Chapter
Nine: Senator Haettenschwiller
Larry was drinking a cold beer, watching the TV news. State
senator Alphonse Haettenschwiller was discussing the
armed resistance situation.
Gabriela entered the living room and said, “Master, I think it’s
time for you to make another telephone call. They’re accepting calls on this
program.”
Senator Haettenschwiller said, “These
rebels are using violence to achieve their goals, because they know they cannot
achieve their goals through the peaceful process.”
Larry called in, and went on the air.
“Senator,” Larry said, “your government is using violence to
achieve your goals of getting people into treatment, because you know you
cannot achieve your goals through the peaceful process.”
“How is the government using violence?” Senator Haettenschwiller asked.
Larry explained, “That’s not gonna
work. Pretending you cannot understand, is not going
to stop Operation USA Freedom. You will not stop people from killing cops by
pretending not to understand that when gun-toting goons in bulletproof vests
grab innocent people and haul them off to mental institutions against their
will, that is violence. If you must provide hospital treatment for these
people, do so nonviolently.”
Senator Haettenschwiller asked, “How
do we hospitalize them nonviolently, if they don’t
want to be hospitalized?”
Larry answered, “You don’t. In a free country, the citizen
decides whether to be hospitalized.”
The senator commented, “The citizens have decided that they want
to be bound by this law. Otherwise, they could prevail on the government to get
it repealed.”
Larry rebutted, “Another pathetic attempt by an enemy of liberty
to portray the will of the majority as the will of the people. You lied through
your teeth by saying that the citizens made that decision. Some citizens made
that decision, some did not. Whether the citizens who support that unjust law
are the overwhelming majority or not, they have no right to impose that law on
everybody else.”
The senator asked, “So then who should we listen to, the
majority or the minority.”
Larry replied, "Whoever is right.”
The senator asked, “And who determines who is right?”
Larry explained, “You can. However, those of us who hold correct
opinions won’t accept what you determine unless it matches the correct
determination. Vote wrong, you pay the price with cops’ blood. If you support
involuntary hospitalizations in order to win elections, you are buying those
votes with cops’ blood. Now, do you want to free the hostages now, or wait
until more cops die first?”
The senator asked, “Who are the hostages?”
Larry answered, “That’s not gonna
work. Shut off your idiot switch and understand. We demand that the hostages be
freed. If this demand is not met, more cops will be exterminated, even if you
pretend you cannot understand who are the hostages.
Shut off your idiot switch and comply with the demand now, or the Nashua Police
will be exterminated, and then you will still have to shut off your idiot
switch and comply with the demand, or every cop in the State of New Hampshire
will be exterminated. Are you ready to free the hostages?”
Senator Haettenschwiller asked again,
“Who are the hostages?”
Larry declared, “Everybody heard him. He wants people to go out and
kill more cops.”
Senator Haettenschiller said, “No, I
do not!”
Larry asked, “Then are you ready to vote to free the hostages?”
Senator Haettenschwiller asked again,
“Who are the hostages?”
Larry said, “That’s not gonna work.
Everybody heard him. He will not free the hostages. All he will do is pretend
he cannot understand. Keep exterminating cops until the hostages are freed.
When he doesn’t want any more cops exterminated, he’ll stop pretending not to
understand, and vote to free the hostages. The vast majority of voters,
election after election, have said they don’t want our side to win with
ballots. Therefore, our side has to win with bullets.” Then he hung up.