Nolan Chart

The Advocates for Self Government have long had The World's Smallest Political Quiz. It is famous for helping to plot on their Nolan Chart, where you fall on the grid based on your answers to some pretty basic political, socio-economic questions.

While I certainly applaud the Nolan Chart and The Advocates for their efforts in helping to promote Libertarian thought and acceptance, I wonder if it may have come with a price- that of misinterpretation.

For example, look at this chart... 60% social, 60% economic scores.


and this chart... 60% social, 100% economic scores.

and this chart... 100% social, 60% economic scores.


Now, try not to lose me here... see the chart- it's all math- but the math is incomplete.

Take for instance, 6/10 x 6/10 = 36/100 or 36%. They score that as high centrist. I disagree. I believe that a score of 36% put to the pole directly between Libertarian and Authoritarian/Statist is decidedly Statist. Simply count by 10s strait up from zero- where is that on the chart?

Now, 6/10 x 10/10 or 6/10 x 1 = 6/10 or 60%, in the charts above that is Libertarian, if socially dominant, then liberal, if economically dominant then conservative tendencies. I will argue here that either of those scores is centrist.

In fact 50-60-69% is centrist either way and below 50% is decidedly statist with aggressiveness toward anti-libertarian society either socialist or fascist respectively.

Put another way, the chart fights to break society of their left-center-right paradigm, but it forgets to introduce more concretely, more accurately, the vertical axis of liberty/tyranny.

At the same time, it fails in its own math to accurately show that centrists do not fall on either axis, but instead plot themselves more accurately in the region:
50%s vs 100%e
70%s vs 100%e
100%s vs 70%e
100%s vs 50%e
and any %s x %e that is a composite score between 50 to 70% measured by the vertical axis.
Indeed, a score of 50%s x 50%e is 25% and statist, not centrist.

Further, I believe that Minarchist Libertarians fall between 70% to 99% of the vertical wether or not they reside precisely on the axis itself, and that plumb-line libertarian, anarcho-capitalists, and agorists would reside at 100%s/e with the Agorists and Stateless being the over-achievers.

A Quick Lesson on Illegitimate Authority

Official Website

A Toast to Lysander Spooner, Mises Institute

Lysander Spooner and Other Antebellum Radicalism, Tom Woods, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History: Lecture Series

and of course...

No Treason mp3 read by Marc Stevens and the text, lysanderspooner.org

Know the Enemy

First, we need information from the very tit of the sow that at least 36 Million people are suckling:

Hint- do not travel here from direct referrer link- copy and paste into a new browser session.

http://www.ssa.gov/regulations/

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/oig/hotline/confidential.htm

By the way- if anyone in the government has your SSN- you will never be anonymous under the associated name or other associated/linked tracking numbers.

All Travel anywhere in the World = Terrorism

500,000 People are on the US, TSA, Terrorist Watch List, but all Travellers Worldwide are ASSUMED TO BE TERRORISTS (Assumed Guilty
until proven not guilty)

This from the man who is sponsoring the bill to require ALL PRE-PAID PHONES be registered!

Here is Charles Schumer's (D-NY) speech (I do not have the exact date, but it was recent)

What's in a name?

A good name is to be more desired than great wealth, Favor is better than silver and gold.
- Proverbs 22:1 NASB

As soon as your parents or guardians filled out the paperwork for your Social Security Number, registering your birth name to the State, they gave your name to the state, your very identity became state property. That they do this willfully shows their ignorance, and that you have grown used to the state-registered name is a tragedy. It was the complete destruction of your good name, and flies in the face of scripture- and why- FOR TAX PURPOSES- to write you off as a child-deduction! Care to research how Jesus felt about taxes?

You want to be known by a name that is not associated with the state. You want to conduct your affairs in a private fashion, and you certainly do not want to be known by a state-controlled name.

So when people think of changing their name, what do they think of? Usually women change their name when they get married, to take their husband's name. That would be fine if both had private names and held a private ceremony, without a marriage license, state-licensed minister, from a 501(c)(3) irs-controlled church. But what usually happens, is women fill out a Social Security form and inform the Social Security office of their new married name. This is the standard by which people have come to think of changing their name! In short- as long as the government is told- willingly or unwillingly, its okay. If you have ever leased a car- ask your finance company how voluntary repossession works! Talk about stupidity and irresponsibility! Whose business is it if you want to change your name, but your own? and maybe your spouse. Go ahead and be traditional, take your husband's name. Which name will you take? His state-name or a truly private identity one or both of you create for yourselves. But this can be assumed, you do not need to inform some government agency just because you decide to change your name.

