Ya got THAT right!!

Indeed

Civil Liberties/Rights involve a government and legal arguments. Natural Individual Rights originate with owning oneself and are yours regardless of government or society.
They are conflated and confused in order to impose government rules on deciding what they are and limitations on them. Big difference.

Yet a number of popular books have not followed that path: Quarter Share series, Liaden series, and The Martian. These were all published online and word spread as to how good they were.

Jan

No, we are in a sort of emergency situation now.
There is at present no ideal candidate. While having
some grave reservations concerning Cruz, I think
he is the best alternative available at this time. Trump seems to me like an incipient dictator.
Not to be repetitious, but he is no free-enter-
prise man, he has praised eminent domain,
bragged about his lack of principle, and even
said he could change his positions based on
(political?) circumstances. From his recent
comments on David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan,
he seems out to prove that he can get away
with anything.
But if we can get a decent (or at least half-
way decent) President in there with a Republican
-majority Congress, perhaps we will be able to
turn this country around and save it; at least
to dodge the present bullets, and then work on
doing a real conversion to a right philosophy.

Was that a favorable opinion of his, beneficial to the towns people? or Was it a defensive posture because it took his power away from him.

That is key in determining a value creating conscious human being or a parasitical humanoid.
As I write often, it's all about conscience, those that have those that have not.

The home school movement; perhaps also promoting Montessori schools. And then, a gradual boycott.
Things have begun to change for the better in
that area already. I can remember when people
just didn't dare (at least in public) question
the desirability of the public schools; on the
media, someone would say "education", and it
seemed that everybody within earshot was ex-
pected to fall down and kowtow.
If someone didn't want to go to college, it was considered the job of everybody connected
with him to persuade him that he had to go, as if
it were necessary in order to save his soul. Not
nowadays.
I have seen change (and, believe me, I am
not a patient person by nature), from the way
things were 45 years ago.
One thing that can be done, on an individual
basis, is to teach phonics to children whom one
happens to know; bring in a Dr. Seuss book, and show a child how to put letters together and fig-
ure words out. This leads to confidence in one's
own ability to figure things out. This can be done
occasionally, in the presence of the child's par-
ents, often without monetary compensation,and
also sometimes even when the parents happen
to be religious. (Independence of thought can
eventually render it more likely that a child will
grow up to later adopt a more rational philosophy). --Sorry, I don't think it can be a-
chieved any time in the next 30 seconds.

It starts with the parents. Everyone else is a secondary provider of education - even the schools. Principles are formed at home and principles determine how one approaches education.

Yes and it was intentional...we must go underground on the internet...play their game!

Or perhaps an old fashioned newspaper and compete with the liberal rags.

Forgot to add the basic unit of government: Beyond one's own mind, there is the Anglo Saxon and Abrahamic idea of the family unit it self, then your neighbors...etc on up the line.

initially, the internet did that for us until the government figured out how to control it. Currently we escape sales taxes by buying stuff on the internet (except for amazon, which the government already captured). The NSA is making it impossible now to hide our transactions