This weblog is dedicated to you, the remnant, in an effort to share some thoughts and tools with you, which should help you focus your efforts and maximize the little discretionary time available to you.

We, like you, don’t claim to have all the answers, but we do have a few, and it is our desire to share with you the tools available to all of us that will help us restore our rights, share your thoughts with our neighbors, and hold our elected officials accountable while finding suitable replacements where necessary.

We, like you, have lives to lead and precious little time to live that life. With families, jobs and commitments, our authors will post, but as life’s situation permits. Most of our time is invested in actively affecting change at the grassroots level, this includes finding suitable candidates for seats of power at the local, state and national levels. If you truly want to bring about real meaningful change, we encourage you to do the same, as no politician or party can fix our problems for us, we have to do this on our own, from the inside out.

The tie that binds us can best be summarized by G. Edward Griffin’s Creed of Freedom. When you read the Creed, please be aware that it is a summary of a much longer dissertation. It cannot be fully appreciated until after reading the explanations, definitions, and arguments to support it. Although the Creed of Freedom appears here first, it is recommended that, after reading it, you follow the link at the bottom of this section that takes you to the more complete explanation via the article The Chasm.

THE CREED OF FREEDOM (Five principles)

INTRINSIC NATURE OF RIGHTS

I believe that only individuals have rights, not the collective group; that these rights are intrinsic to each individual, not granted by the state; for if the state has the power to grant them, it also has the power to deny them, and that is incompatible with personal liberty.
I believe that a just government derives its power solely from the governed. Therefore, the state must never presume to do anything beyond what individual citizens also have the right to do. Otherwise, the state is a power unto itself and becomes the master instead of the servant of society.

SUPREMACY OF THE INDIVIDUAL

I believe that one of the greatest threats to freedom is to allow any group, no matter its numeric superiority, to deny the rights of the minority; and that one of the primary functions of just government is to protect each individual from the greed and passion of the majority.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE

I believe that desirable social and economic objectives are better achieved by voluntary action than by coercion of law. I believe that social tranquility and brotherhood are better achieved by tolerance, persuasion, and the power of good example than by coercion of law. I believe that those in need are better served by charity, which is the giving of one’s own money, than by welfare, which is the giving of other people’s money through coercion of law.

EQUALITY UNDER LAW

I believe that all citizens should be equal under law, regardless of their national origin, race, religion, gender, education, economic status, life style, or political opinion. Likewise, no class should be given preferential treatment, regardless of the merit or popularity of its cause. To favor one class over another is not equality under law.

PROPER ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

I believe that the proper role of government is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to protect, not to provide; for if the state is granted the power to provide for some, it must also be able to take from others, and once that power is granted, there are those who will seek it for their advantage. It always leads to legalized plunder and loss of freedom. If government is powerful enough to give us everything we want, it is also powerful enough to take from us everything we have. Therefore, the proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens; nothing more. That government is best which governs least.

THE THREE COMMANDMENTS OF FREEDOM

The Creed of Freedom is based on five principles. However, in day-to-day application, they can be reduced to just three codes of conduct. We consider them to be The Three Commandments of Freedom:

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

Do not sacrifice the rights of any individual or minority for the assumed rights of the group.

EQUALITY UNDER LAW

Do not endorse any law that does not apply to all citizens equally.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Do not use coercion for any purpose except to protect human life, liberty, or property.

THE THREE PILLARS OF FREEDOM

Another way of viewing these principles is to consider them as the three pillars of freedom. They are concepts that underlie the ideology of individualism, and individualism is the indispensable foundation of freedom.

For the rational and historical support for The Creed of Freedom, please read The Chasm.