and open space. Freeorder is dependent upon and emergent from well-made boundaries. This vortex is about the defense of open space. Closely related vortices: Sheridan, Openworld, Blackstone.
 
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Log
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28Mar24: Malone vs Stripe & Substack
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11Feb24: Tess Lawrie - immune system
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15Jan24: “End This Silence” by Brownstone Institute
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22Dec23: Nick Giambruno on Mark Miller
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05Nov23: McCullough Foundation
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30May23: FIRE: Artist’s freedom of expression
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29Mar23: FIRE: Stanford Law; Florida city
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27Jan23: Injuction against California law criminalizing doctors
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28Aug22: Institute for Justice; Singapore, Gurhkas, John Cross
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04Jul22: ProtectAmerica.Vote; Malone Institute
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14Jun22: Margaret Anne Alice, on Propaganda
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05Sep21: True The Vote
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10Feb21: Dorian S. Abbot and Free Speech Union
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04Jul20: Churchill quote on guardians
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03Jun20: Citizens defend Coeur d’Alene against rioters
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15Jan20: Sidney Powell’s defense of General Flynn
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20Nov19: Emile Zola’s “J’Accuse” in defense of Dreyfuss, 1898
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16Oct19: Oath Keepers providing protection at political events
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11Dec17: Politics: wrong people can do right things -M. Friedman
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28Jan17: Gingrich, “Trumpism explained” •••
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19Nov16: Warrior Cop, Balko
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28Mar15: Institute for Justice
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20Mar15: Jonathan Emord
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29Nov14: Volunteer Guardians vs. Looters & Destroyers
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29Nov14: Venture Capitalists + Special Ops
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27Jun14: A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
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27Jun14: The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, by Paul Craig Roberts •••
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14Jul12: “Siloviki in Charge”
 
What must be defended: geographic and virtual spaces within which freeorder thrives. We want to know what is required to keep the defended space free of predators and hospitable to producers, whether individuals or groups.
 
The preservation of civilization depends on defending individuals and their organizations from unreasonable and destructive imposition of commands backed by threats of physical violence. Guardians of Freeorder defend the victims of barbaric stupidity, avariciousness, personal aggrandizement, and malice.
 
W. S. Churchill: “Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.” https://slife.org/winston-churchill-quotes/
 
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🔹Speech Control by Restricting Payments — attempt and successful response (28 March 2024)
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Stripe (a payment service) and Substack, possibly with “encouragement” from government(s), seemed to be threatening to cut off income from selected authors. Robert W. Malone, one of those authors, took action and with the help of Dhillon Law Group, Inc. ••• has, at least for awhile, repulsed the attempt. Robert W. Malone and his wife Jill, are known for failure to agree with most governments policies pertaining to Covid vaccines and low-cost early treatments.
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“Stripe previously notified us that the firm required that we share details and activity relating to my business bank account with Stripe, including my current account balance, transactions, and all historical transactions, or else Stripe would stop processing payments from our Substack subscribers,” Dr. Malone said. “We were provided approximately one week to comply with this requirement. This was not a general policy, and appears to have been selectively deployed by Stripe in response to a U.S. Government request. As Substack only allows the use of credit card processing via Stripe, we saw this as a direct threat to the revenue from the business we have built up over the last two years using the Substack social media authorship toolkit. We immediately contacted the Dhillon Law Group, which has been able to promptly and favorably resolve this so that our business was not impacted by this new Stripe policy.” —Malone, quoted by Dhillon Law Group
“In conclusion, Jill and I thank Mark Meuser, the Dhillon Law Group, and our many donors and subscribers for standing with us in responding promptly and firmly to the actions of Stripe and Substack in this matter. We hope that this action will deter similar actions by Stripe and Substack against other authors and their Substack-based small businesses, but fear that this is just one example of an ongoing effort by large corporations, the State, and transnational non-governmental organizations to continue to push the weaponization of finance down to the individual level as a means to exert social controls on speech and behavior.” —Malone
https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/financial-service-provider-stripe-revises-data-disclosure-requirement-after-legal-dispute/
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/
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Tess Lawrie is an organizer of events illustrating a vital principle:
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In a body or society having a remnant of a sound immune system a life-threatening intrusion may provoke a sudden strengthening which given sufficient support can eradicate the disease.
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An immune system, biological or social, is an error detector capable of summoning life support.
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Illustrated here: https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/photos-from-the-irish-expedition
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We are living among heroes who fight for our lives.
 
