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Posted on 07/31/2008 7:07:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You might have thought the demented Americans with Disabilities Act — a bonanza for lawyers that requires any public facility to be designed with handicappers in mind or be sued out of existence — would be the last word in otherly-abled totalitarianism. Not so. Visitability is a concept that makes the ADA downright libertarian by comparison.
The initial objective of Visitability proponents is to impose on every home a zero-step entrance, interior doors at least 32" wide, and at least one wheelchair-accessible bathroom on the ground floor. Once they've managed to have this mandated, we'll see where they go from there.
In the name of Visitability, the Disability Rights Action Coalition on Housing has been pushing for DRACHonian measures to bend the world to the will of the disabled through government coercion. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) is already writing the concept into law.
It could be said that your home is still yours in a sense, and you should be the judge of how wide the doors are and whether there are steps. But in another sense, it's the world's home, and since a tiny fraction of the world is confined to wheelchairs, regulations must be imposed.
Soon the concept of private property — the essential foundation of free society — will be lost forever in a sanctimonious cloud of touchy-feely moonbat authoritarianism.
On a tip from Lyle.
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As long as the property tax is legal, the government does indeed own your home. :(
Bullshit.
I’m with you, but I think the final assault on the privacy of our homes will be when the government officers start doing door to door random searches for suspicious materials, all in the name of the War on Terror. The public, of course, will find this agreeable, rationalizing that only the guilty have anything to hide.
Not true.
The tax is for services, using the property as a means of assessing each taxpayer's contribution.
...and a great number of FReepers will cheer the move, while denouncing us dissenters as "kooks" and "terrorist-coddlers"...
This has NOTHING to do with the handicapped. It’s just one of a thousand different ways the Communists hope to make us a Communist country.
The PRIMARY mechanism for transforming the U.S. into a Communist country is government schools. Imagine: 90% of American children are forced to attend government-run, socialist institutions, financed by the Communist property tax, for most of their waking hours for most of their childhood—and the American people continue to believe we are not a socialist country.
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People could make the argument that they do not use all of the services provided by a local government and then use that as a justification for not paying the tax. Upon doing so, they quickly learn who really owns their property.
The Tenn manse welcomes friends and relatives who can't get around as easily as they'd like. Everyone pitches in to make them comfortable, with no fascist coercion required.
That is the scary truth : (
Thank goodness there is someone out in the wilderness saying it!
Marxism is our nation's **most** serious threat! It is **not** islamofascism. Compulsory, prison-like, police enforce government schools are the communists **most** important weapon.
If the communists running our government schools succeed in indoctrinating the next generation of voters, all freedom will be lost in the voting booth!
I’ve tried to explain to some of my liberal friends why government intervention, regulation, and taxation (and things like this article) do more harm than good in practicality in addition to restricting liberty one chunk at a time. They just look at me and say that’s a selfish position. Obviously caring people want to help the disabled, elderly, poor, etc. so what better way to help them than by making the government do it? After all it has so much money at its disposal, what’s it to ask for a little help for this group or that?
And then I ask them what they do for these various groups... that’s when it gets fun. And then I have to cite that poll saying that those evil greedy conservatives give 30% more to charity on average than liberals. Somehow they still claim that I just don’t know what it’s like and that I’m selfish. Feeling over thinking is destroying this country.
Unfortunately many already do this. They ask if I’ve personally been affected by the PATRIOT act or if the government has ever taken me away. Of course I say no and of course they ask why I’m complaining. I’ve got nothing to hide right?
It’s a damn shame many right wingers will help usher in an era of fascistic policies.
They’re already cheering the moves. It’s a sad truth that makes me so worried about the future I’m going to inherit. I’m only 19 so it’s not like I can say it’s the problem for another generation... it’s MY problem.
I’m proud to say I made it through public school coming out with MORE libertarian-conservative views than when I went in.
Statism and big government are more to blame for America’s demise than any enemy we face or have faced. Even if it came down to war on our soil, our citizenry has the ability to fight back (2nd Amendment). When our own government deprives us of liberty, most find it justifiable and the citizenry slowly slip further towards submission... after all, that can’t happen in America.
One of the services is general security. They use it.
The Bill,
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110POiKz5::
Looks like it’s for Federally subsidized housing...
...for now.
We do have the military and most of them take their oath to defend the Constitution **very** seriously. It is a lifelong oath.
By the way, if I were the principal of a private school I would not have the children pledge allegiance to the flag. I would have them say the oath every day that our military takes to defend the **Constitution**. And...all my students would thoroughly study the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
I couldn’t agree more. The Pledge of Allegiance, while good in spirit, was created by a socialist progressive thrilled with the idea of uniting everyone under the banner of the state, not individual liberty. That part of the discussion is excluded from the debate and/or people are just ignorant of the fact.
I have always strongly felt that students need instruction or classes about the Constitution and the founding documents, with quotes and context of the day, a thorough class on politics that delves deeper than Republicans and Democrats (i.e. comparing statism with libertarianism, or showing similarities between communism and fascsim, etc.), and a basic class in monetary theory (at least to define what money is according to leading economic schools, who controls value of money, inflation/deflation concepts, etc.).
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