As you probably know by now, I’m getting ready to run for President in 2020 on the platform of the peaceful, orderly, responsible dissolution of the entire federal government. The proposal is to sign a single executive order to begin the pre-ordained process of dissolution, appoint “custodians” of each agency to carry out that process, and resign the presidency to become “Custodian of the Federal Government.” My only power would be to supervise the process. There’s nothing less libertarian, (and not much less ethical) that a person can say after, “I want to be President.” I’m much more comfortable with (and it’s much more accurate) saying that I’m running for “Not-President.”
So why am I writing about the irrelevancy of the presidency if I think it can be used to achieve this great change? Well, it’s precisely because the presidency is irrelevant that this campaign is possible. President elections have become contests of who can be the best frontman for the government racket. The powers that be want to know who will best be able to pacify the American people.
While I don’t know how true it is I like the Bill Hicks explanation of the Presidency. Basically, when the President gets elected, they put him in a smoky room full of cigar-smoking bankers and they show him the Kennedy assassination video. Then they ask, “Any questions?” And the only acceptable one is, “What’s my agenda?” It doesn’t matter what issues they campaigned on or what promises they made. They’re going to do what they’re told or they’re taken out!
I’ve set up my campaign to work the opposite way. My entire platform will be carried out by a single executive order that will neutralize and privatize, localize, or liquidate the entire federal government. Because presidential elections have become the point at which the American people give their consent to the system, it is also where it can be withdrawn. When an overwhelming majority of the people vote on the record that they think America would be better off without the fed than with it, the consensus will be undeniable and unopposable, except by myself of course. Which is why I have told people repeatedly, if I am elected and don’t sign the order for some reason on day one, shoot me. And if my VP doesn’t sign it, shoot them too.
While technology has clearly rendered government obsolete, the challenge remains of how to transition out of this statist paradigm. Why not start from the top down and localize government to the community level, and then see what happens? (This idea of “Localization” is laid out in Chapter 10, Section V of FREEDOM!, available free at TheFreedomLine.com/freedom) The idea of arbitrary rule seems ridiculous to the internet generation. I would (and will with a future post) make the case that the internet has already rendered war impossible for governments to get away with on any large scale.
We are able to look forward like never before and so there is a growing consensus on the obsolescence of the current concept of government, if not government itself. Just today, Edward Snowden’s tweet summed up much of this sentiment brilliantly: “It was once impossible to imagine countries without Kings. A time will come when they look back and say the same of Presidents.” I hope we’ll have the support of people who think like Snowden!
Have you seen the various “Nobody for President” memes and merch? “Nobody can save this country! Nobody cares about you! Nobody can solve all your problems! Nobody should be our President!” For 2020, we’re working hard getting organized, raising funds, and spreading the message to garner enough support to put a real “Nobody” on the ballot in 2020. I hope you’ll join us in this effort. KokeshForNotPresident.com
I am the author of FREEDOM!, a book endorsed (I mean banned) by the US Department of “Justice.” You can get a copy here. I’m running for Not-President in 2020 on the platform of the peaceful, orderly, and responsible dissolution of the United States federal government. You can find out more here. Whoever has the top comment on this post after 24 hours can claim a free signed copy of FREEDOM! by sending me a message with their address.
Adam, are you familiar with whistleblower Donald Marshall? I asked you in previous posts but you never respond. He has ousted you as a Russian/FBI agent of deception.
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After ten months, it's good to see you back and posting again. Why the absence? Many follow the price, but hopefully you can see the long term value of a decentralized, uncensored communication platform.
I enjoyed your book and support Nobody for president. One practical step I'd like to see towards that end is for someone to create a google spreadsheet and go through the entire federal budget, line by line, and crowdsource how each service the public wants will be handled privately with at least 5 examples for each line. People want practical solutions without details. Dissolving the federal government will never happen until someone takes those public wants seriously. Larken Rose and others trust in spontaneous order to solve it all, and they may be right, but it also might be a disaster. A simple start of explaining how the federal budget is no longer needed might be an open document like this and crowdsource each line item to experts.
What do you think?
