Why Occupy the Land? From Ron Paul to Desert Freedom

In this powerful, reflective episode of Occupy the Land, Ernie Hancock delivers a raw, personal recap of the journey that led to building their Arizona desert homestead. From the Ron Paul Revolution and silver education in the late 2000s, through the Love Bus Liberty tour during COVID lockdowns, to decades of street activism, lawsuits, and media work via Freedom’s Phoenix and Declare Your Independence, Ernie traces how awareness of a broken system drove the decision to decentralize and become self-reliant. He explains the core motivation: protecting Generation Next through private property, secure communication (mesh networks & Starlink), privacy-focused commerce (Zano crypto), and practical self-sufficiency—insulating from coercion, surveillance, and collapse. With stunning desert scenery as backdrop, this is the “why we do this” episode: a call to stop delegating authority, reclaim liberty, and occupy your own land for freedom, health, and future generations. Peace.

Transcript:

You guys remember back in, I think, 2008, the Ron Paul Revolution? You remember the Ron Paul revolution, the evolution, the Love Bus and everything. You know who was behind that? Ernie. Ernie, Ernie’s been in this for a long time. He is an OG. He is the founder of Freedom’s Phoenix. You might have stopped by and talked to him and Donna at the booth.

Occupy the land. Declare your independence. Ladies and gentlemen, if we can get him to come out of his shell tonight for once. Finally, it’ll be a great presentation. Please welcome to the stage, our good friend Ernie. It’s time for Declare your independence with Ernest Hancock. Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it.

I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me. I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines, and after a century of war, I remember that which matters most. We are still here.

In time. Let us make them remember. We are not afraid.

No fear, no fear. Nothing to fear. No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear. Here on Glen Country News. Hancock. This has been when I started doing radio in oh three. One of my board ups did that and I went, wow. And he was liberal is what we’re going to talk about today. I’m going to blaze through it really fast because I want to get to the end.

It’s a treat for you guys. When I started doing radio in oh three, I’d already 15 years. It’s, more now, like 88. Donna and I were 28 and 27 years old. She was pregnant, not ready to deliver our fourth child. We have two boys, two girls, 12 grandkids.

In Phoenix, Arizona. So guess what we’re going to build. You know, I’m just saying what happened was I want you to understand the circumstances under which I became such a ardent activist. There was no internet. You go to the library, you had to read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of rights. The Constitution.

When I got to the Declaration of Independence, I was hooked. Because I remember when it said the purpose of any government is to protect the rights of the individual. If it does not do that, it’s time to alter or abolish. It’s your right. It’s your duty to sign me up. Okay. What happened was I’m going to go through really quick what it was because Occupy the Land is a promise I made to my wife that if, you know, one more thing and I’ll go through, you know, the activists that we did, the activism that we did, and I would build her a home in the desert, less an hour and a half away from grandkids soccer games. That was the deal. Once more into the breach. And then how can I take occupy the land and manifest a lot of the things that we have been advocating for? What was it that we were why were we doing? What do you say you do here? When I started doing radio in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2003, nobody asked why.

You know why. Right after I started doing radios when we went in to land invasion in Iraq. Why now? You know, because he tried to kill my dad or something. Whatever it was, I’m going. This is so I uncovering the secrets and exposing the lies. That’s the tagline for our site, Freedom’s Phoenix. In the late 90s, like 96 or so.

What happened was, we’ve been libertarian activists running for office. I’ve run for state legislature a couple of times, Congress three times, U.S. Senate against John McCain, Secretary of state three times, filed a lawsuit all the way to the Ninth Circuit on moral argument and do in my own suit against 44 election laws in Arizona, Maricopa County, okay.

How scumbag they are. Now, everybody knows. But back then I’m going, man, you guys have no idea what’s going on. I used campaigns to get standing for lawsuits. Have been over a dozen, you know, three of them. The ninth Circuit, three in Arizona Supreme Court. I got something to say. Did I think I was going to win immediately?

It was very obvious saying give a crap about constitutional law or whatever, mental gymnastics, gymnastics they go through to say, there you lose. But what I figured out was that if you got a government number, an arrest number, initiative number, a lawsuit number, a recall number, a petition for a year, whatever it guaranteed some coverage. So I go, all right, all right, all right, all right.

I get lots of government numbers. Watch this. But they usually do is they try and drag it out. They want to, you know, bury you in legal paperwork and and cost an attorney fees and all this kind of stuff. But we know well, we had our own business and I said I was pro. So what happened was, is I get form of poppers, which means I didn’t have to pay for fees.

I didn’t have an attorney. And Donna and I would spend the time doing it. It was like a hobby. It was like entertainment. And I go, you can drag this out as long as you want. Because every time I do a reply or a response or a motion or imply response to a motion or whatever, you get more coverage.