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On January 15, 2024 Brownstone Institute ••• distributed End This Silence:
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This past weekend, a former NYT journalist, the man who broke the world, penned an op-ed that called for the jailing of dissident doctors and the silencing of all critics of pandemic controls. He wants the CDC completely immune from civilian control and instead run like the Pentagon. 
His name is Donald G. McNeil. He has been pen pals with Anthony Fauci, and he exercised immense influence in the darkest time of our lives. His new book touts what he calls “public health fascism.”
We’ll offer a critique soon but you should know that none of these are idle threats. The World Economic Forum meets this week to consider how elites can use “Disease X” to extend and entrench its “great reset.” We’ve covered this week how the US government is building quarantine camps. 
The lockdowns were not a one-off but a template for the future. 
There is a means of resistance and it comes down to public enlightenment and moral courage. The only way to get there is through diligent research, education, books, and events, reaching as many people as possible. 
Brownstone Institute is dedicated to the task, and experiences daily targeting as a result. Supporting dissident minds around the world, the best people who have a real bead on the essence of the problem we face, is integral to our work. 
[a list of content recently published by Brownstone follows: see End This Silence]
 
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Nick Giambruno ••• on Mark Miller’s contribution to the emergence of Freeorder.
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“A Preemptive Strike Against an Orwellian Future” •••
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“If I disappear, make sure this gets out.”
That’s what Mark Miller, a young student at Yale, told his closest friends.
He knew what he was sitting on had revolutionary potential and that powerful people had disappeared others for much less.
Miller was steadfast. He wanted to get this information out, even if it was over his dead body.
In 1977, a group of brilliant researchers at MIT made an astonishing discovery—public-key cryptography.
 
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McCullough Foundation ••• Mission Statement [first two paragraphs]
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McCullough Foundation is dedicated to the proposition that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, can only exist if the people are educated about health, disease, and public health policies. As James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution remarked: “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
As we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, our deep-seated fear of deadly infectious disease makes us very susceptible to manipulation by public health officials (often in league with undeclared commercial interests) who invoke emergency power with the purported objective of protecting us. Thus, our fear of infectious disease can be exploited by unscrupulous public officials in the same way our fear of foreign invaders has been used by dictators and tyrants throughout history. Again, to quote James Madison: “The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
 
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Institute for Justice [IJ] is a nonprofit, public interest law firm. Our mission is to end widespread abuses of government power and secure the constitutional rights that allow all Americans to pursue their dreams.
 
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Artists may not be forced to create art expressing an opinion with which they disagree — U.S. Supreme Court.
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From FIRE’s statement ••• on the Supreme Court decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis: ‘Freedom of conscience is a fundamental individual right: The First Amendment protects our right not to speak, too, and the government cannot force Americans to voice its preferred message on pain of punishment. Today’s decision recognizes that just as the First Amendment protects students in our public schools from discipline for refusing to pledge allegiance to the flag, so too does it protect the right of artists to voice only those messages they wish to express, without risking government-imposed fines and “remedial training.”’
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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression •••
 
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🔹29 March 23: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) •••
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Stanford Law School dean makes powerful commitment to free expression after shout-down controversy •••
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Stanford Law School recently landed in hot water when student protestors, enabled by a DEI administrator, heckled and shouted down a sitting federal judge invited to give a speech. FIRE’s Campus Rights Advocacy team was immediately on the case, and we were pleased when Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez issued a 10-page statement strongly reaffirming Stanford’s commitment to free expression, explaining in detail how the hecklers violated Stanford policy, and outlining specific steps to create a better culture for open discourse at the school — including mandatory free speech trainings for staff and students.”
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Florida city bans ‘political’ events of 10-plus people in all parks, streets, and sidewalks •••
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“Thinking of organizing a protest on public property in the City of Belleair Beach, Florida? You may have to think again. The city's code requires any group of 10 or more people “who desire to have a gathering in any city park or playground or other public property” to obtain a permit from the city, while prohibiting permits for “political" or "organized events." FIRE wrote the city yesterday to explain that the ordinance violates the First Amendment.”
 
