Mockery, humor and resourceful productivity are the best antidotes to capricious repressive, and coercive governance

Well that's good news. And I didn't get it from the news. In the past week or so New York City's Mayor de Blasio launched a system for New Yorkers to report on each other when they saw people contravening the increasingly capricious and draconian quarantine laws. State Security is always a short journey to Stasi.

Then some local autocratic state Puritans decided in California that it was not enough to close the local skateboard park. They had to disable it so that nobody could use it in defiance of their quarantine orders. So they buried it in sand.

I saw some of this reported in the mainstream media. I saw the derision in the more libertarian sectors of conservative and libertarian blogs and news sites.

I did get wind that the NYC institutionalized snitching system got off to a rocky start with abuse and mockery. Apparently Anthony Wiener was incensed because they were inundated with, uhm, Wiener pics.

But while the mainstream media was in a celebratory mood about these statist actions to coerce and control Americans, I never saw the denouement in their pages. From Dark Sarcasm In the Classroom by Sgt. Mom.

And in other places, like New York. I must confess to snickering nastily at New Yorker’s response to Mayor OBlah-blah’s unveiling of a system to nark out your neighbors for not obeying every jot and tittle of the Wuhan Corona-crud restrictions. Said system was immediately swamped in an unstoppable rising tide of rude pictures, pictures of rude gestures, and sarcastic references to Hitler, as well as crude personal jibes regarding the Mayor himself – to the point where the system was taken down entirely. Well, good for New Yorkers, I say – and a very good thing that such a thing wasn’t tried in a Texas city; seriously, the receiving server would have melted down into a radioactive puddle of goo. And California skateboarders industriously clearing out their skate-park of the sand dumped into it by officious authorities and making a dirt-bike track out of the excess sand? That’s just freaking awesome. We have not forgotten how to cock a snook at overweening authority; a tradition has been passed on to a new generation…

Well good. The spirit of America is alive and well out in the wild, beyond the confines of the NYC/Washington, D.C. hothouse.

Closing down morally bankrupt coercion like snitching systems with Wiener pics is a far preferable ending than any other way it could have concluded.

Diligent slacker skateboarders not only cleaning up the mess of their local autocrats but then using it for productive purposes by building a new dirt track - beautiful. I love this country.

Lots to be worried about in terms of the number of coercive statists in our deep state government, about our statist media, and about our statist academia. But the spirit of freedom and democracy blows hard on such autocrats. And not violently but with mockery, humor and resourceful productivity, making a bad situation better.