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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Crackpots skip school, ditch work ...

Organizers of mass walkout hope to spur movement against Bush

SAN FRANCISCO — Federico Garcia wants Nov. 2 to be the beginning of the end for the Bush Administration.

Garcia, 28, is a local student organizer for the group "The World Can't Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime," which will stage a national walkout on Nov. 2, the anniversary of Bush's reelection.

The organizers said they want the event to be a public statement that some Americans are fed up with President Bush and that he should step down as commander-in-chief.

The organizers are asking people of all ages to call in sick to work or skip a day of school to take part in what they said is not just another protest.
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Sadly for these future wards of the state, brewistas and Gitmo residents, the real world did not seem to notice their absence.

The Ponderosa

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Crackpots skip school, ditch work ...

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