Posted on 02/23/2015 8:19:02 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
"Other Shreveport residents have set up similar libraries in front of their homes, but MPC officials have singled out Edgarton. “They said it was an anonymous caller who complained about it, and when somebody complains then the city is obligated to act on it,” So, he put a chain and padlock on it.
That would be Dr. Ferris’ speech from Atlas Shrugged.
I tell people who say they "own their home", to quit paying their taxes and see what happens to "their home".
Property taxes are like rent, stop paying and you'll get evicted...
I am paying on a house...I prefer the relative "freedom" of knowing that I'm my own landlord, even with all of its associated headaches.
Does that freedom include being able to build on your property, or add on to your home, without first asking for a permit? If not, then the property does not truly belong to you.
I hear what you're saying. I would LOVE to buy a property. BUT, I refuse to do so until it really is my property. Until then, I'll drop my few hundred every month and call the landlord when the hot water tank bursts (it has...it was nice not paying anything to replace it) and such.
Granted, one can learn how to do many things around a house. But a permit also means that I will follow certain procedural guidelines in doing so that ensure safety and security. I don't really have a problem with that.
In the water heater scenario, you did pay...maybe not directly, but through your rent payments.
The firsf free library was founded using this same concept
In fact, I think the oldest library is near Washington Square, Philthadephia.
Farenheit 451, now for real. What books we read. And tell us that they are not socialists. The “media” is Joseph Goebbels, who completely controlled the nazi message, and was the organizer of the book burnings. Filmed them, played the films as being put together by the Party.
We did not fight WWII for this, nor for the success of the Comintern.
I always wondered if Mrs. Kavttz and Mrs. Ochmonek were sisters?
Was one of them was Beaver Cleaver’s tattle-tell classmate. Judy Hensler?
;^}
The American people have so much faith in the state that they are glad they will never be able to pay off their houses.
Good point, but the American people like the power to be able to complain anonymously without repercussion to them.
Sad but true...
Those with homes and paying property taxes are nothing more than cash cows to fund all manner of inanity...even in Texas (HS football stadiums).
Precisely! It would stop them cold if they had to put their name to it.
Because people might share books The State doesn't approve of, Citizen.
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with. (’Atlas Shrugged’ 1957)
My favorite libertarian bumper sticker simply says, “Legalize Freedom”
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