...as I've said many times before, the only choice any of us ever has is whether to accept Reality and our place in it, or deny Reality and our place in it. We do this with every breath, every thought, every word, every action.

Now, expand the thought to the 6 billion or so humans living right now. If that is too much to get your head around, narrow the thought to the leaders of the US, Russia, China, the European nations, the Muslim controlled nations, and Israel.

Examine the words and actions of each (as well as your own). It's fairly clear from the words and actions of most (if not all) of these leaders that they, to varying degrees, deny Reality and their places in it. If they accepted Reality and their places in it, they wouldn't have the obvious need for control of the lives of others that they show. And they wouldn't be leaders.

Some examples: The Taliban leadership is all men with what appears to be a horrible fear of women. Why else would they treat women the way they do? And why else would they seek to turn the rest of the world to their way of thinking and acting? They are vengeful children in adult bodies who believe in a terrible, vengeful god who is merely the outward projection of their inner nature.

The Russian leadership, again, is all men, but at least these men don't appear to be as terrified of women. Rather, they resent the "civilized" nations of Western Europe, and especially the US, for daring to have come up with the idea of individual rights and responsibilities. If individuals have rights and responsibilities, they must also have power, which diminishes the power of the leader to control them.

The American leadership, on the other hand, is a mix of men and women. Their problem is that they all have a terrible need to control everyone they see as inferior to them socially. They are, effectively, the descendants of the feudal lords and ladies from the Dark Ages of Europe. They see themselves as modern day lords and ladies with the right--nay, the duty--to control the lives of the peasants because peasants are too stupid and uneducated to know what is best for them. Peasants are supposed to shut up and do exactly what they are told to do, nothing more, nothing less.

And then there are those who choose (most of the time, as no one can do so all the time) to accept Reality and their places in it. They understand that all power is vested in the individual and cannot be ceded to anyone else, no matter how hard they may try. They know that they are responsible for their choice to accept Reality and their places in it--and for the consequences rising out of their words and actions based on that choice. They are adults in a world swarming with vengeful children in grown up bodies.

Given that the vast majority of people on the planet, especially their leadership, are vengeful children or terrified children, there is a strong element of inevitability in the course of events.

I have no clear vision of how this particular crisis, or the larger tangle of international interactions will work out. I only know that Reality IS, and therefore that every single one of us, like it or not, is responsible for the consequences of our choice to accept or deny Reality and our place in it.

As I've also said elsewhere, those who choose to accept Reality and their places in it most of the time make their own Heavens in this life, and will be prepared to see Reality face to face in the next. Those who choose to deny Reality and their places in it most or all of the time make their own Hells in this life (and try desperately to drag everyone else into Hell with them), and will refuse to accept Reality in the next. Instead, they will burn in the lakes of fire they built up over a lifetime of resentment, fury, and hatred--because they are already burning in those lakes of fire in this life.

If Reality IS, and Time is merely the revelation of what IS to us in the form of consequences derived from our only choice, for which only we as individuals are responsible, then those who end up in Hell have only themselves to blame (though, of course, they will blame everyone else instead). And thus the Original Sin (the terrible illusion of separation from Reality that resulted from our development of language, when we named everything and defined Reality as Not-Us) infects generation after generation.

Think about it, folks. You are who you are supposed to be, doing what you are supposed to do, RIGHT NOW. The choice--and the responsibility for the consequences of that choice--is always yours. You can't give it away. You can't blame the consequences on someone else. You exist to choose acceptance or denial of Reality and your place in it. And because you make that choice with every breath, thought, word, and deed, you can always change your choice from denial to acceptance--or vice versa.

How do you choose? It's entirely up to you.

...here's my vision of the future.

We "right wing extremists" put on a millions march on DC (date still to be determined between July 4th, September 12th, or October 2nd). Your heroes (I prefer to call them the Ruling Troika) find excuses to be elsewhere (not that they'll need much, as we've seen already). The bad guys detonate a suitcase nuke or dirty bomb at the top of the Washington Monument at the height of the speeches on the Mall and wipe out the millions of "right wing extremists," to say nothing of the rest of DC. Voila! We "right wing extremists" don't care anymore--and you will have the country all to yourselves.

