Breakin’ the Law, Part II
The other day I mentioned my plans to break the law. I explained why I was doing it (for my own personal safety). And William Teach mentioned that his neighbor was fined $250 for daring to purchase water from the city. I told Teach in the comments that I would just ignore such a summons (which would likely put me in jail for buying water from the city).
But perhaps I didn’t make clear what bothers me the most about the situation. You see, in this Drought To End All Droughts, this Worse Drought In The History Of The World, there is not actually a ban on using water. There’s not even a ban on washing your car. Instead, what the government really has done is just ban some people from washing their car and using water.
The real situation is more like this:
If you have received the King’s favor, if you have provided enough gifts to appease the Ruling Class, then you are permitted to use as much water as you want, for any purpose you want, including washing as many cars as you like. If, however, you are of the “lower class,” if you are a peasant, then if you DARE to use the precious water for washing your own car, you shall be jailed. That’s the part that bothers me.
I called a local police department. I used a pay phone (yes, they still exist if you know where to look). I explained my situation with my car windows being so dirty that they’re unsafe. Know what the Enforcers of the Law told me? Go seek out one of those who are blessed with the King’s favor to use their water. Seriously. When I pressed the issue, of course, I got the line, “I’m just doing my job.” It was even suggested to me that I should not drive my car if the windows were so dirty, but under no circumstances was I permitted to buy water from the city and use it to wash my car windows.
I do believe Edwards was right — there are “Two Americas.” There are people who work and there is government and those who receive government favor.
In case you think I’m making this up, perhaps it will make more sense when I explain using today’s politically correct terms. The “King’s Favor” is permission from the government in the form of permits. “Gifts” for the ruling class are fines, taxes, permits, and other fees that you must pay for the privilege of running a business. “Peasant” is anyone who does not work for government.
So the situation above is completely and totally accurate — if you are a business, and you have received permission from government to have a business, you may use as much water as you like for whatever purpose you like. The police department actually told me that instead of washing my car at my house that I should take it to a business and pay them to wash it.
Once upon a time, people were free in America. But that time has long passed. Justice is NOT blind.
Want a freedom-based solution? Raise the price of water for everyone. If you’re going to ban water usage for certain purposes, ban it for everyone equally, not just for some. These laws are wrong and unjust. And I will continue to disobey them.
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Wait, you can’t wash your car at your home, but you can take it to the local car wash and that’s okay? Yea, that doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Exactly my point. No limits on any business use of water — just us suckers.
Well, it is nationwide. Tickets to sporting events and other such favors will get one a good deal of “favor”. Keep on breaking the “bogus law”. Kind of like throwing your version of the Boston Tea Party.
Did you get a load of what happened in Washington state during the primary there? The “official there” just called the election for McCain before all the votes were even in!!! Huckabee is fighting it, and rightly so! It’s like people are “proud of their corruption”… just like limiting water usage except for a “select few”.
It is what our government has become. Sadly, I don’t see any way out because I can resist, but most will simply go along because they’re scared to death of government. And rightly so, because government will kill you for disobeying them.
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I just move here a coupla months ago. One weekend when the weather was nice, I washed my car (much needed). And I wondered why I was getting so much attention from passers by. So this is why! Absolutely stupid!
WHAT? You dared to buy water from the government without asking their permission to use it as they saw fit? You are lucky you’re not in jail.
And if you’re in Charlotte, it’s even worse — any bureaucrat, with zero evidence, no trial, no due process, not even any law enforcement training can declare you guilty and fine you. You have no rights, you don’t even have the right to a judge — you pay the fine or you go to jail!
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