In this episode of the Red Ice Radio Network's newest podcast, "The Gable Completely Unemployed," host Nathan Gable sits down with self-proclaimed "Sovereign Citizen" and founder of MyGraffitiCake software, Nathan talks about his journey to becoming a sovereign citizen and how he came to believe in the concept of freedom from government.
00:47:53.460Realistically, government is the very thing that we prop it up to protect us from.
00:48:00.420So once you can understand that, then the fear of living without it almost dissipates.
00:48:07.100The other thing is I think it's actually a small percentage of people that are psychopaths that just want to go lie, cheat and steal and rape.
00:48:30.840And if you look at like the history of of what we know as the modern state, it's really only a small percentage of of the timeline that humanity has been around, that we've actually had this thing called government.
00:48:45.160And there's there's still societies now that exist without a state as we commonly know it.
00:48:51.280There's up until just recently, as far as, you know, the whole span of humanity up until just recently, there were a lot of societies that did very well without having a government.
00:49:01.680And like I said, in my everyday life, almost every single action that I take on is devoid of government and my life isn't falling apart and people aren't dying all around me.
00:49:13.780So the belief that society would just crumble without government, I think that's you watch you watch television and every time they show you anarchy, every time they show you a collapse of government, everybody goes crazy.
00:49:30.400You watch shows like there's a real popular show over here called Sons of Anarchy and they promote anarchy is just, you know, drug dealers and murderers and all of this stuff going on.
00:49:42.900But really, the only reason that there's so much violence in the drug dealing game is because of government prohibition.
00:49:50.180And without that, all of these things that we look at as black market and gray market that we're completely terrified because of the violent stigmas that are attached to them without prohibition, all of the violence in those marketplaces would completely disappear.
00:50:04.900So the idea that government protects us from violence, the idea that government protects us from craziness, if you really examine it, government is the reason that we have all of the violence.
00:50:16.000It's the reason that we have all of the craziness.
00:50:18.280That's right. And they're the biggest drug pushers and gun pushers of them all.
00:50:21.940I always wonder, too, when all the drug deals, when they bust them, they spend all this crazy tax money doing it.
00:50:26.980So they take all the money, all the drugs.
00:50:32.720You know, well, a funny story and the statute of limitations is up on this.
00:50:38.940I'm not really scared about admitting this on the radio, but I used to live in Olympia, which is the capital of the quote unquote state of Washington.
00:50:48.800And when we were living up there, we were homeless and I fell in with a bad crowd and we were staying at a motel.
00:50:56.180We kind of hopped from motel to campground to motel to campground.
00:50:59.580And I got a friend who would hook me up with methamphetamines and something that we we used to sell out there, which were called wiki sticks.
00:51:07.940But it's basically a PCP dip cigarette.
00:51:13.500And I stopped selling drugs because I realized that it was destroying the community and it was counterproductive to the society that I wanted to live in.
00:51:21.480And so I don't advocate selling or using most of those drugs now.
00:51:28.540The point of this whole story is, though, the guy that I bought from his main dealer was a DEA agent.
00:51:35.300And he would take when he would bust somebody with 15 pounds of something, he would take it and reduce the fine to five pounds and take the other 10 pounds and put it back out on the street.
00:51:47.240So, yes, a lot of the people that we think are keeping our streets safe and keeping them clean from drugs are actually out there pushing the drugs just as feverishly as the gangster that you think is the threat to society.
00:52:01.300So do you advocate courts and fair trials for criminals, innocent until proven guilty?
00:52:12.380I think that I think that it's necessary to have some sort of overseeing type of thing.
00:52:19.600If you actually do violate somebody's rights, if you actually do harm somebody, it's good to have something in the community like an arbitrary or an arbitration system where they say, OK,
00:52:31.320we're looking at both sides of this and you both agree that whatever we find is going to be upheld on both of your ends.
00:52:41.800But the problem is, is like I said earlier, what we expect to protect us from these things is the actual biggest threat.
00:52:48.700So if we if we want to have a fair and balanced system that actually looks at what happened and makes a fair decision that that system itself cannot be compulsory, it can't be paid for by theft.
00:53:04.820So if we want to have a system that protects us from theft, that system itself as a very basic tenant of keeping it legitimate needs to not be funded by theft.
00:53:16.400So courthouses nowadays are paid for by money that they steal from people.
