Funny, I don't see her majesty walking around my corner of BC, and if she does, she'll be asking me for help in these fair woods. They say "possession is nine-tenths of the law". I think there's some real truth in that. I dare her to tell me it isn't as much mine as hers. And with all due respect to The Queen, I bet she's wise enough by now to agree. Not like that truth will ever stop some bunch of authority seeking state-hired thug/cop/do-gooders from accosting me if they think I'm breaking some "law", but thankfully they don't inhabit these fair woods, and therefore don't actually see the reality to enforce against it.
Hey, I agree with your general sentiment, but I'm willing to be content saying that MY land is the piece I own privately, and the public land is OUR land, belonging to EVERY Canadian citizen, including the Queen, if she wants to come enjoy it with everybody else who comes to enjoy it. I don't think it's a matter of capitulation to enjoy having copious amounts of public land. The capitulation becomes real when we let our piddling fucking bureaucrats impose ever creeping regulations on what We The People can and can't do on OUR public land, as though they have to dictate any stupid thing they happen to decide is a good idea (often because some corporation convinces them). And all without any real way to appeal or vote against their dictates. There is little to no accountability, and it's crept and grown into a very real kind of tyranny.
We need a radical political departure, of the libertarian kind.
I understood you weren't attacking me, and I'm right with you in your frustrations. These are the same kinds of things that trigger me too ;) Fucking infuriating, and we're sinking fast into chaos and ruination because of them.
And I don’t mean the recent changes I mean the slow erosion of our rights.
It's now technically illegal to build your own house, unless you take a complex course and pass a test on how to be a general contractor, and then insure the house for a decade to anyone who might buy it.
Tell that to the pioneers who carved and settled this great nation from the wilds.
And while we're at it, tell them they can't buy the best guns, because they frighten some big-city pampered socialites.
And then point out those same socialites insist on regulating what we're allowed to say and think, especially trying to ban anything that makes them feel slightly uncomfortable.
Far too few people take the time any more to think about what freedom really means.
Funny, I don't see her majesty walking around my corner of BC, and if she does, she'll be asking me for help in these fair woods. They say "possession is nine-tenths of the law". I think there's some real truth in that. I dare her to tell me it isn't as much mine as hers. And with all due respect to The Queen, I bet she's wise enough by now to agree. Not like that truth will ever stop some bunch of authority seeking state-hired thug/cop/do-gooders from accosting me if they think I'm breaking some "law", but thankfully they don't inhabit these fair woods, and therefore don't actually see the reality to enforce against it.
Hey, I agree with your general sentiment, but I'm willing to be content saying that MY land is the piece I own privately, and the public land is OUR land, belonging to EVERY Canadian citizen, including the Queen, if she wants to come enjoy it with everybody else who comes to enjoy it. I don't think it's a matter of capitulation to enjoy having copious amounts of public land. The capitulation becomes real when we let our piddling fucking bureaucrats impose ever creeping regulations on what We The People can and can't do on OUR public land, as though they have to dictate any stupid thing they happen to decide is a good idea (often because some corporation convinces them). And all without any real way to appeal or vote against their dictates. There is little to no accountability, and it's crept and grown into a very real kind of tyranny.
We need a radical political departure, of the libertarian kind.
I understood you weren't attacking me, and I'm right with you in your frustrations. These are the same kinds of things that trigger me too ;) Fucking infuriating, and we're sinking fast into chaos and ruination because of them.
It's now technically illegal to build your own house, unless you take a complex course and pass a test on how to be a general contractor, and then insure the house for a decade to anyone who might buy it.
Tell that to the pioneers who carved and settled this great nation from the wilds.
And while we're at it, tell them they can't buy the best guns, because they frighten some big-city pampered socialites.
And then point out those same socialites insist on regulating what we're allowed to say and think, especially trying to ban anything that makes them feel slightly uncomfortable.
Far too few people take the time any more to think about what freedom really means.