2) Augment the commercial self-sufficiency of Wyoming.
3) Increase the unified spirit of Wyomingites.
Even if legal and commercial fail, we still achieve sociological. We've nothing to lose by trying, and it's high time at least one of the states begins to directly challenge the USG for its constitutional prerogatives. Our own Flyoming airline is a perfect example. Here are two others.
intra-Wyoming CyberGold
Although the US Constitution (in I:10:1) prohibits the states from coining money or emitting bills of credit, individuals are free to do so. A Wyoming electronic scrip would help strengthen the state's economy by giving its people the easy opportunity of supporting each other first.
Transactions would be allowed only between Wyoming IP addresses on our own Intranet. Electronic credits would not be exportable outside Wyoming's borders. This would negate most of the nexus with I:8:3.
A substantially insular Wyoming economy based on its own encrypted digital gold would break the state's dependence and vulnerability on the failing "US dollar" (i.e., Federal Reserve Note) and US economy.
Imagine Wyomingites sitting in a lifeboat onboard the Titanic. If the mothership does not sink, fine our situation is improved without us having to do a thing. If the mothership finally goes under, we survive . . . without us having to do a thing. The lifeboat's buoyancy provides for an inevitable detachment from the mothership. As long as those in the lifeboat boarded their vessel to capacity prior to any emergency, it will remain their lifeboat during the ensuing panic.
Time is quickly running out, however. Wyoming must become watertight and capacious before the rush begins. Very soon it will be "any port in a storm" and Wyoming must have achieved near full occupancy before then, else we'll be swamped by the desperate who have little to offer.
intra-Wyoming gun manufacturers
Here, the plan is extremely bold and will attract the most attention. Is a wholly intrastate gun making industry possible in the 21st century? Perhaps, especially if we tie it into Wyoming's constitutional right of a militia.
USG response vs. Wyoming counterresponse
First, the Government will enjoin through federal court the cessation of these lawful intrastate industries.
Wyoming will not comply. Her message to the other 49 states will be, "Why does Washington, D.C. care if we operate industries solely within our own state borders? What is harmful or unconstitutional about that?"
Then come the US Marshals, FBI, etc. The Governor will block them with personnel from local police, sheriff's deputies and posse comitatus, the Wyoming State Patrol, and, if need be, the state militia.
After that, it is up to the Congress and the President to declare Wyoming in "insurrection" under I:8:15 of the US Constitution and attempt to occupy the state with federal troops under martial law. It is time to force the Government's hand and demonstrate to the country that America has been under quiet Occupation by an internal foreign government since WWI. The time for meek acquiescence is over. We will at last withdraw the leverage of our putrid cooperation and give the feds no option but to physically occupy (versus virtually through intimidation).
If we are a free people, then we should act like a free people.
If we are an occupied people, then they should act like occupiers.
No more whitewash of freedom! No more faτades! No more Potemkin villages of American liberty!
Unless we are brave we will never be free. It has been generations since we have been brave, and thus generations since we have been free. It's time to quit resting on the laurels of 1776. It's time to quit coasting on the momentum given us by the blood of 18th century patriots.
We either roll over like puppies with urine-soaked pink bellies, or we stand up and fight like Americans once did.
There is no middle ground.
There never was.
2017
2017 USA political news
In accordance with the UN's July 2006 conference on "light weapons", mandatory gun registration for all member nations goes into effect 1 January. Only in America is there any significant popular outcry and resistance. US Congressmen claim frustration at the UN directive, saying that their "hands were tied" by the VI:2 treaty power clause of the Constitution which makes UN "gun control" our "supreme law of the land." Privately, these same politicians gloat at the long-last arrival of national gun registration.
Confiscation was only a matter of time.
Washington, D.C.
January 2017
White House Chief of Staff Phillip Miles has been uneasy for several months. He is now almost positive that he is under surveillance. On three separate occasions he was convinced that he was followed. Some of his letters appeared opened, while others never arrived. The White House Communications Agency inexplicably requested that he swap his pager and wireless PDA for "newer" models, but no other colleague had to turn in theirs.
He tried to persuade himself that his two years of, well, spying for Governor Preston had inculcated a natural sense of paranoia. But when he came home last week to discover some of his USBs missing, he owned up to the fact that the feds were on to him. Though he had steeled himself over the past months for this likelihood, accepting it was difficult for Miles.
He begins to make plans to resign and move far away from the East coast. Even Wyoming might not be far enough. New Zealand, maybe.
As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism (patriotism), education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The (public) school should therefore...combat family attitudes that favor jingoism .... We shall presently recognize in nationalism the major obstacle to the development of world mindedness.... [E]ach member nation ...has a duty to see to it that nothing in its curriculum, course of study and textbooks is contrary to UNESCO's aims.
