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You cannot buy the Revolution. You
cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution.
It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.—from The Dispossessed, by Ursula
K. LeGuin
The Frontier
 Many
years ago, I began my job of trying to restore liberty on this continent.
By the middle of the 1980s, about 10 years before I began the Frontiersman,
I'd been studying the deteriorating situation in Amerika for long enough
that I'd begun to realize what I faced. One indication of my
trepidation was Dominoes, presented below. Later, while I
was beginning the Frontiersman, I wrote the original version of
A
Frontiersman on the Final Frontier. I wrote it to explain the
name, Frontiersman. It doesn't have anything at all to do
with space travel or with ridin' yer favert ol' cow pony out acrost tha
lone prairieeee.
— Sam Aurelius Milam III
editor and frontiersman
Dominoes
Sam Aurelius Milam III
December 2, 1985The dominoes are in a row.
They are falling.
I can only watch.
What I have started, I cannot stop.
(Or will not.)
I want to hear good music,
And eat good food,
and love good women,
And read, and ride, and see,
Before the last one falls.
But the dominoes must fall,
Or none of the rest matters. | |  | | A Frontiersman on the Final Frontier
Sam Aurelius Milam IIIThe path to freedom isn't smooth or straight.
It's lined with lures, and traps, and tempting bait.
To follow it can be a rugged fate,
But that's the way that leads to freedom's gate.
I contemplate the freedom that I lack.
I count the risk, and chills run down my back.
Pursuit of freedom risks a fierce attack.
In fear, I wonder if I should turn back.
But freedom lies across the last frontier,
Where danger lurks, and hazards linger near.
Security's a stranger there, that's clear,
But freedom's there, across the fear frontier. |
| Regarding the Upside Down Flag | |
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Since
before I began writing this newsletter, I've been affixing U.S. flag stamps
to my mail upside down. In the maritime tradition, flying a ship's
flag upside down is recognized as a sign of distress. Thus, to display
the U.S. flag upside down is to declare, by analogy, that the U.S. government
is in distress. Most people who display the flag upside down are
indicating a desire to do something to relieve the distress. My purpose
is very different.
The
U.S. government is the most powerful, the most arrogant, and the most brutal
terrorist organization on Earth. It has occupied America, enslaved
Americans, and obstructed the fundamental principles of liberty for which
America should have been a haven. It's a tool of aggression for a
gang of thugs and cutthroats who are intent upon spreading their vile domination
to all of the peoples of the Earth. It's the enemy of anybody, anywhere
who seeks liberty. It's my enemy.
Among
my various goals are the termination of the U.S. government and the restoration
of liberty upon this continent. Thus, when I display the U.S. flag
upside down, it doesn't signify a desire to relieve the distress.
It doesn't represent a sense of regret or of despair. The greater
is the distress of the U.S. government, the greater is the hope that it
will soon be gone. When I display the flag upside down, it declares
a sense of hope. I hope that I might live long enough to see the
U.S. government end.
— Sam Aurelius Milam III
editor and frontiersman
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