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This list and the
names are illustrative only.
All these days are
based on two premises: whatever good or service the State claims it can
provide, we can provide ourselves without the State. Whatever good or service
the State claims that it provides that we do not want, we can live without.
These are not
national or official holidays. In fact, there will be an Unholiday Day (see
below.)
The list is far from
complete, and each item also has an incomplete list of entries and examples. The
reader can supplement and add to these lists. We could easily have every day
of the year be a freedom day.
The idea of this list
is to broach the idea of Freedom in a different way. Since Freedom is now a
foreign idea to most people, many approaches to bring it to consciousness are
needed. This is one way.
Here is the list of
new holidays.
Unelection Day. This
is the day on which voter turnout became zero. Well, not really zero, but
such a small number that voting became meaningless. It is the day when oodles
of people pressed so few levers and buttons that they de-legitimized the
State and it withered away from lack of support.
Unregistration Day or
Unpermit Day or Unlicensing Day. This is the day when oodles of people
stopped registering with the State. They stopped registering for political
party affiliations. They stopped registering their vehicles, from automobiles
to bicycles to boats to snowmobiles. Youths stopped registering for public
schools. They stopped registering for the military draft. They stopped
registering for passports and driver’s licenses. They stopped
registering for Social Security and Medicare. Businesses of all kinds stopped
registering for licenses. Inventors stopped registering for patents. Doctors
stopped registering for medical licenses. People stopped registering for
professional licensing of all kinds, from accounting to architecture to
lawyering to zoo-keeping. People and businesses engaged in transportation and
communications no longer applied for licenses. Hunting licenses stopped. No
one registered their pets. Immigrants no longer had to register. No one
registered to vote. No one got a tax registration or identification number. No
one registered guns, from handguns to automatic machine guns. People stopped
getting marriage licenses who did not want them. No one registered for jury
duty. No one who did not want them had to get permits or licenses from the
State.
Uninspection Day.
This day commemorates when people stopped getting inspections done by State
order. This is the day when State inspectors were barred from entering
anyone’s premises unless they wanted them on there. On this day, State
inspectors had nothing to inspect. They could not hunt for environmental
infringements, safety violations, or anything else.
Unrequirement Day. On
this day, manufacturers, shippers, wholesalers, retailers, and all other
businesses from the smallest to the largest stopped obeying State
requirements having anything to do with labor, hours worked, pay, overtime,
workweek, hiring and firing, safety, and unions. Businesses chose the hours
they wanted to. Manufacturers no longer paid any attention to State
regulations concerning products. They freed themselves to produce whatever
they wanted to. They no longer obeyed regulations on energy, safety, the
environment, product size or design, or anything else they wanted to ignore. Retailers
sold whatever products they wanted to. Whoever wanted to transport mail in
any form could do so. Whoever wanted to provide judicial services could do
so. Whoever wanted to provide police or defense services could do so. Whoever
wanted to produce drugs could do so.
Unholiday Day. This
day celebrates the day when people stopped celebrating official national
holidays.
Uncensus Day. This is
the day when oodles of people stopped sending in their census forms and
stopped answering doorbells and knocks at the door when census takers came
around.
Untax Day. This is
the day that a network of programmers launched software that enabled anyone
to stop paying withholding tax. This is the day that people in great numbers
vetoed the income tax by using software that disabled automatic tax
deductions. This is the day that people gained the capacity to disable paying
sales and excise taxes and did so in large numbers. This is the day that
government was brought to a grinding halt.
Unlaw Day. On this
day, people en masse ignored the drug laws. Because of Untax Day, the State
authorities could no longer enforce the drug laws. All people charged with
victimless crimes demanded jury trials, and the juries stopped convicting
people of victimless crimes.
Airport Freedom Day.
This comes under the rubric of uninspection day, but it is such a special
annoyance that it is separated out here. This is the day when oodles of
people refused to undergo any inspections at airports. They bulldozed past
airport inspectors. They lifted them bodily and carried them outside the air
terminals to the parking lots where they fed them with hot dogs, potato
chips, and soft drinks. No one was hurt. Inside the terminal, all machinery
for inspection was dismantled by scores of people with the appropriate tools
and blowtorches.
Ridicule Day. This is
the day when oodles of people showed up at the offices of elected officials
and jeered at them. They carried them from their offices and unceremoniously
tossed them into portable swimming pools before escorting them to their
vehicles. They locked them out of their offices. The rest of the day was
spent celebrating.
Ungovernment day
a.k.a. Independence Day. This is the day when the State no longer forced
anyone to be under its rule who did not want to be. Also known as Freedom Day.
Michael S. Rozeff
All
articles by Mike Rozeff
Michael S. Rozeff is a retired Professor of Finance living in East Amherst,
New York. He publishes regularly his ideas and analysis on www.LewRockwell.com .
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