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Dear Friends of the Art of Liberty Foundation,
This isn’t your usual fundraising appeal. I promise not to insult your intelligence with the tricks and techniques other organizations use in their letters.
All I ask is that you read to the end and evaluate our plan to widely expose the illegitimacy and criminality of monopoly “government,” rather than “voting harder” in obviously and easily rigged elections.
If you are already a subscriber or supporter of the Art of Liberty Foundation, I assume you are what the original Etienne de la Boétie called the “Few.”
In his words:
“There are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off: these are the men who never become tamed under subjection… These are in fact the men who, possessed of clear minds and far-sighted spirit, are not satisfied, like the brutish mass, to see only what is at their feet, but rather look about them, behind and before, and even recall the things of the past in order to judge those of the future, and compare both with their present condition. These are the ones who, having good minds of their own, have further trained them by study and learning. Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would invent it. For them slavery has no satisfactions, no matter how well disguised.”
– Etienne de la Boétie (1530–1563), Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
If you see through the propaganda of the mandatory “government” schools and monopoly media and understand the reality of our tax slavery, then I am here to appeal to your own self-interest.
We aren’t so much seeking donations as investment. We are entrepreneurial, free-market freedom fighters looking for idea philanthropists who want to invest in the most cost-effective, targeted solutions to gain freedom for themselves, their children, and grandchildren. I firmly believe the Art of Liberty Foundation is the ONLY organization with a feasible plan for “Liberty in our Lifetime,” which I assume you want as much as I do.
I also assume you might want a little payback on the intergenerational organized crime system that has been stealing your money and insulting your intelligence with cartoonish propaganda and indoctrination smeared across almost every film, television show, social media feed, and stadium event.
First, we appear to be the only organization that is 100% on target and identifies our current socioeconomic issues as the result of intergenerational organized crime running “government” and fractional reserve banking on the population. It has been said that the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. We seem unique in having the courage to do just that.
We have also been the first to quantify that theft with our new book: The Greatest Theft in Human History – How the Banks and “Government” Will Steal at Least $1.40 MILLION from the Typical American Worker… “Legally.” The headline number of $1.40 million includes inflation ($595,000) + confiscatory taxes ($785,000) + Social Security underpayment ($17,000–$70,000) for an average worker earning $60,000 a year over a 40-year career and 20-year retirement.
Since I know that many of our subscribers and supporters are “above average,” I will shortcut you on the math for higher earners: $3.09 million if you earn $120,000 a year, $6.64 million at $250,000 a year, and $13.96 million at $500,000. And those numbers don’t include the greater purchasing power you would enjoy under a gold standard OR what you could have earned by investing what is stolen for “Social Security” in a private account where your heirs would inherit the principal. The “average” person doesn’t even understand they are being robbed.
So what to do about it?
Roll over? Write to your Congressman? “Vote Harder” in easily and obviously rigged elections on unauditable black-box voting machines and mail-in ballots counted by the same people living off the money they stole from us at the point of a gun?
All those have been tried, and all have failed. Investing money in the political process is a fool’s errand.
Earlier this year, I broke down the Kentucky congressional primary where AIPAC and allied pro-Israel PACs spent more than $15 million to primary out Thomas Massie, one of the most popular congressmen of this generation, with a no-name “ex” intelligence agency-adjacent Navy SEAL named Ed Gallrein. According to FEC filings, Ed Gallrein only had 98 donors in Kentucky vs. Massie’s 1,545 donors. On election night, cameras showed 30–40 supporters at Gallrein’s victory party and hundreds at Massie’s concession speech.
Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown, who had access to the ruling establishment’s records and archives, broke it down in Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (Macmillan, 1966), pp. 1247–48:
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
The two-party system supports the organized crime “government” the way an arch supports a house. If there were only one party, then the population would rise up and knock it down. The crooked elections are designed to operate as a steam valve. The low-information voters think they are “throwing the rascals out” only to be tricked, conned, and suckered into a system where the two parties appear different on the outside but are 100% aligned on the issues important to the organized crime interests using “government” and fractional reserve banking to extract $1.40 million from the typical worker.
