Listening to the Mahatma Obama talk his way through a softball-filled NPR interview on health care — ahem, ‘scuse me, health insurance (when did the two become synonymous?) — I found myself thinking how awesome it would be for people to refuse to buy gummint mandated health insurance. En masse. And publicly. Maybe we need freedom riders taking buses to Connecticut, staging sit-ins in insurance company offices, chanting “Hell No, We Won’t Buy!” or something more clever that rhymes (because it isn’t coming to me right now). And getting arrested.
I’m not sure it would work, and it certainly wouldn’t impress the high minded keepers of official civil disobedience, who reserve such actions for the hagiography of the 1960s, when causes were high and noble and world changing and good and pure and led by now-dead people who can be bent into any form needed. Besides, health care — ‘scuse me, health insurance — is such a clear and obvious good that only a misguided malcontent or a misanthrope would protest such a thing. And the one thing misanthropes don’t do is organize.
I was hoping this health care insurance bill would fail. It likely won’t. One more reason for gummint goons with clubs (and tasers) to beat people. As if they need more reasons. *Sigh* We may actually need insurance in THAT situation.
UPDATE: Some very clever readers — more clever than I — have been suggesting the following chants:
No way, we won’t pay!
Fee, fie, foe, fum, we won’t pay your premium!
Heidi ho, heidi hay, we’ll go to jail before we pay!
Freedom’s why we won’t buy!
You can try but we won’t buy!
6:18 pm on December 23, 2009
