{"id":47118,"date":"2019-07-07T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47118"},"modified":"2019-07-07T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:44:41","slug":"are-we-really-free-maybe-its-time-for-a-personal-declaration-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47118","title":{"rendered":"Are We Really Free? Maybe It\u2019s Time for a Personal Declaration of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/personal-declaration-of-independence\/\">Are We Really Free? Maybe It\u2019s Time for a Personal Declaration of Independence<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Some time between throwing some burgers on the grill and shooting off fireworks with a beer in one hand and a lighter in the other, ask yourself this question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How free and independent are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How independent are any of us, really? We like to think we live in the \u201cfree-est\u201d nation in the world, but do we really?&nbsp; Think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>You never own your home outright, even when the mortgage is paid off<\/strong>. Every year, you must make your extortion payment to the city or trust me, you won\u2019t be living in that house for long.<\/li><li><strong>The same thing with your car<\/strong>. If you don\u2019t pay your annual extortion payment on your vehicle and pay a hundred bucks for a tiny sticker that gives you permission to drive it, it will be promptly towed away by the city with the government\u2019s blessing. Then, like a hostage negotiation gone wrong, you\u2019ll have to pay even more money to cover their theft and storage of YOUR vehicle.<\/li><li><strong>On a regular basis, you must pay a fee and ask the government for permission to do any number of things<\/strong>, such as driving a car, traveling outside the country, running a business, adding another bathroom to your home, or even catching a fish for dinner.<\/li><li><strong>Permits and licenses are big revenue generators from start to finish<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 and if you proceed without asking permission, they will extort more money from you in the form of fines. If you refuse to pay the fines (or if you can\u2019t) they\u2019ll kidnap you and lock you in a cage, where you\u2019ll be forced to perform manual labor for 10 cents an hour for whatever length of time the legal authorities feel is sufficient to teach you a lesson.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are We Really Free? Maybe It\u2019s Time for a Personal Declaration of Independence Some time between throwing some burgers on the grill and shooting off fireworks with a beer in one hand and a lighter in the other, ask yourself this question: How free and independent are you? How independent are any of us, really? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6156,338,379,968,827],"class_list":["post-47118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-daisy-luther","tag-freedom","tag-government","tag-independence","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47119,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions\/47119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}