Luckily “The System” Is Illegitimate and Immoral on Its Face… And (Almost) Anyone Can Understand That!
The “Good News Message” of the Art of Liberty Foundation is that the entire system has been a scam and ANYONE and EVERYONE can understand its immorality and illegitimacy. It is hard for many who have been indoctrinated into “The System” from birth to wrap their heads around the magnitude of the scam. “It just couldn’t be that simple… hundreds of millions of people would have to be wrong… It would be on tell-a-vision…” Yes, there is cognitive dissonance, Stockholm Syndrome, and artificially indoctrinated tribalism propping the system up… Yes, there is a trillion-dollar propaganda system promoting the system’s legitimacy on every monopoly tell-a-vision channel, social media site, and streaming platform. Yes, as Upton Sinclair put it, it is “difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
But we are slowly but surely winning because anyone can understand the illogical nature and immorality of “government” on its face. You don’t need to be a political scientist. You don’t need a degree from one of the state-run rip-off universities. You just have to take a step back and examine the basics of what you were told as a child about the legitimacy, necessity, and desirability of “government.”
- It is impossible to be bound by a “social contract” that you didn’t sign.
- It is impossible to delegate “rights” you don’t possess yourself—such as the ability to tax or to make up rules—to a “representative” or “government.”
- If John and his two friends can’t legitimately vote that you must hand over all your money just because there are three of them and one of you, it doesn’t matter whether there are 30 of them or 300,000,000.
“Democracy” is simply two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner…
There is also the utilitarian case… “Government” doesn’t work! At All!
“Government” “looks good on paper”! Sounds good! But simply doesn’t deliver the goods!
- The Con-stitution has utterly failed to protect even the natural law rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. From “red-flag laws” that nullify the Second Amendment to “free speech zones,” warrantless wiretapping, and warrantless searches of vehicles and at airports, the Con-stitution fails to protect anyone and everyone from “government” tyranny.
- Even “black-letter” prohibitions in the Con-stitution are completely ignored. From Congress’s sole power to declare war, to the prohibition on taking private property for public use without just compensation, to the restriction of “government” to its enumerated powers, the Con-stitution fails to stop even the most obvious and egregious violations.
- The Con-stitution has failed to limit “government” at all! We have the biggest “government” the world has ever seen.
It helps to understand how the information reaching the public is controlled through mandatory schools, accredited schools, media monopolization, and algorithmic amplification and suppression on social media!
We believe this “control-of-perception” system is the most powerful weapon on the planet, but it loses its power the moment you show someone the complete monopolization of the media: hundreds and hundreds of companies with different brand names and logos rolling up to five or six monopoly media companies that have been caught lying about everything from Kuwaiti babies tossed out of incubators to WMDs in Iraq to nuclear weapons in Iran.
So If Voting Isn’t Going to Work… In Fact, It’s DESIGNED Not to Work… What Is the Alternative?
Our solution is to widely expose the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” on its face and the fact that it is being run as a criminal enterprise in Washington, D.C.
We are exposing how the belief in “government” is being unethically and manipulatively indoctrinated into the population using mandatory “government” schools; a hidden curriculum in scouting, JROTC, and Explorers; police and military “basic training”; and monopoly media “programming.”
Our book, To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, reveals dozens of these tricks and arms parents with the knowledge to help their kids dodge what mandatory school is selling: the meat grinder of the military and the immorality of a police force that violates natural-law rights by policing victimless crimes and raising revenue off its neighbors.
Introducing the “One-Way Revolution”
We are exposing how the magicians have been pulling the trick, and we have found that most people don’t like it when they discover organized crime has been “running game” on them! This leads to what we call “The One-Way Revolution,” where many folks who learn that a legitimate, moral “government” is a logical impossibility, and who see the unethically manipulative techniques Washington, D.C., and Hollywood use on them, completely abandon their belief in “government”!
At the same time, we offer the “good news” message of voluntaryism:
We don’t really need “government,” and without it, everyone would be much wealthier, and society would be far more harmonious!
