tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post1109298004318369323..comments2024-02-27T15:47:47.923-05:00Comments on Principled Perspectives: Instead of Affordable Housing Quotas, Reign in Zoningprincipled perspectiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-89033236720361920642016-11-16T23:13:19.248-05:002016-11-16T23:13:19.248-05:00"Where people choose to live should be a matt..."Where people choose to live should be a matter of individual choice based on voluntary contractual agreements among landowners, builders, and consumers. No one should be able to use the state’s power of law—i.e., the power of the gun—as a means to engage in social engineering, whether based on race, economics, social status, or any other arbitrary criteria. This goes equally for utopian-minded activist groups seeking to impose housing quotas on local communities through state “fair housing” laws, and local community masterminds seeking to impose their idea of community character through powerful zoning boards."<br /><br />Where people choose to live IS a matter of individual choice... . The power of the gun, as such, is arbitrary (criminal) power, not law and government. Such power IS the means of 'social' engineering, whether based on... .<br /><br />People may live where they want to live, in defiance, by force, of all that. It's just a matter of whether or not they can make their force stick in perpetuity. If they succeed, they might have law and government, vice crime, as the over-arching, central rule of human relations, the rule of individual rights, as in the Am. Rev.<br /><br />Social engineering in the hands of arbitrary (criminal) power posing as law and government as per the people in 'elections', 'due process and rule of law' (?), is crime, punishable under law (no immunity of 'elected' or appointed boobs).<br /><br />There must be a way to bring these boobs to justice while they're still in power, thus bringing the over-arching rule of crime to justice (no immunity), by means of the law and government that still exists.<br /><br />That remaining law and government is the way. Only law and government and all law abiding individuals in or not in government, are immune. Only within individual rights, law and government, does additional immunity for government and law, and government officials, elected or appointed, apply. That's because they represent individual rights and the best way to enforce them as per the current state of human knowledge.<br /><br />As the people abide by that, they, too, are immune. All others are sitting ducks, including other retrograde countries when they impinge directly on us.Mike Kevitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09725778137382703642noreply@blogger.com