So, as the resident “edgy” writer here, one of the first things I was asked to write about was the black market. Fortunately, this is a subject with which I’m familiar, and an article like this could come at few better times. The fact is, we’re entering a time of unprecedented loss of privacy and increasement of tyranny. For those of you who’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’ve been recently writing about something that I’ve been banging the drum on for years, which is the slow advancement of a massive technocratic surveillance state which is designed to not only manipulate public opinion, but drive the masses, while they funnel their way into the slaughterhouse.

People are accepting a huge amount of privacy invasion, and the police get more militarized by the day, mimicking and mirroring the presence of an unnecessary military presence around the globe, maintained for the purposes of spreading hegemonic empire like a cancer. And the fact is, with the new panic over coronavirus, a host of people are accepting a host of new and dazzling links in a mass enslavement chain under the guise of “public health”. Everything is going contact-free, everyone is going to have an ID permanently linked to all of their information, and the push they’re driving at for a cashless society is being muscled through with stimulus checks and no change at cash registers, ushering people into the new digital dollar on a mandatory blockchain.

The elites have been planning all of this for a long time, which is why some of the chief seats at the Bilderberg group wanted a privacy-free solution to getting into the blockchain market. The existence of a Gemini exchange and the fact that many corporations tried to latch onto the cryptocurrency bandwagon, right at the same time as the Digital Dollar Project, back boned by the same Accenture company which is back boning the mandatory facial recognition ID being posted everywhere as an acceptable solution to vaccination and disease control, should be very concerning to anyone who values their privacy.

These people are not your friends, yet they constantly send you a friend request in the form of new laundry lists of regulations. Hell, they’ve been so stalled in talks of how to help poor people during this pandemic that they can’t even get a talk done on how to centrally intervene in the economy the same way they already have, and the same way that they bailed out major corporations and banks many times before, because ultimately, you’re the last concern. Military spending alone is 934 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year, and that’s $2,558,904,110 A DAY. To put that in perspective, the recent coronavirus stimulus only sent 292.37 billion dollars to the average American, divided amongst a bunch of people (living and dead – yeah there are lots of zombie checks floating around), which means the US government cares around three times more about killing people overseas than keeping people here alive, assuming the stimulus is actually good for people, and not a massive example of the broken window fallacy in action (Hint: It’s the broken window fallacy).

But another profitable spending sector is the intelligence sector, with public disclosures of funding requests for this year being at around 62 billion dollars, not at all to account for the regular black budgets they don’t disclose, so that they can continue to get away with a host of things that otherwise might seem unscrupulous. You know. If people knew about them. And this intelligence community can only benefit from the inclusion of yet more invasive tools against our privacy. This is why they’ve been attacking encryption, as I wrote about months ago. It’s why they have been installing 5G signals everywhere, so that they can have extremely low latency on many devices, and cover the world in spy equipment for their purposes. It’s why they like the coronavirus, and people’s sudden demand for contact free ways to access the same corporate hellscape we’ve always had. Because the more they can interfere in your daily life, the less they have to work to keep you under the thumb of the United States government, and constantly beholden to their interests.

They’re finding ways to tie all activity to your identity, and make a permanent identity which is difficult, if not legally impossible, to ditch. The panopticon is growing ever more transparent for the prisoners, and ever more opaque for the guards, and the only way out is to try and find ways to obscure that identity and not get caught. This is where things like the black market come in. So let’s get into a defense of the black market, followed by some basic things you should know to interface with it. This is by no means a complete guide, but it’s enough to get someone started, and pointed in the right direction.

In Defense of the Black Market

Before I get into the minutiae of the black market itself, I feel it’s prudent to respond to another article on this site, with some valid, if explainable, criticisms of the black market. I respect my fellow writer Storm Delagora, and since this is on the same site, it would seem in bad form, and also mildly contradictory, if not hypocritical, not to respond to his criticisms prior to telling people how to access this marketplace. So with that being said, I’ll go through his criticisms, and try to offer some sort of way to explain the black market response to them.

I’ll start with his point about accountability. He claims that the black market is unaccountable, and that the primary reason for that unaccountability is unscrupulous actors coming into a market where demand outweighs supply. He concludes the criticism by saying, “The black market supplier knows that you cannot use the existing legal system for compensation, and if you report the supplier you are likely to get caught up in the police action yourself.”