So what if you did give it up, got the license, told social security, now what?

Well, there is no time like the present to assume a new name, on your own.

We are not really talking about a pseudonym here- which means "false name", because we take the position that the State cannot tell you who you are- even in the unfortunate case of your parents' submission to illegitimate authority. You can be who you want to be, and be known and called how you want to be called. That name is real. It is more real than any name the state may call you. We also believe you can decide for how long and for what purposes you would like to have a name. You can very easily be known by different names in different contexts, and these names can be you- for real. You simply feel comfortable in different contexts being called different names. Just don't call you late for dinner!

This is not easy. You will have public pseudonyms other than even your private assumed name(s)- a set of names you register with state and federal agencies only as necessary- but you should live your life in such a way that tracked activities under any state or federal names for you, happen anywhere else than where you are. This includes the name you were born with that was given a SSN.

Try not to be so complicated that you can't manage it well. It really helps to have someone private who can help you with "a name and a game."

Once you catch the fever for privacy, you may even begin to resent what was done to you by forcing you to self-identify all your life with state and federal ID numbers connected to your name.

WARNING!

Increasingly the concept of Privacy, especially holding things private from government, is being equated to Terrorism, High Crime, and otherwise held in low regard. After all, you do not have anything to hide, do you? is the oft repeated phrase. To which I retort: It's none of your Damn Business. Sometimes I am more colorful about it.

If you frequently view this site, you should take precaution that such viewing, posting and other communication cannot be traced back to you. You should post using pseudonyms, as I have in creating this blog. You should not confuse communication with others using such email as your regular mail.

Please only invite people you trust who are interested in their own privacy. No one here is looking for a real terrorist. We just want to be left alone. We think that the government is more interested in destroying the civil liberties of 300 Million people in the United States than going after a single Osama Bin Laden.

We do have an agenda- the obfuscation of Government means of abridging civil liberties- to wit- the complete unworthiness of the Social Security Number, for starters.

Just think of what it could mean:

Every form and instance where it is required, would become a non-starter. Chiefly, the Credit Check, Background Checks, No-Fly lists... bank accounts, hippa forms, drivers licenses...

We could truly be free again.

"Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind."

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

"The Matrix cannot tell you who you are." - Morpheus, Neo, Trinity, The Matrix, 1999

We believe, among other things, "The State cannot tell you who you are."

First Class = Terrorism

During the Obama Administration, a friend of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton, found himself on the No-Fly List...

Gilbert Chagoury, 64, a Nigerian citizen of Lebanese descent, was pulled off a private jet Jan. 15 at Teterboro airport in New Jersey and detained for more than four hours after federal agents discovered his name was on the then-recently updated no-fly list.

The private jet crew of two and four other passengers were detained for four-and-a-half hours while agents questioned Chagoury. He and the others were ultimately allowed to continue their trip to Paris.
...
It took Chagoury, a well-known philanthropist and an ambassador to the United Nations educational office, more than four months and thousands of dollars in legal fees to get the U.S. government to offer an apology and to give him a waiver to fly freely across U.S. airspace.

Reminds me of something... Clear and Present Danger, 1994, Harrison Ford

Jack Ryan: I didn't sign up for this. This is someone's bullshit political agenda. Who authorized this? Cutter?
Ritter: Cutter couldn't tie his own shoes without permission.
Jack Ryan: If I go down you're coming with me.
Ritter: Wrong again. I have an *autographed get-out-of-jail-free card*! "The President of the United States authorizes Deputy
Director of the CIA Robert Ritter to conduct 'Operation Reciprocity' including all necessary funding and support. This action is deemed important to the national security of the United States etcetera, etcetera, etcetera." You don't have one of these, do you Jack?

[as Ryan walks away]

Ritter: Gray! The world is gray, Jack!

Chagoury actually received a Formal Apology from the Department of Homeland Security!

...but he is still being tracked by the United States Government... notice in the PDF under his address, his assigned CONTROL NUMBER!