You WILL vote because the government will MAKE you (oh really?)
In our democracy we have always had the right not to vote if we don’t want to, or, more likely these days, don’t wish to support candidates and parties standing for election. But now the government proposes to deal with voter apathy not by addressing our lack of faith, but by forcing us to vote.
How can they do this and avoid spoiled ballot papers, what will be done to us if we refuse, and since when did coercion become an aid to democracy? I’d argue if this becomes law, it’s time for another round of nationwide civil disobedience.
tags: civil liberties, compulsory voting, democracyIt makes you want to scream
Every single day the web of media, statistics, regulations, tax burdens, censorship, interfering busy-bodies, surveillance, celebrity obsession, talk of recession, financial constrictions, and other completely artificial but neverthless impactful phenomena grows tighter and tighter around us all. The question is, how do we respond to all this less-than-white noise? Do we run for the hills or are there other ways in which we can close our eyes and ears to it all?
tags: bureaucracy, civil liberties, financial markets, Paganism, politics, regulations, religion, social control, spirituality, taxation