What I’m going to show you is just not even the tip of the iceberg. We have like new projects every few months. This is just some of the highlights I can go and each one of them, I’m going to be able to explain everything on it, but you’ll get the idea of why we do occupy the land. If I am right now at I’ll be 65 at the end of March.

I’m talking to my 20 something year old self. That’s what I’m doing. Any of these young people out here, you’re in your 20s, you got a few kids, you see some of them around? I yeah, I encourage you to listen to watch it later. Show your grandkids to understand the motivation that got us through all of these different activist things.

A lot of them people know about me, like the revolution and so on. But there is a bunch that you may know about, but you didn’t know it was Don and I because it wasn’t about us. The only way I know how to be free is to advocate it for everybody. And that was my goal and to be a good example for my kids real quick.

So I go through this one thing that we did a show on January 6th when the, you know, in 20 when they arrested, you know, they had when the Capitol building and freaked out, they started arresting people and everything. Eventually I was doing a show, those keepers that were there and that kind of stuff, they wanted me to certify an MP3 file so that they could use it in a criminal proceeding.

And I knew that if I did, that incriminate me because I’m, you know, I was one of the voices. Oh, no, you’re not an investigation. You got to get. I knew what they were doing. What they wanted to do was curtail talk show host from talking to the people they didn’t like about issues they didn’t like. Nope. Not playing.

I’d be nice. You know, I’m going to, but you’re going to have to subpoena me. You’re going to have to subpoena. Well, this went on for a year or more. You have to subpoena me. You have to subpoena me. Finally, when you’re actually doing the trial during Christmas, December 15th, you got to come to Washington, D.C.. We got an attorney for.

We’ll give you an attorney. He love you. Long time, no, don’t need attorney. Fifth amendment won’t. Criminal. But it’s a long story. Bottom line. Damn it. He’s really going to do. You can go home. And my family and my kids expected nothing less. But they got to pay because my grandkids, when I texted them that I was Papa, was going to be home for Christmas, they started crying.

I hate these people. Epstein files come out for good freaking reason. So I’m going to walk through this really quick so you understand my motivation for all the stuff I do. And then at the end, give you a little treat. Now occupy the land. I’ll go through that a little bit. Now, tomorrow we’re doing a workshop, Donna and I, that anybody is really interested in that and all the little details and what you can do, not material and all that kind of stuff.

More than happy to do it. And we’ll give you a little bit of that to. But nobody ever ask or answers why. Just saying.

What if you knew? What if your life experiences were that you knew what you’re up against? I always know my kids when they were young. I go, it’s blood dripping fang, pointy horn, pointy tail people. That’s what we’re up against. Well, why would you have a pointy horn, pointy fang, pony tail? People, they were evil and I could see.

Okay, I went to watch so many stories, but this is what started it.

My father retired as a jester with Allstate, and he rode going motorcycles and he wanted to camping trailer the ones. There wasn’t anything out there. And the stuff that was, they were crap. And he took and made of fiberglass bodies, aircraft, aluminum did. It was it opened up and it turned into this in like 60s when he started getting in Wing World and Road Rider magazines and all that stuff.

It was at the time that the European before the European Union, the European border started coming down that you could go from, you know, Portugal to Spain to France or whatever without having, you know, stop and papers, please, or whatever. So all of a sudden people wanted to travel Europe. They going on little cobbled streets in the small areas of whatever.

And this was perfect. They wanted to ship them in by the crate tools. There you go, man. We got a shipping container. We’ll fill that bad boy up. And this is how it go. And my dad was like, I go by a shop one time and he had. And it was like inbox orders request people. It wasn’t the internet.

I mean, he’s getting letters from people that wanted it. He was getting letters from people that wanted to be distributors. And, you know, I and I got enough to do now I don’t care. I’m I’m semi-retired on vacation. I mean, you know, I do this crap, so I go but at the time, what were they pushing in 88, 89 exporting America export Mexico.

We got the you know, trade deficit of America. So I go now let me go check on it. So there was a law that was called the omnibus trade. And I helped him with his fliers and did because I could do art and whatever. So it was it was a going concern. It was called the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, right at the end of the Reagan administration and CIA freaking, you know, Daddy Bush, they had this 400, I think it says here, 468 page law.

And I read every word of it, and I knew what it was because in junior high, they told me, what happens when you mix business and government to the point that you can’t tell the difference? That’s fascism and the New World order and all that stuff. I never heard the term. I didn’t know what. I’m 28 years old, but I saw it and I went, Holy crap, this is a different this is like Nazi Germany stuff.

So I challenged, I kept asking questions. I, you know, called it every agency’s come to find out the Commerce Department was under the Census Bureau, and there was a guy at the Census Bureau that realized this, too. So he would secretly feed me everything. He would send me a bunch of stuff. You know, you need to ask this question to these people and this kind of check us out and do.

