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this page are The Movement for Individual Freedom Reverend Bhagavan Friend Marx was a reaction to Freud. The Battle is not between "social classes," (this idea is nothing but a feeble attempt to deny the individual) or, even between those who have and those who have not. The Battle is between the Individual and the Social. Democracy/Capitalism and Communism are but two instances in history, where these two monumental forces - the individual and the social - have intersected and clashed with one another. In American Democracy/Capitalism, the Individual has come out on top. In Communism, the Social has prevailed over the Individual. Will we survive individually or socially? This is the question that has always been the question. In overpopulated, crowded areas, where individuals could not survive alone - the Social System became supreme. In newly discovered and under populated areas where there was much wilderness and too few individuals to band together to fill it - the individual had to survive alone and Individual Freedom has become the rule. Individuals may willingly serve Socially - but we always evolve Individually. This is why new worlds and new territories are explored and pioneered by Free Individuals - and only later, settled and exploited by Social groups. Free Individuals serve what they find to be of value. Social groups and systems can only exploit or destroy Free Individuals. Because our country (America) and our world is nearly drowning in over-population of unprecedented proportions - born of our own scientific achievements and Human Compassion - we are being driven ever closer to the brink of "Social Tyranny." Communism - and all other systems that place the Social above the Individual - are forms of Social Tyranny. They do not work. It did not work for the Soviet Union - it will inevitably end in disaster unimaginable wherever it is allowed to happen. For, Social Tyranny will not tolerate any deviance from its rigid rules. Instead, it strangles the Creativity, Genius and all invention based on personal ingenuity and freely chosen Personal Responsibility out of its Individual members and makes them into slaves. Indeed, in its advanced stages the Social Tyranny will not tolerate the idea of an Individuality at all. The Free Individual is always a deviance and sometimes, a radical deviance, from Social rules by his or her very nature. The Free Individual does not suffer from the repressive tendency of Social System. The Free Individual is usually benign, tolerant, loving and respectful of Individual Freedom in others, diverse and highly Creative and innovative. Virtually all major advances of humanity have been created and initiated by Individuals. From Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, to Madame Curie and Thomas Edison and yes, even Freud and Marx themselves. The Individual is not short on creativity or genius, but is only lacking in the means to deliver the results that its Individual Genius Creates to those greater numbers who do not create. Because of this, for humanity to evolve upward, both Free Individualism and some form of Social Order are, ultimately necessary. But Free Individualism must be in charge. Whereas Free Individuals will tolerate and even cooperate with one another in a social pact, for the purpose of accomplishing their individual creative endeavors - Social Tyrannies will neither tolerate - indeed, must not tolerate - but only exploit Free Individuals and their Creativity and Genius - as "milk-cows" for the Social Order." This, of course, ultimately destroys the very Creativity and Genius within the Free Individuals which the Social Order seeks to exploit. Where Nations have been born out of fresh, new expansive, unexplored wilderness - Democracies and Economic systems that exalt the Individual and Individual Freedom to the superior place have arisen as the rule and the Ideal. Where Nations have been born out of countries that have exploited their individuals and environments mercilessly and, thereby slain the very source of Genius, Creativity, Invention and all other forward and upward moving forces - which is and can be no other than Individual Freedom - Social Tyranny has grown like mold upon a dead body and Social Orders that exalt Social Tyranny have arisen. We find those of a Free-Individualistic leaning, among those who have taken a painful and frightening leap forward and upward in life - and those who clamor, work, fight and die for the causes of Social Tyranny, among those who have found neither desire or hope of making that painful and frightening leap. This, then is the division, the battle and the dilemma. This is The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but The Truth - So help me God. Social Tyranny cannot rule, so long as the Spirit of Individuality and therefore, Maximum Individual Freedom is alive and healthy within the hearts of a People. Only when those individuals who have risen to the top seek to establish a Social Tyranny over the masses - or become so complacent and careless of the Essence of Freedom as to let it die in the streets within the hearts and minds of the People - can the apostles of Social Tyranny gain the upper hand. There is no Freedom outside of Individual Freedom. No amount of double-talk or new-speak or Political Correctness can, or ever will, make it so. The