The Ruling Troika, of course, will set up shop in another major city (Chicago? Denver?) and use the devastation of DC (and the decapitation of the current government) as their excuse to declare martial law and implement the rest of their draconian plans to make themselves kings and queens, with the rest of you made into serfs to serve their every need and desire. You won't be able to travel--no money to buy any form of transportation (gas, public transit, etc). You won't be able to communicate because the Internet will be reserved for the rulers--and besides, you won't have electricity to power your computers, not to mention your houses.

Most of you remaining will starve to death if you don't die violently when the hateful ones rob you of what little you have left.

And we "right wing extremists" won't be around to stand up for your rights, or defend you from your enemies.

Have fun.

I posted the above on one of Hugh Hewitt's blog posts. No response, especially from the liberals. I admit to having been tired and upset when I wrote it, but I don't regret a word of it. The liberals, of course, don't want to admit this vision is exactly what they want to happen to us, although they think the world will be so much more "civilized" without us "right wing extremists." Yeah, right! But we'll be in Heaven and they'll be stuck in a Hell of their own making. Couldn't happen to nicer people.

My husband and I were playing with the idea of what currency will replace the dollar once hyper-inflation makes it truly worthless.

First, the replacement for the $1 bill and coin (a trillion of which will be exchanged for it) will be the Obama.

Second, the replacement for the 50 cent piece will be the Biden.

Third, the replacement for the quarter will be the Reid.

Fourth, the replacement for the penny will be the Pelosi.

Since we must be green, all coinage will be made out of sun-baked clay.

Enjoy the day.

I split this up. Check out Part I here, and Part II here.

I would guess that by the time the speeches were over, there were 2,000 or so folks present.

I'm not sure where it went, or how to get it to appear by my biography, but for those of you who want to email me, here's the best place to find me: phoenixlady5179@yahoo.com. I have other email addresses, but this one is specifically for my Townhall and Political Activities.

Hope this helps.

Setup my own Tea Party Patriots page, here.

I'll be attending the Tax Day Tea Party in Colorado Springs, along with as many friends I can persuade to join me. To see if there are any Tax Day Tea Parties in your area, click here and pick your state. I think you'll be surprised how many Tea Parties are being organized.

There've been complaints here and elsewhere that the media isn't picking up on the Tea Party movement. That's not necessarily bad, especially since we can be the media. I'll be taking my handi-cam and posting video on YouTube, then linking to it via FoxNews.com (where they do have a function by which you can let them know about breaking news). If enough other people did this, especially hitting the other MSM, we'd be rubbing their noses in the fact that we don't need them--and forcing them to start taking us seriously.

I'll keep you all posted on what happens next.

I wrote the following back in 1997 or  1998, as part of a novel called "The Second American Revolution," available here.

“The thing I don’t understand is how the president’s approval ratings can be so high with the economy falling into the tank. Don’t people realize his policies are guaranteed to make things worse—just like what happened in Russia during Yeltsin’s last years?”

“I think they do, dear. Especially since the bank holiday back in ’04 that killed President Ericsson’s chances for a second term. They just don’t want to face the cold, hard fact that they haven’t done the responsible thing and saved up for their golden years. Now those golden years are here, and they’re suddenly discovering they’re maxed out on their credit cards, they’ve got 2nd mortgages impossible to pay off when their homes are depreciating in value, and they’ve got nothing set aside except their 401 (k)’s and IRAs. And those have lost value over the last couple of years instead of gaining value. They really believed the Dow would hit 40,000 and they’d all be rich forever. Now the house of cards is collapsing and they’re caught in the crunch. They’ll go on denying the truth as long as they can—and maybe longer. As long as they do, they have to approve of President Gordon’s performance. If they don’t, they have to face up to their responsibility for the state of their finances. I wouldn’t want to, if I were in their shoes.”

Granted, I was wrong about there being a bank holiday, and President Gordon was based on Al Gore (rather than John Kerry or Mr. Obama). But I get cold chills when I remember I wrote this over 10 years ago and now it's come true.

Denise from LA (a conservative, constitutionalist independent as she goes to considerable pains to make clear) posted a fascinating piece of an article from the NY Daily News

Quote From The NY Daily News.

Missing in action is the Barack Obama who vowed to unite the country around common values. Lately he has been the very opposite of the man he promised. Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant government he leads.

In truth, there is no history for what he is doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy. He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself "transformative," a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he inherited.

