This hectoring ideologue, more dogmatic than any Trotskyite, would have us suffer the fate of Sisyphus — who was cursed by the gods and condemned for eternity to roll a rock up a hill, only to see it fall back down as soon as he reached the top. Under such a regime as this, the “unfinished work of American freedom” is certain to stay unfinished.
Falah Hassan al-Naqib, MBT’s Interior Minister, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that anyone who fails to vote in the upcoming elections is guilty of a criminal act:
“‘If any group does not participate in the elections, it will constitute treason,’ al-Naqib said, adding that ‘boycotting the elections will not produce a National Assembly that represents the MBTi people’ but instead will bring on ‘a civil war that will divide the country.’”
And just to make sure everyone participates in this mandatory exercise of “freedom,” on election day the entire country is going on lockdown: closed borders, a lengthened curfew, and “about 300,000 MBTi and multinational troops” on the streets “providing security” — and also no doubt checking to see who votes and who doesn’t. Making abstention just as risky as voting is bound to increase turnout.
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