Individual is Freedom - productive of great quality but, alone, only minimally productive of quantity. The Social Order is slavery - well documented in its productivity of quantity lacking in quality. Among a People where Individual Freedom is The Ideal - the Social Tyrant can be harnessed and used by all to the Common Good (instead of being used by it for "the common good") like a huge and powerfully dangerous monster held in massive chains. But, where a People forget or become careless of Individual Freedoms, in favor of taking gifts from the monster of Social Tyranny - they unleash the monster from its chains. Once unchained, it is only a sparse matter of time, before the Monster of Social Tyranny becomes, first their source, second their necessity and third and finally - their Master. I write these words to alert all thinking individuals who love and treasure Individual Freedom for themselves and for the generations who will come after them. Heed my humble words, Lover of Freedom, for even now, The Monster is on the loose! The Free Individual is independent from the Social. Only a Free Individual can truly Cooperate! All else is but compliance, obedience or slavery dressed in the "sheep’s clothing" of Cooperation. The Individual can - though seldom chooses to - exist and survive apart from the group. But Social Force cannot exist without the individual. Social Force is wholly and totally dependent upon individuals for survival. Which should rule the other, the independent or the dependent? For evolution and progress - it must be Free Individuals working together, voluntarily, for the Common Good - not individuals conscripted by Social Force and Tyranny to the service of the Common Good. For Social Tyranny to rule (always in the guise of Social Good) Individual Freedom must and will be destroyed. The American Democratic System of Government arose out of a unique time in a sparsely populated wilderness where Individuality was not only expedient - but essential - for survival and Individual Freedom was the only rule. This form of Government was not created by the edicts of Kings or Dictators, but was forged by some of the Greatest and most radical Free Individuals of all times. It is for this reasons that American Democracy is unique and wondrous in the world in both its Ideal and Assurance of Individual Freedom. No other system of Government has so successfully harnessed the Monster of Social Tyranny and placed the reins in the hands of its Free Individual Citizens as have the radical Individualists who founded the American System of Democracy. It is precisely because the American System of Democracy is so firmly rooted in the Ideal and Practice of Individual Freedom that its workings are so chaotic and often inefficient. Still, a chaotic and inefficient Freedom is better than a well ordered and efficient Tyranny. Well harnessed or not, the Monster of Social Tyranny is always ready and willing to try and convince those who have little or care little that "If you cut me loose, I will take care of you." This is the reason that Marxists are so fond of asking, "What good is Freedom if you have no food to eat?" The other side of that question, the side that is never spoken but which history bears out so clearly is: "Give me your Freedom and I will give you some food - for now. Then, later on, when you have given us The Power over you that we seek - you and your children will live and likely, starve in slavery." My way is the Way of Individual Freedom with Individual Responsibility. When enough people in an area or a Nation become Free Individuals - or even embrace the Ideal of Individual Freedom and Individual Responsibility - Social Tyranny dies and Freedom and Liberty for all grows and prospers in direct proportion to the Individual Freedom and Individual Responsibility and Ideal of Individual Freedom and Individual Responsibility within that Nation's individuals. I am not out to create yet another Social Tyranny (even be it in the name of "religion"), but to set each individual free. Yes I have and I teach a definite way of life that includes definite Principles, methods, techniques and ways of doing things. But I insist that each person who joins me in this way of life must do so as a Free Individual, of his or her own Free Will, by having examined me and what I have to offer and made a conscious decision to adopt my way of life as his or her own. Furthermore, I insist that this decision must not be a Final Decision that precludes all future decisions. For Final Decisions that preclude all future decisions are, truly, the very glue that holds all Social Tyranny together. My goal is to build a World-wide Movement for Individual Freedom that will - when ultimately successful - liberate the People and put the Monster of Social Tyranny in a well hewn harness from which it cannot easily escape and harness it to the Common Good in the service of Free Individuals in a Free World. What is the essential difference, between Democracy and Tyranny? Like it or not, it all comes down to a matter of God and atheism. In a monarchy, an autocracy or a tyranny, you must either have an absence of God, or you must have the conviction that God has bestowed His entire Grace on one man or one woman and placed the entire realm of His Kingdom in this one man or woman’s hands. In American Democracy, however, we see it differently. We are convinced that