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CO Evicts, Imprisons Man for Living on Land Nobody Owns
This entry originally appeared at Shredding Gnar Snowboard Blog as “Free Charlie Toups!“ The people in this country are generally pretty decent. It’s the rat bastards that work for the government that you need to worry about. Until this winter, Charlie Toups had been shredding the gnar like none other. He had skied 120+ days per season at some of the biggest ski resorts in the western United States without having held a real job in decades—he earned his keep by doing odd jobs at the resorts in exchange for lift tickets. According to the Denver Post, “In all his years of homelessness, [Toups] has never collected any public money. In the past three years, he’s earned about $20,000, mostly from shoveling snow and moving furniture.” For 33 years, he lived the ultimate ski-bum … Read entire article »
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Quote of the Day: The Post-Revolution Unknown
OK, so it’s the “Quote of Last Friday”… In response to the occasional disagreement/dispute/argument/flamewar that arises between anarchists of different stripes on teh interwebz, at Polycentric Order, Michael comments on Why I’m Not a Voluntaryist: Anarchism is such a radical break with the present order – in fact, so theoretical in nature (the meager handful of historical examples aside), and society itself so complex with almost an infinite number of inputs, contexts, and situations, that envisioning not only what should be, but what is sustainable and what will work, to be next to impossible. I agree, Michael. It’s stupid to spend our time debating what is essentially unknown. The problem is that the other people always assert that they do know how things will be, or how they ought to be. And … Read entire article »
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A Right Not Exercised is a Right Lost
Justin Holmes gets “pulled over” for the non-crime of rollerblading, and rightly refuses to identify himself to law enforcement. When asked why he’s being detained, the officer cites some local ordinance that prohibits rollerblading, which ordinance probably does not exist. No matter, Justin’s exercise of certain rights guaranteed by the first, fourth, and fifth amendments to the U.S. constitution (and probably most State and Local legislation, too) are construed as “disrespectful”, so you see where this is probably going. Fortunately, Justin stood his ground and shot this awesome footage to Vimeo. (It’s a long video, Don’t show ID in New York State! so I’ve summarized some important exchanges below.) The female officer (second on-scene) pulls out all the stops, with the “You could be a pedophile” line. Female LEO: The reason why we ask … Read entire article »
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