AttacktheSystem.Com is maintained by American Revolutionary Vanguard, a loose association of individuals from widely divergent backgrounds and beliefs who share a common opposition to the prevailing policies of the government of the United States. Specifically, American Revolutionary Vanguard recognizes the threat to international peace and economic stability posed by the policies of the present United States regime and its allies. We further recognize the on-going assaults on Western traditions of political and intellectual liberty at the hands of an escalating totalitarian humanism and a parallel system of high-tech, intrusive surveillance systems, militarized police forces, prison industries, academic censorship and other forms of repression.Against this status quo, we work for an alternative political vision that is anti-authoritarian, non-militarist, non-Marxist and decentralist. We generally reject archaic labels such as “liberal” and “conservative” or “left” and “right”. Instead, we adhere to the Jeffersonian dictum that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” and draw on traditions of popular struggle against tyranny within our national history and in the history of other nations. Some of us began our political lives on the Left, some of us on the Right, others somewhere in between. Yet we share a common opposition to the dominant paradigm of imperialism, neoliberalism, globalism, divisive and authoritarian multiculturalism, bureaucratic managerialism and the therapeutic state, whether in the form of social-democratic, liberal-internationalism or neoconservative “benevolent hegemony”. These matters cannot continue to go unaddressed if the United States is to avoid degenerating into a fracticious, bankrupt police state with a failed, two-tiered, Third World economy, international humiliation and military ruin.

Such problems will likely require new and innovative approaches to statecraft in the twenty-first century. The original constitutional republican order devised by the Founding Fathers was intended for a culturally homogenous, agricultural society. The historic US Constitution survives only as a shell of its former self and the last remnants of its important provisions, such as the separation of powers and the liberties outlined in the Bill of Rights, suffer increasing assaults with each passing year. If this situation continues indefinitely, the full apparatus of totalitarianism will be upon our nation within our lifetimes or those of our children. It is naive to believe that a federal Leviathan located in Washington, D.C. can effectively govern a continent-wide nation with hundreds of millions of citizens possessing an infinite variety of values, ideals, ideologies, moralities, cultural, ethnic or religious identities. The historical evidence is overwhelmingly clear that no society, and certainly no democratic one, can function in such a manner for very long without eventually falling into strife and chaos.

Secession by regions, states, localities, neighborhoods and institutions should be regarded as a legitimate, reasonable, practical, legal and moral means of dealing with the problems of both encroaching statism and unresolvable cultural and social conflict. The principle of secession was widely recognized by America’s Founders as important safeguard against the power of political authoritaries inclined towards excess. This principle was unfortunately undermined by its association with apologies for Southern slavery prior to the Civil War, but the slavery question has since been happily resolved. It is time to resurrect secession as a viable political option. The principle of secession would allow America’s many, many cultural, ideological and demographic groups to essentially form intentional communities and intentional nations that operate in accord with their core values. A universal consensus on the nature of the good society is not possible given the diversity of humanity, and is not a legitimate political aspiration.

All liberties are dependent on one another. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of the press and church/state separation, privacy rights and property rights, due process and the rights of the accused-each of these has evolved over centuries of struggle to create zones of autonomy protecting the individual citizen, the oppressed minority or the beleagured majority from arbitrary exercises of power. An attack on any of these liberties is an attack on them all. And while we do not advocate the initiation of force or violence, we recognize the legitimacy of the traditional constitutional right to keep and bear arms as the last line of defense against tyranny. The right to bear arms is not an outmoded relic of the eighteenth century, but a vital principle of liberty that has been vindicated time and time again, throughout the world and in many diverse nations, during the course of struggles against political oppression and external invaders.

Whatever the final product of the present struggle may be, it is clear enough that our first effort should be to make others aware of the dangers looming ahead. Community activism and education are an indispensable part of this struggle. Already, hundreds of American communities have issued resolutions condemning the rogue federal regime’s aggression abroad and the attacks on domestic liberties manifested by the Patriot Act and other such abominations. This struggle must escalate, it must become nationwide and it must be pursued to the final end.