Strange Interchange With A Badge-wearing Person In A Golf Cart (SATIRE)
Voluntaryist courageously speaks truth while being coerced on the side of the road.
Voluntaryist is walking back to car parked in the street. Notices a uniformed, badge-wearing person scribbling on small pad of paper. Also notices a golf cart that says “parking enforcement” on the side. Runs frantically to car and to confront badge-wearing person.
Voluntaryist: That’s ok, I’m not interested! I’ve already got one! Save the paper!
Badge-wearing rights violator (puzzled): What?
Voluntaryist: You’re leaving an ad on my car, right?
Rights-violator (rolls eyes): This is your car?
Voluntaryist (feigning pride): Yep, full of 100 year old gas guzzling technology. Don’t you think it’s odd that so few fuel options and propulsion technologies exist? It’s as if we have a centrally planned economy, and not a free market......
Rights-violator: I’m giving you a ticket.
Voluntaryist: For a concert? A movie? An art exhibit?
Rights-violator: Tryin to be funny ain’t gonna change nothin.
Voluntaryist (gasps): Oh, you mean ticket, as in, a tool used in a violent extortion racket by a mob with fancy titles called government?
Rights-violator gives sideways glance and hands ticket to Voluntaryist.
Voluntaryist: Why are you participating in this extortion racket?
Rights-violator: I’m just doing my job.
Voluntaryist (chuckles): When will the human race realize that there is never a good reason to do evil? So what will happen if I don’t move my car now?
Rights-violator: If you don’t move your car in the next 24 hours, then it’ll get impounded.
Voluntaryist: Ah, when you say impounded, you mean stolen and held for ransom?
Rights-violator (annoyed): No, that’s not what I mean.
Voluntaryist: Would you be so kind as to explain the difference between “impounding” and “holding for ransom”?
Rights-violator (hands on hips); Yeah, one’s legal, and the other ain’t.
Voluntaryist: But they are the same action! How can one action be right and wrong at the same time?
Rights-violator: I ain’t said nothin bout right and wrong. I said legal.
Voluntaryist: Are you speaking of law?
Rights-violator: Man, where are you from? Of course.
Voluntaryist: Natural Law or man’s law?
Rights-violator: I ain’t no lawyer. Like I said, I’m just doing my job. You’ve got 30 days to pay the ticket and 24 hours to move your car.
Voluntaryist (sarcastic): How can I hand currency to a ticket? It has no way of grasping or processing payments, does it?
Rights-violator: I told you tryin to be funny ain’t gonna help.
Voluntaryist: Actually, it helps a great deal in my ability to deal with this insane, immoral, ignorant slave society.
Rights-violator: Ok, whatever. I gotta go.
Voluntaryist: One final question, please. What if I don’t pay the desk mob?
Rights-violator: The what?
Voluntaryist: Bureaucratic sector of government.
Rights-violator: Then your license will get suspended and you’ll have to pay late fees.
Voluntaryist: So I’ll get extorted more and if caught driving without a tracking card called a license, then I’ll be violently stopped from driving? And you think we’re free?
Rights-violator: Not my problem. (struts away)
Voluntaryist (shouting after the rights-violator): Actually, not being free is a problem for everyone! This does effect you!
THE END
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I like the way you dealt with the situation but doesn't it frustrate you that no matter how hard you try to convince/show people how ridiculous the system is, most simply ignore it and walk away still believing in 'the law' and the rest of the brainwashing? It bloody annoys me. I can understand perhaps why the parking thug might not have responded but even when I have polite dialogue with people and provide indisputable arguments/evidence/logic showing that the things they have been conditioned to believe are bullshit, still they ignore it and continue blindly following orders and treading the path of compliance/ignorance.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I completely understand how frustrating it can be. One reason I write a lot of fiction with moral messages is that it's a different way to reach people. Some just don't or won't respond to logic in a positive way, but something might catch their attention in a fictional tale.
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