We interrupt this program for the following (anti-)political message.
Now that the Olympic games are over, we are being inundated with press about the Democratic National Convention, the nomination of Barak Obama and the coming election, all of which preps us for our “civic duty” of voting.
For most, the questions are: What candidates should I vote for? What initiatives should I vote for? But these questions presuppose that you should vote.
To Vote or Not To Vote: THAT Is the Question
You can go to any political party, or to anyone who believes in voting, to learn why you should vote. But where do you go to learn why you should not vote? Well, I’m glad you asked. Your friendly, neighborhood LDS Anarchist will point you in the right direction:
To give you a taste of the many reasons against voting found in the non-voting archive, here is an excerpt of an essay by Lysander Spooner entitled, Against Woman Suffrage:
Women are human beings, and consequently have all the natural rights that any human beings can have. They have just as good a right to make laws as men have, and no better; AND THAT IS JUST NO RIGHT AT ALL. No human being, nor any number of human beings, have any right to make laws, and compel other human beings to obey them. To say that they have is to say that they are the masters and owners of those of whom they require such obedience.
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