A Little Listening

I feel like I have so little time for reading. These are some of my favorite podcasts. Exploring Unschooling with Pam Laricchia is full of confidence building conversations and The School Sucks Project gives you the heavier philosophical background of John Taylor Gatto, John Holt, and many others.

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Before You Call Child Protective Services

This is a conversation with a CPS whistleblower.

Disclosures:

1. The Tom Woods Show is a libertarian podcast with many non-political episodes. This is one that all parents should be aware of.

2. Tom Woods is a Catholic, homeschool dad of five girls.

3. Woods has personally reached out to me when I was in a bad place. This guy cares about people.

4. I’m a subscriber and patron of his, I get nothing in return for sharing this episode: Child Protective Services: A Whistleblower Speaks Out.

The Bad Guys Love War

Republicans and Democrats agree on War. They love it. In my lifetime I have seen both parties gleefully start new military excursions all over the world, typically targeting poor countries.

Yemen has been called the poorest country in the world and Barack Obama’s war there has continued to kill through R and D regimes.

Joe Biden again extended our 20-year stay in Afghanistan and it remains to be seen whether he will remove all US troops.

Scott Horton may be the greatest voice in exposing the political elite’s obsession with empire building. His podcast contains so much information per episode that it can be difficult to absorb at first, but after a few episodes, you will start to understand the arc of US war over the last 20 years and beyond.

A great place to start is this interview on Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem: The State of the World with Scott Horton.

Horton has also had many informative episodes on The Tom Woods Show, in shorter format than the previous resources.

I particularly hope young people can access this critical information before choosing to join the US military. The American press is in collusion with the government to hide the death and destruction our elected officials are delivering to the most vulnerable populations of the world. People like Scott Horton are working hard to starve the war machine.

Once informed, many young people will refuse to participate in foreign military incursions. In this way we can force the military to focus on true threats to our homeland.

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Brave Little Rebellions

There is value in fighting even the smallest conformity.

We don’t get a choice whether or not we have government up our butts. We each have to make personal decisions about what costs we are willing to incur for rebellion. I accept property taxes as mob-style protection from coercive schooling for my sons. If I didn’t, I would go to jail and I would lose them.

As far as attendance reporting for home educators in Delaware, it is a farce on its face. There is no definition of what a school “day” constitutes. They dare not dictate, nor define, instructional hours since attention could then be turned to how few instructional hours are present in schools.

Many of us use 180 days and 100% attendance. It’s a lie because there is no truthful answer. There is rebellion in lying to the government, even if they are asking for a lie.

Don’t believe the lie. Highlight the absurdity. Laugh out loud when you tell people how you’ve escaped the system, even in a tiny way that some will call insignificant.

It is not insignificant. Each rebellion has value. Sharing it has value. Freedom is gained on the individual level. When enough people see through the lies that are necessary to prop up the system, the system ceases to have power.

Only you can judge whether you want to bear the consequences of your actions, but know that you are not alone in believing the government has no legitimate place in our lives.

In this podcast episode, Lex Fridman and Michael Malice cover a wide variety of topics, including the small, heroic deeds of regular people.

Lex Fridman Interviews Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

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The War on Small Business – Carol Roth with Michael Malice

The War on Small Business – Episode #163

“Why is it okay to go to the liquor store and not okay to go to the treadmill?”
-Michael Malice

I don’t think there’s a simpler way to ask about the madness and destruction of the Lockdowns.

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