Free Private Cities: The Future of Governance is Private

StartUp Societies Foundation ^ | Unknown | Titus Gebel

[Garth Tater]

Our God given rights can not be abrogated by a contract. Even a contract I may willingly enter into cannot separate me from them or remove the obligation of the Federal govt and the govt of the State in which I reside to ensure these rights - and any contract that attempted to do so would be void.

Private contracts could be used to set fees and such but all of my rights (free speech, right to assembly, right to bear arms, etc.) are beyond the bounds of any private contract. It would be unconstitutional, for example, for them to attempt to keep me out of their "private city" if I wished to enter said city and engage in a peaceful, political assembly.

Then again, what I am I going on about... just words written on old parchment by a bunch of old dead guys.

[Rurudyne]

The sweet spot.

[TexasGator]

Then some dude opens a meth lab next door ...

[Chode]

kinda sounds like fox-con

[ex91B10]

Yep serfs and Lords.

[Secret Agent Man]

Our government was set up for a moral, self controlled population. It was tough then, but now it would be extremely difficult.

[Mafe]

Good point, but remember: the government certainly isn’t a friend to those rights either. The difference? A private company doesn’t have absolute power to enforce it’s will, whereas the government does.

[az_gila]

That is for fire service only. Roads and police and military and other federal protections still apply

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Actually in AZ it also covers ambulance service, which was provided on a subscription basis by Rural Metro.

I think most of those areas have now incorporated into local Fire Districts as Rural Metro pulled out.

[qaz123]

I think it happened in Tenn, as well. And the guy who didn’t pay his bill, watched his house go up in flames.

[longtermmemmory]

they used to call this the company store. Workers were essentially enslaved via debt to the company. The company did not even pay real money but rather company issued chips.

I believe there are laws regarding “company stores”