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November 01, 2004
You Needn't Be a Number
(by Nicholas Strakon) In view of tomorrow's ceremony, I cannot resist quoting
at some length something I once wrote:
Instead of voting on Tuesday, why not talk to someone you know about Liberty, Peace, and Justice? Why not discuss some honorable alternatives with a niece or nephew who is in danger of joining the military or the civilian bureaucracy? Why not spend an hour or two trying to come up with ways to avoid, elude, or
undermine leviathan, or cast it into disrepute?
Here's an idea. Practice remembering politicians' lies, contradictions, goofy promises, and failed programs so you can remind your neighbors of them two years from now when the pols try to sell the same confounded buncombe
again. Or write a hard-hitting letter to the editor: as an old newspaperman I can tell you that the letters section usually attracts a big readership. (Don't bother
writing "your" congressman, of course: for one thing, he actually belongs to someone else.)
If you're willing to deal with the state's court system and its lawyers even tangentially, donate a few bucks to some political prisoner's defense. Or help support his family while he's in the state's Rape Gulag. Give a few more simoleons to some forum devoted to Liberty, Peace, and Justice. Sit down on Tuesday and read some history -- some Robert Caro or some Walter Karp. Read a chapter of Thucydides. Study some free-market economics: get
your intellectual ammunition in order. Or get your real ammunition in order and head for the range, because a man who would be free must be acquainted with the means of self-defense.
Just don't vote. It's silly and it's ugly and it makes you small and weak. You may not be a free man, but by God you needn't be a number.
-- From the conclusion of my column "You are not a number!
=Or,= Once again I'm voting for rain," November 3, 2002,
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/lights123.htm.
Posted by Rob at November 1, 2004 01:31 PM
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