centers while denying them access to his home. This requires a skillful blend of concealment and deception, plus perhaps elements of mobility and deterrence. A freeman obtains information, techniques, key equipment and supplies out of the Servile Society, exporting labor or products in return. And during import-export activities he practices deception – perhaps carries a driver’s license (“genuine” or faked); perhaps pays some sales taxes he cannot conveniently avoid. But the freeman’s “home base” is physically concealed. There he spends most of his time. There he may sleep, imbibe, love, design, build trade (with fellow freemen), and raise children in relative safety from the savages of State. A freeman’s home must be a figurative castle. In one sense, such a freeman cannot be completely free since his import-export is restricted. Neither would be a resident of a utopian “free country” who traded with someone in Russia – or Amerika. Import-export is easier for exterterritorial [extraterritorial] freemen than for residents of another country, since controlling millions of square miles of interior is vastly more difficult than thousands of linear miles of border. In either case, with growth, import-export becomes relatively smaller and more in the hands of specialists at “border crossing.” The liberated-home freeman, unlike the conventionally living libertarian, can segregate import-export from the rest of his life – essential for development of durable, growing, joyous, free mini-cultures. (from LIBERTARIAN CONNECTION #14, October 7, 1970)
Thoughts on Freedom Strategy – IV (revised) Freedom Terminology. In “...Strategy III” I defined freedom as invulnerability to coercion. But this definition goes contrary to traditional usage. Funk and Wagnall’s Standard College Dictionary 68’, gives the clearest definitions and differentiations I have seen: “Freedom, liberty and license refer to the right or opportunity to do as one pleases. Freedom is the widest term, suggesting complete absence of restraint. Liberty is a measure of freedom within restraints, granted by or as through by a sovereign power... License is an exemption from restraint granted to one person but not to another...” Apparently no English word exists for invulnerability to coercion. “Sovereignty” comes close, but it is usually applied to States and implies not merely self-defense capability but power over others. This is not surprising since the very concept of invulnerability to coercion of individuals and non-coercive groups is relatively new, at least in European cultures. The traditional attitude is: rule or be ruled; there are no alternatives. Roberta and Tom of Preform have suggested “vonu,” which is a contraction of “VOluntary and Not vULnerable.” “Vonu” is phonicly [phonetically] distinctive; the closest words in major languages are German “von” (of, about), French “vont” (travel via), and Spanish “bono” (bond, script, voucher) – none of which means conflict. Forms of vonu and the corresponding forms of liberty and freedom are: Invulnerability to Coercion General Exemption from Coercion Absence of Coercion Condition Of: Vonu Liberty Freedom Action of Achieving: Vonu Liberate Free Quality Of: Vonu Liberated Free Comparatively More: Vonuer Freer