Frexit
Sam Aurelius Milam III
I
began to learn about my freedom at an early age. In the late 1950s,
when I came home from school with the Domino Theory, my father warned me
that I'd lose a lot more freedom to my own government than I'd ever lose
to the Soviets. By the time that I was in high school, in the early
1960s, I was learning a lot about the nature of government, but not at
school. I was reading such things as 1984, by George Orwell,
and the fiction of Robert A. Heinlein. When I arrived at Texas A&M
University, in the late 1960s, I discovered that the official student handbook
proclaimed the university to be the sole and final authority in all aspects
of my life. I was forced, as a prerequisite to attendance at the
university, to sign a loyalty oath that, among other things, acknowledged
my acceptance of that authority. I graduated from Texas A&M University
in August of 1971. Shortly after that, I was compelled, against my
will and with the threat of punishment, into involuntary servitude in the
U.S. armed forces. My freedom was becoming obvious by its absence.
From
the 1970s to the 1980s, I became increasingly uncooperative with the misbehavior
of the corporations for which I worked after graduation.
See
Outward
Bound, in Pharos. I was laid off from each of them,
mostly due to my escalating refusal to cooperate with their malfeasance.
By the 1980s, I was spending a lot of time studying the nature of government,
and writing about it. One result was my essay The
Long and Winding Doctrine: Social Contract. It's available
in Pharos. The significance of that essay is that, while I
was writing it, I developed the most important political principle that
has ever been documented. It is this:
government are not geographical. They are contractual. |
After
I understood that principle, my understanding of some other things changed.
I already understood the evil nature of government as we know it, and I
wanted out. The principle showed me the way out. The exit that
I sought wasn't geographical. It was contractual. I didn't
need to change my location. I needed to change my status. I
needed to absolve myself of any and all obligations to any government,
and to repudiate any and all records or agreements that might be used to
allege any such obligation. I needed to get out of the government's
purview.
Accordingly,
I began to make some changes. I rescinded
my driver's license and cancelled
my Social Security number. I allowed all of my vehicle registrations
and car insurance policies to expire, sold all of my vehicles, and began
to travel on a bicycle. I allowed my voter's registration to expire.
I rented a Post Office box and began to minimize the use of my house address.
With the database in mind, I cancelled my utilities services and opened
them again, using pseudonyms. In 1987, the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986 went into effect. It required the presentation
of certain specified government ID as a prerequisite for employment.
After the layoffs, I'd been trying to get temporary jobs but, when I refused
to provide government ID, even temporary jobs became unavailable.
I became permanently unemployable but at least I was out of the income
tax part of the database. After that, I cancelled my passport and
my medical insurance. I closed my bank account and started using
cash and money orders.
Early
in the 1990s, an exploitive girlfriend forced me into a confrontation with
the DA's thugs in Santa Clara County, California. See Dealing
With the District Attorney's Thugs, in The Rise and Fall of
Mere Keep. It's available in Pharos. I avoided them
for several years but, eventually, they forcibly abducted me at gunpoint.
I was forced to spend some time in their county jail, where they threatened
me with many years of imprisonment. One of the conditions of my release
was that I was forced to voluntarily sell my house and property.
The girlfriend got most of the funds but at least I got out of the property
tax part of the database.
By
the 2000s, access to the internet was sufficiently inexpensive that a friend
was able to provide me with internet access. At the time, I failed
to foresee some of the possible consequences of using the internet.
Instead, I perceived the internet as a place for the free and uncensored
exchange of information. I saw it as an opportunity to make my ideas
and my
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