00:53:21.440If I want to have somebody who's going to be non-biased and protect me from people who might steal from me, the person being the judge needs to also be bound by the same rule that he can't steal from me.
00:53:33.100So where I think that, you know, human beings obviously are going to do each other wrong once in a while and it makes sense to have some sort of way to come to an agreement on how to deal with that.
00:53:46.700But letting that system be ran off of coercion and mandates and theft, I don't think that we'll ever actually be able to have a system that protects people's rights if that system is based completely off of violating people's rights.
00:54:03.800Yeah, that's right. And a funny note, you said that you get people who write you and say, but who will build the roads?
00:54:09.820I mean, are people just so small minded, they think that humans are just totally weak and helpless, that we can band together locally and actually get shit done and much better and more efficiently?
00:54:22.960Well, see, the thing is, is when you're caught in that mindset and you've been from birth to death, you've been taught that the only way to have roads is to have government.
00:54:33.920And I guess Russia, like Soviet Russia, would be a good example of this.
00:54:38.940A lot of people in Russia, before the fall of the Soviet Union, government gave them their bread.
00:54:45.580They didn't have private bakers that would bake up bread and sell it.
00:54:49.220Government would employ the people that made the bread and then distribute the bread.
00:54:53.780And people in the Soviet Union, a lot of people said, well, if the Soviet Union falls, where will we get our bread?
00:55:00.160So if you've been indoctrinated your whole life that there's only one way to get bread and you've never even contemplated the alternative that, hey, maybe because bread is such a valuable commodity, maybe people would pay for it without having money stolen from their paychecks.
00:55:17.200And maybe other people would make it without having guns pointed at them.
00:55:37.460Roads are something that we absolutely need in the current form.
00:55:40.600I mean, I think that it's very possible that we've got suppressed hovercraft type technology where roads would be an absolutely obsolete argument anyways.
00:55:51.160But in the in the way it is right now, we need roads.
00:56:09.280So to think without people pointing guns at us to force us to pay for it and without people pointing guns at other people in order to produce it, it wouldn't happen.
00:56:21.620And every other part of the marketplace shows how silly that idea is.
00:56:26.420But for some reason, if you've been brought up generation after generation thinking the only way to get that particular product or service is through government.
00:56:34.680A lot of times you never even, you know, you never take the time to sit back and think, well, is there another way this could be provided?
00:56:42.500Is there another way it could be paid for?
00:56:44.120And if you never give yourself the time to think that and you're never that idea is never introduced to you at school, it's never introduced to you during the, you know, through the media or through any of your friends.
00:56:55.080You just never even think about it and you just accept it as truth.
00:56:59.700And then people can say, but what about the destruction of the environment?
00:57:03.400Isn't the state helping to slow that down?
00:57:05.140And no, the government is actually giving these companies more power because they crush all the competitions with regulations, laws, taxation.
00:57:13.160So actually the little guys actually can't make it because so these big corporations actually lobby for more government regulation.
00:57:22.640Well, and another thing is like if you look at the worldwide war on hemp, hemp could solve a majority of the of the environmental problems that we have.
00:57:35.040It produces so much more paper than lumber does per square acre.
00:58:11.080And that, and the thing about that is, is people think government is there to keep us safe.
00:58:17.220Government is there to keep us healthy.
00:58:19.280Government is there to protect the environment.
00:58:21.400Yet hemp is one thing that, and hemp was one of the things that first keyed me into how corrupt and how unnecessary government was because the power of government is being used to do the exact opposite.
00:58:34.100It's being used to keep people from being healthy.
00:58:36.660It's being used to keep the environment from being healthy.
00:58:46.620And if you think that without government, the, the environment would go to crap, I just have to bring up hemp because with government, it's the biggest reason for why we're not taking alternative steps to help the environment, to help our health.
00:59:38.320Just like the people in the past who said, I get the power from God to tell you what you can and can't do, to tell you how, how long your hair has to be, to tell you whether you can wear pants or you have to wear a dress, to tell you how much money you have to give me.
00:59:53.320All of these things are based off of lies.
00:59:55.420And once people give up the belief in that authority, the authority disappears.
01:00:00.300It's a complete, from top to bottom, 100%.
01:00:03.540It's all illusion and it's all faith-based.
