Free Market Rebellion Dispatch #3


Why we don't need a national rebellion leadership
As tempting as it is, I really don't want to see the Free Market Rebellion organized on a large scale. I really don't want to see anything except the most basic coordination for anything beyond the local level.

I admit that there is a part of me that would love being anointed as a Leader of the Not-So-Loyal Opposition. Lights, Camera, Soundbite! There I would be, another proud Gray Rider crusading for liberty and freedom.

But in order to understand what has to happen, we have to examine the tactics and organization of Our Enemy the State. By default, the various levels of government in the U.S. are set up to handle an organized resistance. Oh, not always by brute force. The 1994 "Republican Revolution" in the House of Representatives was suborned by the existing political, bureaucratic, and mercantile power structures, none of whom wanted a significant change to the status quo. The offer starts out simple, a little change or delay today in exchange for not taking a stand. Negotiations for the rest can wait a bit. That's how the game is played.

It's a way that is just paved with good intentions. Seven layers deep. Meanwhile the movement is effectively derailed.

Think about it. We have local authorities. We have state authorities. We have Federal authorities. And somewhere in the clockwork of each interlocking hierarchy there is the power to confiscate, imprison, or kill if you don't play along. All perfectly legal of course.

But what they need more than victory today is a very public monster. Someone they can pillory. A scapegoat sacrificed to keep the mob from looking too close.

A National Conspiracy plays right into that. Our Enemy the State needs a highly visible threat. Otherwise the public may just start looking hard at the State.

I propose something different. A little sawdust here. Some maple syrup substitute poured into the oil there. A little superglue squirted into a lock over there. A dropped weight cracking a pipe up here. Uncountable acts of sabotage by individuals. Every single one provoking the Expanding State to reach out for more power, more Authority. Until at last it's obvious to everyone that the existing State can't be trusted.

I don't want to reform the system.

I want to poke and prod the system into collapsing of it's own weight.

I want seven thousand revolutionary groups, each with it's own goals and strategies.

I want people demanding freedom on the street, at football games, in bars, and in their dreams.

I want a distributed resistance that the Our Enemy the State can't focus on and can't afford to ignore. What good is a tank if the target is spread throughout the countryside? The State may be able to focus absolutely devastating force, but only if they know where to aim. Destroy one group when there are forty-two others in the same state doing the same thing?

You see, I already have my Public Monster. I'm just making sure it's too big to hide behind something else.

Let them come. Let Our Enemy the State look for the Opposition National Leaders to drag before the Talking Heads of Television.

And the "little guys" will say "Enough."

That is when the State will fall.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - April 27, 2009 at 04:06 PM  Tag


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