Know Stealing: Solutions for people who eat food and use things.

by M. Shane Coley

Know Stealing is the culmination of 15 years of research and 5 years of writing, learning more, digging deeper, throwing material away and writing again, always searching for the root causes of our problems as a state and nation. Know Stealing "A people or nation that does not understand liberty cannot defend it." "I work late and rise early thinking about liberty, production and the nature of things. The stakes are high. Your time is valuable. Please permit me to be direct. We have been deceived, and I know how it was done. The reader with an open mind, who actively questions everything, including the ideas recorded here, will get the most out of Know Stealing. When you reach the last page, it is my hope that you will have demanded, and that I will have delivered, solid arguments capable of standing under scrutiny and pressure." Following are a few other excerpts from the "... My single objective is to share the very best of what I've learned with those who are willing to open their minds and think, in order to understand how to restore and preserve our great nation as a land of liberty and production. I welcome all challenges with regard to these ideas." "... The material in this book is powerful. It will teach a bold middle school student all that is necessary to debate and defeat a formally educated economist or an experienced politician. Imagine a magnificent skyscraper that is built on a lie. If a person, even a child, can show that the foundation is a lie, then the whole building has to be an illusion. Many things we believe are true are no more than illusions. Children who study the ideas presented in this book will have a better understanding of the world we live in than most successful and formally educated adults." "... One of my challenges is to explain where we are wrong in our thinking without unnecessarily offending people. At the same time, I would debate any citizen, businessman, pastor, professor, teacher, leader, political activist, elected official or journalist on these ideas at any time, in any place. The bottom line is that our thinking is extremely mixed up and, in many important areas, just flat out wrong. The errors in our thinking and understanding are costing us our liberty, our homes, our jobs, our retirements and our children's future." "... Liberty and prosperity are always at stake in every nation for every generation. Eventually bad decisions in the past force a generation to come to terms with the truth about what is necessary to sustain a free society. We are one of those generations. In our case, we can no longer naively depend on past production, new land, old-style immigration, industrialization, available cheap energy and paper wealth to maintain our standard of living." ### Know Stealing will shatter preconceived notions and replace them with clear and precise knowledge which is capable of driving restoration in our American Republic in particular, and modern civilization in general. Clearly the preceding statement is bold, but it will hold up under honest critical review. With wisdom, knowledge, understanding, courage and commitment, we can right the ship and restore prosperity in the United States in a matter of months. The same is true in any society that will genuinely defend individual life, liberty and property. One of the principle goals of the book is to enable more people to Know Stealing, so that we can enforce a policy of No Stealing. Theft that goes undetected will never be stopped. Early reviews by notes and word of mouth have been excellent. Print Edition is estimated to be around 425 pages.

396 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 7, 2011

About the author

Shane and his wife of 25 years have two adult children and have resided in north Georgia since 1983. Shane is a Georgia native who was raised in the beef cattle business. He attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and studied Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. Shane has been self-employed since 1991.

While he has spent the past fourteen years building and managing computer data systems for Agricultural and Document Management services, his overall life experience is broad and deep. Until 1991 Shane managed the family farm and logging operation. In 1991, at age 25, he opened a hydraulics and heavy equipment repair business as a stepping stone to international export, manufacturing and computer technology business opportunities. Although Shane has never taken a computer class, he has had continued success building large server based computer applications.

Shane has a love for liberty, truth and understanding which drives him to study the world in which we live. As a committed Christian Shane is active in church and ministry.

He has spent years studying apologetics, history, economics, personality, organizational behavior, science and more.

Shane was a candidate for the Georgia State Senate in 2010 and earned sufficient support to be in a runoff after a primary season with five candidates. While the race was lost, Shane carried his home county and was less than 50 votes short of a tie in the next most populous county of the district.

Shane is the host of Liberty and Production, a radio show based in Commerce Georgia at WJJC, 1270 AM and WJJC.net.

Shane and Leesa share a top priority of personally returning to productive agriculture. Their vision is of a farm combined with teaching facilities which have the purpose of producing for today and promoting knowledge that will help defend individual life, liberty and property for generations to come.

Reviews

[Ben Kline]

Can't wait for this to arrive!

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shane Coley's Know Stealing is a breakthrough, must-read work which uncovers hidden causes of America's "boom and bust" economic cycles, as well as generational economic and societal decay.

Know Stealing provides keys to how "We the People" will be able to save America from the brink, while creating a solid, stable foundation of both individual behavior and just government, resulting in economic and individual prosperity.

Shane clearly, factually, and meticulously demonstrates how our costless fiat money system, along with other systems of state control, such as energy policy, media, regulation, and taxation, are designed to pillage America's citizens and the broader economy, leading to certain tyranny and destruction.

Know Stealing reminds us that stealing violates the 8th Commandment, and that, as a nation founded upon Judeo-Christian principles, we must confront stealing head on and return our financial and governmental systems to an honorable, Constitutional, truth-based foundation before we will ever be able to avoid financial catastrophes, let alone ensure America's liberties, freedoms, and prosperity are maintained into the future.

I highly recommend Know Stealing as a foundational work for those involved in economic, industrial, academic, religious, and public policy, and essentially for all who desire to restore America to her foundational roots and greatness.

[Dm1010 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rarely does a book not only challenge but revolutionize the manner in which you view the world. Upon finishing such works, it’s as if you’ve been given a lens so as to better identify the functions of society that are right in front of you but have been too small to see. Frederic Bastiat’s classic, The Law comes to mind. Know Stealing is one such book. Shane Coley takes on the daunting task of explaining some of the most complex issues facing our world today and succeeds with a concise and astute brilliance. His solution, rooted in historical, economical and Biblical foundations is a single rule: Know Stealing. His insights on the significance and protection of life, liberty and property are desperately needed and a pleasure to read.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most raters praise this book because of its sentiments. Coley is absolutely correct. My only complaint is that it reads more like a religious text than the philosophical text that it is. This can be a little off-putting to those whose religions are not of the Bible-thumping kind.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book providing connection from the Bible to economic principle of a sound and honest money system. The research on the subject was outstanding.