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==== Jefferson Franklin ====
I resonate my live experience to Lord [[Buddha]]’s quote below:

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

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A long-time [[survivalist]] (subject matter expert) and [[proponent]] of the [[American Redoubt]] ([[Intermountain West]]) located [[Retreat (survivalism)|survival retreats]] / [[homestead]]s and of [[libertarian conservatism]], a [[patriot]] ([[Oathkeepers]] - http://oathkeepers.org/oath, [[Project Appleseed]], [[John Birch Society]]) and [[scholar]] of our amazing [[American]] [[Republic]], my [[Wiki]] and [[Blog]] [[Nom de Plume]] is honoring [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]] -- the two most influential [[Founding Fathers]] of our [[Republic]] of "These United States"). 

The great [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]] both helped institute in our great [[Republic]] a [[constitutionally limited government]] (a [[night watchman state]] of [[limited government]]) and attempted to prevent [[big government]] and [[totalitarianism]] (such as the current [[nanny state]] / [[welfare state]])

The wise and far-thinking [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]] most influenced the [[Declaration of Independence]], the [[United States Bill of Rights]], the [[United States Constitution]], not to mention the [[Federalist Papers]] (along with [[James Madison]]). Their wisdom is especially visible in the [[Second Amendment]].

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Attributed to [[Isoroku Yamamoto]], Fleet [[Admiral]] of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]

As a [[conservative]] [[libertarian]], [[constitutionalist]], [[paleoconservative]], [[Libertarian Republican]], I practice family [[preparedness]] and [[autarky|self-sufficiency]] in the event of [[catastrophe]], including preparedness against the [[SHTF]] risks of a [[peak oil]] or another [[Great Depression]], or other [[societal collapse]], against [[electromagnetic pulse]] or [[coronal mass ejection]] and against a post-[[disaster]] [[TEOTWAWKI]] society which include [[rioting]], [[looting]], armed violence / [[home invasion]]s and [[food shortages]]. Such preparedness involves [[Beans, Bullets, and Bandaids]] plus [[Bullion]]. Those are my three [[subject matter expert]] areas; meaning:

*1. "[[Beans]]":*

[[Food storage]], [[canning]], [[vegetable gardening]], [[permaculture]], [[livestock]], [[hunting]], [[fishing]], [[aquaponics]]  

*2. "[[Bullet]]s":*

I am a licensed [[concealed carry]] holder and [[EDC]] advocate, and a card-carrying member of the [[National Rifle Association]], [[Gun Owners of America]], [[Second Amendment Foundation]], [[Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]], [[Students for Concealed Carry on Campus]], [[National Shooting Sports Foundation]] and [[Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms]].  Thus [[self defense]] is a [[God-given]] [[right]] acknowledged via the [[Second Amendment]] of the [[Bill of Rights]] of the [[United States Constitution]] as reiterated by [[District of Columbia v. Heller]]. This implies personal [[firearms]] including a. [[handgun]]s ([[Glock]], [[M1911]], [[Ruger LC9]]), b. [[shotgun]]s ([[Mossberg 500]] and [[Remington 870]]), c. [[rifle]]s ([[AR-15]], [[AR-10]], [[Ruger Mini-14]], [[Remington Model 700]], [[Ruger 10/22]]) and [[ammunition]] ([[9 mm]], [[40S&W]], [[45 ACP]], [[308 Winchester]], [[.223 Remington]] and [[22LR]]), [[Pepper Spray]]/[[OC spray]] or [[Electroshock weapon|Stun Gun]]/[[Tazer]], [[hunting knife]], [[survival knife|survival knives]], [[pocket knives]] and [[combat knife|combat knives]] from [[Kershaw Knives]], [[Buck Knives]], [[Gerber]], [[Spyderco]] and [[Cold Steel]].

*3. "[[Bandaid]]s": Health

[[first aid]], [[medicine]], [[herbology]], [[acupuncture]]

*4. "[[Bullion]]": Financial resources.

[[Junk silver]], [[silver]], [[gold]], [[American Eagle]], [[inflation hedge]] against [[hyperinflation]] of [[fiat currency]], [[stagflation]], and other [[ecomomic crash]] due to the ever-expanding [[federal debt]] and the [[Federal Reserve]] [[Quantitative easing|QE3]] [[money printing]] and [[mortage]] [[property derivative]]s. US Dollar monetary [[devaluation]],  [[subprime mortgage crisis]] 

Like [[Ron Paul]] and the [[John Birch Society]], I actively support the auditing of, and aims to eventually dismantle, the [[Federal Reserve System]].<ref>[http://www.jbs.org/issues-pages/federal-reserve ]</ref> and return to the [[Gold standard]] and [[Silver_standard#United_States|silver standard]].

My goal is to edit 500 Wiki pages over the next 30 days in the above 4 subject areas.

Over several years, under the topic of [[religion]], I edited many articles under a now-discontinued user ID.

** New Articles: **

[[Survival guns (survivalism)|Survival guns]]

[[Retreat (survivalism)|survival retreats]]


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My studies and influences involve survivalist and/or [[conservative writers]] and/or heroes such as [[Ron Paul]], [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], [[President Ronald Reagan]], [[James Wesley Rawles]], [[Joel Skousen]] (Strategic Relocation),  [[Mel Tappan]], [[Jeff Cooper (colonel)|Jeff Cooper]], [[Jack Spirko]], [[M.D. Creekmore]], [[Les Stroud]], [[Bear Grylls]], [[Cody Lundin]], [[Paul Wheaton]], [[Alex Jones (radio host)|Alex Jones]], [[George Orwell]]'s [[1984]], [[Aldous Huxley]]'s [[Brave New World]], [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[Atlas Shrugged]], [[Michael Crichton]]'s [[The Andromeda Strain]],  [[Christopher Steiner]]'s $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better, along with organizations and movements such as [[Project Appleseed]].

Additionally [[apocalyptic]] fantasies and survival stories — such as  [[Robinson Crusoe]] by [[Daniel Defoe]]; [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s popular novel ''[[The Road]]'', or even [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' — best described as [[Robinsonade]]s have also influenced.

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In [[Federalist Paper]] 45, [[James Madison]] (widely considered the ‘father of the [[United States Constitution]]”) promised the American people that:

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the [[federal government]], are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the [[State government]]s are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as [[war]], peace, [[diplomacy|negotiation]], and [[foreign commerce]]; with which last the power of [[taxation]] will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, [[liberties]], and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

Clearly the design of the [[Founding Fathers|Founders]]’ has been turned on its head. With the aid of complicit [[federal judge]]s – which [[Thomas Jefferson]] called a “corps of sappers and miners” – who willfully misinterpret the [[Commerce Clause]] to grant the [[United States Congress]] the power to regulate literally anything, we now have a [[ruling class]] who will admit of no restraints on national power with a [[federal government]] of nearly unlimited de facto powers, grown like a [[metastasizing]] [[cancer]] far beyond the bounds of anything foreseen by even the most skeptical of [[Anti-Federalist]]s from the Founding era.

[[Fair Use]] Source: http://www.alt-market.com/articles/96-getting-off-the-globalist-chessboard-an-introduction
 
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So in my old age I hark back belatedly to the words of [[Henry David Thoreau]]:

“That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.” 

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