[ Note: After a tough fortnight of a missing and then alive and recovered sibling I return to The Censorship Series after a brief respite.]
If, after a financial siege, censors still will not back-off, messing with their tax-exempt status may do the trick. If enough people demanded that the tax-exempt status of morality groups and/or churches who use underhanded tactics or violate the Separation of Church and State be revoked, then such groups and organizations could be in serious tax trouble. If that doesn't work, we should demand that the Justice Department investigate self-appointed moralists and/or morality groups for any violations of the law. Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) suits should be filed against any morality group which breaks laws or bends rules in order to try to impose their alleged morality on the rest of us without our expressed written permission. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and later as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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