— UNESCO, Publication 356
Cheyenne, Wyoming
State Capitol, General Session
January 2017
"Point One. Waste water. Regarding the environmental concerns over the private use of our water, we have a simple solution: Waste water shall outflow upstream from your fresh water intake. You will intake your own effluvia before anybody else does. If you can live with it, then most likely your downstream neighbors can, too. Think of it as a mandatory Golden Rule.
"Point Two: Taxes. Several states have managed to do without sales and/or income taxes1. Wyoming, however, will set a new example. We propose to eliminate and prohibit all property taxes on homesteads2 in conjunction with the privatization of all Wyoming public schools.
"Which brings us to Point Three: education . . ."
...he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem, is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.
— Machiavelli
Washington, D.C.
The White House
January 2017
"What in the fuck happened?!" spits President Connor. "They want to dump their entire public education program! Next year! All of it, including the U of W!"
"Mr. President, according to our source in Cheyenne —"
"Your 'source'? Fuck him! Fuck your 'source'! Tax credits and vouchers my ass! We got D-Day'ed! Goddamn! "
"D-day'ed? Sir?" Miles asks, flummoxed.
"Yes, Miles, D-Day'ed! You know, June 6, 1944? It's like we were staring at Calais because of all the bogus intel about Patton's phantom army in East Anglia, and 'Dwight D. Prestonhower' lands at fucking Normandy Beach with a quarter million troops. We got suckered by those Cheyenne shitkickers is what happened!"
Still stomping about, President Connor says, "Well, they may propose this, but let's see if they can wade through the shitstorm the country sends their way. Abolishing public education! It's unAmerican!"
Attorney General Janet Vorn speaks up. "Mr. President, we just looked into their education reform. They can't dump the public schools."
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nbsp; Connor freezes in mid-grimace. "What do you mean?"
"Sir, their own constitution requires public education:"
The legislature shall make laws for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools which shall be open to all children of the state and free from sectarian control.
— Wyoming Constitution, Article 21, section 28
"But they can't repeal it because of a previous section which is controlling:"
...The following article [sections] shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state:
— Wyoming Constitution, Article 21, section 23
Vorn continues, "Mr. President, they're 'locked in.' They'd need the consent of Congress to repeal section 23. They're stuck with public schools. In fact, they can't even go very far with a voucher or tax credit scheme because of unavoidable 1st Amendment conflict. If their supreme court doesn't enforce section 23, the federal judiciary will. I've spoken with the Solicitor General about this, and he's prepared to take it all the way to the Supreme Court."
"That's great news! Preston's libertarian wave will crash on the sand bar of their own constitution — I love it! With any luck it'll drown 'em all."
Cheyenne Sentinel
February 2017
"Yesterday the Wyoming legislature passed several proposed constitutional amendments that would fully divest the State of Wyoming from public education by the beginning of the school year next September. A concurrent proposal would eliminate all residential property taxes, which are levied specifically for public schools. Mineral royalties and other taxes earmarked for education would continue to go into a general education fund, to be drawn upon by the parents on a per student capita basis.
"Voters will decide during a special election set for this August. Reaction around the country is strong and mixed. This is apparently an issue with little room for fence-sitting. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have announced that they will file suit in federal court if the Wyoming constitutional amendments are ratified."
The national outcry was deafening and blistering. Wyoming was accused by the East Coast liberals of "exchanging education for ignorance." A nationwide boycott of Wyoming goods and tourism was threatened, and a swelling uproar demanded that the Federal Government step in to prevent Wyoming's proposals.
Far too few people acknowledged the long since buried fact that public education had been created by the states, and what the states created they could also abolish. The simple logic of this argument was drowned out by nothing less than mass hysteria. Americans had long forgotten that they were supposedly given a republic where local and state prerogatives exceeded all but the most explicit and urgent of federal concerns.
Taxation is far greater an evil than theft. It is a form of slavery. If you cannot choose the disposition of your property, you are a slave. If you must ask permission to work, and/or pay involuntary tribute to anyone from your wages, you are a slave....
How is it that so many have so much difficulty with this?
And spare me the arguments that begin with, "But how could we (whatever) if there was no taxation?" If a person will not concede the moral wrongness of forcible confiscation of property, no fruitful discussion of this subject is possible. Without first getting an understanding that taxation is wrong, no serious effort will be made to find an ethical and moral way to do "whatever."
Furthermore, those who want to enjoy the "benefits" of taxation (a "free" school, a "free" highway) generally prefer to do so without acknowledging the uncomfortable fact that they supported the underlying convenient theft. Thus, the taxmen and their supporters inevitably drag us into a culture of lies and deceit, which must in the end corrode and destroy all that is good in any culture, finally rendering the language so twisted and full of euphemism and misnomer that it becomes almost impossible to even describe a moral system of exchange and equity, let alone claw our way out of the pit to rediscover one. (at 98-99)
If you have ever voted in favor of a school bond — taking money from your neighbor on the threat of the government seizure of his or her house, in order to school your own kids — then you are a socialist. And as with alcoholism, you are not going to get cured until you admit it....