I believe this sentiment fails for multiple reasons. The first is that the state maintains a monopoly on violence, yes, but only the “legitimate” use of violence. Anyone who knows anything about doing illegal activities knows that those illegal activities are regularly the subject of much violence. This means that the black market itself exists in an environment where the state’s monopoly on violence is being challenged. No, given the fact that the only reason the state is considered a mechanism of accountability at all is because of the inherent threat of violence that comes with the choice to disobey them, or act outside their will, it’s clear to anyone familiar with anarchist thought that this accountability is merely a proxy concept poorly acting as a veneer over violence. This means that any threat to their violence monopoly is also inherently a threat to their monopoly on this alleged accountability. In the same way that there are force escalations in every other society, there would be force escalations in an agorist one. Obviously peace is an option, but it might be unsustainable if one was regularly reputable for being easy to take advantage of, with no long term consequences for doing so. As they say, an armed society is a polite society. I’ll be touching on that a little bit later too. But peace isn’t even an option with the state, as everything they do carries with it the threat of violence, and ultimately death. Every law is a lifted gun, and all state edicts are ultimately death threats. Remember, you don’t point a gun at anything you don’t want to destroy.

This makes the answer to this particular part of the conundrum relatively simple. If you want to replace the violent statist accountability mechanism, all you need to do is also be violent. Plenty of people already involved in the black market know this well, which is why they have armed protection, and contract enforcement, in the network of agents to deal with people who don’t hold up their end of deals. Depending on how expensive somebody’s black market is, their network of support in the case of fraud is going to be extensive to the same degree.

Essentially, people form groups of people designed to protect their interests in the black market in the same way that they do in all other markets, and all other potential social paradigms. These can be misused, obviously. But so can the state. So it’s clear that there are accountability mechanisms available, and to say that they’d be less reliable or less present than the ones the state has isn’t really an argument, and there’s no real basis for it. Of course, not everybody wants to get involved in a group like that, especially since from cradle to grave people are told that anyone in organized violence aside from the state is evil. If you don’t believe me, try walking down the street in a group of armed people, without permits for some kind of protest. Just because you have the right. Wait for some Karen to call the cops on you, despite you breaking no laws inherently.

But then again, freedom is messy, yet somehow often the chaos that arises from it is more orderly than any sort of “order” which arises from the state, which is why agorism can provide some of the most beautiful situations possible. And the fact that other people’s protection networks have been handled in a way that is considered unscrupulous does not mean all of them have to be, so yours could be very well handled, if you so chose, or if you chose a better manager than yourself, to do it. Non state accountability is possible, and something I might write a full article on at some point, but suffice it to say if you’re too much of a nimby to handle forming your own protection circles, or joining one, the black market might not be for you, and you might have to hide behind the state until the black market eventually becomes the free market. The rest of us will still participate as we wish.

But Storm seems to acknowledge this paradigm in his next paragraph, admitting that some of these protection rings I’ve been mentioning have grown powerful enough to launch people’s political careers. This is true. The state is cancer and it infects everything it touches. This could include one’s protection circle, which might form into a protection racket, or a gang. Or, as I like to put it, gangs are just government, but smaller. And government is the biggest gang of all. So it’s ultimately up to you to make sure that what you’re involved in is something you can ethically cosign, and if you can’t, but you still do it anyway, the ethics of this situation have been determined by your actions and nobody else’s, and you should take responsibility. That is, unless you’re one of the reasons that accountability is such a concern, given your desire for being unaccountable. I’ve read enough of Storm’s posts to tell you that he values accountability very highly, and would have no problem participating in a protection circle which operated to his ethical desires, and only participating in those black market activities which also suit his ethical desires, so I don’t think he would be part of this problem, meaning there’s a way out of this problem which is relatively easy to do. Just follow your conscience. As you would anywhere else.

Now to the point I agree with. I 100% agree that the black market acts as a pressure release mechanism for the state, allowing it to get away with lots of abuses and usurpations that would make the founders blush. The assessment of the black market as a way for people to live just comfortably enough to not resist is extremely accurate. So let’s be clear, Storm is correct on this. If you want to read his broader description of why that is, feel free. The link is right here.

