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Gregory Flanagan Director, Libertocracy Association

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Strategies of Protest

It is the duty of all freedom loving people to protest all forms of injustice, not only injustice against oneself, but all injustice. People who recognize the injustice yet say nothing against it give their tacit approval and support for it. To protest injustice is not limited to merely speaking against it, protest is a multi-facetted action, that begins with speech that exposes and denounces the injustice and is supported with resistance to it, this resistance must take the form of as many different actions as possible that is justified and strategically sound.
We must hold marches, rallies and sit-ins at places that are strategically important and against those who have committed or supported violations of individual rights or have demonstrated a contempt for human rights. We must organize massive worldwide demonstrations against the compressors of humanity, a global movement in support of full human rights for all people to live in freedom.

Media
Protest begins by speaking against the injustice by using every available media attainable. We must seek media attention on radio and television by getting our people on talk shows, the news, in entertainment, and documentaries. Most important is the effort to get our people permanently into different types of media where they will be able to make decisions over what gets on the air.
We must protest media propaganda and anti-social content by writing letters, protesting in front of the media offices and TV studios.

Political
Protesters should write letters to newspapers, they should call, send e-mail, write letters and try to meet with politicians to protest unjust actions by the state and suggest positive actions to correct them. We are eager to lend our support and work with anyone, even politicians, to enact better policies to correct social problems.
The Libercratic Party is our universal political organization which is committed to infiltrating all other political organizations and taking them over completely and using that power to institute universal Libercratic government.
A primary strategy of political protest is our goal of recruiting a large organization of protesters who will volunteer to work regularly protesting specific sites. We want to have groups of protesters at the sites regularly every day during business hours. Specifically we want people protesting every single building and other site where the political cartel operates. We want people protesting at the White House and Capital Building every single day they are in session or that the president is in residence and eventually to protest every single day, during daylight hours and at night when Congress is in session. We want to protest every federal building in Washington, to protest the Supreme Court when in section, to protest the IRS, FBI, CIA, all of the various departments and other Federal agencies and to protest the Pentagon constantly. We want protesters in front of every single state legislature, governor's mansion, state Supreme Court, at parliament buildings around the world, prime minister's office or residence and other political entities worldwide, we must protest the U.N., NATO, European Union offices and military bases around the world, and protest local institutions; mayor's offices, local assemblies, school boards and local police stations. If it is operated by the state we must protested it constantly by stating our case, condemning them for their injustices and clearly explaining our intentions and willingness to work with anyone who is willing to work to correct the injustices of the state and secure human rights for all. We must be visible, in their face, demanding to be heard by the politicians and to be covered by the media to get our message out to the world.

Businesses
Investment and Boycott
We must invest and do business with a concern for social responsibility, we must invest and do business only with those companies and other businesses which are inclined toward support of Libercratic principles. Most of all we must invest with true Libercratic companies and give our support to Libercratic businesses, but we must use our money to influence other businesses by making them compete for our support and by doing so encouraging them to become more Libercratic.
   We must make it very clear that if a business wants our money, they must be willing in good faith to take positive action toward Libercratic policies and support Libertocracy as much as they can.
We will further clarify our intent to support those businesses which are fully Libercratic and boycott those which are not so that a Libercratic business in a local area or a company who is the only Libercratic supplier of a product will get our total support while we boycott all others.
   We must develop an investment strategy that concentrates our capital on Libercratic companies while developing an investment network that seeks to bring in other capital to invest in Libercratic companies. While this is of vital importance, it is also important to develop an investment strategy for taking over large and important corporations which are either necessary because of economic realities or are simply so large that our best strategy is to take them over by buying up their shares than it would be to boycott them into submission.
   Our boycott of a giant corporation may have only negligible effects, yet by building any investment network we may be able to gain enough shares to influence corporate policy. Besides boycotting companies who are enemies of individual rights we must actively and visibly protest them at their corporate offices, in front of their stores, on the web and publicize our protest in the media, to ridicule them and make them look bad by exposing their policies and trying to convince people to stop doing business with them until they at least demonstrate a good faith willingness to begin improving their policies so as to better serve individual rights.

Networking
We must build a network of people, organizations and businesses who are supportive of Libercratic principles and goals, we must use that network for political power to influence policies and as an economic force to put pressure on businesses to become more Libercratic. And we must use our network to lead other political organizations to be supportive of Libercratic principles by forming coalitions and reconciling any differences between us while never compromising our principles. It is in our interest to compromise when it comes to strategies in order to achieve gradual gains in power and changes in policy that begin partially achieving our goals, while still pursuing the ultimate goals. No one should expect to instantly transform the world, every goal must be achieved through a gradual step by step process.
Organizations
We must communicate with and work with as many different organizations who are concerned about the human condition as possible and encourage them to seek Libercratic solutions to problems. The Human Liberation Alliance is our most important Libercratic non-profit organization which must be the leader in forming a greater alliance with the largest possible diversity of organizations and leading the protest movements and their strategy. We will lend our support and resources and are willing to work with others to achieve positive goals. Just as we recruit the support of outside organizations, we must infiltrate those organizations and influence their policies as well to turn them toward Libercratic thinking.

Letter Writing Campaigns
People must speak out against injustice, when you see or read something outrageous in the media or are upset by political policies or proposals, write letters (postal, e-mail, fax), to the source of the problem and e-mail your comrades to do the same.
We need to organize volunteers who will gather and disseminate information about subjects which are in need of people writing letters to complain or offer suggestions and coordinate actions. In this way we can bombard the offices of politicians and the media with demands for them to change their policies.

Marches & Rallies
Organizing large marches and rallies are among the best ways to make people, and especially the media, take notice, it also draws many people into the movement and directs collective action under a structured leadership that translates into other benefits.