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Free Private Cities: The Future of Governance is Private
StartUp Societies Foundation ^
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| Titus Gebel
Posted on 08/07/2017 4:35:46 PM PDT by qaz123
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After reading the article, I started thinking that this is probably how the Framers envisioned the Colonies, at first, and then later the USA. Limited government, private ownership, live and let live-as long as you weren't bothering anyone else??
And, perhaps, at one time it was. Then the Progressives showed up in the early 1900s and started sowing the seeds, I guess. Fast forward to the 60s and a whole new crop of degenerates were born and started this country on the path to destruction.
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posted on
08/07/2017 4:35:47 PM PDT
by
qaz123
To: qaz123
Think of the freedom ship. Don’t know the website.
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posted on
08/07/2017 4:39:12 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: qaz123
They are describing a medieval castle.
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posted on
08/07/2017 4:39:51 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: qaz123
One tiny little example has been in operation for decades in the unincorporated areas of Yuma, Ariz. If you want fire service, you subscribe. Or, you carry a high limit credit card at all times.
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posted on
08/07/2017 4:51:28 PM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(So Long Obie)
To: qaz123
Put down the cyberpunk novel, then step away from the keyboard.
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posted on
08/07/2017 4:57:16 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: qaz123
Personally, something stinks about this. What happens when the private company says you can’t have a gun, can’t do something a free citizen has rights to do?
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posted on
08/07/2017 4:58:58 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: qaz123
Yep.
The ruling elites have always controlled the peasant class until a couple guys in a couple colonies in North America said screw this. They threw thousands of year of establishment rule on its head. They said We, the people are in control and our rights don’t come from you, they come from God.
We lasted a bit over the predicted 200 years of a democratic based government.
Trump was a last bit attempt to keep this right from becoming wrong but I don’t think we will make it.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:04:53 PM PDT
by
lizma2
To: qaz123
Won’t ever happen in the US
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:10:07 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: ArmstedFragg
That is for fire service only. Roads and police and military and other federal protections still apply
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:11:28 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: qaz123
Silicon Valley VC guy Peter Thiel has a project something like this.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:21:14 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: qaz123
This sounds like it could end up being the HOA from hell.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:25:19 PM PDT
by
Baynative
( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
To: qaz123
Imagine a private company offers you the basic services of a state, i.e. protection of life, liberty and property in a defined territory. Sounds like paying protection to the Mafia. And that's what it would evolve into.
If you want to try that model, just move to the ghetto and pay either the Crips or the Bloods for protection, and wear the right colors.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:27:52 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Reno89519
I agree. I don’t see why we should trust a private corporation any more than politicians
To: qaz123
Limited government, private ownership, live and let live-as long as you weren't bothering anyone else??I studied 18th and 19th century American legal history in law school, and the "live and let live" part was certainly not true. There were laws against blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking and all sorts of other victimless crimes.
To: lizma2
The ruling elites have always controlled the peasant class until a couple guys in a couple colonies in North America said screw this. They threw thousands of year of establishment rule on its head. They said We, the people are in controlThanks for the laugh. The US emerged from the efforts of the wealthy elitists who had sense enough to keep the important positions from being chosen by the masses. Things went pretty well until the ideas of universal suffrage and popularity contests came into vogue.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:31:24 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: qaz123
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the city of the future! I give you Delta City!
![](https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/robocop/images/4/43/OldMan.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100907041338)
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:31:57 PM PDT
by
CapnJack
To: Lurking Libertarian
Even sumptuary laws!
I was surprised to read of John Adams support for them in his writings.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:32:39 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: lizma2
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded here and there, now and then are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.
― Robert A. Heinlein
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:35:54 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: qaz123
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:36:04 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: Reily
Plus, there was that whole slavery thing.
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