Posted on 08/07/2017 4:35:46 PM PDT by qaz123
Imagine a private company offers you the basic services of a state, i.e. protection of life, liberty and property in a defined territory. You pay a certain amount for those services per year. Your respective rights and duties are laid down in a written agreement between you and the provider. For everything else, you do what you want. Thus, you are a contracting party on an equal footing with a secured legal position, instead of subject to the government’s or majority’s ever changing will. And you only become a part of it if you like the offer.
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And, perhaps, at one time it was. Then the Progressives showed up in the early 1900s and started sowing the seeds, I guess. Fast forward to the 60s and a whole new crop of degenerates were born and started this country on the path to destruction.
Think of the freedom ship. Don’t know the website.
They are describing a medieval castle.
One tiny little example has been in operation for decades in the unincorporated areas of Yuma, Ariz. If you want fire service, you subscribe. Or, you carry a high limit credit card at all times.
Put down the cyberpunk novel, then step away from the keyboard.
Personally, something stinks about this. What happens when the private company says you can’t have a gun, can’t do something a free citizen has rights to do?
Yep.
The ruling elites have always controlled the peasant class until a couple guys in a couple colonies in North America said screw this. They threw thousands of year of establishment rule on its head. They said We, the people are in control and our rights don’t come from you, they come from God.
We lasted a bit over the predicted 200 years of a democratic based government.
Trump was a last bit attempt to keep this right from becoming wrong but I don’t think we will make it.
Won’t ever happen in the US
That is for fire service only. Roads and police and military and other federal protections still apply
Silicon Valley VC guy Peter Thiel has a project something like this.
This sounds like it could end up being the HOA from hell.
Sounds like paying protection to the Mafia. And that's what it would evolve into.
If you want to try that model, just move to the ghetto and pay either the Crips or the Bloods for protection, and wear the right colors.
I agree. I don’t see why we should trust a private corporation any more than politicians
I studied 18th and 19th century American legal history in law school, and the "live and let live" part was certainly not true. There were laws against blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking and all sorts of other victimless crimes.
Thanks for the laugh. The US emerged from the efforts of the wealthy elitists who had sense enough to keep the important positions from being chosen by the masses. Things went pretty well until the ideas of universal suffrage and popularity contests came into vogue.
Even sumptuary laws!
I was surprised to read of John Adams support for them in his writings.
This is known as "bad luck.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Plus, there was that whole slavery thing.
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