In Arizona, there was a Senator, Dennis de Cassini, a Democrat or whatever. He’s. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you go get him because we don’t like Bush. Daddy Bush. I didn’t really understand what was going on other than I just wanted to know the truth. I go to Washington, I get to meet long story, but I’m sitting in front of the very guy that I knew, that knew.

And I pushed the envelope towards him on the coffee table, his big ass office. You know, that he had. And my wife’s young brother, he’s now like V.P. at Moody’s, but he was going to Penn State University. We were back visiting and we drove down to Washington, DC for that. And he went with me when he was like a junior at Penn State.

So he got a dose from the beginning. I slid it over and I said, I know what you guys are doing. I want access to this trade data from my father. Now I’m paying tax money for this thing. We want to be able to ship, and you guys are forcing us into a third party contract. These guys make a bunch of money.

You’re a gang with the flag. You know. It’s kind of my attitude. He didn’t even look down at it, but he pushed it back and he goes, yeah, kid. And what are you going to do?

Oh, that was good.

At confirmation of what I thought was going on and he pissed me off. That was a bad idea. Right after that, the savings and loan crisis happened, you know, about the same time. And I was in Arizona. This is Keating. Five people were our business. We had a lot of auto detailing business and mobile laundry. And you know, mobile, mobile, mobile stuff, mobile service company.

And what happened was all of my clients were getting their, beamers and their Mercedes and everything detailed for the cheap, you know, packages. One last time they were selling them. And I’ve seen this before of the housing thing. I saw it before with all kinds of I saw what was going on. And I told my I said, we got to get small.

We were really busy now, but I can see what’s coming. So what happened? We get the first Gulf War, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City bombing, 911 Pentagon, you know, dot com bubble. You know, Iraq War two, the Big Short oh my God. What’s your perspective? You drill down even a little bit on this. And you know the kind of people these people are, they don’t have any love or compassion.

There’s no empathy. They couldn’t even produce anything. They’re parasites. They need you to do it for them because all they want is just to, you know, suck off of your labor. And however many families or Americans or, you know, people or children or whatever, how many, you know, baby hearts they got to eat or food doesn’t mean anything to them.

They don’t have the capacity. And during the 90s, when I was running for offices, I’m back in the green room. You know, you’re going out, you know, for your speech or their turn, your debating them on TV and radio. I’ve been, you know, I was a party officer and I’m getting access to the database. You know, working, negotiating with their county elections department, kind of talking to all these people.

There was something wrong with them. They were literally messed up in the head.

So a lot of long conversations talk about that. But, I mean, I knew what I was up against. Now my wife and I are Christian. We raised our children Christian. We took them out of school. Our oldest was in third grade and we’re done. That was long. Strike and see what was coming. Get them out. So we homeschool, we chartered, we Montessori, we tried everything.

And then seventh to 12th grade they went to Phoenix Christian Junior Senior High and Phoenix great School. They did great. Now of course, you know the parents were good and everything. You know, little indoctrination, you know, but we took care of it. So this is how we prepared the future of our life to make sure that our children knew better.

Married well, didn’t become crackers. I mean, you know, this is you know, we were looking at our children as conduits to our grandchildren. And we told them we’re going to look, we’re raising you to be good parents so we don’t have to be again. So our children, great, great families, spouses, great grandkids were awesome. But it took work.

And I can’t even say sacrifice investment. We didn’t have the best cars. We’re going to the private school on a push started old diesel Jetta. I mean, you I mean, you know, and we didn’t care. That wasn’t the point. But I only knew to be free by advocating it for everybody. So in the three weeks after 911, we had our first Freedom Summit.

And when it happened, we almost canceled it. But we got no, no, we got to do it. And we’ve had you know, Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Doug Casey, Lew Rockwell, Walter Block, Anthony Gregory, you know, Harry Brown. I mean, on and on and on and on and on over the years. So that’s how I knew a lot of these guys.

Then in 16, we did the Vaccine Education Summit. I had interviewed a friend of ours and supporters. They said, you you talked to this doctor. Judy might give this a read her book plague or something. And I had her on and I had her on. I interviewed her literally hundreds of times because I had her on every week for a couple of years and every other week and every month.

And now I talk to her about every three months or so. The reason was, is because doctors like her, naturopaths, people that were challenged, the vaccine thing were dropping like flies. I was interviewing her to keep her alive. I did the same thing with Cody Wilson. And you’re going after him with his ghost gun or gun and all this other stuff.

Because I know how bad these guys are. You’re messing. You wasn’t in their pool. They don’t like it. So then we did a Bitcoin conference on Pi Day three 1415 I remember that we’ll get into the crypto and stuff later. But the Vaccine Education Summit and then the radio show started in 2003, 2003. I was asked to we just sold our restaurant, or I was like, I had a three month overlap period with the new owners, and we had a pizza restaurant, and and it was great for my family and work out to get them as good.

