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The world we live in is frightening today. All of us are looking for answers; all of us want the same things, security for ourselves and our families. Those are things we can have, no matter how impossible it seems right now. Getting there involves asking the right questions and realizing the answers exist. Those questions begin below.

Are You On The Grids?
Take the following test to find out. You need to know the answer to this question.

1. Do you pay a mortgage every month?

2. Do you pay an electric bill every month?

3. Do you pay to put gas in your automobile?

4. Do you have car payments to make every month?

5. Do you pay every month for cable television?

6. Do you pay for your Internet access?

7. Do you pay for your phone service?

8. Do you pay taxes, not fees for essential services?

9. Do you pay every month for the water you drink? Use to wash?

10. Have you ever paid a traffic ticket?

11. Do you pay for tags on your car?

12. Do you believe politicians are telling you the truth?

13. Do you believe that the media is unbiased and reports honestly and completely?

14. Do you think that elections accurately reflect the votes cast?

15. Do you know where the food in your refrigerator was grown?

16. Was your food grown within just a few miles of your home?

17. Do you know, for sure, that Monsanto had nothing to do with producing the food you eat?

18. Do you take dietary supplements in hopes of being healthier?

19. When you become ill, do you go to a physician?

20. Do you take prescription drugs?

21. Do you have investments in the stock market that you depend on for income?

22. Are you dependent on a pension that is invested in the stock market?

23. Do you have a credit card with an unpaid balance?

Count up your “YES” answers. If you answered one question in the affirmative, you are on a grid, but you are close to being free; good for you. With 2–7, you are Grid Challenged; time to exit. If you scored 8–14, you are Grid Entrenched: you need serious help to extract yourself. Anywhere above 14, you are totally Grid Locked.

    Doubtless, you think living this way is normal. Take this opportunity to add up the amounts you pay every month just to survive: you will see that mere survival is consuming the bulk of your earnings. You probably have moments when you wonder if there is an exit. There is.There are two things you need to know right now:Your situation is not ‘normal.’ Throughout human history, most people have not had to pay money just to continue to live.

    You can change your situation, for yourself and for your children. At the same time, you can build a life that is filled with the things that bring solid community, real happiness, and the leisure to enjoy them. You can get off the Grids and be free to enjoy your life, to find those things you never had time for and which, on your current path, will never be yours.

    Think for a moment. Most of us work to get the time to do what we love. If you reduce the cost of just surviving, your life is effectively longer because you are spending it in ways that make you happy.

    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness…”

    Happiness is getting off the Grids. Happiness is greeting your neighbors with delight and knowing you matter to them, that you are respected. Happiness is knowing you and your family are safe. Happiness is caring for others and feeling your own life extended through strengthened relationships. Happiness is having the time to make each moment worth remembering.

    This can be your future.

    You can wake up in a home that you know will be there for your great-grandchildren. It keeps you cool in the summer, warm in the winter, without effort or cost: it is designed right. This technology is available today. You get up and go out to your garden to pick berries for breakfast. They are natural anti-oxidants, the kind of food your ancestors took for granted, that kept your great-grandparents healthy. Much of your food you grow yourself or get from local sources. You can see it growing, so you know it is being done right. The food is delicious, it makes your mouth water and satisfies you: you do not hunger for sweets.

    Once, you worked in an office building. Now, you own your own business, which you run out of your own home. You could have chosen any of a dozen things to do, but you picked the one that you find most satisfying. You earn less in money, and much more in satisfaction. Your kids are doing the same; the whole world is their school now. They mastered physics by the time they were 14 or so, and now they are taking time to decide what they want to do. No one you know is worried about money.

    All the money is local. Your local ‘bank’ is something you can visit online, but you don’t have to give it much thought. You know who runs it, the woman who used to be your son’s 4th grade teacher. The Board meets occasionally, and you were on it for a while before you cycled off. It is simple, transparent, and therefore impossible to steal.

    There is little theft now. Honesty is reinforced by practices, all common law, that make stealing unprofitable. There are no big concentrations of money, no easy way to use power to steal. Those who thought otherwise have found out that it would not work and that trying was not a good idea.

    There are not many elections: your community handles matters in your local town meetings. There are no standing armies: the rest of the world has followed the example of the Second American Revolution.

    You are healthy; you stopped taking supplements years ago, after the Change. You have discovered the ways of healing that the Grids had worked to keep from you. Physicians earn less, but they now feel better about their craft because they are now assisting people to actually become healthy.

    For you, the moment of change might have been when you discovered that the cancer that was killing your wife, could be cured. Or it may have been when they turned off your electricity. Or when your 19-year-old daughter came home from Iraq, the victim of rape that was ignored. She hanged herself from the tree where you had built her tree house back when she was 7. We all had that moment, one when we saw what was really happening.

