Chances are, if you're reading this, you're a proponent of freedom. You've probably read your fair share of different philosophies on the matter, each of which presents its own brand of freedom. In thinking through these, you've come to agree that many of the ideas are valid, particularly the idea that to achieve the things you want in life, you need to operate as freely as possible. But to achieve freedom, you realize, requires first a realization that you are, by nature, free; and, secondly, identifying and carrying out certain means by which to reduce restraints on your life and affairs from tyrannical institutions.

The FWO Business Forum is a place to network with others who have developed a wide range of means to reduce coercive restraints on their lives and affairs. (FWO = Free World Order; in contrast to New World Order.)

But first let's consider what usually happens to a typical freedom lover:

Suppose that a hypothetical freedom lover works in a private-sector company, and the result is that 40% of his/her resources are effectively being employed to support a tyrant-system through paying taxes, providing information, etc. Suppose further that this freedom lover applies 50% of his/her resources toward personal survival and well-being, and that he/she applies the remaining 10% to the promotion and expansion of freedom. The net effect of the above is that our hypothetical freedom lover effectively spends four times the resources on tyrant support than he/she spends on freedom expansion. So who wins?

Another way of looking at it is that the tyrant-system effectively owns 40% of our hypothetical freedom lover's mind, body, and other resources.

Our hypothetical freedom lover might reason as follows:
1) The only way I can pursue my career and earn a decent living, is to work for a private-sector company.
2) If I try to beat the tax man, chances are I'll to go jail.

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
-- Sally Kempton

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
-- Steve Biko

"L'homme vivant sous la servitude des lois prend sans s'en douter une âme d'esclave."
"The man who lives under the servitude of laws assumes, without suspecting it, the soul of a slave."
-- Georges Ripert, Le Déclin du Droit, Paris, Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949, p. 94

"Oh, it is terrible! Terrible! You are not free. Your own betrayer is inside of you and sells you out. You have to obey like a slave."
-- Saul Bellow, Herzog

Now suppose our hypothetical freedom lover were to set up a sex site on the Internet in his/her spare time, possibly utilizing an offshore company in a tax haven. Suppose that after a year or so, the sex site pays as much as the private-sector salary, and the freedom lover exits his/her private-sector job and tax system (as far as possible). Because some taxes are still being paid when buying gas, clothes, etc., the ratios now become: 5% tyrant support, 80% personal survival and well-being, and 15% freedom promotion and expansion. Now who wins?

I'm using the sex site as an example. There are many other ways to make money on the Internet and shift at least some economic resources and activities away from supporting tyrants. I use the term "Economic Means to Freedom" to describe this shift of economic resources and activities from the private sector (generally involved in a great deal of tyrant support through paying taxes, providing information, etc.) to the real free-enterprise sector ("underground economy").

At least two things should stand out in the above example:

1) Every freedom lover has access to enormous potential resources in the world:

a) The brains of freedom lovers and their knowledge.

b) The material assets owned and/or controlled by freedom lovers.

c) The time and energy freedom lovers have available to apply their resources to expand freedom.

2) To the extent a freedom lover utilizes these and other resources available to him/her will determine the degree of freedom enjoyed (or restraints suffered). In other words, each freedom lover must strive for optimum utilization of freedom resources available to him/her.

To this end, therefore, we've set up a private forum called the FWO Business Forum where freedom-oriented business people can network, discuss, and receive support regarding the specific details of how to shift economic resources and activities away from tyrant support with minimal risk. From a practical standpoint, this forum will facilitate freedom lovers in bridging the link between ideas and action.

For some people, operating "underground" may be inappropriate and too risky. For those who insist on doing everything "by the book" so as to minimize risk, we suggest you consider the "offshore game."

The FWO Business Forum is not only for business people who want to operate with greater freedom and less taxation, but is also a place for individuals who want to become financially independent, while reducing the degree to which they support tyrant-systems to the absolute minimum. To ensure the highest quality of message content, the FWO Business Forum is a private forum, not open to the general public. There are no fees or charges involved; participation is free!

If you're interested in joining, please contact me at f-prime@buildfreedom.com with a brief biography (use those of the participants above as examples). If necessary, use a name and e-mail address that won't compromise your privacy. Please let me know if I may use your name and biography to help promote the forum.

Frederick Mann

M. John Allen
Former stockbroker relocated to Costa Rica, and presently working with Vista de la Costa offshore providers. They form offshore corporations, trusts and provide other financial services. Click here for more information.

Peter Doobes
Electrical/Electronic Engineering undergraduate, Australia. Currently looking for and implementing methods to exit the employee trap and achieve financial freedom. Interests include alternate energy, evolutionary engineering, internet business, Anopsology, and self-education. Learning Russian.

Tom Driver
Disciplined in BuildFreedom.com, Electrical Engineering, and the Fine Arts. Spent a 7 year stint living in various parts of central Europe. Currently operating as a telecommunications systems support engineer; have extensive knowledge in customer technical relations, and strategic and tactical customer problem resolution. Interests include using the arts as a vehicle for marketing practical freedom. Proficient in German.

