About Niki Raapana

I'm Niki Friedrich Raapana, a fifty-one year old first-generation Alaskan grandmother, co-founder of the online research project known as the Anti-Communitarian League, author of 2020, designer/builder of GerTees, and the co-owner of a small webwriter business in rural Alaska called Alaskan Webwriters.

My writing background
From 1982 to 1985 I was university trained in traditional investigative journalism; my studies were directed towards writing for mainstream news publications. After an intensive independent study where I wrote and produced a video documentary detailing economic policy in Central America (before anything came out about the Ollie North/Contra/Iran-Drugs-for-Arms scandal) I realized how much of what I found was a lie. Uncomfortable with the reality of my future prospects, I left school, had a baby, and never applied for work in my field. I worked in the restaurant/bar business for most of my adult life.  Until I began researching the changing property laws and the National ID database pilot tests in Seattle, Wa in 1999, the only thing I'd published since college was a waiter's training book and program.

While I'm still learning programming and coding (from my baby, who is now a mother herself) and how to organize research topics and content, I have no trouble finding whatever information I'm seeking online. If anything, there's too much available, and deciding where to read seems to be just as important as it ever was. When I first realized I could access federal and state government documents, libraries around the world and even private archives, I was just beyond estatic. Maybe I obtained some of the early facts about Community Policing a little faster than my American brain could absorb them, but I still think the internet is an amazing improvement on the "old way." None of us are limited to going to the local library, wading through congressional records, reading Facts on File, and nobody is scrolling through miles of microfische anymore, are they? (I chose my last college, UMASS, Amherst, because of the size of its library.)

In December, 2002 my daughter, Nordica Friedrich, and I co-wrote a tutorial for our War on Words game called What is the Hegelian Dialectic?  In 2003 we completed our original political thesis with The Historical Evolution of Communitarian Thinking. Both parts are available for free online at the ACL, and while it could stand an updated revision, the conclusion has never been disputed, not even after 300,000 visitors.

Until 2002 I was still writing everything in hardcopy. I've been writing for the web since 2003, primarily at the ACL, as an opponent of the reinvented regional government of the United States. I was a featured guest expert on Communitarian Law in William Lewis's documentary, One Nation Under Siege. For the past year I've been a contributor at newswithviews.com.

Current Involvements
Recently I've shifted my focus to being a proponent of what I understand to be the National System of Political Economy. I believe the strength of the American Union of Free and Independent States was in the way our founders acted out the new American principles for individual freedom. It was fascinating to learn they were never influenced by Marx or Hegel. I wondered at their reasons for staying out of foreign banking and entanglements, and I still don't know why they decided to establish a national bank or what motivated them to coin their own money. I only know it's what they implemented and it was a huge success. As an average Jane, I figure all I need to "get" is that our brilliant founders thought it was essential to build up the infrastructure necessary to get small producer's goods to market, and they agreed on why it was necessary to establish federal tariffs. Free trade was always an imperialist policy for controlling world markets. The naive American in me simply likes the fact that the established government's original "job" was to protect our local, cottage industry and agriculture against cheap foreign (Imperial-UK) imports. 

While I'm still actively studying and writing a new series about Hegel and Etzioni, my goal expanded from exposing the communitarians to physically acting upon the knowledge I've gained after years of studying their documents. This is a great improvement on my general lifestyle and outlook, and a wonderful opportunity to see if the original American economic "theory" works. It's been very interesting doing this kind of "marketing" research. What a challenge it is to build an online shopping mall and to think of innovative ways that may provide an infrastructure for cottage industrialists and agriculturalists to get their goods online.

My vision for the future
According to Marx and Engels, American merchants were of a low-born, unevolved species. Today the American merchant is about to be hit with a major economic crisis and the "solution" will be to form a union and a new currency with Canada and Mexico in order to compete with the EU's Euro. Things will likely get very bad for many of our citizens, but like Denver born "Yankee Ape" Molly Brown's rallying cry on a sinking Titanic: "We ain't down yet!" We're not the NAU, the USA still exists, and not only in the minds of the national die-hards. Our state and federal constitutions have not been repealed, amended or ordered out of existence. I am willing to bet we can still find the ways and the means to protect our local economies from UN-federal grant recipients and the coming global monetary crisis.  The American former colonial subjects didn't sit in the dark when they couldn't buy Imperialist's candles... they just started making their own.

Yes, we all changed the channells when the communitarians infiltrated us with their Fabian solutions, and we yawned when they claimed their own international version of our local identities. Now it's our civic responsibility to future generations to "re-infiltrate" their groups, take control and defeat their plans with our American pragmatism. Today I'm part of a company devoted to "community web solutions." And when I say "community" I mean real community, not the communitarian vision of my community. As a semi-recovered victim of two centuries of globaliist Hegelian propaganda, I'm ready to help non-UN affiliated business owners take back their local community's marketplace, one town at a time.

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