A culture of obedience and compliance guarantees that government will never stop growing - and defiance and nullification represent the “rightful remedy” to usurpations of power. But today, many people live in fear - and never take the steps needed to help advance liberty.
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Even when states end civil asset forfeiture, a federal program called “equitable sharing” encourages them to participate in a federal version anyway. But the states can opt-out and nullify the federal program into oblivion, where it belongs.
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Applying Thomas Jefferson’s strategy for advancing liberty to the massive and ever-growing surveillance state we live under today. One state is following it well, and all other states should copy their strategy as much as possible.
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Most efforts to stop federal programs miss the mark in a big way. Instead of striking the root, they hack at branches, often setting the stage for more of the same in the future.
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
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Getting from the largest government in history to a real “land of the free” is not going to happen through the ballot box.
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But with the power to do good comes the power to do evil. Nobody can be trusted with that kind of power.
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Corrupt and repressive, weighted down by heavy bureaucracy - it’s all around us and getting worse year by year. But an alternative to total tyranny is attainable. These five principles can put things on a new path - to liberty.
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Living under the largest government in history - if we want to build a real “land of the free” - there’s a LOT of stuff that needs to be nullified into oblivion. Here are 4 that would set a strong foundation for liberty.
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“Tyrants care nothing for discussions that are to end only in discussion. Discussions, which do not interfere with the enforcement of their laws, are but idle wind to them.”
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