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Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by Applesandoranges
So where does the book suggest? Is there some magic loophole that will keep the fed from going Waco on you for breaking any number of their laws by living on their land?
In the U.S. at least there is no way to get around the "trespassing" this lifestyle entails or the laws regarding the kings deer, kings soil, kings trees, etc...
It's inly a matter of time before the fed wastes a billion dollars sending in tanks, copters and troops to shoot you or arrest you Ruby Ridge style.
I've wanted nothing more going on 20 years now to head up into the White Mountains and just live the hard life money/tax/tech free until I die but there is no way to avoid the inevitable government assault on your person for doing so. The only way you might escape it is to lay really, really, low and hope no one ever sees you. No hunter, hiker, ranger or squirrel.
Originally posted by Republican08
Is he married?
Does he have kids?
If yes to either one, how do they feel about this.
If no, I figure either no longer.
Wait till he gets cancer, an infectious disease, or any other thing, then it won't be so well
Sure this 'evolved' form of life is not so peachy but it has it's ups and downs.
Suelo's been here for three years, and it smells like it.
Me thinks he has no wife.
Those poor, poor mountain goats.
[edit on 22-7-2009 by Republican08]
[edit on 22-7-2009 by Republican08]
Most men live lives of quiet desperation
Me thinks he has no wife.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by Applesandoranges
The Amish arent breaking any law in their chosen lifestyle but they are still subjected to property taxation. This is a big reason they do some pretty horrible things to get their hands on cash. Puppy mills for instance.
Trespassing laws and hunting/fishing land protection laws keep people off of federal land and property taxes keep anyone and everyone in a share-cropping state. To pay your property taxes you need an income. Earning an income subjects you to income taxes thereby reducing the sum you have left for the property taxes forcing you to reduce your property or increase your income. Eventually you end up in a drywall apartment in some soul-sucking city courtesy of government. A government that has been steadily working to chorale all Americans into urban grids.
You come up with a way to avoid all this and I'll be forever in your debt.
Between federal laws making everything you do in the wilderness a crime and taxation locking you into the working/earning cycle there is no way to avoid your arrest or death at the hands of the government.
Unless your idea of independence is just some panhandling bum on a city street. Then you'll be safe. My idea of independence is a homestead handbuilt and out of governments reach.
Originally posted by wylekat
reply to post by Republican08
Me thinks he has no wife.
That's because woman was created to take man's money to make HER happy. (notice... nothing is said about HIS happiness..). A woman would go completely off the wall if she couldn't have her goop and slop to put on her face and body, or 'nice' clothes to shove her butt in... And to take away her Oprah or her 'The View'? Soap operas? You'd have a ravening, slobbering monster within a week. By a month, your half eaten corpse would be found- Later on, she'd be found in front of a tv shop, having suffocated herself in makeup and Hagen Daas.