I did not read your analysis but the red line tells me something big is about to happen!

Perhaps you can work with the original author, Ayn Rand.

The government does tax the bitcoins I control. It has been discussed on this forum several times.

But there are fair ways of doing it. People prefer the lazy route of stealing from people though.

The mafia was very efficient in getting their protection money from people. Just think of a few busted knee caps as the baloney around a dog's meds.

How is buying something on the black market not legitimate?

As long as someone in the world or universe is not paying their "fare share" it is an outrage to those who feed power to the government.

Yes, celebrities and rich people never hire private protection because they do not work.

If it were money to go toward professional private investigators as opposed to giving it to someone to fly to some city with a camera only to have someone say "no comment" then that would be the way to go.

Ok. promise not to tax me if I do not use those services?

I have no complaints about the government fire departments.

The complaint I have is about the stealing done to pay for them.

You've made a good point, that being something along the line that the 2nd is poorly worded, poorly stated or obsolete.  And that the long string of Supreme Court decisions contrary to your opinion are without merit, because you've drawn the fine line of grammar through it all.

How about that...
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I say again:

It was not poorly worded. The intent was exercised. The revolutionaries were snuffed out. Federal control of military power was solidified.

Now we have groups like the NRA fighting for our right to go hunting.

Ya, I guess there are no examples of someone taking their small business and scaling it up into a huge multi national company.

Sure, for providing food services it may work...but a national franchise of fire departments, using their bulk buying power to get things cheaper and reduce costs on automating processes? Impossible.


And I would not consider a population of 128,000 a Norman Rockwell small town.

There is a large Ron Paul community here.

Those no pay no spray fire departments are poorly run. When I lived in a town with a private fire department I received a letter from the local fire department when I moved into my new house. Basically the cost was $20 per month for service or they had a per use fee, if the whole house was on fire the highest fee was $2,000. They stated that my insurance would likely cover that cost. And because the fire department had such a high rating, the highest in the state, I received a discount on my home owner's insurance that was more than the $20/month I would have paid. I opted out of paying figuring that the likelyhood of my house burning down in the next 100 months was pretty low, and my insurance would cover it anyway.

I recall that same town had a private garbage service. While the county next to us had a public garbage service. There was always news of the horrors of their public garbage service while I had one problem with my garbage company (I think they charged me wrong or something) so I dropped them and went with a different garbage company.


Oh, and I throw in McDonalds because I imagine that if restaurants were government run there would be people on here refusing to consider the concept of a single company having tens of thousands of restaurants all over the world. I am surprised that people would allow something as essential as the food we need for survival to be provided by private companies.

Sorta like homesteading...which was a common way of making use of the mass tracts of unused land in the west.

They still have homesteading in Alaska.

The original intent of the Second Amendment was lost in 1865.

The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:

1709: "If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations."

1714: "The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world."

1812: "The equation of time ... is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial."

1848: "A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor."

1862: "It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding."

1894: "The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city."

The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.



Of course, the fact that American conservatives usually support the Second Amendment and a standing army is quite ironic.

In the US, before income taxes railroads were a private venture, roads were state tolls with fees to cross some bridges, the telephone companies quickly set up the telephone network based on the profit they were able to achieve, McDonalds restaurants were put up by private franchises, private fire departments are started by investors and charities, usually by local people that the fire department serves. My local water company was started as a water delivery service much like milk used to be delivered, it grew to the point that it could start piping water to homes until eventually everyone in the local community uses their service. My sewar company is private as well.

The monuments were started mainly from the donations from societies, fraternities, clubs and individuals. Though eventually usually taken over by the government.

I was involved in the Free State Project from the first year, it is not just about picking any random state. It was born out of a study that Jason Sorens did on what happened in Quebec when a small minority was able to take control of the government. He extrapolated the data to come up with the figure that you would need 20,000 activists in a state with less than 2 million people to be able to play a major role in the state government.

From there, 10 states with less than 2 million people were put up for a vote. The first 5,000 people to pledge to the Free State Project were allowed to vote for one of the 10 states.

The results were:
1. New Hampshire
2. Wyoming
3. Montana
4. Idaho
5. Alaska
6. Maine
7. Vermont
8. Delaware
9. South Dakota
10. North Dakota

I recall Wyoming being high on many people's lists because of the large amount of natural resources and wind energy with low cost of living and cheap land. Montana was another good one because of their history of being very self reliant, their large border with Canada (allowing for easy trade if seccession ever occurred) and the vast amount of land allowing for large land purchases. People in Montana were also very welcoming of the Free Staters.

It would have been interesting if they had chosen North Dakota right before the oil boom. But nobody wants to live in North Dakota.

Those damned miners and their elite membership. I wish I was born into a family that was allowed to mine but I was not born with such privelidge.

Only the rich can mine, with their flying country to country in their private jets sipping on the blood of extinct animals.

But alas, to join such a wealthy elite is beyond us simple folk. One cannot change their stars.