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+Bridging the Gap - From Etienne de la Boetie to Global Guerillas
+
+In his famous essay, the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, french philosopher
+and political thinker, Etienne de la Boetie, makes the one observation that
+can explain every revolution, every political change and every advancement in
+freedom. If the people stop supporting their tyrants, not even actively
+bringing him down, but just removing their support for his actions, he will
+fall under his own weight. After all, every tyrant and even every group of
+tyrants is in the minority - by far. Even the bloated Big Governments of
+today are just tiny percentages of the overall population. If the people
+removed their support in the form of paying their money as taxes, no police
+hug, politician or bureaucrat would get paid day after tomorrow. The state
+lives hand to mouth all day, every day. The state doesn't save.
+
+There is one problem of course - there is no such entity as The People(tm).
+There are only individuals. And while The People might count millions and be,
+overall, immune to the tyrants' attacks, the individual is only a single
+erson and quite vulnerable to any punitive or retributive action of even a
+small group of tyrant thugs. Think of the tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown.
+Think of Ghandi, who was put in jail for years. Scaring the individual is the
+only tactic the tyrant has. For if all individuals feel alone and scared,
+they won't dare remove their support. They'll fear being the one who gets hit
+by overly cruel and over the top punishment for stepping out of line.
+
+So how does one advance the cause of freedom for himself and others?
+
+Think superempowerment. Coined by John Robb of GlobalGuerillas.typepad.com,
+the term superempowerment describes technology, infrastructure, knowdledge
+and systems that enable the individual to have an impact far beyond his own
+means. It could be described as the capitalization or arming of every
+individual. A single man must work all day just to feed himself and stay
+alive. But a man working in a highly capitalized factory and armed with
+knowledge about production is able to earn hundreds of dollars in only eight
+hours each day. Those dollars will buy him food, shelter, clothes, energy, a
+car and much more. The productivity of the single person is greatly elevated
+due to capital being invested in his work.
+
+This seems like an obvious answer. Capitalize the individual. Superempower
+every person on the planet to opt out of the system if they so desire. When a
+voter dislikes the behaviour of a politician, removing his support for the
+politician should be as easy as sending out an email or stopping a monthly
+transfer on his bank account. 
+
+John Robb describes single individuals creating millions of dollars of damage
+per day by cutting oil pipelines or removing other vital bottlenecks in
+resource flow. That's not what is needed for toppling the tyrants. To remove
+their support of the government, what people need most is quite simple. The
+ability to stop paying taxes, and the safety from government retribution for
+doing so.
+
+As almost all countries nowadays force employers to pay taxes from their
+employees' wages, few people have the choice to not pay taxes. To make this a
+possibility, there needs to exist a simple and obvious way to pay employees,
+shop owners and other trade partners without using the traditional routes.
+This could take the form of cash, encrypted online-payments or silver coins.
+
+To make sure that nobody, while wagering the possibility to stop his support
+for tyranny, has to fear the tyrant's retribution, there need to exist safety
+mechanisms. This means the ability to hide payments from government control.
+In principal, this is easy. One just has to keep ones cash under the mattress
+instead of putting it on a government-inspected bank account with Bank of
+America. While neither trade partner tell on each other, government has
+little knowledge of their activities. That is, if they stick to untracked
+methods of payment, not bank wires, official cheques and credit cards.
+Government has historically been desperate enough to crack down on ordinary
+citizens, searching their premises for "illegal" money, gold, jewelery and
+other forms of possible barter or payment. But technically, this is
+impossible to do with everyone, as long as the tracked methods of payment are
+avoided. Government cannot possibly break into the houses of 300 million
+people each and every day, looking if there's a bundle of cash under the
+mattress this time. Only the superempowerment of government thugs, by way of
+cooperating credit card companies and bank institutions can enable this. If
+one stays clear of those, one should be able to hide every cash transaction.
+
+While government may collapse if The People(tm) all started using
+crypto-currencies today, it's not very likely that everyone will do so at the
+same time. There will be people who are first do go off the radar, and those
+people might get unneeded attention for just that - getting of the
+governments financial radar. If Joe earns $200,000 a year in 2010, but $0 in
+2011, yet still drives his Mercedes and moves into a new, luxurious home, the
+tyrant will smell deceit. Thus, especially in the beginnings, one must find
+ways to hide the move from tracked payments to free payments. There are many
+ways to accomplish this. Slowly reduce your official working hours, but
+continue working for free payment on the side. Take a year off to live off
+your savings, while secretly working for free money. Move your company off
+shore. Don't drive your new car around the IRS building while claiming you've
+lost your job. Actually, lose your job. Big Government will be happy to hide
+your ass for you.
+
+But protecting individuals willing to opt out from government is only one side
+of the coin. There also needs to be protection from those willing to exploit
+the opting out and the concurring loss in government power on ones side. For
+example, I can't go to the police and claim someone didn't pay me the 500
+gold coins he promised without attracting a lot of unwanted attention. In
+fact I'd probably go to jail for trading something worth 500 gold coins and
+not giving government it's fair share. Private institutions that protect free
+individuals, without forcing them to resort to government power to enforce
+their contracts, need to step in. There are of course countless forms and
+niches. Private arbitration of contract disputes. Private defense. Private
+insurance against theft, accident or other loss. Third party guarantors that
+make sure both parties consent to the trade before releasing the payment. As
+these are free institutions, not backed by coercion or goverment power, they
+can't rely on either to work. They need to function on a purely voluntary
+basis. This can be accomplished by systems of trust, recommendation,
+ostracizm and many other techniques.
+
+For these to function properly, secret communication is key. Nobody can help
+others defy the tyrant if the tyrant can read their emails. That means
+encryption, private darknets and alternative intra- or internets.
+
+Consider an example. A group of free entrepreneurs decide to form an insurance
+pool against being robbed by tyrant thugs. In case any one of them is being
+robbed by a government entity, they all split the loss. What is needed to
+make this insurance against robbery work? For one, they need a form of paying
+each other without drawing attention of the thugs. If each insurance payment
+led to further robbery, the pool wouldn't work. The person suffering the
+damage and receiving the payment also needs ways of using his compensation
+without drawing attention. This most likely means ways of shopping for goods
+and services without being tracked by the government. To make the whole
+insurance system work, the participants need to communicate in secret. Even
+sending encrypted email to one another is likely suspicious. Tyrants can draw
+connections between them even without knowing what they actually wrote each
+other. Any messages between them need to be sent over channels that disguise
+both the sender and the receiver to outsiders.
+
+All considered, most of the technical infrastructure is already developed.
+There are encrypted currencies. There is encrypted email. There are multi-hop
+VPN services, proxies and darknets. To superempower an individual willing to
+opt out of supporting tyranny, these technologies must be available to the
+layperson at the tip of his finger. He must first learn about their
+existance, be able to use them without much hassle and trust them with his
+money.
+
+The technological part is developed enough. What's needed is entrepreneurs,
+delivering those technologies in the hands of the people waiting for them.
+For if the people each decide to withdraw their support of the tyrant, and
+for $9.99/month are able to do so, the tyrant will indeed topple.