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

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Summary: What ever happened to the idea of activism!?
Review: The author is well intentioned. But the concept of invisible resistance applies more to a dictatorship in which freedom of speech has already been removed. Sure, we are loosing freedoms left and right, and brutal repression could happen even in the US, perhaps even soon. But the internet is still working, the ACLU has not been shut down yet, and Amazon.com still hasn't been co-opted to remove certain books from it's list (has it?!).

One of the ideas presented in this book is to un-empower the government by paying fewer taxes, forcing it to get smaller. This would be achieved by earning less, and by living as much as possible off non-taxable goods such as vegetables from ones own victory garden and underground barter with neighbors. The problem is that people with this life style lack power because they lack money. Surely positive activism will be more effective than invisibility. Positive activism can raise money and therefore power. Plus, if you start a non-profit, all contributions will be tax deductible. I'll save this book in case the US is nuked and the a shadow government seizes totalitarian power. Then some of its ideas may be more useful.

Meanwhile, item 1 on the agenda should be the gutting of the Patriot act. Movements all across the country are working in this direction, and doing so openly without danger of censorship or reprisal.

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Summary: Excellent update of a classic
Review: 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of the author's earlier classic, _Secret Freedom Fighter: How To Fight Tyranny Without Terrorizing The Innocent._ Outdated information has been removed, and there is now references to things that happened since the first edition came out.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.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent update of a classic
Review: 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of the author's earlier classic, _Secret Freedom Fighter: How To Fight Tyranny Without Terrorizing The Innocent._ Outdated information has been removed, and there is now references to things that happened since the first edition came out.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.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: 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.