Freedom Force
International
is a network of men
and women from all parts of the
world who are concerned over loss of
personal liberty and expansion of
government power. They are not mere
complainers. They have a plan to do
something about it. They also share
a common belief in The Creed of
Freedom, which is a statement
of principles that guide them in
their mission to build a better
world.
Totalitarianism is on
the rise everywhere because
advocates of big government have
taken leadership control of the
power centers within every society.
Power centers are organizations and
social groupings – such as political
parties, labor unions, church
groups, media centers, and
professional societies – that hold
political power based on their claim
to represent their members and on
their ability to lead public
opinion. It has taken many years for
them to achieve this dominance over
society, but they have succeeded. It
does no good to complain or to
theorize about what should be done.
As long as advocates of big
government hold the power, nothing
will change.
WE MUST NOT BE LIKE
CATS
One of the most profound differences
between dogs and cats is that cats
focus on effects while dogs focus on
causes. If you toss a pebble at a
cat, it will look at the pebble. If
you toss it at a dog, it will look
at you.
In this respect, too
many people are like cats. They are
preoccupied with the details of
their loss of security, freedom, and
privacy, and they flutter like
wing-clipped pigeons, complaining
about this and that without knowing
why these things are happening. By
contrast, members of Freedom Force
focus on the cause and work
to eliminate it. The degeneration of
civilization is not the result of
blind forces of history operating
beyond comprehension or control. It
is planned and caused by a small but
well defined group of people who
believe this decline is necessary
for what they fondly call The New
World Order but which we recognize
as high-tech feudalism in which
mankind will be condemned to live in
perpetual subservience to elitist
rulers.
The identities of
these elitists are known. They have
names. They belong to organizations.
They meet together to create
strategies and they work jointly to
implement them. They dominate the
power centers of society. We will
not escape their plans by looking
only at what they are doing. We must
focus on them and remove
them from their present positions of
power. Any other plan of action is
doomed to failure.
That, however, is not
enough. If we focus solely on the
identities and personalities of
those who are promoting the decline
of liberty, we will be stumped by
the fact that, even if we should
succeed in removing them from their
positions of influence, there are
many more just like them waiting to
step into their places. In the final
analysis, it’s not the names and
identities or political party
affiliations of these individuals
that matters as much as what they
believe, what ideology they
hold. Their ideology has a name.
It’s called collectivism, a concept
that government is master and people
must obey. It’s to no avail to
remove one collectivist from power
only to replace him with another one
– which has been the pattern for all
too many years. It is time to stop
acting like cats, stop being forever
fascinated by the personalities and
deeds of our leaders. We
must be more like dogs and focus on
the ideology of our
leaders, because that is the
cause of their deeds.
The solution is
simple. It is to take back control
of the power centers of society,
one-by-one, just the way they were
captured in the first place. Replace
the collectivists with people who
have no personal agendas except to
defend freedom. This will unleash
the vast human potential for
prosperity and happiness that can be
realized only in the absence of
government oppression. However, to
reach that goal, it will be
necessary for those who cherish
freedom to do more than complain and
far more than just casting a vote
every few years. They must reach for
power. That is the reason for the
motto of Freedom Force:
Impotentes defendere libertatem non
possunt, which is Latin for
“Those without power cannot defend
freedom.”
The
Freedom Force
strategy can be
summarized as:
Don't fight
city hall when you
can BE city hall.
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The mission of
members of Freedom Force is to shape
public policy within their
respective countries in favor of
personal and global freedom. The
method is threefold: (1)
dissemination of ideological and
issue-related information, (2)
instruction in how to become
influential within community and
national organizations, and (3)
instruction in how to lawfully and
constitutionally convert that
influence into public policy.
Members seek to become change agents
so they truly can make a difference
in the world.
Freedom Force is a
global brotherhood of the most
enlightened and dedicated people in
the world. We are building an
international network of leaders
who, in spite of differences in
nationality and culture, are in
solidarity with the principles
expressed in The Creed of
Freedom. We now have members in
sixty countries, and the number
continues to grow. (See flags
below.) Nothing like this has
happened before in history. It is a
powerful force that cannot be
stopped. Welcome to the Brotherhood
of Freedom.
Freedom Force
came into existence at a meeting
on December 12, 2002, in the
Dominican Republic where
G. Edward Griffin
was a speaker at an off-shore
investment conference. After the
conference, he invited anyone
who was interested to attend a
private presentation of what he
thought would be needed to
regain control of our lives and
our freedom. About thirty people
attended; and, after the
presentation, just about
everyone enrolled on the spot,
including citizens from three
countries. Freedom Force
International was born.
Although we
suddenly had dues-paying
members, we were far from being
an organization. We had no
staff, no facilities, no
operational procedures, no
bylaws, no accounting system, no
means of communicating with
members, no web site, no
checking account, no code of
conduct, no money (except about
$200 in donations), and not the
foggiest idea of how to proceed.
The next two
years were spent primarily
getting all of those things in
order. We weren’t ready for
expansion until about 2005 when
our web site finally began to
take shape. This gave us global
outreach and made it possible
for people of like mind anywhere
in the world to find us simply
by surfing the Internet. Slowly
but surely, our membership began
to climb; and we added
increasing numbers of flags
representing countries where
members resided. We believe
strongly that a successful
movement for liberty in today’s
world must be international in
scope, and it was gratifying to
see that aspect of our strategy
become a reality right from the
beginning.
We have a long
way to go before we can fulfill
the grand vision shared by our
founding members in 2002, but we
also have come a long way since
then. Although the size of our
membership is the only secret we
have, we now count them in the
thousands – and the number is
growing constantly. More
important than numbers, however,
is the quality of our membership
and the leadership they provide.
The most prominent among them
are featured in the Freedom
Force Hall of Honor (featured
elsewhere on this page), but
that is just the tip of the
iceberg. All of our members are
influential within their
communities and are helping to
create a leadership network that
will counter and eventually
defeat the collectivists who now
dominate the power centers of
society.
Eventually, there
will be training and
communication centers in many
parts of the world. At present,
the headquarters is located in
Southern California. Inquiries
should be sent to
info@freedom-force.org
If this is your
first visit to
our web site,
you may feel
overpowered by
the volume of
information
here, but do not
be discouraged
by that. This
site is not
intended to be
read all at one
time, although
occasionally
that does
happen. It is
designed to
present the most
important topics
first and then
offer convenient
paths to
secondary topics
and current
events.
Information is
updated daily,
and we hope you
will make it a
habit to return
often.
During your
first visit, we
strongly
recommend that
you familiarize
yourself with
the series of
essays entitled
The Future
is Calling.
This will
introduce you to
the core beliefs
of Freedom
Force.
Everything else
is built upon
this, and it
will be
difficult to
understand our
perspectives on
other issues
without this
background. To
go directly to
these essays,
click
here.
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