The Right to Free Assembly

The farther I get in my work as a True Human Being, the more clearly I see what the purpose of a man really is: to organize, to build, and to act in concert with his fellows for the betterment of all. A man is a social animal, a tribal pack beast. The lone wolf lives in ignominy, cowers in the shadows the length of his days, and dies ultimately of starvation.

It strikes me then that freedom of assembly is one of our most important natural rights as men, inherent in the design of our very being. And yet, it is one of the least understood or appreciated today - especially in the United States, the supposed bastion in the world of a particular brand of God-given Freedom under Natural Law.

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Freedom of assembly is the freedom to associate with, or organize any groups, gatherings, clubs, or organizations that one wishes. It is held to be a key right in liberal democracies, whereby citizens may form or join any political party, special interest group, or union without government restrictions. In legal systems without freedom of assembly, certain political parties or groups can be banned with harsh penalties for any members. Public protests against the government are usually banned as well.

Rights not asserted are rights happily given up. What associations do you belong to, what clubs? What organizations of men standing for some purpose, some shared value? None? You just go to work where you ignore, hate or tolerate you co-workers, and then retire to your product-lair you call an apartment so you can watch other people getting together with each other to have fun, while you yourself have none?

What’s the last large gathering of people you went to? Was it organized around a product or a media event? Who was benefiting from it financially? Was the gathering shut down by the police or supported by the moral order of the day?

These are questions which have been fought and died over by other men, and yet which most of us yawn over. And those who are wide awake find themselves having to submit to permits in order to protest - but not even to protest, just to gather together as men, to build and to organize and to work together for the betterment of all.

Conspiracy theorists shit-talk the Masons for running secret deals behind closed doors, but what are you doing? What you have changed in the world, for better or for worse in the least way? Which product will you one day die clutching, alone in a cubicle jail cell apartment? Where were you the day the rest of the world decided to live finally as men, together?


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  1. Tim Boucher
    Posted October 18, 2007 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    {Whoa! Check out the model ship!}

    Also see this dream from February 20, 2005:

    http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/02/20/aliens-over-nyc/

    We knew, however, that this officially story was largely a fabrication. But that was all we knew. We had to roam about the lower half of the city, trying to find a passage to the north. And we had to do so without arousing any suspicions, which was an extremely difficult task. No one in the city would answer questions or help us.

    And the police presence was total. You had to keep moving at all times. Any group of people who were stopping to talk or otherwise congregate was quickly spotted and broken up by patrolling police. The right to free assembly had obviously been revoked. The sirens of the police cars also had been engineered so that they played the tune of “America the Beautiful.”

    http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/30/dreams-of-the-resistance/
    http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/17/free-france-flag/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-ownership
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty

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  2. Tim Boucher
    Posted October 18, 2007 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    The tags for this make an awesome sentence:

    Radar Blips Emergent Open-Source Outsider Government & Power Symbols Philosophy & Theory News Reality Time-Bridge Possible Demonstration Coded Messages God Massachusetts power of the printing press 101

    I’m not saying there are hidden messages in this, because there’s nothing ever to hide, but I’ve often been fascinated by this subject:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
    http://seclists.org/politech/2003/May/0032.html

    Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message. By contrast, cryptography obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message. Today, the term steganography includes the concealment of digital information within computer files. For example, the sender might start with an ordinary-looking image file, then adjust the color of every 100th pixel to correspond to a letter in the alphabet — a change so subtle that no one who isn’t actively looking for it is likely to notice it.

  3. Julia
    Posted October 18, 2007 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

    I’ve read two different “prophetic” dreams lately that had such an unusual feeling the dreamers thought to comment on that and not on the “prophesy” involved.

    One, the dreamer dreamed that the USA had been taken over by Arab invaders. When this person “woke up” in the dream the invader, who was ordering people around, looked at her and sort of turned himself off so she couldn’t see him anymore. Poof, no more dream. My interpretation was that this was designed to induce fear on an unconscious level ONLY. It backfired when the woman woke up because she posted the dream along with her interpretation (which was similar to mine but in a different vein).

    Two, the second dreamer dreamed that peace was being restored to the USA by a sort of army of Christians who came from nowhere but were very organized and had governmental power. This dreamer, like the woman above, was a Christian and initially thought “yeah, our guys, Christians, great”. The dream turned bad and first he saw these guys start to sort out people by race and relocate people and then the uncooperative people started disappearing. All his pleas of Christian solidarity were in vain.

    My interpretation was unclear at first but now I think this was a more or less accurate prediction of a possible future. I base this on the supposed Christian backgrounds of many reported leaders of the Triple Canopy/Blackwater etc.

  4. Tim Boucher
    Posted October 19, 2007 at 2:50 am | Permalink

    Some interesting words in that

  5. alexis
    Posted October 21, 2007 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    just recently had my students write essays on which of the first ten amendments they’d give up…

  6. Julia
    Posted October 22, 2007 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

    J. K. Rowling + Original Intent.

    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20071022.html

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