Levers of Freedom

We think about what we SHOULD do or CAN do to make things better. These are POSITIVE ACTIONS.

We tend NOT to think about things we should NOT do to make things better. These are POSITIVE INACTIONS.

The Oathkeepers are gaining strength through positive inaction. Failure to comply is powerful, because it is hard to fault someone for NOT doing something.

Inaction can generate no harm. No harm generates no offense.

Chris Matthews interview (there is a youtube on this here) reveals the power of it. The Oathkeepers are for positive inaction (failure to obey unlawful orders). Chris keeps trying to turn that into a positive action that generates harm (creating a hostile mindset, revolution, insurrection...whatever else his mind will spew), that will generate a negative reaction to the Oathkeepers (who he does not like) in the minds of his audience.

So; positive inaction includes failure to obey unlawful orders.

What other levers can we pull?

Failure to pay.

Failure to pay the photoradar papers mailed to you. They were not served properly, anyway. They can send the sheriff if they want you to comply. That costs them more.

Failure to obey unlawful laws, is what they are doing with the 420 demonstrations in Keene NH (marijuana law protests), and they are getting arrested for it. They will win if they keep it up, as the expense of jailing and trying them will be excessively burdensome for the town? Who knows?

Failure to pay for the mortgage that they can't enforce. This is powerful. The banks are on the ropes. It costs a lot to attempt to enforce these, and also a lot to repossess the house. This is a giant lever of control WE have and they have little to do with.

Failure to use their federal reserve notes. They can't stop you or make you. This is a big lever, and that is why they are going after the Liberty Dollar people, etc. They know it, and recognize their own vulnerability. The "legal tender laws" mean that you cannot refuse the payment of debt using federal reserve notes, but they have yet to have a "compulsory tender law," though I am sure they would much prefer that.

Think about positive inaction as a powerful tool that can move mountains in our setting, and that is difficult to vilify by our opponents.