Garry Greenwood
50 years of age, living in tropical Northern New South Wales, Australia. Semi retired and studying hard to obtain financial and personal freedom (thanks greatly to your BuildFreedom.com site). In the 1970s spent much time travelling the Far East seeking enlightenment. Ran into difficulties - mainly loss of freedom of thought due to what I perceived to be harmless eastern new age philosophies. Later discovered many of these were really tools of global supremacist groups hiding behind the wholesome ideals and practices of organic gardening, health improvement methods, meditation and more. Have spent the last 5 years writing up my experiences re these hidden supremacist groups and their plans for us all. Published articles as well as a free e-copy of my book All The Emperors Men.

Donald D. Henson
WEPIN Store (Services for the Sovereign Individual). Expertise in operating as a Sovereign Individual, running free market businesses, asset protection, getting assets to protect, pure trusts, dealing with terrorcrats, common law contracts, etc. Also has technical expertise in HTML, setting up and maintaining web sites, and protecting privacy.

Alex Heredia
Telecommunications Engineer, Ecuador. Expertise and experience in WAN/LAN Networking and Internet services. Fluent in English and Spanish. MBA, University of Coventry (UK); M.Sc. in Robotics and Computer Science, Army Polytechnic (Ecuador).

Dan Ho
Attended Rutgers University before leaving to pursue a life of Sovereignty and self-education. Currently operating as an equities trader; have extensive knowledge in market dynamics, and technical analysis. Interests include using the Internet as a vehicle for business to expand freedom and self-reliance. Semi-proficient in Mandarin.

Bill M.
MSCS in Computer Science. Over ten years full time experience in embedded real-time software for various weapons software projects. Worked with C, Ada 83, Motorola Assembly Language. Currently working with Ada 83. Proficient in C++. Learning Java. Mil-Std software engineering, from a level 4 CMM company. Deeply interested in encryption, remailers, purely anonymous e-cash systems, all areas of internet privacy enhancements. I know how to use PGP and sometimes I have success creating pseudonym addresses. I think all the ingredients for a purely anonymous-transaction economy are available. It just takes some good designers to combine the ingredients in the right way! Interested in learning about offshore trusts and pure trusts. Years ago, I read "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World," as well as Rand's, Lysander Spooner's, and almost all the books Harry Browne referenced in the bibliography. I discovered I can unsubscribe from government easily in many ways: I remain unmarried, I don't vote, I don't own many material possessions. However, I still pay over 40% of my income to the terrocrats. So that's why I am interested in learning more about freedom strategies!

Vladimir Momitko
Graduated as a teacher and interpreter of English in the second half of the 1980s. In 1995 I plunged into the world of offshore. Currently my main business is tax planning services for Russian businesses and foreign companies doing business in Russia. I have recently written a book for Russian businessmen teaching them how to correctly use offshore companies when doing business in Russia and abroad. I am interested in ways and methods of shifting business to the Internet to avoid taxation. Click here for more information about me.

Ellen Pedersen
BSNR, University of Michigan; currently working in DNA synthesis with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Michigan; spent formative years in Europe, gaining fluency in French; studied Russian intensively for one year and acquired proficiency in Spanish while at University; lover of life-long learning (from physics to philosophy and nearly all stops before, between, and beyond).

John Picard
My background is over twenty years working internationally as a consultant. Ran own company of up to 60 systems and management consultants with offices in five locations around the world. Formed business development groups for supporting new business formation. Have assisted several business in a strategic planning and systems view approach to improving operations, provided coaching to top managers in various businesses in the U.S. and Africa. Have been a value-oriented investor, buying companies NOT stocks. Have taught investing to others, have degrees in finance and international business at Master's level. Wrote a book on the use of the microcomputer, but it's dated (<1986). Became a major advocate of the PC and --- now --the Net and its potential for exactly what this forum and BuildFreedom is all about!!

Kurt S.
One year of communications electronics engineering (incomplete), and experience with radio communications electronics during a short term of service in the U.S. Army. Custom builds and maintains desktop computers. Some experience in CGI programming with Perl under Linux. Currently researching the feasibility of establishing a new "internet" communications network using wireless technology/encrypted without any "back doors," which could be used as a 'closed-circuit' communications system for those who wish to remove themselves from the privacy flaws of the current internet structure. HTML coding-by-hand experienced. Self-trained in computer technology, as I don't believe in the liberal-biased higher education system. I am also an amateur radio operator, for anyone who may be interested in casual or emergency radio communications.

Somananda
I am a "man of many trades." I was convicted (June 17, 1998) of growing cannabis (16 strains -- a research project matching strains to specific illnesses -- cannabis being one of the most important medicinal herbs in the world today). I turned to the net to prepare my cannabis "defense" and somehow discovered buildfreedom.com in my research. Now I am intensely interested in Freedom issues and Freemarket development. I am into Stockgeneration and doing well, and also BIG International. We live in a paradise here in Nova Scotia and also have a great place in Costa Rica for the cold winter months. As a group here, we have tremendous potential and I am pleased to contribute in any way I can.

Larry Trivieri
Co-author of The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine; previously served as senior editor and principal author/interviewer of Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, which sold 550,000 copies in hardcover alone; currently bootstrapping the website http://www.1healthyuniverse.com, which will ultimately become one of the largest free online resources devoted to holistic healing methods; other interests include methodologies for human transformation (especially those related to breath), creative writing, and techniques to enhance intelligence; interested in learning more about how to operate as a sovereign individual, as well as "by the book" strategies such as the offshore route.