So then, I was available looking for something to do, going to start another business or something. And, there was a anti-war Quaker, elderly couple that knew me from my activism and running for office and so on. And they said, if you can get a spot on the radio, we’ll sponsor. We’ll pay whatever we need to get because we’re going to go in the war.

The Iraq war is coming. We need you on the air, man. Because I was there was nobody against the war. So I get on. I thought it’d be a 13 week thing. Bones, light up, declare your independence with Ernest Hancock. It gets another contract, then another station wants to, you know, and, you know, pay a little bit more than another one.

Then I finally wound up on Air America. Communist radio as their token libertarian. I’m just saying, you know, but, that was interesting. That was during the revolution, too. So that was my experience there. And a lot of activists were helping with that and helping edit and doing this is a good time. When video started hitting the internet in 2005, I go, oh, here we go.

Because we used to go and went to public access television, to cable channels. You have a contract for your cities, for access to run lines or some thing that they had to do. We got to have, you know, public access, you know, cable. But it wasn’t I didn’t want to have a show. I didn’t care about that.

I wanted the equipment. And you had to go through the training to get the equipment. So we go down to the elections department. Now, what do you say you do here? I mean, you know, so we were documenting stuff back when you VHS and you like big freaking thing. So now you pull out your phone. When video hit the internet.

It was YouTube. There’s a bunch of others. YouTube was not, you know, one of the biggest ones. You used to be able to have a dashboard. You can just load something to a whole bunch of them. YouTube was it not until Google got it? So Freedom’s Phoenix, we started it, and I think we opened in October of 2005, and it, was a activist tool for us to communicate with the people that to have a place to go and get whatever it was.

And if you like it, you don’t like it. Whatever the reason, it is the way it is. You go to the bottom right and, you know, tutorials, you watch the tutorial. Okay, I see why he does it this way, because it’s a tool for activist. Then all of a sudden what happens? We do a lot of activism. They came out when they did 911.

They came out the total information awareness office thing and I go, what doc? I thought it was a joke. I didn’t know it was real jargon. People need to know about this. So we made a printed, you know, PDF to color. You know, I had a little check marks and so on. And this is what it looks like when you, print it.

And we put them on trash cans and it was like, you, agent 4409 stopped by on behalf of, I was told, information, awareness. And, we read your social media post and we checked your waste and went through your garbage, and, Oh, we’re sorry. This information is privileged. Divulging any information of this search is a violation in accordance with the Patriot Act, and is punishable up to ten years in federal prison.

Or you may be subjected to indefinite detention, which was true.

So what we did is we put, you know, to receive your free CBD. And then we had different versions of it. There’s a whole bunch of them that were different. But this is this particular one. To receive your free Cbdc wallet, you may be required to update your vaccination status and register your firearms. For more information, call these numbers.

The numbers went to the news desk at the newspaper newsroom, at the radio station, in the newsroom, at the television station. And every time we did this, it was guaranteed press. Well, you that’s not real. That go. You guys are so easy. We use this a bunch of times now, the reason we did this one and we had easy tip hotline.info.

I’ve had so many websites I just let them go a lot of times because now with the internet, a lot of this guerilla marketing is not as popular now. James Corbett and I met here at the first aka Poco became good friends. We do a show every other week. For years now. We’ve been doing this a long time.

In 2006, when I ran for Secretary of State, it was clear I hadn’t voted since oh two. I. I don’t care even Ron Paul. I just did a write in thing, wrote my name and my ID number or something, said, you know, I write in Ron Paul just dropped it. You know, they say you gave me my PAC.

I put that on top, gave it back. This won’t count. And I go, it already did I don’t you know, you know. So when we did all this work for, Ron Paul is it wasn’t too, get him elected, I didn’t care. It was to keep him up on the podium. I go, look, I you just need to get him up there.

Oh, we get to do it again in 12. Score. Okay, let’s do that.
Still voting. This was the signs that went everywhere. They had this thing called clean election campaign. Some BBS saying that they were doing. So I go to him and I say, hey, you know, I’m, I see these guys are, you know, endorsed by the paper. They’re endorsed by the these are private things, endorsed by the union or whatever.

And I go, you’re not I’m going to put endorsed by Freedom’s phoenix.com. Well that’s you. Yeah. So I can put Ace Hardware where you care. You know. So they they tried to start I’m going to bring it to the suit man. You know I’ll come after you. So we do that kind of stuff. And this was right when right after a V for vendetta had come out.

Freedom’s a perspective. So then when we started, it was when we had, the signs we did these in a, it wasn’t abandoned, but they’re doing light rail construction in downtown Phoenix. And I knew the landlord and that he, you know, we had used it as a party headquarters the decade before or something. You still get something?