    None of us looked back. There was too much to do. Surviving keeps you interested every moment.

    Today, you love your life; you love waking up every morning because life today is exactly what nourishes your spirit and brings joy into your life.

    You are looking forward to being a grandfather. Your automobile uses no gasoline, and you know it is guaranteed to last a lifetime. That is what you expect from the world, quality in all things. The furniture in your home will last for generations. The former attorney down the street built that furniture in the shop you helped him set up. We all changed, and it was a good thing.

    Welcome to the real America.

    To bring about the Change, we must get off the Grids.

    This is our tutorial, a work in progress. You will contribute to this work; it will become your home and your tool for achieving your own dreams.

    Together, we are going to build out a world of relationships and voluntary associations that works, delivering positive reinforcement for doing the right thing and strong disincentives for doing the wrong thing. As individuals, we need to know that there is justice and accountability. We do not have that now: we will create it.

    We are building that world through our choices and actions, using our own judgment, as individuals. Each choice you make brings that world into existence. Soon, you will wonder how you ever doubted yourself.

    We are sharing information openly and freely, an Open Source Information approach. The world is already moving in this direction; Open Source software and Open Source hardware are examples. Here, we are showing you how to use the same, proven principles in your own life, in your own community.

    Top-down organizations applied to government never work: they concentrate power and money, allowing those in charge to evade accountability. Those least ethical will do anything to acquire power and money. The last century has proven that government so conceived cannot work. The same flawed approach allows corporations to avoid responsibility: they then destroy the prosperity of we the people, as well as the cultural values, like justice, on which we all depend. We cannot move from a top-down government back to communities by first taking over government. Inevitably, the least ethical will be in charge: it will not happen, because power is addictive.

    Therefore, we need to invoke change by displacing top-down government with individually powered networks, or hubs, that use only persuasion and cooperation to power action. In this way, we starve both government and corporations into non-existence.

    This effort is all of us together, bringing our own power and ideas. Together, it can be done.

    You are the solution, if you choose to be; here is the acorn that will grow into a mighty oak, a veritable Liberty Tree that will bear the idea fruit to nourish freedom. Watch it grow as all of us work together at Getting Off the Grids.

Organizing

Solutions to problems come in different kinds; we do not live in a one-size-fits all World. Each of us will approach problems with the resources at hand from our own experience and skills. Good solutions are those that work for us; they are also solutions that strengthen the organizing tools that build the forms that displace the institutions that have failed us so miserably. So while innovating your way to freedom, security, and prosperity keep these human tools in mind.

Transparency - We need to be open and honest in our dealings with others. It is not alright to lie; the proposition that others do not need to know when knowing would change their choices is rooted in deceit. Tell the truth.

Discernment - Each of us needs to think for ourselves. Each of us also needs to understand that we are making decisions that can impact our futures every single day. The lack of discernment has been one of the outcomes of believing that government and the institutions we came to accept as natural would keep us safe and make it unnecessary for us to use our own judgment. Therefore it is essential that each of us question our assumptions not once but as often as we notice that things are not quite right. As you do not want to invest in a technology that does not give you the outcome promised you do not want to invest time in any activity that you do not completely understand or that has not been proven to yield the results promised. If someone asks you to suspend your judgment bells should go off in your head. If you have questions, ask, you will be glad you did.

Quality - Recognizing quality, useful items that last, are attractive in their own right, carry meaning, all of these things turn us towards living not as ‘consumers’ but as discerning individuals who have internalized values that make us happy.

You as an Individual, you and your family, working with neighbors - Below are tools that allow you to regain control over your own life, secure the wellbeing of your family, and work with your neighbors to displace the present forms that are eating us alive.

Get Healthy - Eating local, growing your own food, starting or joining a coop, heading to the Farmer’s Market, and other alternatives ensure that you will know where your food comes from. This makes it possible to guarantee that you will not be eating genetically altered foods, that your food is nutritionally enhanced, and fresh. Nutrition is the most important component for good health and will reduce your medical bills.

Affirmative Health

Grow Local

Local Harvest - Real Food, Real Farmers, Real Community
220 21st Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Phone: 831/475-8150
Fax: 831/401-2418

This is a national site that lets you search for locally grown food. It is free.

WOW!Microminerals - Give your plants there health so you can have yours.

wowmicrominerals@yahoo.com

This product supplies the microminerals now stripped out of the soil. It improves the nutritive content of your food.

