Our Fascists have finally defined ActiviStan?
"Court injunction brought in by oil and gas company makes even supermarkets off-limits for Vera Scroggins.""It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong." ~ Voltaire
Does that mean that in the USA, it is now dangerous to be right about democracy?
The government protects those who produce from those who would do nothing. That is the very basis of rule of law in a democracy.
ReplyDeleteAt the extreme, Squat on someones land, pay the taxes and produce food, you get to keep the land. Government supports your efforts.
Abandon a property, let weeds grow on your lot, allow dumping and government condemns it.
In some states, under mining laws, if you refuse to produce on your land, government can force you to participate in a project against your will, though they usually don't.
Government taxes so it can provision itself from what you produce. Government is not an uninterested, impartial party in the negotiation.
Unless you can prove that another's production causes you harm, the production ALWAYS is given preference over inaction. Criminal trespass and other nuisance behavior interferes with production. Law 101.
If I stood outside her Organic garden and demanded that she stop producing organic produce because it symbolized elitism and starving the poor so the rich could have slightly better quality of life and interfered with her production, I too would be arrested. Political speech does not give anyone the right to interfere with production that does not directly cause them harm. If I stopped her from producing, she might starve. I may believe I am saving more lives in Africa by stopping her production. None the less she suffers harm, so the government arrests me.