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P1: Ending The Coercion
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People, by all the gods of all the religions, there is not enough time left in today's social infra-structure to waste bickering about anything, whether it's Smalltown-Nose-in-the-Air-America suddenly treating its residents like it's a HOA, or it's dropping bombs half way around the world on people that some unconstitutional governmental agency has labelled as terrorists. Those are parallel injustices. Can we please give ALL the coercion a rest!

Would it not be a better path for us over the next decade to simply live to the point we can reside, work, and travel about our countrysides without being accosted by gangs and thieves, whether those gangs and thieves wear uniforms or rags, and interchange freely with whomever we meet. Can we please re-acquire a level of human integrity and respect to have that free interchange without fear of control, coercion, or physical harm.

Why do we need a litany of written words that a legislative body calls Code to control us? Can we simply act voluntarily in the remaining years we have? Can we simply act to our own ambitions while not requiring subjugation and obedience from others? When others need help, can we volunteer to do it the way they need and like, because it is theirs, not ours.
Can we simply act on the aspect of human consciousness we call Free Will, and allow all people to use their own, without aggression on our part? What could be an easier path forward than that, than a path of Peace?

Peace does not come from government declarations, as we see clearly in 2026 from America's so-called leadership. Historical evidence shows us the same, that governments break Peace, they do not make Peace, they coerce, subjugate, and control. When there is no Peace, there is no Freedom, there is no expression of Free Will.

Peace will not come until we dismantle the government bureaucracies and authorities we have allowed to organize. Remember, they do not control us unless we allow them, because they are lawfully in service TO us, not in service OVER us.

https://freedomfest.com/speakers2026/

[The Virginia Supreme Court made clear that a fundamental right cannot be transformed into a privilege that requires the state's permission. In other words, the right to travel is inherent and belongs to the individual.]

The Law Must Consider Whether You Are DRIVING, OPERATING, Or TRAVELING. Which Are You?

By law, Driving and Operating must involve commerce in some way, as in you are being paid to drive and/or operate a commercial vehicle, or you are transporting merchandise for commercial sale. If you are simply moving from place to place as a private person, you are a Traveler by law.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1179532693750726


In Thompson v. Smith, 155 Va. 367 (1930), the Virginia Supreme Court explicitly recognized the operation of a personal automobile on public highways as a fundamental right rather than a mere privilege. The Court emphasized that individuals have a constitutional right to use public roads, and this right cannot be arbitrarily denied by the state.

Key points from the decision:
Fundamental Right: The Court held that traveling by automobile is an extension of the common-law right to travel, which is a fundamental liberty.

Not a Privilege: The right is inherent and cannot be treated as a mere license that can be revoked at the discretion of state authorities without due process.

Limitations: While the Court acknowledged that the state can regulate for safety and public welfare (e.g., reasonable traffic regulations), it cannot arbitrarily restrict or deny the right to travel.

This case has been frequently cited in discussions of constitutional rights to travel and the limits of state authority over personal mobility, often in conjunction with broader liberty interests under the Due Process Clause.
The crucial principle highlighted in Thompson v. Smith: The Virginia Supreme Court made clear that a fundamental right cannot be transformed into a privilege that requires the state's permission. In other words, the right to travel is inherent and belongs to the individual.
Licensing or permitting this right (like requiring a driver's license to exercise the right to drive) cannot be used to arbitrarily revoke or condition the right.
The state may regulate for safety (reasonable traffic laws, speed limits, vehicle standards), but it cannot convert a fundamental liberty into a discretionary privilege that can be denied without due process.
This reasoning is often summarized as: "Fundamental rights exist independently of government permission; the state may regulate, but it cannot grant or withhold them at will."

