Urban sprawl for Homeland Security
Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, home of Joel Salatin and lesser poultry raisers, is seeing land prices go up...so that jack-booted thugs can live and work outside the blast zone and still make it to Dee Cee upon occasion.
Screw the border wall...build it around the District of Columbia instead.
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Posted on: December 30, 2006 10:28 PM
The government or other organizations have the same freedoms you write about for everyone else.
I originally thought you were about more freedoms for citizens, but over time you posts lean more and more towards being against government entirely.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: December 31, 2006 07:38 AM
Leaving aside for a moment the question of whether a non-volitional abstraction can have rights or freedoms, the Constitution is primarily about limiting the "freedoms" of government. Of course, citizens who work for government have the same rights as anyone else, even when undeserved. Them's the rules. In the specific case, people have a right to live wherever they please, and "the government" has a right to move their operations to anywhere they own land, or can get citizens to voluntarily sell land to them. That doesn't mean I have to like it, or think that it's good public policy to encourage urban sprawl.
Am I against government entirely? No, a little bit is probably necesary. I've heard that there are metabolic processes for which a trace amount of arsenic is necessary. That doesn't mean I want to eat a plateful. If we hack at the beast with the intent of killing it, we'll be more successful at cutting it down to size, and it's hard enough to kill that we can always forbear to administer the coup de grace if we decide we still need it. I don't generally play the "minarchy vs. anarchy" debate; I figure that "there" is far enough off that we can figure it out when we get there.
Posted by: James
Posted on: January 2, 2007 10:42 AM
Interesting. Is it possible that the government can become an entity that supplants the country's constitutional framework? Or it takes another castastrophic event that will force the govt to declare a state of national emergency? Come on here, people still slightly think about the worst scenario out there.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: January 2, 2007 11:12 AM
James, I think they've already supplanted the constitutional framework, at least to some degree. But it's highly possible that, come the next 9/11 (and there will be one), they'll drop the pretense and just take over. There'll be no blogging from internment camp.
Posted by: James
Posted on: January 2, 2007 05:57 PM
Of course there will be. Sanctioned bloggers reporting that life is beautiful at internment camp alpha in Cleveland and came beta in Jersey. :)
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: January 3, 2007 08:20 AM
At the Terezin, er, Cleveland camp we will have an orchestra which will premiere each of my compositions the minute they're finished. It'll be a real gas!