Yeah, I got this. So 800 bucks for two months, and you can have this space, 5000ft² of whatever. Didn’t put a phone in or nothing. Just turned on the power. We went in and started making these signs, and then we learned a lot of different ways. It’s just a stencil. You put a projector up, you cut it out, you put it on whatever cardboard didn’t matter.

Spray painted it, boom. And we get all kinds of material. People donate stuff. It got creative and it just exploded. Well, people didn’t know what was going to happen. They were like, Ernie, really? You think in Revolution and I, you know, are you sure? And kind of even the campaign, Ron Paul’s campaign. Wow. Revolution. We’re not sure. And then finally it was about May of oh seven, in Des Moines, Iowa.

And then Ron’s going, thanks for let me join your revolution. You know, and I’m like, he got it.

But the Republican handlers and everything, they wanted to collectivize it, they went everybody. The poster pictures a certain place. They wanted the central command. They wanted to tell them that which became campaign for Liberty, you know, that kind of thing, which they brought me and wanted me to be part. I’m no, I don’t have anything to do with it.

I already know where this goes. And this is one thing I want you guys to embrace.

We had a maxim that we went by whenever you create an organization around a mission, a cause and effort, sooner or later the organization becomes more important. And the reason you created it every single time. So we kept it decentralized. It was spontaneous order. Anybody came to me for anything, I got absolutely here and give it to you and it really became apparent.

Denver, somebody in Denver wanted all the logo, art and stuff and everything. I sent it, then somebody else in Denver, one gave me, I sent it the first one. Hey, I got it first. They’re not allowed. They’re doing it wrong. I we are going. You guys are killing me. This is what we’re dealing with all the time. So open source became a mantra.

Decentralization. And this is the exact spontaneous order. That’s how we did everything. Oh, yeah. This is cool. This Patriot logo. We did that because the Super Bowl was in Arizona. The Patriots versus the Giants. So guess who we were rooting for. You know so we were having fun with that. Then we do the TSA. We won’t fly. When they started patting you down and everything and the whole thing of all you had to get, you know, new blue gloves for your date with the TSA because they were doing this H1n1 Obama we’re all going to die from the bird flu.

They were starting this vaccine thing. We started the vaccine thing back. And, you know, God, you know, eight nine, nine, 1011 we were we were early on this thing. We knew they were going to use that as a vehicle. But when they were feeling you up, they weren’t changing their gloves. Let me go, man. We’re in a freaking.

We’re going to die. You won’t even change your gloves between groin patch. What the hell? So we put the gloves in there, say, oh, for your safety and, you know, like that stuff. But it of course, had, you know, friend, libertarian lawyer card in there. It had, DVDs and all kinds of stuff. But what was the best thing was he had a Godzilla attack dosimeter badge, Godzilla radiation badge, and that was for the TSA guys because they had that rapid scan, Ripa scan, whatever, and they had signed a thing they couldn’t claim workman’s comp, they couldn’t get you get cancer.

Life sucks for you. So he told me, he said, look on the back of that card, it had don’t do cemetery.com or something out of Florida for $13. You could get a card you just wear a few days or a week or whatever in your pocket. Send it in. They give you your radiation exposure. Well, they did it.

And they replaced the machines and a magazine. Scott show. Cause me you win or you win. Are you going to go through the, you know, whatever machine or cycle? What makes you think I believe him now? Really. So this is it’s a game that they play. Well I know how to play. You want to play? Let’s play. I got a bunch of play.

Threats of war. We’re going into war. Another war. One more war. I can’t remember which war it was. The category of Freedom’s Phoenix is about that war. Which war? The next one. And, oh, there’s always one. But we understood. We wanted to promote home education. We’re going. You want to stop the wars? Home educate. It’s all this conning everything.

The generation next. So when we did this, it was right when the new Star Wars movie number one or something, the fourth one, relaunching the new Star Wars movie. So we knew there were going to be lines. So we did this and we put them all around the movie theaters, on the fences, everywhere. This. It was my new son in law that had a, first his first child was less than two years old.

He understood he was out there helping me do this, and he and my daughter homeschooled her two kids. You know, since Covid. And I’m just so glad my in-laws, they my kids chose wisely. They’re all great. And then we this is how we do it. Did a silkscreen thing and had a roll of material. We went at it.

We learned a lot. Yeah, this was-I think it was in Pennsylvania. James Babb did this, an activist in Pennsylvania, Lockheed Martin, man. He just kept putting it up. You know, every time they had to put it up again. So this was and then we started the magazine Freedom’s Phoenix magazine easing. This is an 11. This is way before anybody had done this kind of digital stuff because we understood the white Rose society.

