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Let’s plant the seeds of freedom in our “Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to community by celebrating Voluntaryism Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition” Day on the last Monday of May! by Carl Watner and Wendy McElroy What is

If you are an who deals with “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” by people in the day to day by non-violent Étienne de La Boétie Voluntaryism means, trade with others on a voluntary basis, share things willingly, allow “Anatomy of the State” by others to think, act, or speak differently than you; if you feel that freedom is “Adventures in Legal Land” by Marc Stevens worth defending at any cost, if you feel there is value in the consideration and “The Most Dangerous Superstition” by uplifting of others, if you feel that war is Larken Rose immoral, taxation is theft, if you look at the world around you and are confused “I, Pencil” by and angry at the stark contrast between how the world is as you’ve experienced “Everything Voluntary - From Politics to it versus how you’re told how the world Parenting” by Skyler J. Collins is by governments, media, and by social institutions, chances are... you’re already Get to know local Voluntaryists: practicing voluntaryism, and you didn’t Facebook.com/Groups/LiberateRVA/ even know it.

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Live, Love, Liberate For more information and to meet new friends come join us at www.LiberateRVA.com What is Voluntaryism? A Message to You: What is the State?

Voluntaryism is everything the state Politicians’ hypocrisy, a floundering economy, The state is a group of individual people is not. It is in fact the antithesis of the an ever-growing prison population, the failing who advocate the initiation of violence to state and state action. It is a philosophy war on drugs, a broken educational system, solve personal and societal problems. by which all human interaction is (and corrupt police, and endless wars all left me should be) undertaken and conducted on wondering if there wasn’t a better way to Number of human beings murdered by a non-violent, non-coercive, and voluntary approach meeting societal needs. As I listened the U.S. government in the name of “war” basis. It is not business at the barrel of to people on both sides of the aisle argue over since WWII: Over 30 million. the ballot, the gun, the club, the taser, who had the solution, I found myself entirely or the cage; it is people interacting and disillusioned by politics. Percentage of human beings kidnapped conducting themselves on a voluntary and and caged by the U.S. government for discretionary basis. It is stability through I had always understood parenting to be one victimless crimes in the name of “criminal plurality and the of ideas. of the most effective long-term strategies for justice”in 2009: 86% of the federal prison implementing social change, but what I did not population. The voluntaryist recognizes, internalizes, know was that parenthood would bring me and expresses to the world the maxim to a radically different understanding of how Amount of productivity, property, and that the initiation of force against others humanity ought to interact with one another! wealth stolen by the U.S. government in is inherently at its core, short sighted, Through my research on peaceful parenting the name of “taxation” in 2012: Over $5 mutually demeaning and dehumanizing, and pedagogy, I discovered the philosophy trillion. and immoral. of Voluntaryism. This framework brought me new insight and clarity into the problems I For more information: What is sought through voluntaryism had felt so overwhelmed by before! Suddenly I YouTube.com/LiberateRVA is not a Revolution; revolution is more understood why government repeatedly failed of the same of what we have now on a at what it claimed to be needed for, and what Voluntaryism peacefully and vehemently rotational basis, but what the voluntaryist little it did accomplish was done inefficiently rebukes and refuses to participate in seeks rather is an Evolution by which and often at a tragic cost. Slowly I opened the pervasive, coercive, and destructive humanity is able to manifest its potential my eyes to new possibilities and alternative nature of the state and its violent means and to freely grow past the psychologically solutions to problems I used to believe only of political action by encouraging indoctrinated need for institutions and government could handle. to critically, empirically, for the regulation and control of human and objectively examine and challenge thought and human action. In your hands you are holding the key to the baseline assumptions inherent in the the door of your cage. I invite you to liberate politics of state and rejects the idea that As the butterfly grows and sheds its yourself by engaging in a life-changing using force against others as an offensive cocoon, it must break out so that it may fly, psychological evolution! Educate and act of aggression, for whatever motive or live, and be free. empower yourself with the philosophy to necessity, undermines what it is to exist peacefully change the world one mind at a and what it is ultimately to be human time. beings.