Community Governments

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Community Governments

Community governments are the means for people who are still citizens of a state to begin governing themselves and taking responsibility or their actions while helping to support and promote free sovereign self-governments.
We want to build a bridge between the governments of free sovereigns and Libertarian minded people who for what ever reason are still citizens of a state. By them forming their own community governments they can as much as possible govern themselves and provide their own services while cooperating with the governments of sovereigns to support each other in creating a freer world.

The OFCG encourages people everywhere to organize their own community governments. The governments may be formed while still living under the tyranny of the state, they are merely organizations of persons who live either in a local neighborhood or a larger social, cultural or common interest community. They join together under contracts pledging their support and cooperation to work together in all ways possible to provide the services to individuals and entities within the community that are currently provided by the state and to solve disputes among themselves so as to prevent them reaching the state's police and courts. They pledge to support each other economically and not do business with or support those persons or entities who show themselves to be enemies of free government.
   In communities of which many or all of the members are citizens of the state, they promise to do as much as is within their power to govern themselves, provide services and support each other and FSUTO. They agree to petition and protest the state to ease the tyrannical intrusions on their lives as they demonstrate their ability to effectively govern themselves and provide for the basic needs of all people within their community as well as help others outside of it, and show that they can regulate their own activities and businesses in a responsible way. The community governments will work with other free governments to provide larger services and support, whom they can find help with security, providing utilities, education, regulation of industries and the economy and social aid as well as other services.
   Citizens who are successfully governing themselves should seek exemption from the state from its regulation and some alleviation of its taxes or at least they can function independently as much as possible while working with free sovereign governments.
   While these community governments exist under the power of the state their goal is to do as much as possible independently from the state. People who join them pledge through their contract to have as little contact with and support of the state as possible and to do whatever is within their power to do to live freely and respect the sovereignty of other people while rejecting direct participation in any of the criminal actions of the state. A pledge to not accept any money from the state or to allow themselves, any of their businesses or organizations to be used by the state against the rights of others. Members of the community governments pledge to give full and unrestrained cooperation to free sovereign individuals and their governments in working to achieve common goals. They pledge to engage in free trade and to avoid paying taxes themselves as much as possible and to avoid state regulation as much as possible and in all things to work to organize and operate their activities with minimal contact, cooperation and compliance to the state.
   State governments are already overburdened by the numerous responsibilities that they have assumed, many municipal governments find it difficult to meet their budgetary needs. A municipal or even a state/provincial or national government may agree to reduce taxes and regulation for a group of people who are providing the same public services that the state provides with accountability and equal opportunity for all to use and participate in without taxes. A community government that creates its own police and other emergency services that are provided to the public, as described in Community Security, reduces the need and justification for forcibly stealing people's money to support the political police. At least allowing people to choose to support free police which would provide all public protection to all people within the area. As the state courts are clogged with many criminal and civil cases, people can setup community common law courts to at least handle some of the misdemeanors and civil suits an even some felonies when both parties agree to accept its judgment.
   Many other services can be handled by community governments, from; utilities to creating public parks or agreeing to take over the full management of public lands which would be open to the public, including paying for the maintenance costs, thereby alleviating one of the tax burdens.
Self governing persons should petition the state to allow consumers who wish, to have the opportunity to purchase products which have been inspected up to the level that the consumers demand by private internal regulatory services.
They should petition the state to give tax breaks or vouchers to parents to allow them the opportunity to choose their children's school. Community governments can open up schools within the community providing equal access to all children.
   When people realize that every service currently provided by the state can be provided through free consensual government in a way in which the services are operated more efficiently, at a higher quality, with greater accountability, with equal opportunity, with the ability for individuals to choose precisely which services they want, to what degree and how they want them, and this can all be done without taxes, there is no way that anyone can presume to justify the existence of the state, taxation or anything else it does. When a critical mass of people wake up to this fact there will be no force that can stop people from organizing free consensual governments and the coercive power of the state will simply wither and die.

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