I recently sent a small e-mail to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America through their web page:

I am proud to say that I choose for MYSELF what goes into my body.  You people are the enemies of freedom, and this country is slowly waking up to that fact.  History will not be kind to you.

Mostly it was a way to let off a little steam, in response to the latest egregious news story of their fear-mongering and sanctimonious attempts to run everybody's lives "for our own good."

And for that, of course, it was very effective.  I felt just slightly less steamed right away.  Then I thought, might it also make a difference?

Naturally, I don't think that my little message will bring this entrenched organization to its knees.  But it occurs to me: Somebody probably reads it.  Somebody who is expecting fawning adulation from sheeple around the country, not--horrors!--a dissenting word.  Perhaps some idealistic but none-too-bright intern who wants to "do good for society."  Why not try to plant a seed of doubt, the notion that one could do much better with persuasion than force?  Even mentally challenged people may eventually be brought to understand the illegitimacy and destructiveness of the drug war.

Or perhaps it'll be downloaded by some old battle-ax of a control freak who'll go all red in the face and bellow with rage.  Heck, the delightful possibilities are almost endless!

And so I'm going to try to make a habit, whenever I see one of these pushy organizations in the news, whether related to the drug war or to any of the other idiotic intrusions so popular today, to find their web site and send off a brief but pointed message.  I urge all freedom lovers to do the same.

I am not suggesting threats or profanity; in fact, I would discourage them, because they weaken the best possible punch.  We are adults, polite but resolute.  We are not looking for a fight, but we insist that the freedoms that everybody pays such lip service to, must actually mean what the words say they mean.  On that point we do not, and will not, take no for an answer, even if, with regret, we are forced to take some action that is less than polite.  This is the spirit I am suggesting we show to those who are so contemptuous of our freedoms, and who flaunt their contempt so proudly.

Oh, by the way, for some reason many organizations don't give an e-mail address, just a web form, into which you type your message, with another field for your own return address.  Thus the feedback may be anonymous or not, whatever one might desire (usually the e-mail field must have something that looks reasonable, such as "noneyr@business.com").  Giving one's true name is probably better for the soul, but we each must choose based upon a balance of considerations (not the least of which is the fact that thugs with guns and government uniforms stand one step behind these voluntary betrayers of freedom).

But hey, thinking about government thugs is not the point of this column!  The point here is, we CAN show our defiance and indomitable spirit.  And have fun at the same time.

Gentlemen and ladies, start your keyboards!