Let me start with an apology. English is not my mother tongue so grammar might not be as good as you are used to.
I would like to introduce myself as briefly as possible, and let you know what is happening with a potent voluntaryism/anarchy movement I helped to create in my small, somewhat barbarian country of Croatia, burdened with centuries of wars, oppression and tyranny.
My name is Vladimir. Many from English speaking countries call me Vlad. I do not mind how people address me, because I learned in the process of my awakening that NAME does not even begin to define who we really are. I advocate voluntary interactions between people and I most certainly advocate abandoment of any and all systems that enslave people, including but not limited to Government.
I had many teachers who helped me to became aware of the problems we face today worldwide. Veronica Chapman, Mark Passio, Larken Rose (@larkenrose) are among many of those who helped me to comprehend the enslavement we are all opressed with to some extent. Today, I can say that I am also among those who pass on this crucial informations to others, informations I learned from people smarter than me.
One of the means to spread this informations is web site www.zvono-istine.org that I and a few other coleagues administrate. Zvono Istine (Bell of Truth) became over the past 4 years the starting point for education (on Croatian language) of those who want to be free. It contains the wealth of information on Croatian language, translated materials, videos and books from other languages, and materials on English as well, along with compressed knowledge gathered mostly from English speaking countries and personal experience. We offer information about many areas that enslave people and destroy our society. We also offer a space for people to express ideas and to connect with eachother, so people can actually DO something that drains energy from slavery system of control with a little help from our web site.
So - the obvious conclusion for those who comprehend that we need to act if we want to create free society, was to set a goal to spread this information about enslavement to others, and of course, learn more about how it works through political, legal and banking system. We are succesfull at that.
Some od us choose to challenge the legal system... For example, I intentionally broke their laws several times (got arrested once too) - just to get into the courtrooms so I can challenge the jurisdiction of people in roles of judges and see what will happen. Now I know they are in the darkness as well - they can not answer even the simple questions. Many of them freak out when faced with a fella who has no illusions about ther "authority" and does not fear them. With time, I learned what is actually happening in courts from my own experience, and I pass what I have learned to others. One step at the time, I became someone who walks the walk, rather than lose myself in the vast numbers of people who talk the talk and pretend they know it all.
I still learn. There is much to learn. But the best way to learn is trough one's own experience and actions. I lost some 50% battles in their courts, won the rest, and learned that I could easily lost all of them just because people in roles of judges could decide to use violence against me no matter what the truth is, and no matter what the right is. I learned that they can, out of their own arse, pluck out what they think is truth and right to do and enforce that - if they choose to do so.
And they do so... and all I could do (untill recently) was to make the appeal to their buddies at higher courts. And spend YEARS wasting my time and energy, maybe even to eternity. It is their turf and they set the rules. One of the most important rules are that rules do not apply to them and they break them as they see fit, in order to perpetuate system of slavery over the people.
I learned that I lost even the battles I somehow won. Victories were (monetary) expensive. Time and effort needed for a victory downgraded them all to Pyrrhic Victory.
You can not win in their courts. At least in my small, somewhat barbarian country.
Obvious conclusion was that Government needs to be reduced to non-existance level. Creation of parallel, voluntary alternatives for all aspects of society should be something that needs to be explored and applied. That is something worth investing our time and energy.
We can ignore and bypass coercion and violence of the State into its pre-determined non-existance that will happen, I hope, in comming decades. Hopefully, we will not need to use force to explain the average order-follower that he can not mess with free people without consequences.
Today, me and some of my coleagues that administrate web site www.zvono-istine.org - quite popular at this part of the world - are much more sucessfull in reaching out to more people who do comprehend non-agression principle and who act in that manner.
We even managed to penetrate state-run TV to talk about destructive effects of Government, volutary society and concept of anarchy. Larken Rose (please follow @larkenrose) was kind enough to accept invitation to be the special guest star on the show that will be aired in November on Croatian National TV. Imagine that - 50 minutes of Voluntarysm and Anarchy on national TV. That will be the day to remember.
So we do stuff here in Croatia. Things looks promising. More and more people in Croatia are aware that the Government and the belief in authority are main sources of problems in our society, and are starting to find creative ways to deny their energy to government funded parasites.
Future belongs to us.
I'm absolutely excited about the possibilities of anarchism and voluntarism in more "statist" world. Common law anglo-saxon cultures are more predisposed to free market and ideas of freedom and voluntaryism, but voluntarism and freedom are actually most needed in the more socialist statist countries. Will be following you. :D
Many interesting things started to happen over the past few years here in Croatia.
Newest thing is creation of private court, where NGO was used as a carrier so it can be recognized by the system, which is crucial for enforcement of its decisions. We will try to flush out order-followers from hiding behind govt institutions and make them take personal responsibility for damage they do to the people. Cops, judges, taxmans will be defendants very soon. We worked hard for more than 2 years to make it possible. Now we need to test it.Thank you @ozertayiz
Vlad you should be proud that your English is so good!! I have lived in Panama for 5 years and my Spanish is still only good for speaking it, my writing is horrible. I spent 3 years as part of the illegal NATO force who did not let the war in your country and region end. I was a nurse based in Sicily at the time and watched in horror as the war raged on and the governments let the atrocities happen.
I can only wish that Anarchism takes hold around the world and governments are out of business.
Thank you for the post Vlad!
Thank you - you should hear my Croatian - that one is much better!
Croatia also has a very libertarian neighbor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
A small seed can grow a massive forest.
Indeed it can and it will.
Is that show called "Na rubu znanosti (On the edge of science)"?
Yes, correct.
Jedva čekam :)
Pozdrav kolega :)
pozdrav i tebi
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and actions, Vlad. It's good to learn that others question the rules and rulers, especially in other parts of the world beyond the Americas where most of the more well-known libertarian/anarchist types seem to be living.
People here in Croatia are mostly anarchist but they do not know that. But many are starting to see that, which can be attributed partly to web site Zvono Istine.
Unless we end all forms of man made government, government will end mankind.
Here in England the courts are nothing to do with justice, they are corporations geared up to make as much money as they can. It is the order followers that we really need to work on, we have to remember that these people have been brainwashed and they are in a trance serving the slave masters. When they use force or threaten you with false they are engaged in the logical fallacy called Argumentum ad Baculinum. I recently posted the following to my FB wall and hasten to add this is an hypothetical exchange between me and a magistrate:
Most people who have not read any philosophy have no clue as to the fallacies that people in authority are using. I believe knowing them makes it easy to expose their arguments and torpedo their claims.
One that stands out is this one
Idiot in Court: You must pay Taxes
Moi: Why
Idiot in Court: Because everyone pays them.
Moi: That is a logical fallacy popularly called appealing to the majority and technically called by us philosophers
Argumentum ad Populum
Would you like me to elucidate further?
This fallacy occurs when an argument panders to popular passion or sentiment. When, for instance, a politician exclaims in a debate that his opponent "is out of step with the beliefs of everyone in the audience," he/she is committing the fallacy. The legitimacy of a statement depends not on its popularity, but on its truth credentials.
Logical fallacy Intelligent people can see that your claim is false Sir it is like arguing that we must all jump off a cliff because others have jumped off the cliff then smile and wait for the reaction.
Qiute a few judges I had misfortune to meet are organic robots uncapable of thinking outside their imaginary box of law.