01:00:07.000And once they lose the faith of the people, they lose the authority over the people.
01:00:22.240And even if – the way that I see things is the elections are just a tool to keep that faith going.
01:00:31.300And a lot of people that are like pro-Ron Paul or pro-Libertarian Party get very offended by me saying that because I feel that we're at a time now where a lot of people are starting to lose faith in it and they need to have people like Ron Paul out there to keep the faith going.
01:00:48.000I've lost absolutely all faith in the political system, not because I don't think that what I want for society can be attained through the political system, but because I think it's illegitimate.
01:01:01.220I don't believe – voting to me is saying this guy is going to be the slave master that I want and therefore I want him to be all of your slave master as well.
01:01:12.220This guy is going to force us to do the things that I find correct and then he's going to force you to live your life the way I find correct as well.
01:01:22.320And I think that's an appalling way to structure a society.
01:01:25.840I think that the way that I live my life is good for me and I even make mistakes in my own life and I have to go back and say, OK, maybe I should stop doing that.
01:01:34.520But what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander and to think that what I found that works for me should be violently forced on everybody around me is ridiculous.
01:01:44.420And so I think it's an – it's immoral practice to vote because that's what you're doing.
01:01:49.360You're saying this guy says what I like to hear.
01:01:52.200This guy agrees with me and I know that he's going to use men with guns to force you to bend to my will.
01:01:57.880So I'm going to put my weight behind him and I just can't take part in that whatsoever.
01:02:03.020And if you are taking part in that, you, the listener, really think about what you're doing.
01:02:08.640You're saying this is what's best for me and I'm going to use violence to force it on the rest of you.
01:02:18.560And the other thing is it's like it's this illusion of choice that there's actually choices and that they're going to be different in some way.
01:02:26.640But they all come from the same place.
01:02:28.400There's the same people pulling the strings behind the scenes.
01:02:34.560Well, and they use a very basic fundamental flaw to pull that off.
01:02:40.580The best way that I like to, I guess, give an analogy of it is you can take two people who are huge football fans and they are fans of opposing teams.
01:02:50.200So you get like the Raiders versus the Denver Broncos.
01:02:53.900You got the Oakland Raiders and the Denver Broncos and you get two fans sitting down on a couch and they're watching the game together.
01:03:00.900One guy loves the Raiders and one guy loves the Broncos.
01:03:04.120And the Broncos can have a foul and like say it's pass interference.
01:03:09.960The Broncos, the Broncos commit a pass interference foul.
01:03:13.620The Raiders fan will jump up and he'll be like, ref, what are you blind?
01:03:34.220And when you look at like Barack Obama as opposed to George Bush, Barack Obama has used the federal laws to incarcerate more marijuana users than George Bush did.
01:04:38.160They play us against each other so that they can constantly keep us in control or keep us under control.
01:04:43.440And it's just like if you look at the prison system, the prison system relies heavily on keeping the gangs divided, keeping the races divided.
01:04:54.720Because in the prison system, there's one guard for every 50 inmates and there's one warden for every 600 inmates.
01:05:05.440And the only way to stay in power is to keep the gangs and the races divided amongst each other so that they're too busy fighting with each other to ever realize that they're being held down by somebody above them.
01:05:17.420And that's the way that politics works.
01:05:46.400I mean, have we really sunk to that level?
01:05:50.440I don't know if we've sunk to that level or if we've always just been at that level because that's what that's what government is.
01:05:57.360It's pitting the people against each other and telling one half of the people, you know, like you divide them by class when it comes to politics.
01:06:07.000You tell the poor people, hey, we're going to rob from the rich people if you vote for us.
01:06:11.180And then you tell the rich people, hey, we're going to we're going to slow down how much the poor people are robbing for you from you if you vote for us.
01:06:18.280So it's again, it's the divide and conquer.
01:06:21.240And like I said, if you vote for me, I'm going to use violence to do this.
01:06:26.020If you vote for me, I'm going to use violence to take this from them and give it to you.
01:06:30.600You know, I'm going to use violence to take from the taxpayers and buy you a cell phone or whatever, you know, whatever it is.
01:06:37.340I promise you to use violence to get you your way and to pay for the things that you want.
01:06:42.140And then the other group says, well, I'm going to use violence to pay for the things that you want.
01:06:47.060Yeah, the commies are coming out of the woodwork in America.