That said, I think he misses a vital half of the equation here. One that a lot of people interested in peaceful rebellion don’t often consider. I also briefly touched on it earlier, and said I’d come back to it. That is, that the state is a monopoly on violence. This means a primary tool of the state is to frustrate other forms of violence, and ensure that the only violence which can happen without consequence is violence that they endorse. This means that they also have a monopoly on certain armaments, and certain equipment necessary to a potential rebellion. It gives them a disproportionate power advantage which most people have no way of crushing. Because of that, and because of the nature of the black market as normally relatively anonymous, which I’ll get into later, the same black market which pacifies some people might be some other peoples’ way of getting access to the tools necessary to uh… lose them in a boating accident. Yes. A tragic, unfortunate, cripplingly emotionally devastating boating accident. We’ll go with that.

But another point I’d like to make before we get into how to actually interface is that a lot of the fear people have about the black market is directly related to misinformation, disinformation, and outright double standards. I mean, let’s be clear. There’s a ton of laws on the books, and it’s almost impossible to go through a normal day without breaking at least one. The state has done this on purpose. Abraham Lincoln didn’t actually abolish slavery, all he did was make it so that you had to be a criminal in order to be enslaved. That’s not a great arrangement for all the people swept up in the excessive amount of legislation on the books, nor is it great for all the people disproportionately targeted by the police. As we’re seeing there’s a huge movement to oppose that sort of super statism, but that movement is just the tip of the iceberg, given the fact that most laws aren’t even known to the general public, because they’re either too opaque, too unreasonably written, or simply too numerous to know, which means that essentially, the entire system is rigged it to create a class of criminals. That way, the state can justify its current size, expand due to ballooning populations, and create the new class of slaves from the ground up, with most people approving of the practice generally. That’s why Kamala Harris can get in as a “progressive” candidate, even though she relied on that slave labor to fight fires cheaply. If she had to pay people normal wages, she claims that it would have been harder to fund that service. Well poor her. She would have had to do a better job. How terrible.

My point is that there is no chance that whoever is reading this is not already a “criminal” by the state’s arbitrary and vapid standards, and if part of the reason you’re a criminal is that you engaged in some sort of market activity which was not strictly regulated in the way that the state would approve, congratulations, you have engaged in a black market activity. You are now a black marketeer. Whether you exchanged unregulated produce with a neighbor from their front yard garden, bought unregulated lemonade on the side of the street from some kid, or maybe bought some cookies from their competitors, which weren’t the official regulated girl scout variety, but something built for a bake sale, you are now officially participating in the terrible, scary, evil thing that government wants you to run away from at all costs.The truth is, the vast majority of black market interactions are peaceful. And they happen with people not thinking there’s a criminal at all. This is because on some level, people know that where there’s no victim there is no crime. This is the foundation for a lot of anarchist thought.

But what’s interesting is that the state itself is fundamentally aggressive, having obtained everything they possess by force, and maintaining their empire through the initiation of yet more force, and the maintenance of the same and ever greater levels of force against the people they claim to serve. The state is nothing more than a gang, the great Lysander Spooner assessed by saying:

“If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. If any man’s money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.”

With this definition in mind, it’s no wonder that these people would want you to believe that any of their competition is somehow an evil or unscrupulous group. they have to maintain the illusion that they are the ethical parties so that you do not revolt against them, so they exercise trauma bonding and encourage Stockholm syndrome so that their subjects will not resist them, or seek alternatives at the very least.

All rights have been threatened by the state, even globally — governments now are bigger than they ever have been, and more complex and expensive than ever before, so they must maintain a significant amount more force in order to keep up the facade of their power, since ultimately, there are many more of us still than there are of them, even though there are more of them than there ever were before. So while they traffic in unethical actions, they accuse you of being unethical for seeking any alternatives to them, and they will prosecute you as such.

This rote hypocrisy is something which I regularly use to show people the inconsistency of supporting the state while claiming a lack of government would cause such chaos as is normally assumed. And I believe firmly that this, along with all of the other supports I’ve included, handily nail the coffin shut on the idea that the black market is unethical, or ineffective, in pursuit of liberty. The state is, and has shown itself to be, the enemy of liberty. And the black market is a liberation mechanism. It has some drawbacks, sure. Everything does. But even the most compelling criticism of black markets, which is the necessity to interface with the same market overwhelmingly comprised of gangs and thugs, does not hold up to scrutiny when one realizes that the state itself are gangs and thugs, meaning there’s no meaningful distinction between the worst elements of the black market and the best elements of the state. The “difference”  becomes both facile and asinine, and bears no merit of mention in reasoned conversation. Now let’s get into how to actually use it.

