History
Advocacy PoliTicks were successfully used to obtain the repeal
of the Youth Curfew
Ordinance
in
Hillsborough
Township,
New Jersey.
Volunteer
Participate in your community by contributing your time as
a volunteer member of the
Rescue
Squad,
First Aid
Squad,
Fire Department,
or other important Community Service.
Active Volunteers are credible, have knowledge of their Community,
tend to be results oriented, and have access.
Whatever form of Volunteer Community Service you choose,
you really need to contribute significantly and strive for excellence.
Advocacy
Individuals
need to focus on achieving a
narrow objective
through advocacy.
Groups
can help by supporting the primary advocate,
or by becomming primary advocates themselves of related issues.
Research
Become an expert on your objective area through
research.
Keep an open mind, and always be willing to
listen and alter stance as you learn.
Disseminate
Ideas fight for themselves when their seeds
are planted in fertile minds.
Cultivate the voters and decision makers.
The internet can be a great place to spread your ideas.
It's also fun!
Learn by doing.
Some politicians provide email addresses.
Hyperlinked Icons can provide them with direct feedback
from web-page visitors.
Prevention
It's better to prevent a liberty restricing law or ordinance
from being passed in the first place by explaining the consequences
beforehand.
Politicians are averse to reversing stated positions.
Once they have made the mistake of taking
an unfortunate position, their political extirpation might be the only remedy.
Tenacity is respected.
Authoritarian politicians often become
overbearing
when confronted with reason.
Don't try to fight every battle,
but learn which politicians are intransigent opponents
to your objective, record what they say, and
make sure voters undersand and are aware of their
unreasonable attitudes and positions around election time.
A web-page hit count that exceeds the incumbents previous
margin of victory is a portent of success.
Prolific ideas multiply and compete
as they are spread by web-page visitors.
The insidious festering nature of a political web-page
can automatically shift margins over time as it lurks
unbeknownst to the unwary politician.
This may be augmented by forays into traditional
media when a target is up for election.
Achievement
A simple majority vote of the powers that be will achieve
your objective.
It's not enough to bring a majority to embrace your
objective, it must also be politically tenable.
Curfew's effects
Eyewitness report of theTownship Committee's Curfew Discussion
Updated 17 Dec 22
"Advocacy PoliTicks for Successful Achievement of Libertarian Objectives or curfew repeal" Copyright (c) 2001-3 by Byrne.
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