God has indeed bestowed his Grace and all of the rights attendant to it, not upon one man or woman, but upon every man and every woman. Therefore, every man and woman is the rightful heir to certain unalienable God-given Rights, that no man or woman or group of men or woman may rightfully abrogate or abridge. We are further convinced that the essence of our country and all of its natural qualities are the property of all of its citizens, except when otherwise designated by the common consent of The People through duly enacted just and righteous law. But what about communism? They, too, say that everything should belong to the people. But communism is a lie that only pretends that all things should belong to the people, while seeking to become their master. In fact communism is the nothing more than the collective tyranny of the communist party, thinly disguised as democracy. The essential difference between monarchy, autocracy and tyrannical forms of government and American Democracy is both essential and simple. So simple, that it can be adequately illustrated by an observation of signs found in parks in Great Britain and the United States. In Great Britain there are signs on lawns and public places saying, “You may walk on the grass.” Whereas in the United States of America, the signs say, “Keep Off The Grass.” In other words, “You may not walk on the grass.” This difference comes from history and the differences between monarchy and American Democracy. In Great Britain, it is presumed, by the ancient tradition of monarchy, that all property belongs to the Queen or the King and that others may only use it at the pleasure of the King or Queen. Therefore, you are automatically forbidden the use of these facilities unless there is a sign permitting you their use. In American Democracy, however, we presume that all things natural belong to The People unless otherwise established by the common consent of The People, under the law. In American Democracy, all Rights are natural God-given Rights and belong exclusively to The People. In American Democracy, the government has no legitimate right or power to infringe upon, abridge or take away those God-given Rights. In a monarchy or an autocracy or a tyranny, all rights come from the Government, the King, the Queen or the dictator. In America, all Rights come from directly from God and God alone and are the property of the individual, not the group. We grant society the limited right to limit those natural God-given Rights ONLY in such instances as it is absolutely necessary to do so for the national defense, for the survival of the country, or for the essential maintenance of law and order and the prevention of chaos and anarchy. Anything more than this, is an abuse of the natural God Given Rights of individual citizens. Because of this knowledge and conviction, we presume that every individual citizen has the right to walk anywhere he wishes, on any grass he wishes, unless there is some issue at law that makes it legal, lawful and rightful for someone to say, “You may not walk on the grass.” A simple but profound difference. This same principal applies to all of our Rights. Today, because of misinformation and ignorance, too many Americans believe that the Rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights - the Amendments to the Constitution - are the only Rights we have. Nothing could be further from the truth. All matters of the Soul are between God and the individual Soul. Because all Rights have been bestowed on the individual Soul by God – all Rights belong to the individual and are individual Rights. The Bill of Rights enumerates only a few of the Rights that the Founding Fathers of this Country believed were most essential to keep America’s fledgling government from becoming another tyranny – whether autocracy or monarchy or dictatorship. But the Bill of Rights does NOT – and was not intended to - establish or grant these Rights. God and God alone grants and establishes these Rights – as the Founding Fathers of America so wisely revealed and noted – and bestows them, not on any group or corporate body, but on each individual Soul. For example, the Right to bear arms - described in the Second Amendment - is both an individual right and an unlimited natural God-given Right that recognizes the natural and unalienable Right of every individual to feed and clothe his family and to do everything within his or her power to survive when threatened. For any Government or societal body to do anything to limit that Right, beyond what is absolutely essential to the security and continuation of Society, is an attack, not only on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America, but on the fundamental God-given Rights bestowed by God, on every individual to do everything within his or her power to repel an attack and protect his family, himself and his property. And, what about property? Is it rightful for any man or woman to injure another or perhaps even kill another individual, to protect his or her property? Elitist arrogance that is out of touch with the Rights and needs of The People is a mark of a decadent and rotting society. Prior to the French Revolution, during France’s most decadent period, Queen Marie Antoinette’s advisors informed her that her people were starving because they didn’t have enough bread to eat. The Queen was so out of touch with the