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Decentralization can be defined as, “Giving decision-making powers to the lowest levels of authority (the populace) …to promote participation, such that local people are directly involved in decisions and developments which affect them personally.”

“But how?” you ask. “How can we be free to run our own lives?”

The 7 Steps to Freedom

Step 1. You must know what it means to be free.

This video explains your inalienable rights. You have the right to life, liberty, and the fruits of your labor. It is crucial to know this because rights mean nothing if you don’t know about them. The difference between legal rights and inalienable rights is this: Legal rights are the limitations that a government has set on itself; inalienable rights are the rights that you have no matter where you are. They are universal, no matter what your nationality, gender, sexual orientation, race, color, etc. No matter who you are, you have them. The problem is that our rights are being violated all the time. The Non-aggression Principle is used to determine if you, someone else, or a group of people are violating the rights of others. The principle states:

“You are free to do anything you want, provided only that you not initiate, or threaten to initiate, violence against another person or legitimately owned property of another.”

If someone violates this principle, then their actions are non-consensually taking control over someone’s life, liberty, or the fruits of their labor. When no one is violating the Non-aggression Principle then there is freedom because you are free when you have complete control over your life, liberty, and the fruits of your labor.

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Step 2. You must know whether or not you are free.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.” -Frank Zappa

You may be asking, “So, who is keeping us from being free? Who is violating our rights?”
The answer to this depends on where you live. It could be an organized gang, an independent thug, a violent corporation, etc. I’m sure we can agree that these are all things we should oppose; but, the problem is that there is a much larger institution which the public does not unanimously oppose; one that violates the inalienable rights of innocent people every day; a form of organized aggression known as government.

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.” -Leo Tolstoy

“‘All government in essence,’ says Emerson, ‘is tyranny.’ It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.” -Emma Goldman

Now you ask, “But do all governments violate our inalienable rights?”
Yes, absolutely. Even in the least oppressive nations on Earth, where the draft and mass incarcerations are rare, it is still their official policy to violate your inalienable rights. “And how’s that?” you ask. Through theft, or as it’s more commonly known, taxation. Taxation is coercive, so all forms of government are coercive because none would exist without taxation. “How is it coercive?” You are not given a choice whether or not to pay taxes, if you do not pay your taxes, you are kidnapped at gunpoint and thrown in jail, where if you try to escape, you are shot. If you aren’t yet convinced that taxation is theft, then please read this short article before continuing.

“When you advocate any government action, you must first believe that violence is the best answer to the question at hand.” -Allen Thornton, Laws of the Jungle

“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”
-Lysander Spooner

“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” -Mark Twain

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Step 3. You must not fear freedom.

At this point, some of you may be asking, “Ahhh! Are you an anarchist!?”
Yes, I am, but please do not confuse anarchism with chaos. It is not a movement to destroy organization; it is a movement to create a genuinely free, cooperative society. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics defines anarchism as “the view that society can and should be organized without a coercive state.”
In step one we explained that you are not free unless your inalienable rights are not being violated, so any institution is illegitimate if it violates your inalienable rights; and, in step two we explained how all forms of government violate those rights; therefore, anarchism is the only political philosophy that is opposed to all institutions keeping you from being free. For more on this philosophy, let’s see what anarchists themselves have to say about it:

“Anarchism is simply the revolutionary idea that no-one is more qualified to run your life than you are.
To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. It’s quite simple, really.” -N. Stephan Kinsella

“Show me the government that does not infringe upon anyone’s rights, and I will no longer call myself an anarchist.” -Jacob Halbrooks

“I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!” -John Henry Mackay

“The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.” -Benjamin Tucker

“From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is… authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for…”
-Joseph Labadie, Anarchism and Crime

“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive;”
-Emma Goldman (Source)

“Will you and your government teach eagles to fly and tigers to hunt? Of course not. No one is so arrogant with nature. But you and your government want to tell me what to buy and how to live, and I am more complex than any eagle or tiger. Give me only the same respect you pay the badger and the blue jay, and leave me alone. After all, anarchy means nothing more than human ecology.” -Allen Thornton, Laws of the Jungle

“The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.”
-Joseph Sobran, Anarchy Without Fear

“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.” -Murray Rothbard (Source)

“I see anarchism as meaning both political and economic democracy, in the best sense of the term.” “I am an anarchist.” -Howard Zinn (Source One and Two)

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Step 4. Educate yourself and others about what forces are pushing us toward tyranny. Become the media!

