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To: hedgetrimmer

Having to get a permit doesn't ban or prohibit you from doing anything.

So you want to ride your bicycle without a helmet? Fine, just do so on your own private property instead of on public roads, and don't come crying to me about having my insurance pay for your folly, either.

You want to till your soil without a permit? Gardeners do that every day here in Alabama, but again, having to get a permit doesn't stop you from doing anything.

It's like having to get a license to fly passengers on airlines. Everyone is free to become a pilot and fly as much as they want, but they still have to follow established, civilized procedures.

Likewise, you can still drive on public roads, but you *will* do so by staying on the right side. Go anywhere you want, but don't claim that you aren't free simply because you aren't allowed to drive the wrong way down a one way street into oncoming traffic.

144 posted on 04/15/2003 10:44:45 AM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
not getting a permit to plow cost one farmer $50,000. Thats a heck of a disincentive don't you think? He could also be ARRESTED if he plowed on an area of his land that had a kangaroo rat on it. On HIS land.

Free people shouldn't need "permits" to do anything. Their property is supposed to be protected by the Constitution and the governments defining purpose is to protect individual rights not tax people through permits on daily life activities.
160 posted on 04/15/2003 6:09:37 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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