Sometimes I wish I wasn't informed. Sometimes I think it'd be easier to be one of those mindless morons who doesn't know what's going on, watches MSNBC, trusts politicians at face value and thinks the government is their friend. If I was I wouldn't hear about things like the story Alan links to., and if I did I could just deny reality like a good little liberal.
Sadly abuses like this are reality. The government is, quite literally, coming after people who have done no wrong and destroying their lives. Make no mistake about it, if you are an individualist who wants to live free and "off the grid" you are the enemy in the eyes of the government. There's nothing government hates more than free, happy individuals who are free of the shackles of government dependency......so they destroy lives, forcing those very people to become dependent upon government.
The government will 100% support deadbeat bums like this with my tax dollars, yet they'll actively hunt down and squash the freedom of those who aren't freeloaders and who burden no one. Government is force. Wild, unthinking, irrational, unabated, and above all else, destructive. This is what happens when it grows and is not reigned in, as the Nuisance Abatement Teams so aptly demonstrate.
H/T to Alan, who helped piss me off enough to write something.
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I don't have a problem with building codes that require basic sanitation like plumbing. It is about the spread of disease. Not all building codes are a bad thing.
Yeah, but there's no claim of sewage issues. There's no disease spreading. Most of the people profiled in the article were in place for decades, and no harm has been caused. It's really stretching the limits of belief to think that they're suddenly plague-bearers.
"Most of the people profiled in the article were in place for decades, and no harm has been caused."
Exactly. I pointed that out in the post. The article also mentioned "declining property values." which is BS. What hurts property values more? Parking your big rig next to your tiny house out in the middle of nowhere, or having to remove the house completely and move, leaving nothing but desert.
They are kicking people off of land they've lived on for year over trivial, burecratic bullshit and they're going in with guns drawn. They're leaving people homeless and without any possessions. That should piss off any American.
One of these days, and pretty soon is events continue down the current path, the code enforcers will be met with force similar to what they are bringing to the party. At that point, all bets are off.
Government power is being used to destroy people whose sole offense is non-conformity. Tick-tock, tick-tock, so go the hands on Claire Wolfe's Clock.
The article seemed to indicate that most of the surrounding land was vacant, too, so it sounds as though perhaps some developer might want to sell some land some day (though I cannot imagine there's a whole hell of a lot of demand for California desert) and they want to run out anyone not up to snuff. It reads like a matter of getting rid of the wrong type of folks.
Sabra, that was my thinking exactly. These people are being persecuted because someone else wants their land and the surrounding areas to develop.
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