What Is the Veil of Chains?

Agorists do not vote. We do not beg the slavers, negotiate with terrorists, or legitimize the system.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Benjamin Franklin.

Every election the “pragmatists” scream the same thing: “If you don’t vote for the lesser evil you’ll get the greater evil and lose everything overnight!”

That is the lie that keeps the chains polished and comfortable. That single mindset is why, in December 2025, we are deeper in tyranny than we were in 2023 — after a “red wave” that promised the exact opposite.

The 2024 landslide delivered, in just twelve months:

• A July debt ceiling hike of $5 trillion via the bipartisan “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” pushing the debt ceiling (debt target) to $41.1 trillion and enabling unchecked spending;

• The renewal of FISA 702 surveillance powers through April 2026, with the FISC approving government certifications in March 2025 for broader foreign intelligence collection;

• Ongoing ATF enforcement leading to hundreds of FFL revocations before the “zero-tolerance” policy was repealed in April 2025.

Lesser evil? Same temperature rise, different hand on the knob.

The Boiling Frog Trap

Drop a frog in boiling water and it jumps out. Turn the heat up slowly and it sits there until it’s cooked.

For sixty years conservatives have been voting for the guy who promised to only cook us slowly. The water is almost boiling and the frog is still watching football.

Now, look at the one issue conservatives claim to care about more than any other — guns.

Every Republican president in my lifetime has signed major gun control:

• Reagan signed the 1986 bill containing the Hughes Amendment — banning all new civilian machine guns forever (after 1986)

• George H.W. Bush signed the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 and banned importation of dozens of semi-auto rifles by executive fiat

• George W. Bush signed the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 — funding state red-flag reporting and creating the modern “mental-health” prohibition infrastructure

• Donald Trump banned bump stocks, told Congress on live television to “take the guns first, due process second,” and left the ATF’s Ruby-Ridge-era rules of engagement untouched

Every single time the conservative base made excuses: “Nobody needs a bump stock,” “At least it’s not Hillary,” “He had to compromise,” “Trust the plan.”

The water got hotter. Nobody jumped.

People under thirty now think “NICS check + red-flag laws + no new machine guns since 1986” is the historical American norm. They were born into warm water and have no memory of anything else. This is the same boiling water and slippery slope with all policies; many slaves in the South were not aware that they were slaves when born into slavery, and the best ones don’t. With normalization for future generations, it’ll be easier to raise their temperature on them later on, until it is completely boiled. (complete slavery)

Proof from History: When Tyranny Comes Fast, Men Fight Back

The American Revolution didn’t happen because King George taxed the colonies into the ground — the taxes were still lighter than what people back in England paid. It happened because London spent a century and a half leaving the colonies alone and then, practically overnight, decided to start collecting.

Here’s the part your high-school teacher skipped or rushed through in two days:

• 1754–1763 – The French and Indian War (called the Seven Years’ War everywhere else)

Britain beats France, wins pretty much the whole continent, and wakes up the morning after with a hangover of debt.

• February 10, 1763 – Treaty of Paris gets signed

France coughs up Canada and everything east of the Mississippi. Britain suddenly owns the whole continent and decides the colonists are picking up the tab.

• October 1763 – King George draws a line down the Appalachian mountains with the Proclamation of 1763

“None of you farmers and veterans get to move west of this line.”

Half the men in the room had just spent seven years fighting for that land. You can imagine how that went over.

• April 1764 – Sugar Act

First law written specifically to pull money out of colonial pockets. Smugglers who used to get a local jury now get shipped off to admiralty courts where a British judge decides their fate alone.

• March 1765 – Stamp Act hits

Every newspaper, every contract, every pack of playing cards now needs a tax stamp glued to it. People lose their minds on day one. Sons of Liberty cells pop up in every port the same week.

• 1765–Onward – The women get involved — Daughters of Liberty

They swear off British cloth, start spinning their own wool and linen in public squares, brew raspberry-leaf and sassafras “Liber-Tea.” Real Agorism right there: stop feeding the beast, grow and trade your own. The Daughters of Liberty deserve far more credit and recognition than they receive; even historians make it out to be just a side note. Expert historians note that without the Daughters of Liberty’s self-sustaining counter-economies and widespread activism, the revolution would never have taken off. Agorists will always be the unsung heroes because of their cloaked movements against tyranny.

Historically, to succeed, every revolution must employ counter-economics and aspects of Agorism. At the very least, preparing to abolish a tyrannical state is imperative as mentioned that is a right in the Declaration of Independence.

• June 1767 – Townshend Acts

New duties on glass, lead, painter’s colors, paper, and (of course) tea. Colonists boycott again. Britain responds by parking redcoats in Boston door-to-door.

• March 5, 1770 – Boston Massacre

A squad fires into an angry crowd. Five dead. Paul Revere’s engraving of the scene gets copied and passed hand-to-hand until every farmhouse in New England has one nailed up.

• May 1773 – Tea Act

Parliament actually cuts the price of tea, but keeps the tax to prove they still have the right to tax without asking. Colonists aren’t buying the tea or the argument. The ships just rot at the docks, cargo still aboard, because nobody on the ground will let it land.

• December 16, 1773 – Boston Tea Party

A couple hundred pissed-off locals (half of them in laughable Mohawk native get-ups) storm three ships and spend three hours heaving £10,000 of tea overboard. No looting, no crew hurt — just a giant “up yours” to the taxman.