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January 2023: A federal judge in California on Wednesday granted Children’s Health Defense-California Chapter’s request for a preliminary injunction to block a California law that would have allowed the state’s medical boards to punish doctors for spreading “COVID-19 misinformation.” ••• [Children’s Health Defense - “The Defender” 01/26/23]
 
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Election Integrity: ProtectAmerica.Vote ••• has been initiated by True the Vote •••
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When highly placed government officials do little or nothing to defend election integrity go to the counties and the sheriffs who serve the people who live there.
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ProtectAmerica.Vote is doing this:
1. Connecting citizens and sheriffs
2. Empowering sheriffs
3. Opening lines of communication between citizens and sheriffs
4. Delivering public service messages about what sheriffs are doing
5. Building an organization to support this work
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There is a difference between honest elections and voter suppression. Why is it necessary to say this?
 
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Institute for Justice •••
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“On June 22, for the first time in history, a federal court awarded damages against a municipality as compensation for the intentional destruction of private property by the city’s police.” •••
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“IJ is a nonprofit, public interest law firm. Our mission is to end widespread abuses of government power and secure the constitutional rights that allow all Americans to pursue their dreams.”
 
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Singapore Police Force, Gurkha Contingent •••
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Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas ••• [Atlantic, 2006]
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Gurkhas at War: The Gurkha Experience in their Own Words - 1939 to the Present ••• by Col. John Cross
 
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The Malone Institute •••
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“ETHICS MATTER: Our mission is to bring back integrity to the biological sciences and medicine. We also support and conduct research, education, and informational activities in infectious disease and bio-threat research and assessment, as well as engage in other scientific and medical research.”
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Robert W. Malone’s notes for his testimony ••• before the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee on June 27, 2022
 
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Margaret Anna Alice’s article on the manufacture of belief: “A Primer for the Propagandized: Fear Is the Mind-Killer” •••
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This is the first article in Alice’s Substack series, “Through the Looking Glass” •••
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Freeorder, in mind, depends on limits, making space for the emergence of doubt, question, and conjecture. A people’s habits of critical rationality loosen the grip of aspiring tyrants. Such habits, common in children, are precious and must not be extinguished. vSocrates
 
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Because honest elections offer citizens an alternative to violent changes in government an election integrity group we are glad to see that True the Vote ••• has been collecting and organizing data on the 2020 election. The project is described here ••• and is reported in this Breitbart story ••• 24 Aug 2021
 
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An attempt to cancel Dorian S. Abbot at University of Chicago was defeated with the help of the Free Speech Union •••
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“‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts” ••• by Dorian S. Abbot, 5 Feb 2021
 
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Free Speech Union ••• — defense services
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Free speech is the bedrock on which all our other freedoms rest, yet it is currently in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The Free Speech Union is a non-partisan, mass-membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members. If you think there’s a risk you’ll be penalised for exercising your legal right to free speech, whether it’s in the workplace or the public square, you need the protection of the Free Speech Union. How might we protect you?
• If you find yourself being targeted by a digital outrage mob on social media for having exercised your legal right to free speech, we may mobilise an army of supporters.
• If a petition is launched calling for you to be fired, when you’ve done nothing other than exercise your legal right to free speech, we may help you organise a counter-petition.
• If you’re no-platformed by a university—a feminist professor who challenges trans orthodoxy, for instance—we’ll encourage you to fight back and members of our advisory councils may be able to tell you what remedies are available to you.
• If you’re a student being investigated by your university for breaching a speech code, we may take up your case with the university.
• If you’re punished by your employer because you’ve exercised your lawful right to free speech, we’ll do our best to provide you with assistance or refer you to specialists who can help.
 
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June 2, 2020: Armed citizens of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, defend their town against potential rioters. Good to see this ••• — Nothing like freeorder can exist in a culture dominated by predators.
 
