Halloween here in Ohio was expected to be cold and rainy. People were checking the news to see if Halloween was going to be cancelled or rescheduled.
Now, if I said to you, "When's Halloween?" would you answer, "October 31st," or would you answer, "It depends"?
Halloween is October 31st. There's no way of cancelling that. That's just the facts of the business. You go to bed on October 30th and you're guaranteed that, when you wake up the next day, it'll be Halloween. You can't cancel days. You can cancel an activity, but not a day.
So what is the activity of Halloween? It's trick or treating. I cannot think of a more decentralized, organic activity than trick or treating. I don't get anyone's permission to go to houses or to have things to hand out if people come to my house. It's uncoordinated activity at its simplest. Those who wish to beg candy do so, and those who wish to accommodate them do so. The beggars signal their participation through costume and going door-to-door. The benefactors signal their participation through pumpkins and porch lights.
Trick or treating cannot be cancelled. And the fact that Americans now think it can is the surest sign that this nation is beyond hope.
The average American has been conditioned to being a subject. "They" tell us if we can do something. Open the paper and find out if "they" have cancelled trick or treating. Don't make your own determination about whether your kids should go out. Don't make your own determination about whether you should be prepared for someone coming to your door. Just get your orders from your local authorities and comply.
Who the hell is "they" in this instance? Who has authority over Halloween? Did my township's board of trustees get together to look at Weather.com and decide if they should pull the plug on Halloween? The afternoon newspaper came with the news that Halloween was still on in our town, from 6 pm to 8 pm. There was no reference to who told the reporter that this was true. "They" decided it, and the newspaper reported it.
My parents insist this was always so. "Because sometimes Halloween is on Sunday, so they'd move it to Saturday." This was not the case when I was a kid. Maybe by the time my younger brother came around, but I distinctly remember the Halloween of 1982 being a weird day of trying to justify spending the Sabbath celebrating a Satanic holiday.
If Halloween is on Sunday, you have a decision to make. The last time it was on Sunday (2010), our ward asked who would be agreeable to handing out candy on Saturday night and then printed a list for parents who cared. We took our kids around Saturday night, then spent Sunday night at home. Why? Because we are sovereign individuals who don't require direction from authority to live our lives.
We wonder why TSA's violations of liberties continue, and then we wait to be told whether Halloween has been cancelled. After 40 years of running an education system designed to teach homogeneity of thought and docility in the face of authority, we now have a nation of adults who need a nanny state because they would be helpless without it.
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