Paging Oliver Stone.

I'm not sure even Oliver Stone could sort out the intricacies of this conspiracy.

Apparently, City Hall is giving out my home address to anyone who wants it, because I got a visitor yesterday who said he got my address from City Hall. The thing is, they had to dig into either property tax records or the voter registration to get it, because the phone is not in my name.

Luckily, he was a friendly.

He said that he didn't know where I live, so he "went to City Hall and they told me. They know all about you."

He also made some comment akin to "They were right; you ARE a big guy."

Apparently, they are assembling a dossier on me. What they don't realize is that I've been blackballed before, and I'll survive being blackballed again. And if they go after me, I'll remind them that the desire to attack the messenger is a direct function of one's ability to attack the message.

He did tip me off to an odious thing the TCBA did -- they put one of their pro-tax signs on the lawn in front of the Baptist church on Chestnut Street, endangering the church's tax-exempt status. I don't know if that's the only church they did it to, but I wouldn't put it past this corrupt bunch to put them on every church lawn in Thayer. That's the problem with the ends-justify-the-means crowd: they always see THEIR ends as paramount.

I think what the Libertarians and capitalists need is a national way of coordinating ground troops to get out the NO vote in individual cities. In other words, go where the battles are.

And if we had some group here in Missouri to send out a survey prior to elections such as this, with postage-paid reply postcards that don't have the responder's name or address, but do have a tracking number the group can check against their database . . . I'm just thinking out loud here, so you'll have to bear with me . . .

The survey would be one question, such as "Do you intend to vote FOR or AGAINST the tax increase on the Thayer ballot November 8th?" with a box to check next to Yes or No.

When the group gets the surveys back, if the vast majority says "No," release the survey to the media. If the majority says "Yes," then the survey's for internal use.

But crosscheck the tracking number of all the "No" respondents with your database, get their phone numbers, and call them the day of the election, asking if they need a ride to the polls. And if they do, send them one.

It's called "Get Out The Vote."

I wonder how much of a hissy fit the media would throw if I suggested next Tuesday is "Get A Commie Too Drunk To Vote" Day.