I am sending a voice, Great Spirit, forgetting nothing you have made, the stars of the Universe, and the grasses of earth. ~ Nicholas Black Elk

We consider ourselves to be everyone and nobody. We are all for one and one for all. We are anyone who longs for Liberty, Peace, Harmony and Reason. We are nobody in charge, nobody superior, and no institutional authority of any man over another. We strive to work together, yet separately, and in agreement.

We believe the institutionalized structurally violent system of the Corporate Warfare State must be abandoned and allowed to die a peaceful death. We hold the entire conception of the Corporation and the State to be morally invalid – that “legally mandated” limited liability and sovereign immunity, which enable men to act without accountability and responsibility – are the roots of a system which promotes the limitless play of greed and destruction without concern for the fate of future generations, who will inherit a wasted earth.

We are questing into unknown territory with this website. We hope to have contributors who advance their ideas with full open attribution of authorship. We are individual beings, working together in voluntary cooperation for our liberty and the survival of our species. We pledge allegiance to no State, no flag, no government, and no “ism.” We aim to be free, to think for ourselves, and to act on our own responsibility.

From simple observation and common sense, we discern clearly that allegiance to a State is tantamount to allegiance to murder, since States are controlled by powerful individuals and corporate interests who will stoop to any level of depraved violence to achieve their goals of power and greed. We intend to confront, and not to deny, the reality of conditions created by the money power to which we have acquiesced.

We ask simple and basic questions of ourselves and the State. Then we try to guide our affairs and loyalties according to the answers. Am I truthful? Do I aggress against others and murder those who pose no threat to me? Do I finance others to carry out these aggressive acts? Is the State truthful? Does the State murder? Does it torture and degrade? Do I finance the State? If I don’t stop financing the killing, who will?

We pledge allegiance to that One Humanity of which we are a particle. Our allegiance is to a life of love and reason, kindness and peace, harmony and reverence for all life. By this pledge we proclaim ourselves to be individual moral sovereigns, neither bound to nor beneath any man or “constituted authority.” We perceive that we are facing a starkly simple choice: evolve to a higher level of consciousness, or become extinct.
The Editor and initial author posting to this site is Jeff Knaebel. He is an American-born expatriate who has been living since 1995 in self-imposed exile in India. Trained at Cornell University and the Colorado School of Mines, he formerly practiced as a mining engineer-entrepreneur-bush pilot in Alaska and Canada. Faced with immediate military conscription in his youth, he applied to US Navy Officer Candidate School, was commissioned and subsequently served as a Company Commander of US Navy Seabees in Vietnam during that war.

Former professional memberships include American Institute of Mining Engineers; Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers; Society of Economic Geologists; American Institute of Professional Geologists; New York Academy of Science; Geological Association of Canada; American Geophysical Union; Northwest Mining Association (officer); Alaska Miners Association (officer); Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsilon.

He sees the cycle of war, destruction and wanton waste propagated by the Ameican Imperium as impossible to end by political means. His working hypothesis is that it can end only through the decisions of sovereign individuals - to refuse financial and moral support, to engage in non-cooperation, and to withdraw from participation in a system-structure based upon violence.

He has for many years refused to pay taxes in finance of State-sponsored murder and mindless destruction. In order to avoid harassment and the overhanging threat of jail, he finally sold everything, closed shop, and become an exile – a man without a country. He owns no dwelling, vehicle, telephone, credit card, driving license, television, nor any insurance or pension. He participates in no government “welfare” program.

He believes that the right to life and liberty demands respect for the lives of others. This means the right of refusal to finance by taxes the heinous crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Corporate Warfare State.

In the not-distant future, his citizenship-identification documents will expire. These are his “Permission-to-Live” documents, by which he is made a slave, for without freedom of movement, a man cannot earn the livelihood necessary to support life. Thus, his right to life has been usurped by the State, and he lives at its pleasure only.

It is at this intersection of State tyranny with his individual personal situation that he plans to challenge the State for his right to self-ownership, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a manner that harms no other. It seems obvious to him that the right of self-ownership requires the free and clear right to the whole product of his own labor. This means that any form of coercive taxation denies him the right of self-ownership, in effect impeding his right to life itself.

It has taken too long to de-condition the mind of State school system brainwash and political perception management. He strives to promulgate the ideals of Mohandas Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau, rotated and adjusted to fit current conditions. He experiences the greatest challenge as being extrication from the system-structure-machine while yet maintaining a life of modest amenities. He is learning the freedom of (almost) nothing left to lose.

He has resolved not to support, finance, or obey the organized crime which is the State. He has set himself upon a journey to live this question: is humanity capable of allowing a man to live free and whole?

He strives to be able to know in his own heart - at the approach of death - that he had put it all on the line for the truth as he saw it. And that he had learnt not to compromise with Power that murders human beings.