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Every participant in TOLFA is asked to obtain a full copy on his or her computer, for offline use. Normally this will be done when your Mentor hands you a copy on CD (etc) and you transfer it to your hard drive, but if that doesn't happen for some reason you'll need to download it.
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Reason: security. Free speech in America is said to be firmly protected by Amendment #1, but we
can be quite sure that when the government industry comes to believe that TOLFA forms a danger to its
continued existence, it will certainly ignore that protection like it routinely ignores every other
restriction on its power, and act to close down this web site.
When that moment comes (after 15 days or 15 years) it's vital that every TOLFA member has a copy to burn on to CDs and pass on to new students whom he introduces. Government people like this German Brownshirt in 1933 can throw books on bonfires, but not millions of separately owned CDs, thumb drives etc. Here's how to download the TOLFA web site. |
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Originally this had to be done using Winzip or something similar, but today it's much easier thanks to the development of commercial software designed for that very purpose. So the first step is to do a web search using how download full web site or some such wording. Several articles and links should appear. Most of them will be free of charge. Browse them and pick one you like. At this writing this link described six alternative packages. I picked Cyotek WebCopy and found it fast, easy, free and intuitive.
Once the site is on your PC, use Explorer to locate the index.html file, right-click and select "create shortcut" so that an icon will appear for TOLFA on your desktop, for future multiple use. Then click on it, observe the Welcome page, and the job is done.
Note that as years pass, some of the external links within TOLFA will expire (web site owners need not keep them current for ever) so don't worry if, as you use TOLFA, some of them don't work. All of them are supplementary to the core text.
Finally use your software to make any number of copies of the whole TOLFA folder on CDs or other media - it occupies over 4 megabytes - ready to give to new students you introduce. This is how the book-burners will be prevented from doing damage; there will be a sharply decreasing need to download from the on-line site. For that reason it would not be wrong to refer to TOLFA as The OFF Line Freedom Academy.