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Invisible Resistance To Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree World

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Intriquing title, but one that lets you down. While the author has a good grasp on the 'increasingly Unfree World' his solution is to continue to do nothing so no one will notice that you're doing something. The book offers few positive active suggestions for dealing with the cultural problem that he so clearly identifies. The book needs more develpment. It's like reading a recipe full of the correct ingredients for making a cakes only to find that the master chef tells you not to put it together or bake it lest you be noticed close to the ovens.

This book is largely an update of the author's earlier classic, _Secret Freedom Fighter: How To Fight Tyranny Without Terrorizing The Innocent._ Outdated information has been removed, and there is now references to things that happened since the first edition came out. I was one of those lobbying for the original to be reprinted, but this is better than a straight reprint would be.

Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree Worldas in his earlier(pre-911)book the author leans heavily on the leaderless resistance theme,however he takes a step back from the violent tactics of his first book preferring to focus on propaganda,education,and stuble lawbreaking.he wants the reader to establish contacts,build leaderless groups,collect intelligence(all underground of course)start propaganda newspapers etc.all in the hopes that someone else will take up arms.he does'nt want you to bleed for freedom,but eventually someone will!!!friend and foe alike (as there are few bloodless revolutions).the author realizes this time that it takes more than a few lone gunman,saboteurs to change the system(as in present day zimbabwe)though i don't see a totalitarian regime in my lifetime the overall theme is to continually challenge our public officials whether above ground or not(chapter 11"to break a tyrant's chains")our aim in the words of frederick douglass is to continually agitate!!! agitate!!! and to agitate!!! some more.

This was a recommended companion to Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken. Unfortunately, it falls amazingly short. For those already trying to fight the growing monstrosity that is our government, it contains little of any value and some bits that are actually counterproductive. For those who are not yet on board, it is written in such a way that it is very unlikely to get through to any of them. It is a repetitious and puerile mix of common sense and poor advice.

Be a Bad Citizen! Jefferson explains how the mindset of the "bad citizen" is infinitely preferable to that of the sheeplike "Good citizen" who obeys his masters without question but never seems to gain from it. Bad Citizens are much better friends and neighbors, that's for certain. Spend the money and study this book --it won't take that long and you'll have a fairly concrete yardstick by which to measure yourself: Am I a free citizen or am I a government apologist?

There is never anything wrong with questioning something, but this book is laid out to make a person supposedly feel like they are someone doing something rebellious while staying within the lines. Please, do not apply the word "insurgent" to someone walking a picket line or fighting the IRS paper trail, that is truly ridiculous nonsense.

The thing that appealed to me about this book is that it has a spectrum of situations and what the author feels is appropriate action within different possibilities.