During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that "I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can't figure out what for." I laughed then, but no more. Obama represents a secular religion that believes, no matter the malady, Washington is the antidote. More government is the chicken soup of his tribe.

It is an illusion of many Republicans and Democrats that Washington can successfully manage the economy and our lives. Our institutions and culture are too big, too diverse and too unruly to be run like a banana republic.

Yet the economic mess has robbed the nation of its confidence, and the vacuum is being filled by politicians bearing promises and borrowed dollars. The true cost of this "help" will come later, with back-breaking debt and a lack of growth and opportunity.

We can't say we haven't been warned. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" is more than folklore. It predicts our fate if we follow the government mob.

This is my response:

Whom the gods would destroy...

...they first make mad. Good quote, Denise. Especially since "mad" can be taken two ways.

First, as in "insane," which Mr. Obama (and a lot of the noisier liberals in Congress and elsewhere) are, given that all of them are non-normies. What is a non-normie? A child who never learned to grieve losses but stuffed his/her towering snit down into his/her psyche to grow into a lake of fire over the years. A child who grew up stuck on stupid, with a raging hatred of normies (those who did learn to grieve losses as children and grew up to become adults).

Second, as in "furious," which an increasing number of normies and recovering non-normies are becoming as the threat of having everything they hold most dear and valuable taken away from them by the non-normies grows daily. Despite what Tabitha (above) says, the normies and recovering non-normies far outnumber the flaming non-normies (and many of them are military, both active duty and retired). As Glenn Beck points out, we surround the non-normies--and between the Tea Parties and the We Surround Them rallies, we are beginning to express that fury."

For me, that fury has very little emotion in it. It feels (if that's even the right word) like a Mission Directive (h/t Tony Hubble of Pebbles in My Pond, a blog of Townhall, available here). Mine might best be stated as "I will not be treated like a slave or a serf. I will do whatever is necessary to prevent my family, friends, and fellow normies and recovering non-normies from being treated like slaves or serfs by those flaming non-normies who show nothing but contempt for me and all others. Give me Liberty or give me death."

While I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I am very concerned about the possibility of Mr. Obama and his cronies in Congress using the GIVE Act, available here under H.R.1388, as the basis for creating the Obama Youth and the Civilian Security Force. Alternatively, check this link out for the latest DOD document on the Civilian Expeditionary Workforce. (h/t to Curtal Friar at Fountain Abbey.) Apparently this idea has been around for quite awhile, but note the date on this revision. January 23, 2009.

Unlike many conservatives, I do not, and will not, own a gun, largely because I suffer from a mild form of bipolar disorder and do not want the temptation to use said gun on myself. However, I am seriously considering getting back into archery, which is considerably less dangerous to me, and potentially at least as dangerous to the bad guys. Also, as my last post indicates, I'm working on ways to enable myself, my family, my friends, and my fellow normies and recovering non-normies to get out of Dodge. I think the window of time available for this is less than two years, perhaps considerably less.

In closing, here are a couple more exerpts from "The Second American Revolution." Remember, I wrote this over ten years ago.

For a moment, she considered this, as if trying to determine how much she dared tell me—and how best to do it. Finally she heaved a sigh. “I’m scared to death about what’s going to happen in the next Congress, now that the Democrats will control the House. If they pass the program President Gordon’s announcing today, I don’t see how we can survive.”

I lofted one brow. “Do you know something I don’t?”

“Sandy Beringer, the president’s press secretary, is a college classmate of mine—and a secret Villager.” Again she kept her voice so low I could just hear it. “He took me out to dinner at a little bistro last Friday night and told me in gory detail. He’s not very happy with President Gordon, either, but keeps his feelings to himself. Hidden in the fine print of this glorious package to fix Social Security and all the other social and environmental ills of the world are three daggers aimed right at us. The first one is confiscatory taxes. No one’s to be allowed to keep any income over $30,000 per family of four. The rest will go to save Social Security and revamp the educational system to be controlled by the Department of Education, because local school districts just can’t do the job right. And what those two programs don’t soak up will go toward enforcing draconian environmental standards. People won’t be allowed to own cars any more, but must ride public transportation or bicycles, or walk. Everyone must have a national ID card for any purchases, travel, or medical procedures. And all the armed services will be combined with the INS, Customs, ATF, FBI, and other national law enforcement and investigative bodies into a single National Police Force—to ‘relieve’ the cities of the onerous responsibility for local law enforcement.”