It was handing out pamphlets. It was like because the entire thing was like five megabytes. You could put it in in an email. You can send it, you know, as a text. You could do. We were we need to have this. How are we going to be able to share. And this was before QR codes when QR codes came out.

That’s a whole nother thing. I could have done a long time on how much fun we have of that, but it was about Generation Next. It was always about Generation Next. Each one of these magazines, we had a lot of stuff we’ll get to here in a minute. But James Corbett was so influential. He has so many good documentaries.

Why and How Big Oil Conquered the World, the World War one conspiracy, Century of Enslavement, about the Federal Reserve.

They would take him down, shadow ban Deplatform, whatever. It just kept going on and on and on and on. We use Interplanetary file sharing. It’s a IPFs. It’s a noted mechanism. You can’t delete it. You can’t stop. You can’t you. It’s more difficult to promote it. You got to do like street activism thing, which is why you don’t have a billion followers on YouTube.

And I don’t freaking care. That wasn’t the point. Everything that we did was to provide for being able to communicate by activism, peer to peer. And at the end, I’m going to show you what’s up. So what we did is I’m like, I want the curated to where we had the best of Corbett for somebody that needs to wake up.

So we created open source education Dot online. We got a forum, we set up everything got, and then he curated it and put it up there and relaunched Century of Enslavement. And it’s after that we did this. YouTube was like, damn it. All right, well, you can come on, you know, kind of almost.

We promote across markets alternative currencies with alternative vendors. And we did it one time black Market Fridays for Agora Stock Market, 200 businesses signed up in a day and we go, damn. But there’s only one day a year. There’s a day after Thanksgiving. We go, we gotta do this. You know, James and I go, man, we gotta do this more often.

We gotta. We gotta make this regular thing.

Yeah, people do it. Do it every Friday. You do it every Friday. One one, you do it every Friday. And it becomes more of a habit every Friday. Alternative vendors, alternative currencies, certainly after Thanksgiving. Don’t do all your shopping on Amazon, Walmart.

It was a big part of this. Also. Now you saw the dime cards out there. What happened is after the oh eight campaign, we knew for the first time in activist history that Ron Paul had made the Federal Reserve an issue. It’s a Federal Reserve, and this is what it does. And it sucks and is bad and wars.

Shall we go? We gotta get people to understand this. So, you know, a dime a dozen, dime a dozen what? It was a dozen eggs. If they were silver dimes. That’s when it clicked with me. I go, oh, okay, dime a dozen. So we got dime a dozen.info, and Dot and I would charge a dime for a check.

Is usually like 50 chickens. And so on, and everybody come over just like I would give it away. But, you know, they give us silver dimes just out of principle. Then it was done in France. France has a silver coin from back in. What are the day like? We did. It was starting to go around the world and the man didn’t like that none too much.

We did it as a fundraiser for Daley. Paul’s a favor to Michael Nystrom and we sold 8000 of these cards in a day. It was amazing. So I just put those out there, you know? Now, a little nostalgia. So you guys, you see what’s up. Now, what we did is this is one of our magazine covers. We created a silver calculator app so you could use them at festivals.

Well that’s what why we did that. Then you got the money, less the money. This was a vending machine. Some of the activists did. That’s Drew Phillips and Ross Edwards. You know, a lot of you guys probably know drew and, it would dispense them. Then later they did Bitcoin that would give change in cash and silver and back.

But it was a thing. So you and ended a big deal on it and so on. I mean these guys are so freaking creative.

Yeah I’ve been on the you know whatever the matter then you have Pirates Without Borders. We wanted to demonstrate the decentralization that was needed in communication, energy, shelter, food and water, health, transportation, automation and education. If you could do that, you could live a first quality life, first world life, and not suffer and be free. So we’ll go cool.

Then you get Starlink. Solar starts getting really cheap. Then we started discovering ways for attainable housing. Got to have a pirate ship. There’s an animation, you go on the site and it’s very cool that we have letters of captain Mark and reprisal. It’s why I raise my black banner. How this happen? Vaccine education summits we had we had a lot of great people on there, and we had one that was scheduled for June 2020 and it was canceled.

The hotel. Oh, we can’t, you know, mask up and whatever. New Hampshire fine. That’s the love bus and what we used to be able to live because it’s very comfortable. And we spent a lot of time in the studio and do whatever on our land. Why? Right. When we were doing the last summit 19 event, 201 was going on.

We’re like, what the crap? We find out later. So then we pimped out the bus. Derek Sloopy, Justin’s good friends, Derek, Jay, noon and I were good friends and that’s a laser. And that’s all you wanted for helping us do everything was this laser and we would make stencils. This is Upper Peninsula, Upper Michigan. Somebody asked if we would go up there and help them saturate.

