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their cells that Barbara had published on the Bay Guardian's site showed up at the polls for the last election nonvoters had a huge
the day we were released. "We elected these people. We pay their majority. I kept trying to get Darryl and Van to one of our
salaries. They're supposed to be on our side. They're supposed to planning sessions, but they kept on declining. They were spending
defend our freedoms. But these people " a series of shots of a lot of time together, and Van insisted that it was totally
Johnstone and the others who'd been sent to the tribunal " nonromantic. Darryl wouldn't talk to me much at all, though he
betrayed our trust. The election is four months away. That's a lot sent me long emails about just about everything that wasn't about
of time. Enough for you to go out and find five of your neighbors Van or terrorism or prison.
five people who've given up on voting because their choice is
'none of the above.' Ange squeezed my hand. "God, I hate that woman," she said.
"Talk to your neighbors. Make them promise to vote. Make I nodded. "Just one more rotten thing this country's done to
them promise to take the country back from the torturers and Iraq," I said. "If they sent her to my town, I'd probably become a
thugs. The people who laughed at my friends as they lay fresh in terrorist."
their graves at the bottom of the harbor. Make them promise to
talk to their neighbors. "You did become a terrorist when they sent her to your town."
"Most of us choose none of the above. It's not working. You "So I did," I said.
have to choose choose freedom.
"Are you going to Ms Galvez's hearing on Monday?"
"My name is Marcus Yallow. I was tortured by my country, but
I still love it here. I'm seventeen years old. I want to grow up in a "Totally." I'd introduced Ange to Ms Galvez a couple weeks
free country. I want to live in a free country." before, when my old teacher invited me over for dinner. The
teacher's union had gotten a hearing for her before the board of
I faded out to the logo of the website. Ange had built it, with the Unified School District to argue for getting her old job back.
help from Jolu, who got us all the free hosting we could ever need They said that Fred Benson was coming out of (early) retirement
on Pigspleen. to testify against her. I was looking forward to seeing her again.
The office was an interesting place. Technically we were called "Do you want to go get a burrito?"
Coalition of Voters for a Free America, but everyone called us the
Xnetters. The organization a charitable nonprofit had been "Totally."
cofounded by Barbara and some of her lawyer friends right after
the liberation of Treasure Island. The funding was kicked off by "Let me get my hotsauce," she said.
some tech millionaires who couldn't believe that a bunch of
hacker kids had kicked the DHS's ass. Sometimes, they'd ask us to I checked my email one more time my PirateParty email,
go down the peninsula to Sand Hill Road, where all the venture which still got a dribble of messages from old Xnetters who
capitalists were, and give a little presentation on Xnet technology. hadn't found my Coalition of Voters address yet.
There were about a zillion startups who were trying to make a
buck on the Xnet. The latest message was from a throwaway email address from
one of the new Brazilian anonymizers.
Whatever I didn't have to have anything to do with it, and I
got a desk and an office with a storefront, right there on Valencia > Found her, thanks. You didn't tell me she was so h4wt.
Street, where we gave away ParanoidXbox CDs and held
workshops on building better WiFi antennas. A surprising number "Who's that from?"
of average people dropped in to make personal donations, both of
hardware (you can run ParanoidLinux on just about anything, not I laughed. "Zeb," I said. "Remember Zeb? I gave him Masha's
just Xbox Universals) and cash money. They loved us. email address. I figured, if they're both underground, might as
well introduce them to one another."
The big plan was to launch our own ARG in September, just in
time for the election, and to really tie it in with signing up voters "He thinks Masha is cute?"
and getting them to the polls. Only 42 percent of Americans
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