I stared at her, horrified.

She went on without noticing. “Finally, no one may legally own gold in any form, and all gold held by individuals and corporations must be surrendered to the Federal Reserve Bank without compensation of any kind. Furthermore, all work on space development must stop immediately, and all residents off world must be brought home immediately on pain of death by abandonment. The space station and any other properties in space must be de-orbited and destroyed, and the satellite networks must be decommissioned."

And this one.

With a grunt, I returned my attention to the transcript showing in the Klipboard. “So what we see here is a master harpist playing on the fears and concerns of the general public, especially the baby boomers.”

Michelle nodded. “Even in his proposal, he’s—circumspect. He doesn’t come right out and say people won’t be allowed to keep more than $30,000 in annual income per family of four, or own gold in any form. He just proposes a graduated tax rate that produces that effect, and taxes gold holdings at 150% of the spot price for gold on the last day of any quarter. He doesn’t even come out and forbid private ownership of cars, just proposes that states which don’t ticket people driving autos with fewer than five passengers will lose all Federal highway construction funds. If the cars belong to a fleet, such as a taxi company, they must have a minimum of one passenger at least 90% of the time. As for the trucking industry, he proposes a very steep curve for conversion to 0% polluting vehicles.” She sighed. “I—overreacted earlier.”

The novel is free for download if anyone wants to read the whole thing. Meanwhile, I just keep acting on my Mission Directive--and blogging the occasional results and suggestions rising out of it here.

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It’s hard to say how long we have to prepare for economic disaster (in whatever form it appears). At the moment, the economy is actually showing tentative signs of improvement. But the rush to pass cap and trade, national health care, and assorted tax increases—to say nothing of throwing money at problems money can’t fix—will eventually increase the price of everything, especially fuel for travel, heating/cooling, etc. I’d like to have something in place to serve as a refuge for the responsible. A place where the John Galts can go and live in small, relatively self-sufficient networks that have no need to provide goods or services to the irresponsible. It’s really kind of a sustainable networking thing, like what Mike Callicrate (Ranch Foods Direct) does. Essentially, we’ve gone too far in terms of division of labor.

What will also be interesting to observe is if the PRC actually buys large swaths of the US in payment on the Treasuries they own. Would they buy the federally owned land? Or would they buy populated land through a form of eminent domain? They might do the former since that’s where all our raw resources (e.g. oil shale, gas, coal, base and precious metals, etc.) are locked up. Not only that, but if they bought the federally owned land, they’d have lots of space to put their own excess population to work the land and/or diggings. If they bought populated land (e.g. cities), more likely they’d buy either individual parcels, or companies that own and/or manage the parcels (e.g. warehousing companies, or, in the grain belt, corporate farming/ranching outfits like Tyson).

More on this idea in a later post.

BTW, if you want really good beef and buffalo, check out Ranch Foods Direct at the link above. Mike even runs Waygu (or half-Waygu) beef cattle. You think maybe Mr. Obama might be buying his Waygu beef for a lot less than $100 a pound from Mike? I'd hope so, because he'd be supporting American ranchers in that case. Mike is a good friend, and we buy about half our groceries from him. No hormones, no anti-biotics, and no chance of mad-cow disease.

The market is up at the moment. It’ll be interesting to see what Mr. Obama says to make it drop later today. After all, he has to destroy the economy so he can enslave us.

I was thinking on the way in about the differences between city folk and country folk. The latter are much closer to Reality in the sense that they live on the land and work with it to produce basic necessities (food, fiber, building materials, etc.). Generally speaking, they also have longer sight and a sense of connection to the past, present, and future. They are like a first derivative.

So, country folk tend by nature to be relatively sensible (at least if they own and care for a decent amount of property, such as a farm or ranch; I can’t speak for the folks buried deep in the Appalacians). Second level derivative folks are those living in the market towns who provide services that allow the country folk to communicate, execute their tasks, and market their goods. Examples would be small town bankers, educators, phone company workers, grain elevator operators, commodities brokers, etc. These folk would have some contact with the land, though mostly through the first level folks, as well as contacts with the larger world.

Third level derivative folks are those living in larger towns or small cities, usually with a college or university unit (e.g. Greeley). These folks are usually employed in service industries and many times in processing industries (from meat packing to bread making to manufacturing), as well as in higher education, regional governance, and often power generation. They have even less of a connection to the land and more of a connection to the wider world. Rather than working the land, they are working with the products of the land, and with each other. Networking, in other words, as they process, manufacture, transport, etc.

