Some Good Ideas
Sam Aurelius Milam III
This
month, I'll be 72 years old. I've been engaged in my pursuit of liberty
for close to 50 years. It's difficult to know exactly when that pursuit
began. It was gradual and it was a long time ago. My essays,
which I began writing sometime during the 1980's, have been a big part
of that pursuit. I've been publishing this newsletter for almost
25 years. I know when that started. The first issue was in
January of 1994. Some of the ideas that I've presented in my writing
are as important as any ideas that have ever been presented, anywhere on
this planet. Here are three of them.
In
1989, in The
Ravings of a Mad Man, I developed the only existing useful definition
of political rights. In that essay, I used the term common rights
instead of the term political rights, but either term will do.
| A
right (or a common right) is something that's within your ability, for
which you don't need permission, and that will be generally or customarily
approved or at least tolerated. |
That
definition is the only useful one in existence because it's a definition,
not a list, because it doesn't confuse rights with privileges or entitlements,
and because it's the only definition that's general, concise, and unambiguous.
The essay is available in Pharos.
In
1990, while I was writing my essay The
Long and Winding Doctrine: Social Contract, I discovered
the only necessary and sufficient defining principle of lawful government.
| The
legitimate boundaries of lawful government are not geographical.
They are contractual. |
That
deceptively simple statement expresses the most important political principle
that's ever been discovered. An understanding of it changes everything.
The essay is available in Pharos.
In
1992, in The
Principles of Liberty, I compiled and analyzed some of those principles.
There might be others but I presented seven of them in the essay.
My analysis examines the parameters of those seven principles, which address
seven different topics: Cause of Action; Obligation;
Presumption of Innocence; Burden of Proof; Self Incrimination;
Silence; and Jurisdiction. A more concise presentation of the
principles, without the analysis, is available as a PDF file in The
Sovereign's Library. The essay is available in Pharos.
I
haven't seen much of an indication that my work has made things better.
Maybe without it, things would be even worse. I don't know.
Either way, the current sorry state of things isn't an indictment of either
me or my work. It's an indictment of people who promote excessive
or repressive government, and who sacrifice liberty for convenience or
security.
It
remains to be seen whether or not things will get better. That will
depend not on me, but on other people. They need to do what's right,
instead of what's easy. That doesn't mean that we need groups of
activists trying to regulate the behavior of everybody but themselves.
Such evangelism is a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
What we need is for each individual to educate himself, to stop being brainwashed
and mentally conditioned, to start thinking for himself, to stop whining
to government to coddle him, to govern his own behavior with an understanding
of its consequences, and to be considerate of the effect that he has on
others.
Some Good Suggestions
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Make
driver's licenses voluntary.
Make
vehicle registration voluntary.
Make
seat belt and child-seat use voluntary.
Make
insurance voluntary.
Make
building codes voluntary.
Make
Social Security voluntary.
Make
citizenship voluntary.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sam
Greetings
to you. Just received your latest newsletter July 2018. I noticed
a letter
[July, page 3] in it about what I
was explaining [June, page 3] to you about what's going on in
CDCr. I am not going to disrespect this prisoner who wrote challenging
my words of truth. But here's the deal. I am a level 4 prisoner.
A lifer. And at the prison I am at they are running a pilot program
for a non-designated level 4 program yard/building. Come to find
out this is the only one in the state. They have been running this
non-designated video on the
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23 years of pain and struggle in the worst hell holes this system has to
offer has screwed me up in many ways. Mostly depression. But
being sick with depression issues does not diminish the facts of violence
and the conditions I must live under in this prison system. Because
I deal with depression my struggle is even harder than prisoners who do
not deal with such issues. And from what I know even the level 1's
& 2's have been violent because of this mixing of SNY & mainline
prisoners. Where is this prisoner housed who responded, Camp Snoopy?
I know other prisoners who read your paper must know about CDCr trying
to phase out all SNY yards and the violence that is going on. And
I'd like to hear how they feel about it. Well I want to get this
to you fast Sam. I only deal in truth, comrade. Am I a lesser
human being because of depression?
;
and that were passed by use of any kind of fraud, such as having never
read a statute in entirety or understood it completely, yet voted it into
so-called "law"; trading votes on various statutes tit-for-tat, violating
the single subject provision that limit all proposed legislation to one
subject only, & maybe even a paragraph on section limitation (versus
±30,000 page statutes like some today). Altho I note your
1 year expiration principle would come close to 100% of these issues.