01:06:50.500You know, commies, leave me out of it.
01:06:52.720Do what you want, but don't force me into your shit.
01:06:56.280And by the way, your people killed my family in Russia.
01:07:00.980So I don't know why anyone could look at the Communist Party and say, yeah, that's a good way to go.
01:07:05.340Well, I think that like I'm I'm very open to listening to other people's points of view.
01:07:15.360I think that it's a very narrow minded way to live your life by saying I've figured everything out and I don't need to listen to anybody else's point of view.
01:07:22.400So I listen to a lot of people that are communists.
01:07:26.560I'm friends with people that hold on to very leftist communist ideals.
01:07:30.640And the problem is, is, is they a lot of them do want what's good for people.
01:07:37.880They want poor people to be taken care of.
01:07:39.800They want, you know, they want equality.
01:07:43.060And those are those are things that should be strived for.
01:07:46.280But they think that the way to get what's good is to use this evil system called government.
01:07:51.640They think that the way to get equality is rather than lifting people up, it's cutting the tall ones down.
01:07:58.760And equality is a dangerous word, because at the end of the day, we're not equal.
01:08:10.860So then what happens, like you come to Sweden where they've preached equality and everything is middle of the road, ugly looking, mediocre, small minded.
01:08:24.900And you made up you made a great point.
01:08:26.880A lot of like socialists or communists, when it comes to the economy or when it comes to labor rights or workers' rights, they have this illusion that everybody can be equal in the workplace.
01:08:39.560And that's just not that's not a reality.
01:08:42.480My roommate and I are very different people when it comes to work.
01:08:46.300I can take on a lot of responsibility.
01:08:48.720I can take on a lot of leadership type of stuff in my position at work.
01:09:32.400So I would not push what works for me on other people.
01:09:35.880But a lot of people think that we should all be equal, that we should all have the same responsibility and we should all have the same reward.
01:09:42.460And those people, I think, have not walked both sides of the road or have not had very much experience in leadership that they understand that not everybody's cut out to be a leader and not everybody's cut out to be a follower.
01:09:57.700And I like I said earlier, I don't have a problem with leadership.
01:10:00.440I don't have a problem with people saying, hey, this is the way that we should go.
01:10:04.800As long as they don't say, hey, I'm pointing guns at all of you.
01:10:09.380So you have to go the way that I think we should go.
01:10:25.580And and it does that on a worldwide basis.
01:10:30.080And I'm not one of those people that is super conspiratorial when it comes to like the New World Order.
01:10:37.700I do believe that there are people trying to bring about world government.
01:10:40.600I don't think that there is intelligent or as as I don't think that they have like superpowers or they have psychic abilities or anything like that.
01:10:53.340But I think that it's just part of of one of the flaws in humanity that some people want to control other people and a lot of other people can be easily fooled into thinking that they should be controlled.
01:11:04.980But I do hold out hope for humanity in the long run because like you just said this whole collective this whole let government dictate every aspect of your life.
01:11:18.120It does go against and it does drain the very nature of humanity.
01:11:23.700And there's a lot of people waking up to it.
01:11:25.580And the bigger it gets and the more oppressive it gets, the more people wake up to it and the more people are standing up against it.
01:13:03.820And I do a weekly radio show where I sometimes I approach things from a legal point of view.
01:13:10.480Sometimes I expand on how to use the philosophy of anarchy to get your cases thrown out of court.
01:13:18.760And a lot of times I just approach current events from a philosophical and voluntarist anarchist type of point of view.
01:13:28.820So if you're interested in philosophy or if you're interested in the law or if you're just interested in a solution based look at the problems that are going on, check out my show.
01:13:41.880Everything there is available for free.
01:13:43.660I have a book written on the many court cases that I've taken on and how I've gotten a lot of court cases thrown out.
01:13:50.740It's available there as well for free download.
01:13:53.600So I try to make everything available for free.
01:13:55.600And like I said, this is like my main life goal right now is to spread the philosophy of freedom, spread the understanding of why we need freedom and to offer solutions rather than just the chicken little gloom and doom type of stuff that a majority of the people in alternative media seem to have an extreme fascination with.
01:14:19.820So I maybe don't have the best audience or the largest audience, but the audience that I do have are accomplishing a lot more than the fear based audience that seems to be growing by leaps and bounds.