Posted on 07/09/2013 11:39:27 AM PDT by Sopater
They're not paying the drillers to beat up eco-freaks. They're paying the drillers to drill. They're paying the security people to make sure that the drillers can spend their time drilling.
I’d hire security people if others were illegally on my business property damaging equipment. If they are scary looking it may stop others from coming onto the property without incident. works for LEOs.
These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries...And what difference are these assholes drawing? WE ARE a Thirld World Country now. I worked for a diamond mine in RHODESIA for the same reason. Keeping the assholes out.
I can actually remember a time when liberals were at least somewhat pro-liberty and would be appalled at all the surveillance and IRA attacking groups because of their political beliefs.
how did jouch come to a determination it is excessive force? What excessive force has actually been used to this point?
Jouch is really a democrat. If you follow WI state politics he likes to be the McCain of the WI state senators here.
Hey...they hunt turkey’s in Florida...and California too!! : )
appears to be masked...Looks like a black dude to me.
Kinda like the homos and the muslims that way...
want tolerance of all points of view (theirs) until they get the power to be intolerant.
Just like the cut up Zimmerman phone call.
Private industry protecting itself doesn’t bother ...I sincerely believe they won’t take your property or disenfrenchified your vote, but I dunno know.
Force has not been used how can it be excessive?
Capability is not force
This story can be summed up with a Bismarck quote:
“The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and the resolutions of majorities...but by blood and iron.”
Gogebic will provide the iron. The environazis can provide the blood.
they hunt turkeys in Florida....Ain’t the gators got ‘em all?
At least he has the honesty to BE a Dem, vs. McStain who claims to be a Republican.
From the article:
State Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, and Rep. Janet Bewley, D-Ashland
I didn’t even need to read the article to know the lawmakers were rats.
Not yet!!
Much.
You make a good point.
If you look at the labels on the axis; you’ll see that it’s really a “social authoritarian — social libertarian” scale. That’s a more narrow focus, than a scale measuring the extent that governments use coercive force on its citizens. It does leave out use of force to (say) redistribute property.
I was originally going to comment on the on-line tests, such as the one that Sopater mentioned above. That test also rates you on a “social authoritarian — social libertarian” scale.
You could construct many different models of the political realm — as I said before, none of them would be perfect. However, it’s likely that a 2D model is better than a 1D model.
Your libinlaw might just not want such an “in your face” display of what government coercive force looks like. Like an anti-hunting urbanite, who buys meat at the supermarket — she wants her socialism; but, she doesn’t want to know where it came from.
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