The Right Privilege for Roads
I read this just before posting it and on the whole I would say that I agree with what I wrote. I apparently was pretty upset about all this stuff.
The Right Privilege for Roads
I am against highways and other ‘post roads’. The words ‘post roads’ are the words put into the Constitution that are the slippery slope that the Federal government uses to give justification for building all these roads you see today. Actually, they used these words when people actually cared whether or not their government was following the rules placed upon it. So, I’m against the government owning anything and I’m against anything having to do with ‘eminent domain’ laws. They are just a way for the government seize whatever they want without concern for the rights of those who happen to own that land or property.
The government shouldn’t own anything for multiple reasons but one would be that the government is not objective. When we say that the government is seizing property who are we talking about, the governor? Mayor? President? No one really knows, but we do know that Mr. Johnson no longer owns a part of his field because a new highway is being built on it.
I’m against the State and Federal imposed Driver License too. That’s right, it’s a Driver License (so those stickers on those gas pumps don’t scare me because they threaten to take away my Driver’s License which I don’t even have). You need one of these to drive on a road that you helped pay for. I pay taxes to build these roads and I pay for a Driver License to drive on these roads. And if I’m caught driving on one of these roads without my Driver License I may receive a ticket for not having one. This does not make sense. We don’t do this with other things we buy.
Take for instance a kitchen appliance. You buy a crock pot from the store, get it home and before you can use your new appliance you have to mail in a ticket stub with an accompanying fee to get a computer code that allows you the ‘right’ to now use the appliance that you purchased. Now you have your crock pot and every seven years you have to update your computer code, with an additional fee, so that you can maintain your right to use your crock pot. We have become the pig that just follows the slop bucket around the field. At first the farmer put the bucket at the top of the hill and we walked the distance to get to the slop. But now the farmer has us going over the hill, across the ravine, up the ladder, and through the flaming hoop to get at the same slop bucket.
Private industry is the only way to make this justified. Because I believe that the government does not have the right to own land and therefore no right to build roads I think that if Mr. Johnson sees an opportunity to make some money he ought to build a road on his land and charge people for the use of his road. Makes sense. However, we no longer live in that time.
We are also told repeatedly that driving a car on the road is a privilege and not a right. Do you consider the use of your crock pot a right or privilege? You bought the thing (either a kitchen appliance or a road) so isn’t it your right to use that which you bought? I’m against the idea of the government building roads but since we are in this point in history where this type of thing happens and no one cares then I wish that they would not make multiple fees for the use of that which I already have the right to use. Does the government have the ‘right’ to my money? No!, but it appears that once my money is stolen through unjust taxes I have lost the right to use that which my stolen money has bought. Now to use that which my money has bought I have to buy something else to give me the ‘privilege’ to use what is already mine. So the playground bully steals my money buys a comic book and now I need to give the bully more money to have the ‘privilege’ to read (but not take as my own) this comic book.
Now if I don’t show the tyrants my birth certificate I can have my ‘privileges’ revoked. I have a foreign birth certificate and the only things most people in Missouri can read is my name and birthdate so hopefully this won’t cause a new set of hoops to jump through.
The Right Privilege for Roads
I am against highways and other ‘post roads’. The words ‘post roads’ are the words put into the Constitution that are the slippery slope that the Federal government uses to give justification for building all these roads you see today. Actually, they used these words when people actually cared whether or not their government was following the rules placed upon it. So, I’m against the government owning anything and I’m against anything having to do with ‘eminent domain’ laws. They are just a way for the government seize whatever they want without concern for the rights of those who happen to own that land or property.
The government shouldn’t own anything for multiple reasons but one would be that the government is not objective. When we say that the government is seizing property who are we talking about, the governor? Mayor? President? No one really knows, but we do know that Mr. Johnson no longer owns a part of his field because a new highway is being built on it.
I’m against the State and Federal imposed Driver License too. That’s right, it’s a Driver License (so those stickers on those gas pumps don’t scare me because they threaten to take away my Driver’s License which I don’t even have). You need one of these to drive on a road that you helped pay for. I pay taxes to build these roads and I pay for a Driver License to drive on these roads. And if I’m caught driving on one of these roads without my Driver License I may receive a ticket for not having one. This does not make sense. We don’t do this with other things we buy.
Take for instance a kitchen appliance. You buy a crock pot from the store, get it home and before you can use your new appliance you have to mail in a ticket stub with an accompanying fee to get a computer code that allows you the ‘right’ to now use the appliance that you purchased. Now you have your crock pot and every seven years you have to update your computer code, with an additional fee, so that you can maintain your right to use your crock pot. We have become the pig that just follows the slop bucket around the field. At first the farmer put the bucket at the top of the hill and we walked the distance to get to the slop. But now the farmer has us going over the hill, across the ravine, up the ladder, and through the flaming hoop to get at the same slop bucket.
Private industry is the only way to make this justified. Because I believe that the government does not have the right to own land and therefore no right to build roads I think that if Mr. Johnson sees an opportunity to make some money he ought to build a road on his land and charge people for the use of his road. Makes sense. However, we no longer live in that time.
We are also told repeatedly that driving a car on the road is a privilege and not a right. Do you consider the use of your crock pot a right or privilege? You bought the thing (either a kitchen appliance or a road) so isn’t it your right to use that which you bought? I’m against the idea of the government building roads but since we are in this point in history where this type of thing happens and no one cares then I wish that they would not make multiple fees for the use of that which I already have the right to use. Does the government have the ‘right’ to my money? No!, but it appears that once my money is stolen through unjust taxes I have lost the right to use that which my stolen money has bought. Now to use that which my money has bought I have to buy something else to give me the ‘privilege’ to use what is already mine. So the playground bully steals my money buys a comic book and now I need to give the bully more money to have the ‘privilege’ to read (but not take as my own) this comic book.
Now if I don’t show the tyrants my birth certificate I can have my ‘privileges’ revoked. I have a foreign birth certificate and the only things most people in Missouri can read is my name and birthdate so hopefully this won’t cause a new set of hoops to jump through.
posted by T A Lucas | 12/28/2006
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