Power loves a vacuum. If we end up with less freedom by changing things too quickly, we'll be going backwards.
Love it! This will be part of the book, AMERICAN FREEDOM! which will be coming out in 2019.
Look forward to reading it!
I agree with everything you said here.
We don't need a "President". We are better off with more localized representation, local/city/state. Federal powers should largely go away. That is what creates the huge power. Also term limits for everything would really help.
Next towards decentralization!
Nice work, Adam. You have my "non-vote." I love how you are going about this. If there is an ethical way to run for president, this would be it. Cheers, friend.
Sterlin :)
That's a name I haven't seen in a while.
Great to see you, man.
Great to see you hear and thanks for getting it! It's the political equivalent of a bankruptcy agent, a totally legitimate market function.
i need a joint to chill me out
Im subscribed to you on youtube, funny to bump into you here. nice post also!!
Thanks! I'm tired of dealing with YouTube!
Holy shit! I just clicked this link for the title and didn't realize it was Adam Kokesh!
I've been pilling people on you for the better part of a year. I doubt you remember, but we met once. North Dakota. You went to my bros house before you left town, too.
Your manifesto needs a little work, imo, but I'm picky, and that's insignificant to me.
Kokesh 2020. Im'a keep selling people on you. :)
Respect mf
Thanks, brother!
cough Think Liberty Interview cough ;)
Commit to the immediate declassification of every file on Area 51.
There's a couple of million votes right there.
Heck yeah! That goes without saying!
Maybe parliamentarism is better tha presidentialism. I have not a closed opinion about this yet.
I have no doubt in my mind that you won't win that election and as a libertarian candidate you will not reach many people for the purpose of education (like ron paul did) either.
I'm in doubt, but more leaning toward casting a vote, be it for you is supporting the system/ giving legitimacy to it.
But don't worry i'm not an american, so i can't vote for you anyway.
HA! Voting doesn't legitimize the system because it's impossible to legitimize something fundamentally unethical.
true, a wrong choice of words.. though at the moment i can't find the right english words either.. recognition perhaps.. larken rose would be able to articulate it the best.
Howdy! Let's have some fun with this. You've apparently circled Saturn before so we'll get super weird with it.
When you are elected Not-President, how do you plan on combating the Zionists/Globalists? You're basically setting out to do what the TPP did... destroy sovereignty. You remember how way back when the term for all this was called the NWO?
Think Georgia Guidestones. They want the Presidency and Federal Government dissolved so that they can move in. Without the "gubmint", the majority of people would have no fiat currency. They've heard of bitcoin but they have no clue what to make of it or how it works. How will they possibly eat or survive without a centralized currency?! That's where the UN and IMF come in!
They have the One World Digital Currency that's easy to understand and backed by an apparent authority! Military descend into militias? Just use the AP and Soros groups to spread fear and terror! The militias are against you! They are not you! They are them! Enter the UN armies, and every other person from all over the world who'd love to take over the US... to... "restore order"... of course.
Once order is "restored" via the machinations of the UN and IMF/World Bank, they will consolidate their powers, along with the EU and whomever else they own through their economic assassinations... They'll target who they deem the conductors of all our woes: States and Religions.
They'll claim that borders are the reason for our woes, governments don't care for nor do they have concern for their subjects. The religious wars and terrorists and big bad boogeymen are also to blame! Religious borders! An Astroturf movement for the entire world. The Slaves. The Oppressed. Those who should stand up and take their rightful place! And then "as a people" we'll melt it all down into some theosophical neo-pagan nonsense as the entire world's answer to the spirituality question.
And then they kill the rebels to their plans. They kill the non-believers in the world's religion. They kill everyone who doesn't set up an account with their digital tracking system. There is no more privacy. Billions die. It's the Denver Airport Murals.
And then we get back to the guidestones. The populace that's left... they forever maintain their lesser position. The Elites who murdered everyone have all the technology and it's more or less self operating at this point, except for the useful servants who maintain the elevated position from the people starting all over from the ashes of the genocide. Someone has to do the nerd stuff.
So assuming ANY of that is real.... What's your plan?