Here is the key exact language from Thompson v. Smith, 155 Va. 367 (1930) that is most commonly quoted regarding the right to travel on public highways:

"The right of a citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon in the ordinary course of life and business is a common right which he has under his right to enjoy life and liberty, to acquire and possess property, and to pursue happiness and safety. It includes the right in so doing to use the ordinary and usual conveyances of the day; and under the existing modes of travel includes the right to drive a horse‑drawn carriage or wagon thereon, or to operate an automobile thereon, for the usual and ordinary purposes of life and business. It is not a mere privilege, like the privilege of moving a house in the street, operating a business stand in the street, or transporting persons or property for hire along the street, which a city may permit or prohibit at will."

And immediately following that, the court clarified the limits of regulatory power: "The exercise of such a common right the city may, under its police power, regulate in the interest of the public safety and welfare; but the city may not arbitrarily or unreasonably prohibit or restrict it, nor may it permit one to exercise it and refuse to permit another of like qualifications, under like conditions and circumstances to exercise it."

The End of Natural Rights and Freedom

Money buys some Jackboot the election in the hills of Kentucky. His campaign promise was a single-minded insanity to support Trump's policies!!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/primaries-held-6-states-what-watch

It's over Folks . . . prepare for martial law the best way you know how.

Paine insisted, "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
Lafayette warned, "When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties."
Adams cautioned, "A settled plan to deprive the people of all the benefits, blessings and ends of the contract, to subvert the fundamentals of the constitution, to deprive them of all share in making and executing laws, will justify a revolution."
And of course Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

By today's standards, these are not the words of patriots, those are the words of Felons. Had the government of our Founders succeeded in suppressing their "dangerous speech," there would have been no Revolution. No Declaration of Independence. No Constitution. No Bill of Rights.

Case in Point Longton - See the Noses-in-the-air Get What They Want at Our Expense.

https://sentinelksmo.org/blue-valley-trim-hourly-workers-pay-benefits/?mc_cid=4889d7f827

Johnson County's Blue Valley school district is a shining example of local government used to favor the few over the many. A quick glimpse at Longton government, Elk Valey USD 283, and Elk County government are all guilty of a few controlling the many. Make it change, or abolish it.

Are You Prepared?

In 1859 the world had telegraph lines, steel rails, and steel railroad engines and steam ships. The Carrington Event, a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun,  burned and melted some of the telegraph wires, but did not harm other conductive metals. I'm presuming all the telegraph lines did not fail because they were not all conducting electricity when the CME hit Earth.

Today, we live in a world-wide grid of electronics. Much of the grid is conducting all the time. Today the Earth's electromagnetic field, that shields us from CME's, is about 25% weaker than it was in 1859. (Yes, we have data measurement and collection of magnetic field strength for that period of time.)

When the next big CME strikes Earth our grid will go down, and survival will mean re-living the Late Stone Age. While we will have minds full of technology, we will no longer have electricity. And most of our industrialization requires electricity. What does not?

Are you prepared to live without electricity? The timeline for the next large CME is 2026 to 2034.

Galt's Objectivism

In the name of the best within you;
 - do not sacrifice your sense of life to an enemy that would claim your precious mind,
 - do not let the fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark,
 - do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserve, but have never reached.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Galt's observations of his family's struggles and his experiences through the first half of the 20th century led him to act decisively to protect himself, his industriousness, and his friends from the uncontrolled imposition of government, under the disguise of serving the greater interests, into our lives .

Seventy-five years later, his observations and his story are ever more clear to growing numbers of people around the world. We wonder what Galt would do today. We know he would stay true to himself. I ask, what will you do?

What follows will hopefully be a series of posts concerning today's unstable and unsustainable economic and social climate, and how Galt-inspired thinkers are preparing and reacting. The posts will be apolitical, posted under Politics only because a more suitable General Category is lacking on this Forum.



https://thehill.com/homenews/5832061-fertilizer-costs-impact-farmworkers/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03094-3

https://unctad.org/news/high-freight-rates-strain-global-supply-chains-threaten-vulnerable-economies

The Right To Be Left Alone
A Short History

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/american-heresy/

Thanks Judge Napolitano! AND, that Right is protected from injury at all levels of government, including small-town City Council who threaten the very people it is intended to serve with monetary fines for disobedience to unlawful ordinance.