Everything “government” does (except redistribution, which is immoral) could be done better, faster, and cheaper by the free market, mutual aid societies, insurance companies, nonprofits, and legitimate charities—without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion.
There is a spiritual component to what we do, as Voluntaryism is the ONLY solution aligned with Natural Law, the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP), and common sense.
Voluntaryism is the ONLY solution that is fair for everyone in society: no one has rights that others don’t; no one is exempt from morality (especially “government”); and no one has the “ring of power” because there isn’t one.
We advocate a peaceful, orderly dissolution of the federal “government” back to the states as a first step, with full privatization and REAL freedom as the goal.
Compare that with trying to impose a ruler on your friends, family, and colleagues—advocating that they be forcibly robbed to put politicians’ schemes and campaign promises into practice.
More Good News… We Are Already Winning! Slowly but Surely!
Every single day, we are waking more and more people up to the scam of “government” and the futility of “voting harder” in easily rigged elections!
I do 20–40+ podcasts and radio shows a year, and the comments are overwhelmingly positive—even on shows where the hosts aren’t voluntaryists!
“Etienne, this article you wrote came to me at a critical time. I am a small government guy, usually voting for the ‘lesser evils.’ This election was the tipping point; I’m done! You are young and lucky enough to escape; I will be actively supporting you from now on.”
– Raymond Rider
“I want to thank you for your work on ‘Government’ – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! Your interview with Corbett about that book helped me wake up even more, and shortly after watching, I threw out my American flag (which I consider a big step in my personal progress).”
– Emily F.
Our Work Is Legitimately Viral!
Here are some cool statistics and facts about the growth of the Art of Liberty Foundation!
- We were doubling and almost tripling our audience year over year on Substack before the platform began actively censoring us in July 2025! Even though we built our own platform and “Left Loudly,” the articles we left behind still bring in hundreds of new Art of Liberty subscribers every month, all automatically subscribed to our new platform.
- Over 10% of the books and Liberator flash drives we sell are 5- and 10-copy “Friends Bundles” where people are buying copies in bulk and giving them to friends and family.
- We get reports and photos of people donating our books to libraries and neighborhood “mini-libraries” and putting them out as coffee-table books in Airbnbs.
- We made sharing the evidence of “government” illegitimacy and criminality easy, private, censorship-proof, and viral. Anyone with one of our Liberator flash drives is allowed and encouraged to make copies for friends, family, and colleagues using low-cost commodity flash drives from eBay. We even include a template to wrap the drives, printable on widely available Avery labels. We get reports of people showing up to freedom-oriented meetups and community meetings and distributing dozens of drives to attendees. Each one can be copied and shared again!
- We have supporters who are distributing HUNDREDS of books in their communities. Here is a picture from one supporter who bought 200 copies of The Greatest Theft in Human History and sent them to, among others, 39 sheriff’s departments and two Supreme Court justices in North Carolina.
They were so well received that she ordered 200 more copies!
We Have a Plan to Win the Whole Thing
One of the cool things about the Art of Liberty Foundation is that we are “swinging for the fences.” Our goal is to widely expose the intergenerational organized crime system and achieve “Liberty in our Lifetime.” We have already done the math, and the solution is to widely expose the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” in targeted geographies where the liberty movement already has a beachhead. The only way to get around organized crime’s monopoly media and algorithmic censorship of the DARPA Internet is to distribute physical books and flash drives and bring folks to town hall meetings to answer their questions and introduce them to the liberty movement in the state. Imagine the impact of every single one of your neighbors getting a package explaining how intergenerational organized crime runs “government” and the media!
We have engineered our books with images, memes, and visualizations to dramatically expand the percentage of people who will engage with them and accelerate the “moment of insight” needed to break through indoctrination and propaganda.
We think New Hampshire is the most obvious place to start: the Free State Project has already concentrated libertarians, voluntaryists, and anarcho-capitalists into a small, lightly populated state with a culture of liberty, low taxes, and small “government.” By my estimation, at least 40% of Free State Project participants are already self-described voluntaryists, anarcho-capitalists, or peaceful anarchists!