Your Bases — Cover Them

So, here are some basics before getting into this. First, don’t give your actual address to anyone you interact with on the dark web. Find a third-party address like a post office box, or ideally a private mailbox, or something similar to receive packages. There’s literally no bigger self-pwn than giving somebody access to your home address, so that you can either be preyed upon by an unscrupulous third party, looking to take advantage of the fact that they now know you’ve participated in illegal activity, or an outright malicious entity like the government running a honeypot sting operation in order to trick people trying to get freedom into their own enslavement. Use a fake name, and don’t give them your address. You are not you, and if anyone expects you to be anything more than anonymous, don’t trust their black market activities. They might not be as black as they say they are, and not in a Joe Biden kind of way.

Next up is not using your primary computer as your tool for accessing this network. Or, if you’re using a phone, not using your primary phone. Make everything you habitually use to access this burnable. You might need to destroy it at some point to cover an evidence trail. It’s unlikely, but it’s possible. Really, this is good advice for doing anything on the deep web in general. It’s also good general advice for doing anything you don’t want the government to know about which is why this ties into agorism nicely.

In the same spirit of not giving any real information out, if you want to participate actively in the black market, there is an easy way to sabotage yourself. You’re going to need cryptocurrency. That’s pretty much a requirement, and if anybody wants to deal in something that is not cryptocurrency, they’re probably trying to entrap you using one of the many services that offer fiat currency transactions online. This entraps people, because they don’t remember the fact that a lot of those fiat currency options use know-your-customer tools, such as ID verification, in order to access services. This includes PayPal, Coinbase, and a variety of other fiat exchange services. Don’t use these unless they’re your only option, and don’t directly transfer funds from those services to the black market, at any time. A lot of people think that as soon as they get a cryptocurrency they are private. This is far from true, as one of the elements of cryptocurrency that makes it better than fiat currency is the idea that you can constantly audit transactions, on most blockchains. This means that if you do something on the blockchain that you don’t want somebody to know about, connecting it to anything that’s connected to your ID is a poor choice, and destines you to failure.

PGP/Encryption

This part is important. Any of these interactions have the potential to be seen by a third party, and that third-party might be the government, a network administrator, anyone really. In order to prevent that, learn to use encryption software. I have an article about how to do that in terms of normal communications, but the actual barebones utility that best suits most of these online black market transactions is PGP. So figure out how to use that. If you can’t figure out PGP, there’s not much reason to describe how to use the Black market online, because it’s only uphill from there. Basically, PGP operates by having a massive encryption key which enables you to make whatever document it’s used to decrypt private, and only decrypted by people who have the key. Oftentimes, this is used as a way to encrypt emails, sensitive documents, private chat messages, government files, and more. But in this case, you’ll probably primarily be using it in order to create information pages for transactions.

You don’t want to send, for instance, an address, or a name, or any other sort of personally identifiable information unsecured over the Internet, pretty much ever. But if you’re doing something you don’t want the state to see, it’s especially important to cover your bases. So use something at least as good as PGP, and if some seller isn’t willing to negotiate with you on those terms, it might be a good idea to find another seller.

TOR

TOR, or “The Onion Router” secures your data by wrapping it in multiple layers of encryption, each sent to various computers on the network so that they can read the instructions and decrypt the file until it exits at an exit node. And as Satoshi Nakamoto once said, “You could use Tor if you don’t want anyone to know you’re even using Bitcoin.”

My friend who introduced me to the concept in high school called it a bouncy ball. The idea is that it bounces between so many different computers in an unreadable format without the decryption key that can’t be read until it’s fully decrypted, which is why many online black market activities involve use of this network. You don’t want this traffic to be easy to read, after all. You use Tor in order to encrypt and decrypt traffic, and also specifically to access websites that operate on the onion network, called deep web sites. These sites operate by .onion addresses, and usually have a rather hectic URL, so people save lists of the sites they want to visit normally.