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January 15, 2020: Sidney Powell ••• author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice ••• defends ••• General Michael T. Flynn against a justice system become destructive of truth and liberty.
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https://sidneypowell.com/media/michael-t-flynn-withdraws-his-plea - Jan 15, 2020
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… “Flynn is innocent of all charges, the government’s allegations are false, and evidence the government released only recently needs to be reviewed and addressed.  Mr. Flynn was always truthful, and future filings will make that clear.  Gen. Flynn has been targeted by vindictive and unprincipled prosecutors. … Gen. Flynn is innocent of the charges against him. He has fulfilled his commitments to cooperate with the investigation in good faith.  The same cannot be said for the prosecution.  We will work now to reclaim his good name for his sake and that of his family, and to help restore trust in our justice system by standing up against the scandal and abuses of his unjust prosecution.”
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https://licensedtolie.com — “Licensed to Lie reveals the strong-arm, illegal, and unethical tactics used by headline-grabbing federal prosecutors in their narcissistic pursuit of power to the highest halls of our government.”
 
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Perversions of Guardianship
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A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black - in this case, corporate governance issues provided a foundation for abusive prosecution
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Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice ••• by Sidney Powell
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The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, by Paul Craig Roberts •••
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“The Siloviki in Charge” ••• by Andrei Illarionov, Journal of Democracy, April 2009
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“The Rise of the Praetorian Class” ••• by Pete Kofod ••• on the Casey Research ••• website
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces,” ••• by Radley Balko
 
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October 2019: Oath Keepers ••• is providing protectors at political events: “What happened to the land of the free? What gives anyone the right to dictate that certain political views are unacceptable and therefore a cause for unprovoked violence? No one has that right, especially in this country. Then why is this tolerated by anyone?”
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Oath Keepers ••• retired and active police and military, sworn to uphold the Constitution of the USA have been appearing at public speeches with the mission to protect free speech. They seem to be saying, “This is America. Come and speak. We will protect you — if necessary.” They respect, and defer to, regular police and retained security.
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Los Angeles Times Interviews ••• Oath Keepers Founder and President, Stewart Rhodes — video: lots of crowd noise obscures some of this interview.
 
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Parties of No Party ••• — a strategy for driving political power into an appropriately small corner, and keeping it there, introduced by a fictitious but illustrative proposal to elect Cobden and Bright heads of state for USA.
 
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“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.” —Milton Friedman
 
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Gene Sharp, Albert Einstein Institution ••• From Dictatorship to Democracy, and “Self-Liberation”
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From Dictatorship to Democracy ••• at last count translated into 31 languages.
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“Self Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression” •••
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“Contrary to popular assumptions, extreme dictatorships and other systems of domination are not as permanently powerful as the image they present and as is often attributed to them. These regimes actually have internal problems and dynamics that tend over time to weaken their central control and survival. Resistance activities that aggravate these inherent weaknesses are likely to have greater impact than those activities that do not.”
 
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Institute for Justice IJ
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http://ij.org/case/kelo/ (against eminent domain used to enrich private parties)
 
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Emile Zola’s front page letter to the President of France, “J’Accuse”, in defense of Albert Dreyfus, published in Georges Clemanceau’s L’Arore
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/zola/1898/jaccuse.htm
 
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Repeal Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws
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Rand Paul introduces the most sweeping reform of civil asset forfeiture law in decades
 
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Volunteer guardians defending against looters, Ferguson, Missouri, 2014
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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/mysterious-oath-keepers-guard-rooftops-in-downtown-ferguson/article_f90b6edd-acf8-52e3-a020-3a78db286194.html
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/29/Black-Ferguson-Residents-Armed-With-AR-15s-Save-White-Owned-Business
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[ ] Look for stories about Korean special ops guys protecting stores during the LA riots.
 
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Venture Capitalists + Special Ops
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Jim Hake, Los Angeles VC, and The Spirit of America
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-a-venture-capitalist-went-to-war-1417215551
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Michael Stock’s business venture in Somalia, WSJ, April 26, 2013
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http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323820304578410573747048086
 
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Sometimes the insurgents are the good guys, and sometimes the bad guys, and sometimes, confusingly, both in different aspects. Explorers must ask, "What's good for us?" Consider the American revolt against the British Government: A successful outcome for the insurgents led to greater open space for explorers. On the other hand, in Iraq, 2007, a victory for the insurgents would have led to contraction of openspace.
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"On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" — article by Dave Grossman, recommended by Chris Huston
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A Note on Two Kinds of Guardians (defenders of openspace)
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There are those who protect us against predators, and those who protect us against actual and aspiring "good masters".
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Good Masters deprive us of the ability to use our minds and best judgements. They do this "for our own good".
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These two kinds of guardians are natural allies. Eventually predators find that good masters create conditions that make predation less costly and more invisible or acceptable to the ruled population.
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Article on urban terrorism, in City Journal, recommended by Robert Himber
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http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_urban_terrorism.html
 