Assuming that is all true and possible, assuming you are an American, wouldn't you want to stand up against all that? Wouldn't you want a man with integrity committed to chaging the current paradigm.
To few of us do want to get behind that kind of change.
LB
You misunderstood the question but we seem to be on the same page with the concept. We'll bypass "because... are you sure Trump's NOT doing it?" cuz I still have this hard on for the notion of him bankrupting the US and walking away having saved everyone from the fiat-slavery of the Federal Reserve and IRS.
My question is.... how do you plan to stand up to it? What do you do in the wake of the confusion brought on by such a shift and why would the predators not use it as an opportunity take out the US wholesale?
Seems like you should figure out how to become the head of the UN/EU/BRIC/ETC and take all that down...
You'd literally have to export "no more kings, no more crooks, no more presidents on the books". But then you'd also have to figure out how to stop these special committees you've set up from falling into the same ego driven death spirals.
I think I got this from Mark Passio but it sounds like what you're describing is:
An Anarchonic Meritocracy
No Archons (people who say they own and control you)
Society based on ability.
I think it also involves a universal minimum income and a cap on what you could personally gain regardless of how much ass you kick, but it's also kind of a technology heavy system.
Once you end the US government, how do you plan on ending the rest of them?
Cuz Putin's probably not going to be a fan of yours but George Soros would probably consider you of the same cut, if not try to steal your thunder or run the same message with some Trudeau/Macron/Merkel chimera.
Right on Adam!
Upvoted and Resteemed.
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Michael
Thanks!
I've had this forever, used to be my background image, thought you might like it...
So this is where you have disappear to. I totally get it I love Steemit too and find myself using other platforms less. Glad to see you on here, giving you a follow on here to since I follow you every place else. I am just a small minnow in this pond, but I been following you for years and I have been planning on voting for you when you run since you announced you were going to years ago. Keep fighting the good fight.
Niiice article
How nice to have an @adamkokesh siting! Great stuff. I'll be following your movement. Are you still living off-grid?
You got my non-vote! Thumbs up, hope this happens soon!
Love your message and your goal, I can understand how small goverment will work, but not no government at all. Hope you get laugh outa this clip.
Can we agree that the first step is to localize government? If we get rid of the federal government, the states will do everything better!
That seems like the first step to me, I have been looking lately at how Switzerland do this with their Cantons and i think that approach will work here in Australia.
It's not that I disagree, per se, it is that I can't see how it can happen.
Thanks for the response mate.
Glad to see you back and active on Steemit Adam! Also glad to see that you're still prepared to attempt to peacefully dissolve the federal government of the US. I will certainly vote for you and if time allows, I would campaign for your not presidency. At the very least I will spam all my friends on social media to join the cause. Woot!
I applaud you Adam you are a brave man. Although I not read a lot of your content I have seen enough to know what your about and its good stuff. I just don't' have enough hours in the day when I'm 'free in fee time from my indoctrination camp', but I am going to listen to you book on the mp3 (love that novel thinking, no pun intended).
I used to think we needed a revolution but obviously that won't work as when its over nothing will replace it, instead I now realise we now need to change the whole paradigm. This is a difficult task, but many are now on board and we are close to the 'hundredth monkey' then the tide will really turn fast.
What you are attempting to do could really swing the paradigm and be a real game changer. Its risky and could land you in a lot of problems, but you are doing it for the people and I give you the upmost respect for that. I'm not in the US but would back you. Instead I will send energies and manifestations your way.
All the very best in your campaign and I'm looking forward to finally reading some of you content now I'm out of the indoctrination camp... yippee. Late at nearly 40 but now I, like you have my foot in and plan to change the Occupational Therapy approach introducing a more free approach and natural. Using nature to heal rather than big pharma :)
Upvoted and followed !
Right on, thanks!
Great to see you back. As always sound reasoning and motive for the greater good. Though I don't think u will win and even if u did would it work its a great start getting people ready for what needs to happen and hopefully one day will.
I support u on the path that leads us to a better place, it will take a lot of us committed, but we already have everything we need besides enough people awake and responsible.
Lmao! But we in America DO have a non President. His name is Trump.