Somebody who’s used to accessing the black market probably has a list of links that they could choose to reveal or not, but mostly you need to find the site that works for you. These will vary between users. But Tor gets the job done for a decent chunk of people, and because of that, it’s a mainstay in most guides for accessing the deep Web. Also, If you plan to make regular use of Tor, it would be wise to get software that automatically routes your traffic through the network, so you don’t have to worry about it. A lot of the time, people will assume that as soon as they get Tor, they are secure. This couldn’t be further from the truth. So take power into your own hands, and get something like Tallow which is a transparent Tor layer for all of your windows browsing activity, which attempts to route all internet traffic, regardless of the application, through Tor. Although, again. You really shouldn’t be doing black market activities on the computer you normally use. Try to have an isolated computer that’s specifically used for this purpose, so that any files containing personal information, which could trace back to you, are not connected to the same files that might have been used in the commission of a “crime”.

Tor Alternatives

But some people aren’t happy with just using Tor, and those people have some valid security concerns for the application. Namely, they’re concerned about the computers that operate the nodes, and especially the exit nodes. Not only has there been some suspicion lately that Bitcoin has been compromised on the network, but the network itself is decentralized, meaning you’re trusting your data at all points in the network to not be compromised. Depending who you ask, this is either acceptable or not, but assuming it’s not acceptable, there are some alternatives to using it. There’s the i2p network, which is considered slightly more secure in some ways than Tor, and also faster since nodes in the network are selected based on performance rather than reputation, but some people say that even though that’s an alternative, it’s not a real meaningful alternative in terms of privacy. A lot of people would rather use something like Freenet, where you simply store your data yourself, whether on your own hardware, or in a VPS somewhere. and some other people would rather have that same amount of flexibility, but with more of the original Tor ethos in mind, which is why they use ZeroNet. I wrote about ZeroNet already in my article about social media censorship, so if you’re interested in that, feel free to check that out. But ultimately, your data could potentially be insecure in any ecosystem, and it’s not necessarily secure in anything I’ve listed. You’re taking a risk engaging with any market, but especially the black market. It’s your risk to take, and I hereby release liability – for legal reasons this entire article is a joke.

So you have your special computer, and you have PGP, and Tor or an alternative – now what?

Tails

My first, and easiest recommendation, is using Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) for accessing things safely in general. Not only because it’s another opportunity for me to fit yet more Sonic references into what I write, but because it’s one of the easiest ways to anonymize, ever.

All you have to do is install this thing on a USB drive with the specs the site recommends, and you already have a plug and play system for anonymity. It runs on a Debian Linux framework, meaning it’s almost completely virus resistant, given the fact that it has a virus averse permission structure, and runs on windows, Mac, and Linux, flawlessly. Just install it on external media, plug it into your machine, and you have an entirely new operating system, on your desktop. It operates using the Tor system already, fudges MAC addresses, and anonymizers your traffic through TOR. And given that that’s where a decent chunk of online black market activities come from, you’re gonna need to get that anyway.

Best part, if you suspect that you’ve been compromised in one way or another, and you’re concerned about having been watched while you did whatever you did, it’s just a cheap flash drive, and you can destroy it very easily. They can’t use against you what they don’t know you did. And if you’re still concerned about privacy on top of any use of Tor, you can always get a Tor-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN), or make a VPN of your own, using some minor tech skills. And as to not knowing what you did, one of the other benefits of Tails is the ability to turn off persistence, meaning data you record in a session will be deleted as soon as Tails is shut down. It’s an optional feature, and some people don’t turn it on, because they want to save the work they’re doing. But if all you wanna do is buy something and split, the best way is a system which deletes your data immediately. If, for some reason, you don’t want that level of ease, feel free to set it up on your computer. My advice for this is similar to my advice for setting it up through Tails. Make sure you do it from a virtual machine, or on a PC you don’t care about. You don’t want your primary system to be the first one seen by whoever might be looking. There are easy ways to do this, and hard ways to do this, and they vary depending on your security needs, and the strength of your computer hardware.

Whonix

One of the easier ways is to install Whonix, but you need a reasonably powerful machine in order to do that. What Whonix does is it creates its own virtual machine, and then operates their version of Tor inside that virtual machine. This makes it very hard to get your IP, and since it’s still a Linux Debian joint, you’re still going to have an easy time avoiding many viruses. It isolates itself from your computer comment so outside attackers would have no way of even knowing sensitive information like your IP. But it’s also extremely heavy in terms of processing power, when compared to Tails. That’s the reason this won’t really fit on a thumb drive. Not some cheap low volume one you can get from Walmart anyway. Suffice it to say, whatever machine you put this on you probably wouldn’t want to destroy. And unlike Tails, information has persistence, meaning it opens you up to vulnerabilities should your device ever be compromised. This is why I always push Tails in this regard, because it’s an easy way to leave no trace, deleting your data as soon as you turn it off. Also, honorary mention – if you don’t like Tails or Whonix, and feel like you want more control, go with Freepto. It’s a little trickier to go completely anon, but that’s part of the point — you decide how anon you want to be.