Hell, yeah. That’s in the rain in a park. Lots of signs, signs, sign everywhere, a sign, the laser stencils. For this we would do his packages and send to anybody. This was somebody in Missouri that got him. He started making a bunch these kids up in Michigan. I came by and they had these signs out. There. I go, you want to make some signs?

You sign makers room to make signs down the street where they were was a, tech guy for a law firm that cleaned out his garage to come over, and they started coming over and making signs. They go everywhere, support first responders who say no to mandatory shots. And these would go on the fire department, the police, the hospitals.

People would come up. There’s Derek and Donna and there’s Jay and his family. We were in Manchester. Yeah. Then we go, you know why so serious? Shut up and believe. Well, then Whitmer or the governor in Michigan or something was doing being stupid. So we put her face on it and that was stupid. You know, it’s just people are so creative.

MRA shot to kill GMO humans and expose Bill gates. They wanted to do. Keep in mind this is like 2021.

Then we put them together, made bigger signs and then going home. I wanted to go buy Starbucks because I can as I we’re done. On the way there, we stopped at a restaurant that was a turnoff to go up there and these ladies could, hey, come in they go, hey, are you guys the bus? You the bus ride the bus.

We want you to come out. So I got look, we got to and we’re going to go take some drone footage and take some pictures when we’ll come out. We met him in a Walmart parking lot and, I don’t know, like eight women and their daughters and so on. Made hundreds of signs and went everywhere. That’s what we did.

So what if you knew? What if you knew all this stuff, what would you do? What would you prepare for? How would you see the future? What about your grandchildren? So what we did in our magazines, we like, you know, community. Now let’s go seasteading. You know, a smaller version. What if there was a disaster? Like a good neighbor?

Are you there? Yeah. Free aid. You got communication. Sad. You got security, you got food, you got building shelter and so on. We’ll take care of ourselves. Thank you very much. But if you got to go, I mean occupy. Occupy what? Yeah. We got a space station orbiting Mars, mining asteroids. I mean, I’m thinking go or have the capability to.

So then we started, you know, we have a stamp press and we made these domes. They made great workshops. It was very ergonomic. And I liked it. But how do you cover it? Well, then we started experimenting with it with Air Crete and, you know, carbon nanotubes. And we did test, you know, samples. And once I realized that I could do it, one of my I’m talking about it, one of my listeners, an architect in San Diego, John Hohmann, came, a good friend.

He and his son, they design. I said, oh, I want to do it. And this really was the floor plan from the house that we lived in in North Phoenix, because I like the floor plan the way it worked, and I had my studio off and so on. So I go, I make it out of domes. So eventually working together, that’s what came up.

And I’m going, who build the roads? Well, government doesn’t work. I want my money back. Okay. And it was a tractor. I needed a tractor and we had all these categories of technology. You click on them on Pirates. And it had all this stuff that we’ve been researching had on Freedom’s Fenix and had the information. We already knew how to do it.

So here we go in. The mission is what our mission is, the generation next. That’s what the mission is. So Donna and I, we got a, mixing bucket that goes on the front of our loader. I got a new Kubota tractor. I don’t want to have to worry about that, you know? But, you know, we haven’t spam.

We got maybe a couple hundred thousand 250,000. I don’t even know, I don’t care. We we just wanted to get our own land out in the desert far away. It took me five plus months to do the roads so I could take the bus back there in the summer and 120 degree weather, so any excuse you got, I want to hear it.

Okay, so Don and I learned how to do concrete from the soil that was out there. We had all kinds of different, wash soil, sand and gravel, whatever. So we made the foundation. We had that bucket up there. We’d make these hyper dhoby bags that you just dump it. Now, people have been doing it with tin cans and shovels and wheelbarrow and.

No, hell no, I ain’t doing that, you know. So we got the mixing bucket. That’s the stamp press that makes the struts for the domes. We, you know, put that down. These are check dams to back up the water because. And then we put stucco on and we’re experimenting. We wanted to see what materials work good for you know, building the house.

It’s 18 acres that big diagonal line. There is an airstrip because I’m getting an ultralight because I used to fly ultralight. And I’m doing, again, a rig suck. Okay. Because I can. So I’m having fun with that. This down at the bottom right. That is the sand pond. That is where all that water is channeled to go. That’s are going to be our storage.

Now, we could do a, well, but second you do that, Ernie’s land has got push pin in it with the man. And I’m like, yeah, you know, maybe not, you know. So. And nobody would drill it without a permit. So we have that option, but I go, we can accumulate our own water. We got you know, I have one little rain.

I had like 90,000 gallons on my I’m good, you know. So that’s what we’re doing at dump Trailer. We have the tractor, the backhoe. Then we got a nice place outside. When it rains, it freaking rains, but it just goes off. If you can back it up and do the check dams and so on, then you can retain all that water.

