Welcome to my Paragon Theory, a Gateway to a New World of Personal & Financial Freedom.
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The 7 Steps to Freedom Step 1: Declare Your Personal Independence
It’s probably already obvious to you that freedom is under threat. No matter where you look you see evidence of more controls, more regulations, more surveillance, more corruption, more police powers - and more desperate actions by politicians.
Ever since 9/11 the global financial system has been under a “security” lock-down, with ever-more reporting requirements and ever-higher barriers to entry. And ever since the mortgage-backed securities debacle western democracies have been under intense economic pressure - witnessed most recently in the threat of sovereign debt defaults in Europe and beyond. This threatens the economic base of all democratic social welfare systems, and inhabitants of such countries are not likely to take drastic “belt-tightening” lying down. Rather, such debt-induced squeezes could result in various forms of mass revolt.
All this is putting the squeeze on ordinary people, as financial institutions and even governments get “bailed out” at the expense of present and future tax payers. This squeeze and potential civil unrest has rather unpleasant ramifications for your personal and financial freedom - and you need to seriously consider your options.
The one option you cannot ignore is the need to preserve and secure what you have - your life, livelihood and assets.
The very first step on the freedom road is getting your head in the right place, and having the right mindset. And this mindset is best described as the determination to declare your personal independence. If you’re an American you will probably be able to quote the following. And even if you’re not American, you’ll likely have heard it before:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Of course, the above is the first sentence of the Preamble to the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Those words are revolutionary. Why? Because throughout history man’s lot on earth has been primarily one of subjugation and slavery. The American Revolution represents the first time in history an explicit declaration was made as regards to man’s moral right to freedom.
Consider these words carefully: “… Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”. What do those words mean to you? How woud you define life, liberty and happiness?
What is life? It’s something you possess. It includes your body, your mind, your mental, creative and productive capacities, your ability to take action, to communicate, to form relationships, to work and produce.
What is liberty? It’s the opposite of slavery. It’s the freedom to live your life as you see fit, without being subject to the will of others, and to grant others the same right, to not impose your will on them.
What is happiness? It’s what every human being seeks - to be happy. An absolute precondition of being happy requires that you have full control over your own life, body, mind, actions - and full control over any and all productive or creative derivatives of your life. Having a right to the pursuit of happiness is not a guarantee of happiness, rather that you have the moral right to take whatever actions necessary to achieve such a goal - consistent with the liberty of others.
All the above can be summarised in the concept of “self ownership”. You are a self-owner. In order to be free, you cannot be owned by anyone else - either person, organisation or state - you must be the owner of your ownlife.
In the past our forebears did not think to own themselves and were under one form of subjugation or another. They had a ruler. This ruler was usually a king or queen - the sovereign, the local chief or warlord, or a religious authority. The revolutionary words in the preamble of the US Declaration of Independence assert you should be free - that you should have no ruler, and that you have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of your own happiness.
In other words, this revolution in thinking turns the old use of the word ”Sovereign” on its head. Instead of you being the “subject” of a Sovereign (as in king or queen etc.), you are sovereign. You are the owner and ruler of your own life. And once you accept this moral position - that you are sovereign over your own life - then you are ready to take the practical steps necessary to make that soveriegnty, that freedom, a reality - by becoming a Sovereign Individual.
And how do you do that? The first step on this freedom road is to emancipate yourself from the idea of belonging to just one nation. Why? Because the nation you were born into makes a number of ownership claims against you - and enforces these claims in various destructive ways. In order for you to gain the freedom you desire you must dispense with the idea of being owned by just one country. You need to consider the whole world as your “home” and use, to your advantage, the rules, cultural norms and various opportunities that other nations provide.
The second step on this freedom road is to realise that your freedom depends on your ability to protect all your property - that is, your own life, your actions, thoughts, ideas, innovations, and all the tangible derivatives of your life - the things you produce or own.
These international property protection strategies can best be described as “going offshore” - meaning that you can make use of the conditions in other countries to enhance your own practical freedom. Such strategies include banking offshore, insuring yourself against fiat currency collapse, protecting your assets offshore, investing in more profitable foreign markets, and making arrangements - like alternate residencies or passports - for living elsewhere, should you need to.
These internationalist property protection strategies can be thought of as the 7 Steps to Freedom, which are:
- Step 1: Declare your personal independence (what you are reading now)
- Step 2: Protect your money with an offshore bank account
- Step 3: Buy gold and silver as money to protect your “cash”
- Step 4: Protect your assets with an offshore trust or company
- Step 5: Leverage your wealth by investing offshore
- Step 6: Maximise your freedom with a fully portable occupation
- Step 7: Obtain a second residency or passport as insurance
