Yep, I'm still lurking. I've been considering where our energy should be focused on. Instead of creating a single independent community, we could promote nationwide independence. We could support agricultural values, freer trade, natural living and stronger communities amongst the whole country, or even world. My original intention with this project was to have an escape plan for when the federalist/globalist entanglement collapses, but I think that our time would be more well spent if we promoted independence on a larger scale.
Regardless of how much power the Western governments have, there's one thing that definitely needs to be fixed. They're trying to flip the whole system on its head. The federal government is the most powerful, it is above the state government, which is above the local government. That's the wrong way around. They're forcing us to depend on them by creating a more centralized society, and soon their will be one world government that has jurisdiction over all people. We need to fix the hierarchical system and rebuild the natural order, where the individual person is first, then the family, then the local government, then the state government, and lastly, the federal government.
We need to decentralize our society before it's too late. Government is not God.