people that when she heard this news, she said, “If they don’t have bread, let them eat cake.” Today in America, one of the most arrogant and elitist comments that is regularly heard from those out-of-touch, wealthy elitist “liberals” in response to a man using a weapon to protect his property, is, “Why doesn’t he just turn it over to his insurance company?” Such arrogant comments are and insult to those struggling men and women who have no insurance. They are, further, an offense against those who depend upon the very property they have worked and sacrificed to accumulate for the shelter and subsistence of their families and to secure the future of their children. To insist that the people should not have the right to protect their private property by force if necessary, is to deny the fundamental, God Given rights of every human being to ensure his own survival and the survival and welfare of his family. Such thinking is as elitist, out of touch and callous as the Queen of France thinking that, since her subjects did not have bread - they should eat cake! The basic point of this letter is very simple. In American Democracy, all Rights are natural God-given Rights that belong to the individual. All Rights are, therefore, individual Rights. Everything in nature and in true American Democracy is based upon the individual. God, The Supreme Individual, has bestowed his Grace and the natural Rights of man on every man and woman as an individual. God has not bestowed his Grace or our natural Rights on a group or on groups. Groups are assembled by men and women who artificially contrive rules and regulations, rights and prohibitions for themselves. But God bestows rights only on the individual Soul. All rights belong to the individual, because we are born, we live, we die and ultimately, we answer to God as individuals. We live in the company of others and must have society. But, regardless of our rules or the structure of our society, we are born, we live and we die as individuals and our Rights are individual rights. Ideas to the contrary are a sure path to tyranny. For example, some misinformed and misguided Americans believe that the Right to bear arms applies only to those who belong to a specific group (the militia) while they are in that group. In fact, in America there cannot be such a thing as Rights that belong to only a specified and defined group. Such Rights would, by their very nature, be discriminatory and absurd in the extreme. It would be absurd, for example, to think that our Freedom of Speech could only be exercised by citizens when in a group or when in a particular group. Because all of our rights come directly from God to the individual Soul, the Right to bear arms, for example, cannot therefore, be a collective right, regardless whether the Founding Fathers mentioned the importance of a militia or not. This Right like all other of our Rights is a natural God Given, unalienable right. Not because the Founding Fathers of America said so, but because of the very nature of our Rights. The Founding Fathers were only recognizing a Reality that they knew was far beyond their own making. Ultimately, the forward and upward history of Humanity has been and is today, a battle between the tyranny of society and the Freedom and Rights of the individual. Where the collectivist tyranny of society has won, as in communism, as in autocracy, as in monarchy and as in dictatorship - Humanity has lost. All tyrannical endeavors that deny the individual Rights of their Citizens are doomed to failure the moment they begin. All attempts to enslave the human Spirit have ultimately brought only suffering, misery, destruction, and degradation to humanity. We must uphold the individual, individual freedom and the natural God-given Rights of the individual - at all costs. Yes, it is difficult, often chaotic and usually quite messy. Nonetheless, it is far better than any alternative, because it is in harmony with the Nature that God has established within and between all men. As with everything in life, the further away from nature we wander, the more misery we create for ourselves. And, the further away from nature we wander with regard to the respect for and exercise of our natural God-given Rights, the closer we drive our society and the world toward decadence and the brink of annihilation. The American Revolution was not fought and won. The American Revolution and our American Democratic System of Government, is a never-ending Revolution that must be fought anew every day by every Freedom Loving man and woman. The real Revolution is keeping American Democracy and its Ideal of God-given Individual Freedom and Rights alive in the Hearts and Minds of The People. If we are to continue to live as free people and guarantee freedom and our natural God-given Rights to our children and our children’s children, we must recognize and accept that there is a war raging in America. A war between those who insist on the free exercise of their God-given unalienable Rights and those who seek to enslave America and Americans to their tyrannical wills. We must recognize and accept that this war is real, and stand up and fight it as if the Rights and Freedoms of our children and our children’s children depend on our victory. Because, in fact, they do. Eternal Vigilance is, truly, the price of Freedom."
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