In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
They take away your right to drive in New York state and they turn the fine over to collections.
(False accusation of driving without a seatbelt, Brooklyn, NYC, that i didn't have time– or, you know, the presence in the state, to fight. The online form did not work– i tried it right away and then again later and e-mailed them all the failures– and the letter had one option, pleading guilty.)
To hell with you, New York shakedown crew.
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I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
People Who Give a Damn
We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
— Frances Moore Lappé, quoted on EscapingTheMatrix.org