But if we haven't established anything else by now, surely it's clear that the kind of vested interests who now fatten at the trough of "public education" will run us in gleeful circles and never allow us to get there through any "gradual transition." The rule of nature and of history is that the new seeds sprout in the sun only after the old tree has finally toppled in ruin.
So: Why prop up this rotting hulk any longer? Why? (at 203)
— Vin Suprynowicz, The Ballad of Carl Drega
To further explain the admittedly dramatic initiatives, Governor Preston makes a televised speech.
"Let me discuss the privatization of Wyoming's education. This is not a vote of no-confidence against our public school teachers or administrators. They have done the best they can given all the restrictions the federal government has placed upon them. But since we do have government schools, it is the equivalent of our children being taught with an effectiveness similar to Amtrak or the US Postal Service. Our children deserve better!
This is our chance — our one chance — to return control of our children's education to the people of Wyoming. We can give our children better and more responsive schools for less money.
"The buildings, teachers, and students will be no different from the previous year. Only the landlord will change. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your chance to own and control your local schools. You already have been paying for them through property taxes and bond issues. You will still pay for your local schools, but without the needless middleman of government. Here is your chance to improve your children's education, to experiment and to learn from other schools. To cut or increase budgets wherever and whenever you deem necessary. To enjoy a choice of schools for a change. This has always been the right of parents, but it was taken from you over a hundred years ago. And now, your government would like to return to you that stolen property. It is your choice whether to accept it.
"Government education is not consistent with any free country, much less with America. Since the states unlawfully took over the education and indoctrination of our children, have they produced any more Jeffersons? Any more Madisons? Any more Hamiltons? No. These brilliant men — these Founding Fathers — were all products of home-schooling, private education, and parochial universities. Somehow, America flourished for over a hundred years without government schools.
"Since public education, however, only those with enough money could afford private schools. Only those with enough time had the option of homeschooling. Everyone else with average time and money had no choice but public schools, which have been declining in quality for fifty years. Their "product" — our children — cannot compete against the Germans and the Japanese, or even against the British. High-school exams of 1917 cannot be passed by college graduates of 2017. Students are taught less and less each year and graduate without the skills needed to survive, much less succeed, in the real world. Nearly a third are functionally illiterate. This is absolutely criminal! And we will no longer tolerate it in Wyoming!
"If we don't embrace a separation of school and state today, our children will be fully indoctrinated by the socialist bureaucrats of Washington, D.C. and the UN. They've gradually been doing so for over thirty years as it is. Upon ratification, Wyomingites will no longer be coerced into educating the children of strangers. We believe in the simple right of people to fully receive the local quality of life they pay to enjoy. Perfect economic equality is not possible, not even by stealing from the more wealthy to give to the less wealthy. Let's concentrate on increasing the size of the pie instead of squabbling over ever-shrinking slices.
"Upon ratification, we expect a proliferation of privately-funded scholarships to make up the gap for families temporarily unabl
e to afford the quality of education they desire for their children. Mrs. Preston and I have started such a fund ourselves, in which we welcome fellow donors.
"In closing, let me remind us all of something long since forgotten. These recent initiatives are fully within the prerogative of any state in the Union. The states created drivers licences, vehicle registration, and public schools. And by the same token, the states may amend or abolish their own systems whenever their citizens so choose. And Wyomingites have chosen to return to the heritage of our once free nation and shun the shackles of licenses, permits, and prior restraint. Behave responsibly and nobody will bother you unless you mess up.
"If the rest of the country does not agree, then they do not have to come here. Neither the states nor the Government have any right to interfere with the internal matters of Wyoming. We mind our own business and expect others to do the same. In five years, we'll see who has the brightest students!
"Thank you, and may God continue to bless Wyoming and her people."
Washington, D.C. FBIHQ
March 2017
"Our increased security may have paid off," says the CT DAD. Director Klein frowns. "Or maybe 'The Leopard' is taking a break." "He could have been arrested. Retired. Or even deceased."
Cheyenne, Wyoming
March 2017
"If we lose in district court, we will appeal to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. If we win in district court, the Government will appeal."
"So, either way, it's going to Appellate Court in Denver?" Preston asks. "Yes, sir."
"Do you still think it will go as far as the US Supreme Court?"
"Very likely. The Government will want to nip this in the bud, not only to maintain public education, but to forestall secession in violation of section 24 which declares Wyoming an 'inseparable part of the federal union.' Also, the Government must convince those other states with similar clauses to our section 23 that, as the Borg in Star Trek would say, 'Resistance is futile.' So, yes sir, it will probably go to the Supreme Court. If we are the petitioner, they will most certainly deny certiorari and let the 10th Circuit Court ruling stand. What we do about that will be your decision."
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