It just occurred to me that I hadn’t yet publicly identified myself on this site, so: Hey there folks, John(athan) Reale here. I’m a 37yo guy in Mine Hill, New Jersey. I love my amazing (and amazingly hot) wife and our way too awesome five kids. I also dig all sorts of computers and music and wine. I think of myself as a pretty interesting guy overall, but that doesn’t really matter for this project. This isn’t about me. But I am more than willing to be forever linked with the ideas I’m putting out here (so much for my future in mainstream politics 
), so I figured I’d “out” myself. Like they say, “We’re here! We’re queer! We don’t want any more bears!” Or something like that.
UPDATE: Just so there’s no misunderstanding, I’d never “out” anyone else. I respect that others may come to a different relative valuation of secrecy and publicity than I have, plus my relative valuation of the two is based on my specific circumstances, the relevant features of which may not apply to you.
UPDATE 2: One more thing. My given name is Johnathan (spelled with that pesky “h”), and I go by John about half the time, depending on how many other Johns are in the same context to be confused with. So the use of John(athan) was just to reflect that fact, not some sort of weird method of avoiding Google indexing or something. Some folks know me as John Reale, and others as Johnathan Reale. And a bunch of folks know me as Chano, but that’s neither here nor there.
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I was hoping for a place that hosted intelligent sharing of ideas. This site is full of childish obscenities and comments and has no adult supervision. It is a great shame that a good idea such as “going john galt” is being hosted by your site and not moderated by an adult. You should be deleting these worthless and childish comments to keep the integrity of the site. I agree “we don’t need you” as we will go elsewhere for support of this effort.
John, I just discovered your site and though there ARE a lot of irrational comments by some of your posters, I think you are on the right track.
I declared my self-ownership in 1996 and have refused to support the parasitic system run by the looters and the moochers ever since.
I was of all things, a tax accountant when I started questioning authority. After researching tax law, I came to the realization that the individual income tax is wholly unconstitutional and legally indefensible (by the government) based on written Supreme Court decisions and the 13th Amendment.
The corporate tax, though a legal excise tax, is so onerous that it discourages small businesses from growing and should be illegal. I dropped my C.P.A. license which automatically made me an enrolled agent of the IRS and became an independent accountant able to work for my clients’ best interests rather than the federal government’s interests.
In 2001 I set up a website DeTaxUS.com and tried to convince people that they could regain their freedom just by invoking their right to say, “No more! The federal government has no claim on me, my labor, or the fruits of my labor, and I refuse to submit to its abuse of power any longer.” From that moment on, I became free to run my own life, make my own decisions, and pursue my own happiness.
I kept the site running for three years with a monthly newsletter and onsite articles, but I had not tried blogging. Perhaps I’ll put the website back online one of these days with a blog–a moderated blog to screen out the profane and counterproductive.
For now I belong to a bunch of libertarian organizations and forums and am trying to build an online marketing business.
If I can be of help, contact me.
Joy and abundance,
Cimarron Layne
” This isn’t about me.”
Objectivism fail.