[Vigilantcitizen]

Next time you’re in Savannah, drop in on Fort Pulaski.

Seconded.

And also don't forget "Wet Willies". Excellent frozen 151 bacardi drinks.

[Savage Beast]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis"

Seconded.

[Savage Beast]

"One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible...to live without breaking laws. ...just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in..." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

An excellent description of California.

There are now so many laws on the books that no one can observe them, enforce them, or objectively interpret them (which has been the idea all along). This gives the Enforcers carte blanche to enforce them selectively. If they like you, they let you off. If they don't, you're Jean Valjean.

Meanwhile California citizens spend lots of time evading the laws, reporting one another for infractions of the law, and feeling good because there's another law on the books to solve some problem or other (nevermind that it does no such thing--it's the LAW).

BTW, I know this is changing the subject, but you know that law in Santa Cruz that outlaws hate--how's that working?

Oh yeah! And at Stinson Beach--have all those "No Dogs Allowed" signs managed to keep any dogs off the beach yet?

[Savage Beast]

"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."

Yes. And when they start talking about how they "want to give back"--reach for the panic button (or the oubliette button, if you've got one).