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Burning Masks

During the 1960s, burning things was a popular form of protest.  Men burned their draft cards.  Women burned their bras.  Men and women who opposed the Vietnam War burned their flags.

None of these things happened very often, but the passion they aroused made them memorable symbols of resistance to arbitrary oppression, both governmental and cultural.  (Kind of like throwing tea into a harbor.)

I’ve suggested elsewhere that businesses should burn their licenses, for exactly the same reason.

Today, while observing our polling place, I spoke with a longtime resident of our town who said this about the mask that he was wearing:  ‘The best way to control a population is to scare the shit out of it.  I’d like to burn this thing.’

And he should.

In a public place, like the courtyard of the New Hampshire State House.

With a few hundred (or a few thousand) others who don’t believe that ‘public health trumps everything’, and resent the use of that claim to justify implementing a Soviet-style regime in New Hampshire.

How does the 5th of November sound?  Maybe we can get John Burt to bring the hot dogs.

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