November 22nd 2008, day 199 / Beautiful snow / Backward footsteps / Detained by police for 2nd time on Walk For Liberty, in Seneca Falls, NY / Got audio of most of the encounter / Didn’t really feel like challenging him or messing with him since I had just learned our RV would be stuck in town for at least the weekend after breaking down / I did ask him if I was being detained, and he said I was / He gets firm at first question from me / Warrant search / Paranoid person had called in / Cop trying to justify himself / Cop admitted I hadn’t done anything wrong, but yet continued to detain me! / Do cops have an obligation to investigate all complaints against someone? / Detainment under threat of violence / Do people realize that calling the cops to investigate someone is initiating force on them? / Does the fact that you feel uncomfortable give you the right to initiate force on someone? / Do you have the right not to feel uncomfortable, or to have the state help you to stay comfortable? / Filming something is not initiating force / Slippery slope of using the state to initiate force based on someone’s emotions / 9/11 is the government’s tired old excuse for exerting more control on people due to the “terrorist threat” / The state making people paranoid / 21.39 miles for liberty / http://Amazon.WalkForLiberty.com / Area Speed Limit / Cayuga Indian Reservation
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November 21st 2008, day 198 / Open to those who wish to learn? / Broken-down RV / Staying with local Ron Paul-supporting couple / Problems with RV shaking and vibrating / Still getting miles in / RV died a mile from getting to the repair shop! / Deadline for reaching NH / Get details about plans to meet us at the border at http://ArrivalPlans.WalkForLiberty.com / Detained by police for 2nd time on Walk For Liberty / 14.17 miles for liberty / http://Donate.WalkForLiberty.com / 19 degrees
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November 29th 2008, out-of-order supplemental edition / Jake in window / Stranded for a week because transmission on RV broken / Won’t make original deadline of Dec 6 / NEW arrival date at NH border is Dec 13, 2008 / Replacement transmission has been installed for cost of $3500! / http://ArrivalPlans.WalkForLiberty.com / http://Donate.WalkForLiberty.com
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November 20th 2008, day 197 / Entering Canandaigua / Local house of tyranny / Would attorneys and lawyers be necessary in a pure free market justice and dispute resolution system? / Attorneys are necessary in the current monopolistic legal system because of the thousands of laws (including case law) in existence / Laws written in legalese / Representing yourself in civil vs criminal trials / What would a free market system look like? / All property would be private / No central monopolistic “government” claiming to have authority over everything and everyone / No legislature, so there wouldn’t be hundreds of new laws accumulating each year / Categories of property: individual, retail or service business, roads, other (farms, factories) / Rules that you must follow if you want to remain on someone’s property / Businesses would want repeat customers, so their rules would likely be simple and straightforward / Probably only a very few commonly accepted laws across all property, namely those against behavior which physically harms or threatens another’s person or property / Representing yourself in front of mutually-agreed upon arbitrator / Hiring a person to represent you who is skilled in logic and asking relevant questions, but they would be nothing like the lawyers of today / That representative has no need for schooling in thousands of existing laws, and doesn’t need to be approved by the protectionist “bar” system / Third party certification of representatives / 18.1 miles for liberty / http://donate.walkforliberty.com / Sun coming from behind clouds
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November 19th 2008, day 196 / 18 degrees in Avon, NY / Frost on the inside of our windshield / In memory of a bicyclist / Interview with Genesee Valley Pennysaver which has a circulation of 159,000! / Conversation with seemingly pro-gun-freedom RV supply store owner / Wanting govt to strongly regulate guns / Encountering people who seem to “get” freedom, but yet still have a ways to go / The NRA is pro-gun-freedom? / Pro-gun-rights Gun Owners of Americahttp://www.gunowners.org / RV guy thinking that a monopolistic agency like the government knows best which types of guns are “necessary” and which types should be banned / Some guns too “dangerous” to own? / If govt bans AK-47s, will they then not exist? / If you make having any type of gun a crime, then only criminals will then have that type of gun / Government can’t magically make guns disappear / Average people maintain order in society, not cops / What right does govt have to take away people’s guns by force? / The point of the 2nd Amendment was to protect against the govt itself / Walked 18.11 miles for liberty / http://amazon.walkforliberty.com / Jellybean corn
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about how America has gone off track and how we can get it back, has been released. Buy it from the world’s largest online retailer, 