Become a sovereign individual - After the Civil War the US government was converted into a corporation. This had enormous ramifications then and today. This was orchestrated to convert the original government into something that could be more easily controlled by a few wealthy individuals. To accomplish this the fiction of you as an entity controlled by that corporation was created. That fiction makes it possible to change your status, returning to the sovereignty originally affirmed by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. You can reclaim that sovereignty; thousands have done so and the more of us who do so the easier it will be to assert the principles set out in the Constitution. LINK to more information.

Get the Facts - Educate yourself and help others know

There are many speakers and educators out there providing workshops on the Constitution and how to use it. We think these should be well grounded, easy to understand, and provide you with the tools you need to take action. The time for debate is behind us.

The Constitution

Take back your Precinct - Those in power hate uncertainty. They hate it so much they decided to remove it by ensuring that they could determine the outcome of elections in advance. They do this in a variety of ways. For more on how they do that see ELECTIONS. This section is about how to work in your precinct and from the County level with others in other precincts to ensure an honest vote. Retaking your precinct will give you what we call a ‘platform’ from which other things in your most local area can be changed back to local control.

Emergency Services

You can start with your own precinct. Most people are amazed to find out what their neighbots know and can do. Hold a coffee, invite your neighbors and include the agenda. (See sample)

Restart Local Economy

With businesses failing across the country we need to rebuild locally. Local businesses will be those that support other local enterprises and provide solutions to the problems we face. We will list those here as they become available.

Local money alternatives

There are at present three groups working on illustrating for you how this can be done in your local area. Many are in existence today.

The Freedom Media - (The Truth Matters)

Print Publications

National

  • The Lone Star IconoclastThe Lone Star has proven its commitment to the standards of real journalism. Its editor, Leon Smith, is the descendant of Erastus Smith, the man who relieved the Alamo and first yelled, “Remember the Alamo.”

States

Texas

Online Magazines

Radio

Start your own locally

As you might know, the media on which we once relied has been acquired, and so is now controlled, by corporations. This is why you will not hear the truth from those outlets. The answer is to build our own or syndicate what is now in existence. You can broadcast existing shows in your local area with low voltage

Your local media can be created by starting or acquiring a small local paper, starting an online paper , using the public access television, or persuading the existing local paper to carry your news. Others are looking into buying advertising sheets and converting these into local papers. The alternatives are limited only by your ingenuity. You can build out by linking up and using these sources for information. Let us know of others to be listed here!

Sharing information Locally

Mesh Power, light your your neighborhood

Microbroadcast, get the word out to your neighbors

Locally owned Internet

Your County - Take it back

Taking back your county includes displacing the present infrastructure with one controlled directly by the people. The foundation for those changes is the Constitution. Your county should remain the largest organizational unit we use. Organizing in counties will vary enormously. Here, you will find how others have organized in each kind, urban, suburban, and rural. It is essential to know that the County Sheriff, the County Clerk, and Supervisors understand the

Sheriff - Your County Sheriff is the top law enforcement authority. He or she can order the Feds out if he or she is persuaded they are violating the rights of the citizens. This is the Constitution in action and this principle was most recently affirmed with the Mack - Printz Decision, which overturned the Brady Bill, in 1997.

Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Law Enforcement Association, is available to educate your local sheriff. Your local sheriff is your most valuable ally in demilitarizing the local police and returning them to their original role as peace officers.

Know the Constitution - We are aware that only a small fraction of the citizens in any county will ever take the time to study the Constitution well enough to use it with confidence. Here you can find resources, people who are conversant with the Constitution, who can provide workshops to be scheduled locally that will give you a core of activists who know and can act and advise others.

Resources:

Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Foundation
is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donations are tax deductible.
20 Sunnyside Suite A-419, Mill Valley, CA 94941

Phone: 415-389-8551 or toll-free 888-FEAR-001

Membership Required. Cost for basic membership:

Insure that you have backup -

Other forms of activism

The time has come to demand that organizations asking for our support be effective. We apply standards to assure that any you see here will not be a waste of time and money. Some organizations focus on education, others on activism. We tell you which is which.

Action at the State Level

State governments are bankrupt, forced into insolvency by rising costs, unfunded mandates, and the increasing demand for services. Those who work for government on the state level are looking for ways to make ends meet since they do not have the latitude allowed to the Federal Government. This has meant increases in fees, taxes, the use of such devices as ticketing to generate income, and the addition of licensing, specious penalties and other shocks to citizens. At the same time, we need to oppose the confiscatory and predatory use of legislation and the abuse through state power.

Action:

Stop the Real ID Coalition
Action at the National Level

The Federal government has become the tool of corporations. In ao doing it has been bankrupted. Therefore it needs to be opposed and brought back into alignment with the Constitution. Here are organizations that are working towards that end.

Action:

Stop the Real ID Coalition

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