On Terran Liberty: Volume 1

By Richard C. Everts

Does a United Earth spell the end of American Liberty as its founders knew it?

Does the collapse of the American Empire mean the foundations of American political theory are bankrupt?

Volume 1 of the "On Terran Liberty" series rips into the successes and failures of the modern American Empire. Yet, there is still hope for a new United Terran Government based on individual Liberty to arise.

A groundbreaking political bomb in the modern era, the first volume of On Terran Liberty avoids Left vs. Right extremism. Instead, it forces one to look honestly at what is salvageable for Liberty today and the coming human political exodus beyond Earth during the third millennium.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9781667880990

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© Richard Everts 2022

ISBN: 978-1-66788-098-3

ebook ISBN: 978-1-66788-099-0

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Table of Contents

A Note for My Reader

The Terran Candle

In the Beginning

The Original Idea

But Should We Bother?

The Candle’s Light Ignites with a Story

Volume 1

To be

Liberty Comes in Many Flavors

The Qutb Derivation

The Grinding of Fads

The Cracked Pillars of the American Contract

Decentralizing Power

The Tyrannies That Become Us

Terrible Princes

The Victory of the Living

A Challenge of Unity

A Quick Note on Confederations and Failure

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Articles of Confederation

The United Nations

Some Light Philosophy Before Moving On

Restraining the Leviathan

Closing Remarks

Appendix

Notes

Dedication

For my eternal Beloved,

for whom I am but a pale footstep

upon the sandy beaches of time.

May your light burn ever brighter through me,

than shine down upon me,

illuminating a grateful steward’s life.

And for my wife and son,

who deserved a better Terra.

A Note for My Reader

I publicly released the founding document, a Terran Declaration, on December 21st, 2012, at www.terranliberty.com. I included it in the appendix for your review.

My overarching goal with this series is to write whole treatises on these topics individually to build one complete experience of ten parts:

This note

The introduction to the Terran Candle

The seven treatises

A final reflection on the journey

Keep this in mind as you go through and have questions, as I'm here to begin and sometimes continue the discussion, not to announce a final verdict. 

I don't own the idea or movement of Terran Liberty. I'm but a steward and likely a poor one at that. However, to the best of my ability, I will hold the line at whatever cost until I am relieved of duty. In the end, I, like all past and future stewards, must step aside with grace, as we do for every generation, leaving it better than when we found it, no matter how big or small our reach or the origins of our visions.

I hope you, my dear reader, find Terran Liberty tomorrow, hundreds or thousands, of Terran years from now, worth your Time and energy. 

I saved it for someone like you.

The Terran Candle

In the Beginning

For a very long Time, Terrans have come and gone.  

We will likely only know or comprehend the entire story of our existence if some of us become gods and create a universe to know ourselves in the future. 

No, for millions of Terran linear years Life, and most recently for humans, our silly experiences and troubles fade, empires of plants and animals become ages and epochs, then forgotten or remembered as ancient history, followed by myth, and then lost to dust.

Each of these empires generally formed upon some great resource or advantage which allowed reproductive, social, and economic capital to collect within its walls or domain and expand towards a glorious crescendo of cultural symphony before it collapsed for one reason or another.

The beat, the cycle, is one of the very truths by which we as humans guide our historical record as the premiere beings on Terra.

However, an extreme anomaly happened to human civilization within the last few years. Not in this author's lifetime, that hubris and illusion faded long ago. No, I refer to the launch of the American experiment in the 18th century, a mere 240 or so odd Terran years ago, depending on how you handle linear Time or calculate such a birth.

Astonishingly, for the first Time in Terran culture, an idea sprouted from Negative Liberty and Natural Law¹ and became the centerpiece of a social contract of informational, economic, and cultural forces. A contract built on an abstract ideal where there was not a God you must follow, nor a king, queen, oligarchy, or elite that forced its will upon everyone.

For the first Time in written history, a social contract originated through (for better and worse) mostly white European males who declared upon pain of death to the world:

Power derives from the consent of the governed.

An individual has ALL rights endowed to their person at birth.

Restrictions are to be placed upon the government to restrain its Power.

Multiple layers of government through a federalized system could check humanity's greed against itself.

No one person is above the law.

Over Time, these ideas continued to expand to cover all men of various colors and backgrounds, then women, spread through social classes and identities, and finally spread in some form across nearly all of Terra. 

Like all ideals, the idea often falls short in the real world, which we will discuss later. Notably, in the application, it probably lost much of its unusual magic mostly through a slow death as the American Republic became the American Union after Lincoln², and transformed again into the American Corporation after the reign of Franklin Roosevelt and the minting of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve status in 1944 at Bretton Woods³, and finally, in today's New World Order put into effect in 1991⁴ where it slowly loses its unipolar status in the early 21st century.

Yet, we are not here today to pass judgments on these matters of the decaying Empire. Despite an at times abysmal self-awareness of its fellow citizens' plights or regional natives' joys and sufferings to the growing expansion of its Liberty, overall, billions around the globe benefited these last few centuries immensely from the triumph of this idea and the manifestation of it in a supernational state as it went through these spurts and spasms. Something we must not let go unnoticed is that these original power brokers of the American revolutions created something so astounding in its scope that nearly no single soul born alive on Terra today is not touched somehow by it.

Indeed, we discuss today the rebirth of that social contract closer to its original form of early American political theory, only transmuted now for a Terran audience ready to band together in leaving nation-states, and human oppression, behind. It must happen, however, while keeping our eyes open in defiance towards the current false gods of a world unification evincing a design to reduce us under absolute despotism.

Let us focus and remember the first real spark that became a flame and why it matters more today than ever.

The Original Idea

When the American founders built the foundations of their experiment, they pulled from multiple historical records to understand where those before them went wrong, what made humanity consistently die under tyrannical or poor rulers, and what made the brief spurts of good leadership possible. Such was the way of Enlightenment thinkers, who believed in the strength of rationality, the idea that humans can sit and discover truths via reason and language, in describing the world and existence. Indeed, arguments and debates on Aristotle ⁵, Burke ⁶,