Fourth level derivative folks are those living in the suburban areas of large to very large cities. Most of them are in service industries, from small businesses such as grooming shops for people and animals, to medium sized businesses such as call centers for various purposes or high-tech manufacturing, to large businesses such as insurance, banking & financing, etc. This would include the large companies that move products from the land to markets such as grocery and big box stores for electronics, etc. Many other people are in government jobs, usually at local, state, or federal levels (depending on location), as well as higher education and medical/pharmaceutical research and education. These folks are even farther from direct connection to the land, and many of them are fairly well-off in terms of paper investments. Their primary focus is on people and networking—working the system, if you will.

Fifth level derivative folks are those living in the large to very large cities. They have almost no connection to the land, and mainly work in services at all levels, from tiny to huge. Instead of resource processing and/or manufacturing, they deal largely with wholesale and retail sales, banking and finance, investing and commodities exchange, government, education at all levels, and internal and external transportation and communication. To them, especially at the highest levels, the world looks very small and very full of people. Because the large cities are quite crowded, these people are unable to manage without dealing with each other as members of groups. They also stratify themselves within their close in networks, and may feel like they’re on top of the world because they have movers and shakers around the world in their networks—which makes them big shots, so far above the “little” people that they can’t even see them, let alone the ground. The people at the bottom have slightly more contact with the land, but more in terms of the past than the present, as their recent ancestors may have moved to the city in hopes of bettering their prospects through greater access to work that provided paper wealth, often because they felt they had no chance to gain real wealth in terms of land or gold. Now, for a large variety of reasons, these people have because a permanent underclass that is “farmed” by higher level people for personal power. They have often become wards of the state.

One website, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/, has not only maps of the 2008 election by county, but also cartograms that show the relative numbers of Democrats vs. Republicans as distorted maps that give a feel for the numbers of each.

Generally speaking, the Republicans count among their numbers most of the first, second, and about half of the third level derivative folks. Everyone else generally shows as independent or Democrat. The so-called country-club Republicans are really independents who happen to wear the Republican label.

This take on the political spectrum, general as it is, suggests that the closer to the land and resources a person is (i.e. the more a person is likely to get his hands dirty), the more conservative he or she is likely to be. Also, given that the connection to the land and resources is much older than the relatively recent higher level derivations, it shouldn’t be surprising that these people are more sensible in general. Life is slower and simpler at that level. The further up (or down, as some might take it) the levels, the faster life seems to pass, the more complicated it appears, and the more stressful it gets.

It’s been very interesting to read Townhall and Fox Forum to see how Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats are trying so hard to remake the US (and the rest of the world as well) into their utopian fantasy world where everyone cares about and helps everyone else without counting the cost (supposedly). They are so transparent—and so clueless. Sheesh! If Mr. Soros (and possibly several other socialist billionaires) really is behind this, how can he possibly expect us to roll over without protest and let him rule the world from behind the scenes? For more about this, particularly the GIVE Act just passed by the House, click here.

I’ll be very interested to see where the military comes down in all of this. Unlike other countries, our military doesn’t hold political power, either behind the scenes or as a ruling junta. There’s no tradition of doing so, even though we have had presidents who have served at various levels of the military, with Eisenhower being the highest ranked. It would appear, however, that there is a small but growing movement by active duty and reserve/retired military demanding proof of Mr. Obama’s legitimacy to serve (i.e. show a valid birth certificate proving he is a natural born citizen). After all, they have to prove their citizenship. Several commenters on TH who have military connections indicate that if this movement grows to include 10% or more of the military (not clear whether they mean just active duty or all military), Mr. Obama will be forced to take notice.

There is definitely a ground swell of anger growing into fury among the usually silent majority. This administration is so unbelievably clumsy—worse than Mr. Carter ever was (and he was bad enough)—in its efforts to force us into its vision of what we’re supposed to be. Mr. Obama, et al, may think he is tech and internet savvy, but he’s not. Or more accurately, he’s not aware of the fact that the conservatives are also internet savvy and finding more and more creative ways to counteract his delusional demands.