We have already sold or distributed hundreds of copies of our books and Liberator flash drives in the state, focused on VIPs, journalists, sheriffs, and leaders within the Free State Project.
We think it will take $1.5 million to reach 100,000 homes representing 250,000+ of New Hampshire’s roughly 1.15 million voting-age adults—our first big step toward a tipping point. That tipping point isn’t wishful thinking: in experiments published in Science in 2018, once a committed minority reached roughly 25% of a group, it could overturn the group’s established norm.
Our goal is to build that committed minority in New Hampshire first. We believe that would generate millions in “earned media” and give us a “Laboratory of Liberty” that could secede from the federal “government” and potentially start a national conversation on the legitimacy of “government.”
But First, We Need to Finish Making the Case!
We have two important books in the pipeline to effectively make the case to New Hampshire, every other state in the U.S., and the world.
“Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! made the case for the illegitimacy and criminality of “government,” but did so irreverently, with too much speculation for many intellectuals. We realized we needed a bulletproof, academic takedown of organized-crime “government” for college professors, high school civics teachers, and political pundits—something that couldn’t be ignored or refuted, but in the same visualization- and image-rich “executive summary” format that expands the number of people who will actually read it! We also wanted to use the methods from our other books to accelerate the “moment of insight” and shortcut the information into the brain: the picture superiority effect, comparative revelation, and visualizations that make the previously invisible visible.
That book is Organized Crime Theory (OCT) – The Surprisingly Scholarly and Well-Evidenced Thesis That “Government” Is Intergenerational Organized Crime. It is 98% complete. We have a detailed executive summary available at ArtOfLiberty.org/OCT and are sharing the final draft of the complete book with everyone who donates at the $125 Sponsor level or above.
What is unique about the book is that it forces the reader (or the reader’s college professor, favorite podcaster, or annoying Facebook friend) to pick one of four potential worldviews on the legitimacy, morality, and logic of “government.”
Everyone, even if they have never consciously thought about it before, has a worldview that maps to one of these four camps:
OCT — Organized Crime Theory. The state is illegitimate at origin and illegitimate now. It has been the Biggest Scam in History and has resulted in the Greatest Theft in Human History, the tax-farming and inflationary theft of the American population on the order of $182 trillion to $255 trillion, measured across the current workforce’s full careers. Voluntary alternatives are sufficient. Solution: peaceful and orderly dissolution of the federal “government” to the states and, ultimately, full privatization.
SCT — Social Contract Theory. The state is legitimated by the consent of the governed; elections are the legitimating mechanism, imperfect but functional. (The default view, installed by the “Brute Force Manufactured Consensus” of mandatory “government” schools, government-affiliated scouting, JROTC/ROTC/Young Marines, police/military training, state-run universities, monopoly media/social media aka CNNFOXMSNBCABCCBSNBC+Facebook/Reddit/X/Google News/LinkedIn/Quora/ChatGPT/Medium/Substack.)
HST — Hijacked State Theory. The state was legitimate in design but has been captured by financial elites or “the Deep State.” This position is self-defeating: a design hijacked this easily was not sound. Proponents call for reform, restoration, and “draining the swamp.” (Most populist movements, including MAGA; the mainstream alternative media; and constitutionalist conservatism.)
NET — Necessary Evil Theory. Ironically, the most intellectually honest of the competing theories, it admits that the state is immoral and logically inconsistent but insists that a minimal government is needed to prevent worse outcomes—a government its advocates acknowledge must be imposed through extortion at the point of a gun. (Minarchism, classical liberalism, Nozickian libertarianism.)
The book then destroys the illogic, immorality, lack of accountability, and poor track record of the other three worldviews.
But Without “Government,” Who Would Build the Roads?
The final piece of the puzzle is my magnum opus, which we have been working on for more than two years: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All.
“Government” – The Biggest Scam in History and Organized Crime Theory (OCT) expose the illegitimacy, illogical nature, and criminality of “government.”
To See the Cage is to Leave It – exposes the unethically manipulative techniques “government” uses, including the hidden curriculum in its mandatory schools, scouting programs, and police and military training, plus the subliminal techniques Hollywood and the monopoly media use in their “programming.”