So you have your anon rig, your OS, and your privacy features – you’re good, right? Wrong.

Shuffle Your Deck

A lot of people have gotten to this point and thought that this was all they needed, and they ended up exposing themselves to many vulnerabilities in terms of their privacy, not the least of which was the currency they used. A common problem with the way messaging is delivered in regards to this sort of thing is that often people will immediately call something private, when it’s anything but. For instance, part of the reason that Bitcoin is good is because it operates on a public ledger, which can’t be altered. This means that if you make a public transaction on this network, there is no way to anonymize it once it’s there. So you should take precautions once you decide you want to get into this sort of activity, to ensure that your traces are covered, and your activities can’t be actively traced back to your identity. We wouldn’t want to learn how to use PGP encryption for nothing, only to be spooked by the existence of the blockchain itself. That’s where coin joining comes in. Or cashshuffling, or a host of other potential cryptocurrency anonymizing tactics which would usually require a software or access to a website that does this for you. I like Wasabi wallet, because it’s relatively simple to use, and it has some of the best shuffling in the business, in my opinion. There are a variety of other ways to do this, but Wasabi is my preferred method, so it’s what I have pinned to my taskbar. A lot of people also recommend using privacy coins, because they believe those coins to be safer by default. There is sort of a problem with these, and that’s that they still operate on a blockchain. So somebody with access the information could still theoretically figure that out. When you anonymize Bitcoin, you’re doing a much better job of covering your traces, because it operates by mixing your transaction with a bunch of other people’s transactions, so that it looks like the same transactions, and all the numbers are semi randomized, which is a layer of security you don’t get by simply trusting privacy coins. It’s also why most deep web sites will not take anything but Bitcoin. Bitcoin is often considered more trustworthy than most of the other coins for the reason that there is so much of it, so much traffic, and you can anonymize it yourself using something like Wasabi.

It’s All Coming Together Now…

So you have your operating system. you have your optional VPN, see you can access these networks without revealing your IP. You have your data encryption method, so you can effectively prevent the data from being seen as it travels across the network. You’ve shuffled your coins, so that you can put them through on a PC which is not your primary PC, to distance yourself from potential crimes. That means you can access the black market safely, right? Not necessarily. The state is a cancer. And ultimately, they have many ways of tracing this sort of thing, and there might even be ways that I don’t know about that they could trace you. Ultimately, this is why they hate cash.

They hate cash, and in-person transactions, because it removes the ease of access to information which digital transactions provide them. This is why they want every transaction visible to the state, so that they can audit everything, and make sure that they get their thieve’s cut of whatever transaction happens, and so that they can enforce their arbitrary edicts on the people whom they enslave. I didn’t cover in-person transactions, because I figured people who knew a guy probably already do black market transactions and didn’t need a tutorial on how, and I also figured that people who wanted to find a guy could probably do it without my assistance. Generally in-person transactions are done with a network of trust, and don’t really require an online tutorial from some longhair conspiracy theorist with anger issues.

But the state hates that level of privacy, and they hate the fact that you can do things off the record, which is why if you’ve read my articles here for a bit you know the state is trying for a digital dollar on a blockchain, completely centralized and auditable by the Federal Reserve, whereby they can constantly monitor all transactions that happen within the US. They also hate encryption, and have made multiple legislative attempts to completely destroy it recently, some of which have been successful. They want to destroy your ability to encrypt, so that they can constantly monitor everything you do and say, and they want to centralize blockchain use to a government audited blockchain, so that they can make sure you’re not using blockchain technology for anything of which they do not approve. They see the power of the tools I’ve mentioned for awhile for both good and evil, and they know which side they’re on. They are there for control, and they want to completely dominate every aspect of your life they can get away with. So maybe, before they attempt any of the things they’d like to, and exact final control over your life, you could use the guide I provided here in order to procure yourself some means of defense from the attacks on your liberty which are coming. The power is ultimately in your hands for a lot of these things, and if you chose to, you could be much more powerful than you otherwise would have been.

