Ep 245: The Lies About Anarchy & Politics The Media Want You To Believe with Catherine Bleish Bonandin

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Anarchism is not what they made you believe.

Catherine Bleish Bonandin spent two decades in the freedom movement, got arrested twice, was profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and eventually walked away from frontline activism after a police officer added her name to a monitoring list while she was raising an infant.

She now produces Anarchapulco in Mexico and Liberpulco in Serbia, and partners with Liberland. She lives on Greenbriar, a consensus-based intentional community in Texas, where she homeschools her kids and teaches Game of Village.

Her story starts as a Ron Paul delegate at the 2008 RNC, learning she was being handed chant cards like a movie extra. What came after is the part most podcasts skip: fusion centers, FBI provocateurs in Austin activist circles, and the slow recognition that "agitator" was a role she had to retire from.

Greenbriar runs on consensus, accountability, and the four agreements. Anarchapulco went through the darkness HBO documented in The Anarchists and came out the other side. Both prove the same point Catherine kept circling back to: freedom without responsibility isn't freedom.

This one runs deep on what real community looks like when nobody's making you stay.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[8:02] How DHS profiled Ron Paul supporters as potentially violent militia members

[24:05] The YouTube chant that put Alex Jones on notice

[32:11] When your principles start getting in the way of your actual freedom

[38:57] The fourth option Claire Wolfe missed: becoming a Monopoly player

[46:35] Why the health freedom fight can't be won in Washington 

[52:44] What HBO's The Anarchist got right, and the transformation it refused to film

[1:02:48] The Howard accusation, the CIA psyop email, and what provocateur behavior looks like

[1:37:31] How Cherán, Mexico, kicked out the cartels and the cops, and kept them out

[1:59:29] Inside Greenbrier: the consensus-based community that's lasted since 1968

[2:05:53] What Liberland actually is and how Vit found land no country was claiming

Resources Mentioned:

"Government" - The Biggest Scam in History. Exposed! | Book

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective by scott crow | Book

The Iron Web by Larken Rose | Book

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