My personal belief is that law enforcement ought to be a do-it-yourself affair. With enough George Zimmermans, I think crime rates will be low -- but local governments have to accept that citizens will have to do a lot to protect themselves without risking prosecution.
If you want to know how to do that, pick any county in WV that has only one stoplight. Services are minimal along with the taxes.
The only way to minimize government is to choke the cash flow. Otherwise politicians will always use the money to pander to the public.
This is just the beginning. First the cities, then the counties, an then the state.
—My personal belief is that law enforcement ought to be a do-it-yourself affair. —
I tend to agree. I sometimes wonder what homeowners in communities in Denver that were in the path of the fire would have done if there were no firefighters. Or how about the brush fires in California that consume so many homes?
Remember the single house that survived in one neighborhood because of the roofing compound it used? And what about doing all you can to remove combustibles around all the homes as the fire approaches? Imagine everyone in each neighborhood working to make the neighborhood effectively “hardened against” the fire entering it.
I’m just thinking out loud here. But the bottom line is as people become dependent, they lose the ability to think for themselves and even entertain the notion that they may have some power to prevent catastrophe.
San Bernardino just started that planning process.