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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. |
![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) 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
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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. |
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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
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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. |
| The Only Darkness
![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) Student Caine: You cannot see. Master Po: You think I cannot 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 |
![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) A Good Companion
![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) 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 |
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Thus, I became a frontiersman on the fear frontier.
![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) 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.
![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) 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 |
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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.
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