For those of you who followed the Phonehenge story, here’s the broader context for you. It’s yet another example of regional colonialism by the City of Los Angeles: people on the margins of society, who only want to be left alone, are being harassed off land they own by the greater forces of development. It’s like the County read Ken Layne’s Dignity and decided to adopt it as a General Plan.
My quibbles with the Offishul Libertarian Movement are reasonably well-documented, but I have to say that although I was on the lookout for axe-grinding in this reason.tv video, they did a great job.
Hat tip to Wendy at the Antelope Valley Conservancy.
Chris, what an unsettling video….....dear God, let these people know that they would be welcome in the Wonder Valley east of Twentynine Palms…....property is dirt cheap, maybe even a beginning structure to start with!!
Isn’t it the dream of all of us…...to be disconnected from the energy web??
Local control by vested interests: the diagnostic of first world wellsprings of corruption.
Run through any local government by-law list and see the extent to which anyone with money, or the smell of it, will go to, to co-opt the process of “law” for their profit.
Compare Christiania in Copenhagen and travellers, particularly the Dale Farm fight right now, in the UK for what’s been tried on in the local regulations line to crowbar out harmless people who’ve been in the way of making money.
Sad about phonehenge. If the builder had belonged to a support network, like the Antelope Valley people appear to be building…
On the other side of community regulation, see what the filthy rich can get away with by checking how many prosecutions for felling trees in the way of rich coastal views, anywhere in the world, have stuck.
Or how many ugly macmansions have had demolition orders stick when they’ve made no effort to blend in with their neighbours buildings.
Money talks, even if it doesn’t do it in public.