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From the workplace to the web, decentralization produces better results than a centralized structure. On the Internet you’ve seen this proven with the success of Wikipedia, Firefox, Youtube, and hundreds of other useful tools. Now, we’re continuing the movement by allowing users to directly contribute by posting news, videos, art, and anything else that communicates the following themes:
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• Corporatism: Corporate control of government, The Federal Reserve, the economy, organized crime.
• Decentralization: Activism, revolutionaries, direct democracy, anarchism, voluntaryism, open source software (AKA Intellectual Anarchy), independent media, small businesses.
• False Flag: Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, 7/7, and any other similar operations.
• Mass Media: The corporate/state controlled media and the propaganda they spit.
• Music: Interesting lyrics or music videos from your favorite dissident bands. (Examples)
• Comedy: Anything that entertains but still has an important message. (Examples)
• Reviews and Tributes: Know any books, movies, or shows that you want to spread like wildfire?
• Science: The environment, technology, energy, health.
• Society: Recreation, blue collar crime, consumerism, apathy, religion, education, culture, poverty.
• The Election: The spectacle, the illusion of choice.
• Statism: Totalitarians, Communists, Zionists, our police state, corrupt prison systems, The Drug War.
• War: Military and veterans, private contractors, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc…

Don’t know where to begin? Try one of the over 50 links on our sidebar. Each one has tons of information, and even all those sites are only a sample of what has become a massive movement against tyranny.

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Step 5. Meet up with other liberty minded individuals, in the real world, until you’re part of a huge network of supportive activists. Solidarity is key!

Here are some great resources for finding people in your area:
Start a Meetup Group, Find Meetup Groups, Find a Protest, 9/11 Truth Action, Guerrilla Gardening, List of Food Not Bombs Groups, Ishmael Social Network, GNN Social Network, Bureaucrash Social Network, Fr33 Agents.

When you’re trying to educate other people, whether with a protest, a conversation, or any other type of activism, please consider these important suggestions:

• I. Make politics relevant to our everyday experience of life.
  The farther away the object of our political concern, the less it will mean to us, the less real and pressing it will seem to us, and the more wearisome politics will be.
• II. All political activity must be joyous and exciting in itself.
  You cannot escape from dreariness with more dreariness.
• III. Show respect to everyone.
  If you come off as a hateful person then why should anyone bother listening to you?
• IV. If you violate someone’s inalienable rights, you must repay them.
  Here’s a great example: Greek Anarchists Pay for Senior’s Torched Kiosk.
• V. Enjoy yourselves! There is never any excuse for being bored or boring!
  “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution!” -Emma Goldman

Some suggestions were inspired by this.

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Step 6. Ask yourself, “Do any of my actions directly or indirectly violate someone’s inalienable rights?”

Avoid funding/helping a company that violates people’s rights, for example: any of the banks that make up the Federal Reserve (JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citibank are the largest). If you have a bank account or credit card with any of them, move your money to another bank. If you have a mortgage, refinance with another bank. If you own their stock, sell it. If you work for them, quit.
If you haven’t heard the story behind the coercive Federal Reserve and the private banks that control it, then please watch the film America: Freedom to Fascism.

Avoid applying for a job where you’d be legally obligated to follow orders that would violate the Non-aggression Principle (explained in step one). The military is one example of this.

“Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.” -Henry David Thoreau

“A people highly moral and highly intellectual… would realize that the principle of military life resulted in making moral agents machines, free citizens slaves; that a soldier can have no will but his officer’s, and know no law but his commands; with him conscience has no force, Heaven no authority, and conduct but one rule,—implicit, military obedience.” -The Book of Peace, 1845

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Step 7. Take responsibility in the protection of your freedom and the freedom of others.

The more thoroughly you’ve completed the steps before this, the less challenging this step will be.
Start a local cop watch. If there’s a draft, resist it. Research examples of tax resistance and give your money to charity instead of the tyrannical government (examples one and two).

“Let them protest all they want, as long as they pay their taxes.”
-Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig during protests against the Vietnam War

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Taxation is theft; the draft as slavery; elections aren’t much more than puppet theater; the state doesn’t allow “rule by the people,” it’s an auction; national borders are just lines on a sheet of paper called a map.
Stop waiting for a revolutionary leader to appear on the ballot; you can find them in the mirror right now!
The future is unwritten, so let’s write it before the tyrants do!

Whether you agree with our message or not, please, join the conversation. I encourage debate and respect your right to disagree. Please, leave a comment.
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“The 7 Steps to Freedom” were written by Robin. Feel free to repost on a non-commercial blog/website but be polite and include an active link back to Decentralize.tv.

“True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.” -Peter Kropotkin