Today I went with the Adam Vs The Man crew to Washington, D.C. (Mordor). I went in order to take video of a rally. Adam Kokesh went to speak on a megaphone and help MC the event. He led a march down from the Treasury Building to the Federal Reserve, where about 60 people marched and chanted, “END THE FED, END THE DEBT, END THE WARS.” Upon arrival at the Federal Reserve building, activists lined up to face the building along its front and symbolically turned their backs in an “about face.” Some activists burned dollar bills in front of the building as security guards watched, hopelessly outnumbered by a crowd of peaceful people armed to the teeth with video cameras.
Here’s some video of a speech I gave about living freer by moving to the Shire today (From Fr33manTV):
It’s like this. New mover Johnson Rice spent five hours packing the truck with three guys. We had it unloaded in under thirty minutes. Usually people moving in buy pizza and beer for the movers, but Johnson has upped the ante and hired Mandrik to cater the event!!
CONTEST TIME! Anyone who contributes $5 to our chip-in below will get a ticket entered in our raffle to win a Derrick J-autographed 24×36″ movie poster! ($10 contributions will get 3 raffle tickets, and any multiple of $10 will get 3 tickets per $10) Anyone who has already chipped-in prior to this announcement will also be included in the raffle. The movie poster is the one you see in this post and there are only five of them being produced. Three will go to the movie’s production team and the other two will be those raffled. Winners will be drawn on September 15th – one after the Q&A session at the premiere and the online winner sometime later in the day.
Please “sponsor a seat” at the premiere event and get an entry (or more than one to increase your odds of winning) now via this chip-in:
MikeforLiberty gives a peek into the help available for those who are moving to the Shire as part of the Free State Project (or in this case, moving within the Shire). When you know you’re going to arrive, let people know via the FSP forum and Shire forum, offer some beers and pizza, and you’ll likely have a whole moving crew show up to help you! It’s also a great chance to meet your new activist neighbors!
The “bitter feud between two Shire cities” takes a new form, creating a schism which threatens to ridicule anyone who would take such a thing seriously — the Gay Dance Off!
Andre, from Manchester, and Derrick, from Keene, competed in 3 rounds to win the accolades of the audience and the judges: J. Buzz Webb of Buzz’s Big Gay Dance Party fame, Neal Conner, co-host of Flaming Freedom, and token hetero Mike Ruff, the Porcupine Mediator.
People often ask me how I discovered the ideas of liberty. Like many others, I was taught about government in school using state approved curriculum; which never mentions the ideas of liberty, self ownership, and personal responsibility. In addition, I was raised in a extremely liberal area, which gave me a socially acceptable set of morals that included support of government social/welfare programs. This was not because I disliked the idea of private charity and personal compassion; but rather, I believed it to be the only method of mass charity (the ability to fund care for many people at once). It was my experience in trying to use these social programs which led me to discover the ineffective, wasteful, and harmful effects they create. They didn’t help people. They gave those suffering the bare minimum for survival, but wasted so much time, and came with so many requirements, that those the government “helped” would never be able to move forward. They would become dependent on the system for survival, which skews this “help” to be thought of as a “right”… because obviously everyone feels they have a right to life. (more…)