The Last Test of Democracy: Part Three
L. Neil Smith at The Libertarian Enterprise - a proposal for a meme in to put teeth into the Bill of Rights. [tle]
Want to change the world?
I can tell you how in just two words -- well, a word and a number: NUREMBERG II.
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Some people call that a "meme". The idea "NUREMBERG II" has to show up as a sticker on the bumper of enough cars so that people will scratch their heads and ask themselves, "What's this Nuremberg II stuff all about? It has to be grafittoed in enough places (taggers can be bribed you know) -- like Kilroy or Simon Jester -- that those who see it believe it's a swelling, unstoppable grassroots movement. It needs to be on letterheads, in billboard advertisements, in the .sigs of millions of e-mail messages so that it becomes a movement in and of itself.
And it has to become widespread and popular enough to withstand the inevitable attempts of its enemies to flush it down the memory hole.
When a traffic cop pulls you over, he won't know what NUREMBERG II means, at first. Then it'll make him mad (this is the hard part we must resolve to survive). Then it'll make him hesitate before he comes on too strong. And finally, he'll put a bumper sticker just like it on his own car -- and maybe the car the police department issues him, as well.
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