The Greatest Theft in Human History – breaks down the scale of theft and how much “government” is extracting from typical (and above-average!) Americans through inflation, confiscatory taxation, and Social Security underpayment.
Voluntaryism offers the solution!
Most people have never thought about how legitimate, non-redistributive services would be delivered in a world without monopoly “government.” The “good news” message of Voluntaryism is: Better, Faster, and Cheaper without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion! The book explains how the free market “delivers the goods” and in many cases is already providing the same services as “government,” from privatized air traffic control in Canada, to the North Maine Woods—an area of private land larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, protected privately with all the amenities of a national park—to Detroit Threat Management, a private security company providing cost-effective protective services in competition with the notoriously corrupt and ineffective Detroit police.
We have already published multiple chapters, including Without “Government,” What Would We Do About Healthcare? and But Without Organized Crime “Government” What Would We do About Physical Protection, Policing & Crime? to give a feel for the flavor of the book and our innovations: the “Executive Summary” overview with deeper dives, including QR codes in the printed book that screen-pop videos from our Voluntaryism video channel on Odysee.
Here’s Where You Come In
I told you at the start that we aren’t looking for donations so much as investment. Here’s the investment: it costs us about $15 to put the evidence—a book and media kit—into the hands of a podcaster, radio talk show host, or other VIP we target through our outreach. And because every book can be passed along and every media outreach could result in a podcast reaching thousands or tens of thousands (Or more!) of people, your $15 doesn’t stop at one person.
Here’s what your investment does:
- $150 puts evidence of “government” illegitimacy and criminality into the hands of 10 bloggers, vloggers, radio talk show hosts, and VIPs.
- $500 funds our websites, social media and marketing, and productivity tools for one month.
- $1,500 funds a dedicated fundraiser to mail and contact 50+ “Heavy Hitters” for the remainder of this campaign.
- $5,000 funds publication of Organized Crime Theory (OCT), including an initial print run and a PR campaign.
- $10,000 funds our five-person core team for a month: executive director, IT/COO, operations director, social media/customer support, and PR.
- $15,000 finishes Voluntaryism and funds its initial print run (hardcover and softcover copies and the new 128GB Liberator flash drive with companion media), plus a PR and bookstore campaign.
- $150,000 funds an 8,000-person test campaign in New Hampshire targeting VIPs, journalists, professors, legislators, community organizations, FSP members, and the five most influential neighborhoods in Portsmouth, plus one town hall meeting.
- $1,500,000 funds widely exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” in New Hampshire: a censorship-proof evidence drop on 100,000 homes in the top 10 cities and towns, driving folks to 10 town hall meetings where we answer questions and introduce them to the liberty movement in the state.
Please make the most generous investment you can by December 24, 2026.
Prefer to target your own community? We’ve put together a program to mail dozens, hundreds, or thousands of copies to the journalists, sheriffs, and VIPs you choose. You give us a budget, and we will handle the research, mailing, and follow-up. Sponsor at the $25,000 President’s Club level and we will put on a one-day Art of Liberty Foundation presentation + party in your town with a VIP table(s) for you and your friends!
Ways to give:
- Online: ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor
- By check: payable to the Art of Liberty Foundation, 375 Jaffrey Road, Suite 13, Peterborough, NH 03458
- Crypto (Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, Ethereum): ArtOfLiberty.org/Donate-With-Crypto
The original Etienne de la Boétie wrote that even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, the Few would invent it. Let’s not wait that long.
For Liberty in our Lifetime,
Etienne de la Boétie²
Founder & Executive Director
Art of Liberty Foundation
P.S. It costs about $15 to put the evidence into the hands of one podcaster, radio host, or VIP, where it can be read, passed along, and copied again. A gift of $150 reaches 10 of them; $1,500 funds outreach to 50+ “Heavy Hitters.” Please give by December 24 at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor. Every donation over $125 gets a preview copy of Organized Crime Theory (OCT) – The Surprisingly Scholarly and Well-Evidenced Thesis that “Government” is Intergenerational Organized Crime.
