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I just don't rest comfortably knowing that the SC has ruled that the
community is more important than the individual, so an individuals land may
be taken at the communities will.

But playing the ball where it lies, what Gene said is all the more important. 
 Since we DON'T have the guarantee of security in our possessions any longer, 
it's all the more important to choose a place that is the least likely to 
fall befoul of some developer.

> 
> No matter where you live you must pay property taxes or be evicted by the
> State, even if you own your property outright.
> 
> And the list of intrusions go on and on...no matter where you live.

That is true enough.  But it is unreasonable to think that we will ever live 
in a place or time that does not have property taxes and the mechanism for 
enforcing same.  No one since the beginning of time has been utterly free.  
Even 
an utter anarchist and recluse in an utterly lawless place must keep a ever 
vigilant and weary eye out for those, fearing no laws or shame, who would 
take 
what they have.  There will always be SOME constraints on our behavior and 
our 
security.

But even in this time of diminishing freedom, there is still a great deal we 
can do.  Melody mentioned baking bread and selling it.  We did that.  The 
local potentate of the states department of agriculture was on us, as they 
say, 
like ugly on a poka-dot gorilla.  But I'd read the law and they hadn't.  Our 
state had three annoying provisos, annoying to them, not me.  1)  If you 
don't 
advertise and your sales are "occasional" and people contract ahead of time 
for 
your product, you can make and sell just about food.  2)  You can sell any 
sort of food at an "event" three times in the year  3) A minor child can sell 
food to raise "funds" three times in the year.  We have four children so 
there's 
twelve free passes right there.  

"Occasional", "event", and "funds" are not defined in the law.  The Dept of 
Ag was thwarted (the Dep of Health didn't care to begin with) and we've 
continued unabated for years.  Turns out that selling eggs is legal so long 
as it's 
under 18,000 eggs a year.  No problem.  Diary is utterly illegal but only so 
long as money changes hands.  Easy to arrange no money changing hands.

What I'm saying is that the guild laws are not going away but so long as 
we're content, for example, with $50 a week from selling bread rather than 
thinking we need $500 a week, no one can touch us.

And it's much like this with all other aspects of our infringed freedoms.  
Understanding that our freedoms are threatened tips the hand of those who 
would 
control us and makes us forewarned and forearmed.

> 
> I will do what I can with what I have.  I don't sit and pine my days away
> waiting for the perfect day of freedom.  But I also will never say, "This
> is the way it is, and this is the way it will stay" because nothing ever
> stays the same and I will do all I can within my power to help the change
> be for freedom.
> 

What is within our power to change, and as individuals it is pretty much the 
only thing that is within our power, is to BE the change we want to see.  
Live 
free.  Monsanto nor ADM controls me, I don't buy their food nor their seed 
nor their poison. I no longer work for, take the money of, nor spend it 
supporting the mega-corporations that have brought about this fascist form of 
economics for their benefit and against ours.

98% freedom works fine for me.

James