But hey. I’m an insane conspiracy theorist. People make jokes about tin foil around me a lot because they have issues accepting alternative information. But if you need to totally discount everything I say, about the dystopian nightmare which is coming, feel free to still use this guide. The fact is, the state has made it very difficult to procure means of defense, and ultimately, made every one of us less safe. They’ve also made it harder to obtain prescription medication, protecting protectionist rackets in the pharmaceutical industry which artificially jack up prices, and keep people out with government regulations. They’ve also criminalized many actively useful medications, and put some medications on schedule one, the indicator for no medicinal value, despite countless research which has proven it has it. Here’s looking at you marijuana. The state is a massive interference engine, which benefits financially from interference at every point in the transactional chain. It’s an evil institution, and it gets away with its sin with a failed mask of virtue called “legitimacy”. Max Weber put it well, in his lecture “Politics as a Vocation,” stating:

“The relation between the state and violence is an especially intimate one. In the past, the most varied institutions ­­beginning with the sib­ ­have known the use of physical force as quite normal. Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Note that ‘territory’ is one of the characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence. Hence, ‘politics’ for us means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.”

SEKIII elaborated on what that meant 60 years later in “The New Libertarian Manifesto”:

“We are coerced by our fellow human beings. Since they have the ability to choose to do otherwise, our condition need not be thus. Coercion is immoral, inefficient and unnecessary for human life and fulfillment. Those who wish to be supine as their neighbors prey on them are free to so choose; this manifesto is for those who choose otherwise: to fight back. To combat coercion, one must understand it. More importantly, one must understand what one is fighting for as much as what one is fighting against. Blind reaction goes in all directions negative to the source of oppression and disperses opportunity; pursuit of a common goal focuses the opponents and allows formation of coherent strategy and tactics. Diffuse coercion is optimally handled by local, immediate self-defense. Though the market may develop larger-scale businesses for protection and restoration, random threats of violence can only be dealt with roots of mysticism and delusions planted deep in the victims’ thinking, requires a grand strategy and a cataclysmic point of historical singularity: Revolution. Such an institution of coercion, centralizing immorality, directing theft and murder, and co-ordinating oppression on a scale inconceivable by random criminality exists. It is the Mob of mobs, Gang of gangs, Conspiracy of conspiracies. It has murdered more people in a few recent years than all the deaths in history before that time; it has stolen in a few recent years more than all the wealth produced in history to that time; it has deluded – for its survival – more minds in a few recent years than all the irrationality of history to that time. Our Enemy, The State.”

And let’s be clear – that was written 40 years ago. The New Libertarian Manifesto is a book from 1980. This is before the completion of operation cyclone, where the US government created the Muslim terror threat used to control us all under the guise of safety. It was before 911, and all of the egregious offenses against our freedom and liberty since then. It was before cops were killing people at a rate of 1,000 people a year by gunfire alone. It was before all of your communications were directly monitored by the state, and before everything you do could be seen by them as you walk on the street. It was before the commodification of snitching for social media points, and before groups of politically-minded sheep, billions of people strong, could be weaponized against people for the benefits of the elites. It was written before the Tor browser was even an idea, before cryptocurrency was real, and before much of the internet was built, including the deep web. By that point in his life, Konkin had seen not the tip of the iceberg of how much tyranny the state could provide for their purposes, and he also hadn’t seen the amount of freedom potentialized by technology. The state is now a bigger threat to freedom than it ever has been in recorded human history. Their capability for death and control far exceeds by magnitudes anything the great emperors and dictators of the past, bloody as they may have been, could have possibly imagined. The closest we come to the amount of power the state has is the fiery destruction promised in the book of Revelations, and ultimately, they are a threat to you in a greater way than has ever been seen before. But that isn’t the end. Because with the amount of information that is out there, and the ways that that information can be distributed, you are also a bigger threat to them than any single peasant has been in the past, and the weapons you have to stage a peasants’ revolt are a lot better than farm implements and pikes. I won’t tell you what you should do with that information. Ultimately, as to whether or not you’re going to interface with the black market, and use the information in this article, that is not up to me, nor should it be. It’s up to you.

What are you going to do?