This isn’t the age of Hitler, Stalin, and FDR, when communications was still limited. Communications is wide open, and there’s almost no way the government can really track down everyone in opposition to it. Oh, sure, they can, and probably will, try by using IP addresses, mailing addresses (e-mail and snail mail), etc. They may even try to set up the “blue shirts,” aka the Civilian Security Force, using gangsters (i.e. bloods, crips, et al), mostly black and latino in the large urban areas (as a way to provide them with a living, of course), and trying to encourage everyone to become snitches on their neighbors. I expect this will fail because a.) the minute the Feds try to circumvent the 2nd Amendment, they will be toast, and b.) the effort to “encourage” everyone to snitch on his or her neighbors will instead encourage neighbors to band together (think Neighborhood Watch) to protect their neighborhoods from the CSF and/or the Alphabets (ATF, et al). Most neighborhoods have retired military, and many of them have firearms and a conservative and self-reliant worldview.

Oh, snitching will happen, especially in the urbanized areas, simply because it’s human nature, but our culture, especially in flyover country, doesn’t encourage it. In fact, given the rise of the “tea party” movement, coupled with the growing demand for Mr. Obama to prove he is a natural born citizen, suggests that Mr. Obama may be removed as president within the year. Mr. Biden won’t be much better, but he would still be a legitimate president.

We may hope for a “peaceful” resolution of the growing anger among the populace in flyover country, but wannabe dictators tend to react to anger with more anger, and especially they try to silence their opposition. If Mr. Obama decides he must do so using violence (even if it is set up as an act of random violence, especially against a major conservative voice such as Rush Limbaugh), that might well be a flash point to revolution.

It was suggested on one of the columns on TH yesterday (3/7) that a general might declare martial law. The only way that would happen would be if a terrorist attack decapitated government by basically wiping out the Mall while Congress is in session and listening to a major speech from Mr. O. Usually this would be for things like the SOTU speech, where everyone, including the Supreme Court and nearly all of the cabinet are present. (There’s always one cabinet member absent for just such situations—hopefully it would be Mr. Gates, current SecDef).

I could see something happening next year at the SOTU, as nothing happened this year. It could be something as simple as a sea-launched nuke targeting the Capitol (or even another jet liner out of Newark or some other nearby airport).

(Note: these are musings I write between troubleshooting calls at work. They are not to be construed as calls to action.)

Or more accurately, what happened to my series of articles about him and how we can use his rules for radicals to our advantage?

I got busy. But see my last post for a way to apply several of his rules. Can you imagine several million tea bags clogging up the postal system? With no return addresses, they'll undoubtedly have to be processed somehow--if only to be dumped in a landfill. And even if we all print a statement of fact about the contents, the postal inspectors will have to do their job to make sure no one has slipped anything nasty into the envelopes (and please, anyone who is even thinking about it, stop. We're the civilized ones). The point will have been made. What happens next will depend on how seriously the recipients take us--and that will depend largely on how many bags of tea we send.

Think about it. Then act.

I understand there is a groundswell of determination to send tea bags to Washington, DC starting on April 1st, in hopes they will arrive by April 15th.

Here are my suggestions for doing so such that no one can accuse us of any sort of threat (e.g. the Anthrax scare) and also no one can trace the tea bags back to specific individuals.

1.) Get a box of foil wrapped tea bags.

2.) Address one or more envelopes to the White House, the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority Leader and/or anyone else you choose to include (use a computer & printer to avoid leaving any clues about who you are).
3.) In place of the return address, print the following :

"Enclosed please find one unopened foil-wrapped bag of tea for your use on April 15th. Sincerely, A Citizen."

4.) Mail from your city's main postal branch, or from a post office in another town.

Do not include anything other than the foil wrapped bag. Do not say anything nasty or otherwise incendiary. Do not include your return address anywhere on the envelope or inside. And drop the envelope in the outgoing mail slot outside easy view by the postal staff. Also, you may (if you're really paranoid) want to use gloves to keep finger prints off the tea bag and the envelope.

If several thousand (not to say several million) tea bags packaged like this showed up at the Washington, DC postal centers, the reaction should be very interesting. Any one interested in joining me?

1. Curiosity
2. Irreverence
3. Imagination
4. A sense of humor
5. A somewhat blurred vision of a better world
6. An organized personality
7. Well-integrated political schizoid personality
8. Ego
9. A free and open mind & recognition of political relativity
10. The ability to communicate