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Free Private Cities: The Future of Governance is Private
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| Titus Gebel
Posted on 08/07/2017 4:35:46 PM PDT by 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. You pay a certain amount for those services per year. Your respective rights and duties are laid down in a written agreement between you and the provider. For everything else, you do what you want. Thus, you are a contracting party on an equal footing with a secured legal position, instead of subject to the governments or majoritys ever changing will. And you only become a part of it if you like the offer.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cities; fascism; government; nutburger; privatization; utopianism
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To: Reno89519
Our God given rights can not be abrogated by a contract. Even a contract I may willingly enter into cannot separate me from them or remove the obligation of the Federal govt and the govt of the State in which I reside to ensure these rights - and any contract that attempted to do so would be void.
Private contracts could be used to set fees and such but all of my rights (free speech, right to assembly, right to bear arms, etc.) are beyond the bounds of any private contract. It would be unconstitutional, for example, for them to attempt to keep me out of their "private city" if I wished to enter said city and engage in a peaceful, political assembly.
Then again, what I am I going on about... just words written on old parchment by a bunch of old dead guys.
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:37:26 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: Lurking Libertarian
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posted on
08/07/2017 5:44:56 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: qaz123
Then some dude opens a meth lab next door ...
To: qaz123
kinda sounds like fox-con
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posted on
08/07/2017 6:27:32 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: SpaceBar
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posted on
08/07/2017 6:46:30 PM PDT
by
ex91B10
To: qaz123
Our government was set up for a moral, self controlled population. It was tough then, but now it would be extremely difficult.
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posted on
08/07/2017 6:54:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Reno89519
Good point, but remember: the government certainly isn’t a friend to those rights either. The difference? A private company doesn’t have absolute power to enforce it’s will, whereas the government does.
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posted on
08/07/2017 6:58:37 PM PDT
by
Mafe
To: Nifster
That is for fire service only. Roads and police and military and other federal protections still apply
Actually in AZ it also covers ambulance service, which was provided on a subscription basis by Rural Metro.
I think most of those areas have now incorporated into local Fire Districts as Rural Metro pulled out.
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posted on
08/07/2017 7:51:58 PM PDT
by
az_gila
To: ArmstedFragg
I think it happened in Tenn, as well. And the guy who didn’t pay his bill, watched his house go up in flames.
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posted on
08/07/2017 10:38:33 PM PDT
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qaz123
To: qaz123
they used to call this the company store. Workers were essentially enslaved via debt to the company. The company did not even pay real money but rather company issued chips.
I believe there are laws regarding “company stores”
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08/10/2017 9:54:37 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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