Our Five Parties Part Four

June 16, --
Quiet Party Headquarters
Ashton Circle Festival Inn
Ashton Downs, Mc.

Joseph Pepperton, Qp, Sonsville, Cn., is the only readily available member of the Quiet party. By virtue of their personalities, and maybe party doctrine, the Q’s have no meetings, conventions, or functions of any kind. Reciprocal electronic mail between members constitutes a major summit. This then explains Mr. Pepperton’s harried existence. This ever mumbling man resides over (and with) all the party’s activities electronically, through the mail, and, when pressed, telephonically. This year Mr. Pepperton is in Ashton Downs, Mc. in a cramped hotel room filled with computers, filing cabinets, printers, coffee pots and cups, stacks of books, and a ping pong table. Mr. Pepperton lives and works alone so I was more than curious about the last item. However, like the rest of the questions I posed, I received only a light grunt through the pencil in his teeth while he scribbled on a sheet of paper with one hand, and typed frantically at a keyboard with the other. Mr. Pepperton was allowing access to the party headquarters not to himself, so I browsed the collected mess. Among a pile of boxes I found stacks of flyers and posters that appeared to be quite old. Leafing through them I saw they were propaganda posters left over from the last Ban and Purge, forty years ago. ‘Bring Back the E-Word’ one almost shouted in still bright green letters. ‘The E-word is where we are headed’ another philosophized. And one with the familiar ape/man motif read, ‘You Can Ban the Word but Not the Process’. One may believe at first that Mr. Pepperton is in possession of materials that would instantly make him a felon. But political historians will tell that Mr. Pepperton and the Quiet party in particular are preserving a crucial part of this society’s history and development. And aside they say if no citizen sees these materials, then they are not dangerous. These posters were originally printed and hung by the old E party. When the last ban went through the whole E party charter, every speech, pamphlet, meeting minutes, and telephone conversation contained a massive amount of banned and dangerous material. After this most E members joined other parties, but a few, seemingly against their will, formed what we know today as the Quiet party. So Joseph Pepperton, the fifth party chairman in four years, is the custodian of thousands of sheets, maybe even boxes, of some of the most threatening, subversive, and corrupt thought printed in a hundred years. I received no grunt, no wave when I inquired about the posters, just real silence.
The Quiet party, in theory anyway, constitutes social and political representation for those in our country who are blocked out of normal political avenues. The homeless will head the list followed by convicted felons, ampaths, empaths, sympaths, naturists, and of course housewives under the age of sixteen. Also it should be noted that when a person succumbs and signs on to the Fair Well system they are automatically enrolled in the Quiet party and required, by law, to vote in every election.
It is this writer’s opinion that the Quiet party is a perfect example of our government working, nay striving, for unity in its political make up. Its creation made certain the bringing-back-to-the-fold of society’s socio-political stragglers. Their voices are heard and interests are very much being looked out for.