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This document was most recently revised on Monday, May
7, 2012.
 We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That
to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it....
—from the Declaration of Independence |
You
cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution.
You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere....
We
are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society
founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our
hope of evolution. "The revolution is in the individual spirit, or
it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen
as having any end, it will never truly begin." We can’t stop here.
We must go on. We must take the risks.
—from The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin |
The Final Frontier
Many
years ago, I began my job of trying to restore liberty on this continent.
By the middle of the 1980s, about 10 years before I began the Frontiersman,
I'd been studying the deteriorating situation in Amerika for long enough
that I'd begun to realize what I faced. One indication of my
trepidation was Dominoes, presented below. Later, while I
was beginning the Frontiersman, I wrote the original version of
A
Frontiersman on the Final Frontier. I wrote it to explain the
name, Frontiersman. The final frontier is fear. I'm
a frontiersman on the final frontier.
— Sam Aurelius Milam III
editor and frontiersman |
The Only Darkness
Student Caine: You cannot see.
Master Po: You think I can not see.
Student Caine: Of all things, to live in darkness must be the
worst.
Master Po: Fear is the only darkness....
— from the movie Kung Fu |
| Bits of Truth About a Few Things |
Dominoes
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Monday, December 2, 1985The dominoes are in a row.
They are falling.
I can only watch.
What I have started, I cannot stop.
(Or will not.)
I want to hear good music,
And eat good food,
and love good women,
And read, and ride, and see,
Before the last one falls.
But the dominoes must fall,
Or none of the rest matters. | |  | | A Frontiersman on the Final Frontier
Sam Aurelius Milam IIIThe path to freedom isn't smooth or straight.
It's lined with lures, and traps, and tempting bait.
To follow it can be a rugged fate,
But that's the way that leads to freedom's gate.
I contemplate the freedom that I lack.
I count the risk, and chills run down my back.
Pursuit of freedom risks a fierce attack.
In fear, I wonder if I should turn back.
But freedom lies across the last frontier,
Where danger lurks, and hazards linger near.
Security's a stranger there, that's clear,
But freedom's there, across the fear frontier. |
| Regarding the Upside Down Flag | | ^ |
Before
I even began writing this newsletter, I was affixing U.S. flag stamps to
my mail upside down. In the maritime tradition, flying a ship's flag
upside down is recognized as a sign of distress. Thus, to display
the U.S. flag upside down is to declare, by analogy, that the U.S. government
is in distress. Most people who display the flag upside down are
indicating a desire to do something to relieve the distress. My purpose
is very different.
The
U.S. government is the most powerful, the most arrogant, and the most brutal
terrorist organization on Earth. It has preempted America, enslaved
Americans, and obstructed the fundamental principles of liberty for which
America should have been a haven. It's a tool of aggression for a
gang of thugs and cutthroats who are intent upon spreading their vile domination
to all of the peoples of the Earth. It's the enemy of anybody, anywhere
who seeks liberty. It's my enemy.
Among
my various goals are the termination of the U.S. government and the restoration
of liberty upon this continent. Thus, when I display the U.S. flag
upside down, it doesn't signify a desire to relieve the distress.
It doesn't represent a sense of regret or of despair. The greater
is the distress of the U.S. government, the greater is the hope that it
will soon be gone. When I display the flag upside down, it declares
a sense of hope. I hope that I might live long enough to see the
U.S. government end.
— Sam Aurelius Milam III
editor and frontiersman
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