• 1774 – Parliament loses its temper and passes what they call the Coercive Acts (we called them the Intolerable Acts)

They lock Boston harbor until the tea’s paid for, rip up Massachusetts’ charter, quarter troops in people’s living rooms again, and declare any British official accused of murder gets tried in London. The heat jumps so fast the pot damn near boils right there.

• April 19, 1775 – Lexington and Concord

Eight hundred British regulars march out to grab colonial guns and arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock. Seventy-seven minutemen are waiting on Lexington green at sunrise. Someone fires. Eight Americans drop. The redcoats keep marching, get shredded by militia snipers all the way back to Boston. Running battles all day. The war has started.

• Fall 1775 – Royal Navy starts burning coastal towns

They torch Falmouth (today’s Portland, Maine) and Norfolk, Virginia, others. They think terror will bring the colonists to heel. Instead every burned house turns ten neutrals into rebels. Increased tyranny unites people to the cause of liberty.

• January 10, 1776 – Some guy named Thomas Paine publishes a little pamphlet called Common Sense

120,000 copies move in a couple months in a country of 2.5 million people. Overnight the argument flips from “let’s negotiate better terms inside the empire” to “kick them out.”

• July 4, 1776 – Declaration of Independence

From the first real flashpoint (Stamp Act riots) to rifles coming off mantels ran about eleven years.

From the Intolerable Acts to open shooting war took barely over a year.

The frog finally felt the water scalding — and it jumped.

The Founding Fathers would be ashamed of what the country has become. It is completely unrecognizable, and the fact that people are paying 30% in income tax while believing they are free is perplexing. The Founding Fathers revolted over a small tea tax, which demonstrates that the slow, gradual acceptance of the lesser of two evils in voting is working against the people. This approach is allowing tyranny to rise and succeed.

2025: We Keep Choosing the Slow Boil

Every time I tell a conservative “don’t vote,” the immediate response is panic:

“If we don’t vote Republican, President Whitmer or Newsom will send federal SWAT teams door-to-door on day one and we’ll lose the Second Amendment forever!”

I understand the fear. I felt it once.

But look at what the “lesser evil” has delivered while wrapped in the flag and quoting the Founding Fathers:

• 21 states with red-flag confiscation laws — several signed by Republican governors, including Florida’s in 2018 and Vermont’s the same year

• ATF “zero-tolerance” policy that has revoked over 368 FFLs for paperwork mistakes since 2023

• FEMA’s expanded identity verification requirements for disaster aid applications — amid TSA’s enforcement of REAL ID-compliant digital options starting May 2025

• $5 trillion added to the debt ceiling in July 2025 by a “fiscal conservative” Congress

The lesser evil is not pausing the boil. He is turning the knob while smiling and telling you he’s draining the pot, or the swamp.

Tear the Veil Away

The Veil of Chains is the comforting illusion that showing up every two years to pull a red lever is “fighting for freedom.”

Voting and making government more efficient only evolve tyranny to become more successful, giving false hope, making government easier to bear on the people, while tightening the chains.

The Daughters of Liberty didn’t beg Parliament for lower taxes — they built parallel supply chains.

Agorists do the same today: Monero instead of fiat, 3D-printed receivers instead of Form 4473s, mutual-aid networks instead of FEMA handouts, home churches and private schools instead of licensed 501(c)(3) compliance.

Agorism is far from nihilism—it’s the proactive blueprint for a brighter future, harnessing innovations like cryptocurrencies for untaxed trade, 3D printing for self-reliant manufacturing, and sustainable agricultural techniques such as Walipini underground greenhouses to foster independence, (all year round greenhouses). Voting, on the other hand, veers closer to nihilism: people shrug, pick between two rotten options, and claim it’s the only path, all while surrendering to the system’s slow decay

Stop polishing the chains. Start building the world that makes them irrelevant.

If the greater evil ever wins big and turns the heat up fast — good. Let the frog finally feel the water is deadly. Let the overreach come in my time so my children do not grow up as docile livestock who never knew liberty.

“I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace” – Thomas Paine

Patrick Henry did not say “Give me slightly smaller chains and marginally better Supreme Court picks or give me death.”

He said “Give me liberty or give me death.”

It is time to rip the veil away.

Read Samuel Edward Konkin III’s New Libertarian Manifesto, it’s only 30 pages (free PDFs everywhere).

Find your local Agorist trading circle on Freedom Cells, Session, or Mastodon.

Trade voluntarily. Withdraw consent. Build the new world in the shell of the old.

Liberty is not granted by politicians.

It is seized by the courageous — right now.

Shatter the veil.

Choose liberty and make real change toward liberty through personal choices, escape instant gratification, and subconscious false achievement by being boiled alive and fooled into thinking that a ballot in a slave’s suggestion box will achieve any amount of real change. If so-called “liberty” candidates can’t win and don’t run, and the only voices that run for office sound extremely tyrannical, this will be a bigger wake-up call than fooling people with a so-called “liberty” candidate.

“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.” – Lysander Spooner.

‘It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’s been fooled.’ – Commonly attributed to Mark Twain.’

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.’ -Emma Goldman.

It’s Agorism or bust, you’re not voting your way out of this over $38 trillion debt nightmare, and the republicans only increase it. The Republicans’ only aim is to deceive to gain power and lie when they’re in office; no amount of liberty will be gained with these conmen, as seen with the 2024 election. Voting is contrary to liberty. Embrace true liberty and Agorism to fight tyranny so future generations will be free, or drowned in tyranny, and shackle your children for an illusion of choice to be slaves for a one-world government.