And then we’re just now putting the dome on top of that stem wall. We have a dome that goes on that Donna’s doing her garden. It’s beautiful out there. This is that building pad for what you see the Occupy the Land thing. And that’s how remote we are. I have one neighbor within five miles. The next one’s another five miles.

They come out to get me. Somebody put a, you know, a little piece of paper in your inbox, and then we have shipping containers that we’re doing for workshops and storage. We have another big like Mayflower trailer for storage. I had to do that to build it up because I raised it up so it wouldn’t flood. So we’re doing that, you know?

And the machine, you cut them in a certain length and then you stamp them and it has a hole in the middle and you put a bolt in it. It’s really not that hard. And you we mix the soil or concrete depending on what we’re doing, and put it in the tamp it down 3D, print your own house.

Then we want to communication Outernet John is and he’s the economic truth out of Winnipeg and his day job and he was in the army was communications. He created an intranet mesh network. And I go offshore. Let’s do it. I show you how to do it. I mean, I got a place to do it. So we have it go into a mountain.

That mountain way back there is like 15 miles away, 200 down, 100 up. Ooh, we got our own internet, but we had to hike this freaking mountain, man, that was a thing. We have Caudle. We have Zeno as the mechanism by which we’re going to communicate and do trade and be able to barter, trade, sell, buy. I need, I want.

And they love Ernie and Donna. They love us a long time because I got back home because I go that not a problem. You need your your road flood damage done to you, road taken care of. You need to, you know, septic tank dog. You just give me a call. I got there as soon as I can take care of business and they help.

But I get cheap fence post and I get duck eggs. I got more duck eggs and I don’t do it.

Thank you. This is to pay off for you guys.

When I interview people, I go, you know, why are you this way? Why are you free to Maria? Why why why why why why why have. Well, I oh, I read I Road to Serfdom, you know, Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Atlas shrugged, I did Django. Why beheld brought that on and this.

Video kept coming up. We used to use this back in the 90s as activists to people to understand what the philosophy of self-ownership was. We’re like, look. And it’s all about, you know, I own me. And then all freedom kind of flows from that. It’s an eight minute video, but the story behind it was really interesting. Ken Schooling was an economics professor.

He just retired in Hawaii. He wrote a book called The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. And it was, you know, a freedom thing. He went to Russia after the walls and the Soviet Union broke up and the walls fell and all that kind of stuff. He had a, tour guide, young man, that is now a billionaire grocer boy.

And he goes, this is great. We need this. People need to understand this, but they don’t get it. We just guy came out of the Soviet Union, you know? What the hell? Property rights. What the hell’s that? You know, taxes. You. We have no idea what you’re talking about. So I need some kind of primer. We did a short version of a skip to the end, which a, activists in Canada, young man, took and made it flash animation.

This is high tech. Back in the early 90s when he did this, the first one was done in Russian. Well, then what happened?

Corbet and I, we talked about this. I go, this is what we need. We got to get at the fundamental. We gotta get at the base. We got to get the people to understand what this is all about, because we’re in freaking communist Russia right now. So we had him on our show. And, Ken Schooling talked about the history of and everything.

And, you know, corporate and I were just, man, we’re going to make this happen. So Jonathan Gullible has it up there and you’re promoting and he was head of the, Liberty International, which is a international freedom. Whatever we’ve known for a long time worked with people, Mary, Robert, him, people I’ve interviewed and so on. But they already translated it.

It’s now up to 53 languages, I mean, and Arabic. We paid in Moscow to have it translated, dumped it on Tahrir Square, 4000 copies of it, and it it exploded. What the hell did you do, Ernie? A lot of that came from a professor in Morocco that would board it. And, right after we did this, the Mossad in Germany tossed a crap out of our.

I mean, they were just, you know, they love me long time. So what we’re doing is we’re putting it on IPFs, which is you can’t delete it. You can’t deplatform it, you can’t. And QR codes, and it’s going to be printed materials like our trash can fliers and our signs and or whatever. Because what are we. We’re going old school.

You can’t censor a freeway sign. You can’t censor a flier on your went. You can’t censor a yard, you can’t censor. It’s going to take you and we’ll get it started. We’re going to have some fun. We’re going to have some fun. But I wanted you guys to know that this is what we’re getting back to. The philosophy of liberty is about self-ownership and that we can have this planet.

At least you may not agree with it. Or one of I’m. I don’t give a crap. I won’t be communist, I don’t care, but I want them to know what it’s about. And it does a very good explanation of it in this video. So now you can understand Occupy the land. Why? What if you knew what’s coming?

Over a lifetime from your 20s till you’re retiring, that you love your children, your spouse, your community, your family, your friends, humanity. That’s why. Peace.

Why Occupy the Land? From Ron Paul to Desert Freedom https://t.co/ElQo4oxEJU

— occupytheland (@occupy_the_land) March 21, 2026