Well said!

To me, there is the rule of law (harm no one) and then there is legislation (the rule of some men...).

I firmly believe that your ancestors had it right and that the new way will indeed be the old ways.

It sounds like we share similar problems. For a while I was looking into native tribes as potential people to join (My great great great grandmother was a native) but only a few tribes seem to be resisting and almost all of them seem to be pretty exclusionary.

So these days I'm working on permaculture while continuing to study common law and attempting to find enough work to keep things going until I become fully self sufficient.

It's too bad that european diseases wiped out so many natives... this might well be a different land if they had not. Then again, things are what they are and we can only move forward in time, learn from the past, and attempt to make a better future.

The fact that most people in this country cannot see the authoritarianism and past (and current) criminality of those in power just boggles the mind. I didn't see it clearly until I was about 23... even though I knew something was very wrong.