 |  This document was most recently revised on Wednesday, Novmber 29, 2023. |
|
|
|
|
| Introduction to This Website Sam Aurelius Milam III  The legitimate boundaries of lawful government are not geographical. They are contractual. Whenever any government declares geographical boundaries and forcibly controls the people within those boundaries, then that government has violated the doctrine of social contract, the principles of liberty, the
rules that govern proper contractual relationships, and the inherent
corporate nature of constitutional government. It has destroyed
its legitimacy. It has become a despotism. It should be abolished.
See The Long and Winding Doctrine: Social Contract
and The Principles of Liberty. Both essays are available in Pharos. |
The Final Frontier
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Many years ago, I began my job of trying to establish 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 America for long enough
that I'd begun to realize what I faced. One indication of my
trepidation was Dominoes. | Dominoes Sam Aurelius Milam III Monday, December 2, 1985 The 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. |
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. Here's the poem as I eventually finished it, and a couple of other little items about fear that I encountered somewhere along the way. | A Frontiersman on the Final Frontier Sam Aurelius Milam III The 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. But freedom lies across the last frontier, |
A Good Companion Fear is a good companion, warning you of danger, keeping you from stupidity, but he is a poor master. Keep him with you, but rule him. —from Wartide, by John Barnes |
Thus, I became a frontiersman on the fear frontier. The Upside Down Flag
Sam Aurelius Milam III
As I continued to study, I learned that a nation and a government are not the same thing. Most commonly, a nation is a group of people who share, and who are at least to some extent united by, some common identity, customs, heritage, and language. Usually, they occupy a geographically contiguous region. A government is a political institution that has, or that claims to have, political authority within or over a nation.
The two usually have the same boundaries. America is the name of a place, the continents in the Western Hemisphere. It's also the name of the nation that's located south of Canada and north of Mexico. It isn't the name of the government that claims jurisdiction over that nation. According to the preamble to its constitution, the name of that government is either the United States or the United States of America. I like to refer to it simply as the U.S government. Before I even began writing this newsletter, I was affixing U.S. flag stamps to my mail upside down, with
the notation "Nation in Distress". In the maritime tradition,
flying a ship's flag upside down is recognized as indicating that
the ship is in distress. Thus, to display the U.S. flag upside
is also an indication of distress. I've usually tried to be careful that my intentions are clear. I intend to indicate that it's the
nation, not the government, that's in distress. The nation's distress
is being caused by the government. 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 nazi-like 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 establishment of liberty on this continent.The Revolution
Sam Aurelius Milam III
The only legitimate form of revolution is personal sovereignty. | 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 |
Lacking the widespread recognition and acceptance of personal sovereignty, the nation will remain in distress.
Given the widespread recognition and acceptance of personal sovereignty, the nation will become irrelevant. See Personal Sovereignty. It's available in Pharos. 