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Glyphs relating to this vortex
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563 Parties of No Party (pnp)
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445 The Terminal Instability of Democracy — Eric S. Raymond
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110 "For your tomorrow, we gave our today"
 
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Resources people and organizations offering legal defense
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Institute for Justice IJ — defending in a wide range of cases
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Jonathan Emord ••• — defense of speech, nutrition, medical services
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Resources (documemts)
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Daily Reckoning ••• — devoted to surviving the predations of kleptocratic governments: "The independent investor's daily guide to gold, commodities, profits and freedom." (this site was once called “Whiskey & Gunpowder”)
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Tipping Point Zero Day Initiative ••• — a brilliantly constructed enterprise offering protection against software attacks.
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“TippingPoint launched the first intrusion prevention system in 2002. TippingPoint provides a "virtual patch" functionality that protects vulnerable systems from compromise when host-by-host patches have not been applied or do not yet exist from the vendor. Our security research team develops new Digital Vaccine® protection filters that address the latest vulnerabilities and are constantly distributed to our customers. By writing vulnerability filters for security issues that come in through the Zero Day Initiative, TippingPoint maintains a competitive edge while protecting customers and encouraging security researchers to bring findings into the public domain.”
 
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition •••
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A recipient of an Explorers Foundation Cobden-Bright Award
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http://explorersfoundation.org/notebooks/ef/pages/188.html
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"Drug Abuse is Bad. The Drug War is Worse!"
leap_billboard — Billboard in Omaha, July 2008
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Billboard in Omaha, July 2008
 
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Freeports & Freezones
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See vortex Openworld : http://explorersfoundation.org/openworld.html
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Openworld, Inc. (freezones, freeports)
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http://www.openworld.com
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World Economic Processing Zones Association (WEPZA)
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http://www.wepza.org - Bob Haywood was an early (or first director), a recipient of an Explorers Foundation Cobden-Bright Award.
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Moment of Truth in Iraq, by Michael Yon, April 2008 — Richard Vigilante Books
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Explorers Foundation has bought many copies of this book for distribution to our friends. -Leif, May 08
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Counterinsurgency
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See Generals David Petraeus & James F. Amos manual on counterinsurgency.
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"Conducting a successful counterinsurgency campaign requires a flexible, adaptive force led by agile, well-informed, culturally astute leaders." —from: http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/Repository/Materials/COIN-FM3-24.pdf (large file).
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Michael Yon, Online Magazine •••
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Ventures providing defensive services
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G4S ••• “the leading global integrated security company, specialising in the provision of security products, services and solutions.”
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Defensive Response Training, Inc.
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Defensive Response Training is dedicated to helping people become confident and skilled exercising their fundamental right to self protection and the protection of loved ones.
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http://www.defensive-response.com
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Chris Huston teaches small arms for Defensive Response Training, Inc.
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29 Sep 07, Chris Huston recommends: "On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" - article by Dave Grossman, see glyph 406
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Interfor, Inc., Juval Aviv
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http://www.interforinc.com
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Did Juval Aviv’s predictions about terrorist attacks made in 2005 come true? Snopes.com (no) — does this mean he’s not worth listening to? No. -ls
 
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It's time to direct resources from drug prohibition to defense against violent disrupters of civilization. We must decide comparative importance. Law enforcement professionals need not fear for loss of work. There's plenty to be done.
 
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Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, by Jane Jacobs — provides a useful conceptual framework, especially in the definition and description of the "guardian" way of life and thought.
 
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20Nov16: Has there ever been an approach to guardianship that is fully consistent with a free-market point of view? Looking for clues to such thinking. Interested in business structures that fully engage the interest of guardians in the growth of the capital assets they protect, structures that offer gains from the protection of productivity, and that obsolete reversion to predatory behavior. -leif
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Participants in this vortex (partial list)
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Lexington Green, Jim Bennett, Cory Scott, John Scott, Robert Himber, Chris Huston, Greg McArthur, Mark Frazier, Leif Smith
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