Notes From Gordon: ‘Statement of Nonviolence’

Ah, it’s a beautiful morning here in New Hampshire. The air is cool and clear with a light breeze. Perfect weather for a revolution.

Not that I’m proposing one, mind you. That can get you into a lot of trouble! Which is why I felt it necessary to include the chapter below at the beginning of The Risky Reader, lest anyone think I might be channeling the ‘Great Incendiary,’ Samuel Adams.

I’m just a harmless, old white dude with a plastic keyboard and a subscription to AARP. What harm could I possibly do? The Washington leviathan fields the largest military every assembled in all of human history. Me? All I have are 26 letters, a CAPS LOCK key and a bunch of punctuation marks.

Statement Of Nonviolence

Your author is emphatically not anti-government.

I love the republican form of government our founders gave us and encourage everyone to learn how to run it as originally designed and intended.*

After all, you can’t operate a complex machine like the cartel currently occupying the District of Columbia without reading the owner’s manual, which is why I strongly encourage every citizen to read the Constitution. **

I especially encourage politicians who placed their left hand on the Bible, raised their right hand and swore a solemn oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, to finally read it.

Might be a good idea. You never know, you might learn something.

Being the peaceful fellow that I am, I do not promote insurrection, civil unrest, mass uprisings, armed resistance or similar acts of a citizenry feeling oppressed, taxed to the edge of poverty and frustrated to the point of tearing their hair out.

These folks will have to figure things out on their own, and from what I can see… that shouldn’t take too long.

As proof of my commitment to “voluntary compliance,” I recommend that everyone pay absolutely every dime of tax that the law requires—more, if possible!—and take comfort in knowing that the liability for Americans to pay income tax resides somewhere within the 9,600 pages of the Internal Revenue Code.

No one I have known, including tax attorneys and former IRS agents, can find it. But, hey, maybe H&R Block knows?

As for my views on the current administration, I find it highly entertaining and recommend that everyone vote since voting definitely makes a difference.

Thank you, and may God bless the New America that rises from the ashes of the old.

* See Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution.

** The Constitution contains 4,543 words. At the average adult reading speed of 238 words per minute, you can read it in 19 minutes—less time than it takes to watch an episode of Dark Mirror.

Makes a nice gift, too. Buy a 10-pack HERE. Give a copy to your favorite liberal with a warning never to read it!

Tell them it contains dangerous secrets known only to libertarians. Should drive them crazy.