Peeing into Gummint Urinals

Free Stater (and State Representative) Michael Sylvia is miffed. It seems that some folks in Belmont, where he lives, have submitted a plan to the zoning board in town. Tina and Frederick Fleming have a family farm, and would like to host educational day camps for kids at their farm this summer, so that kids can learn about farming and where food comes from. It's a change of land use, hence the zoning plan. 

Sylvia is miffed that the Fredericks are "checking with their masters" by filing the plan. In true Free State fashion, the bulk of his ire is saved for Tina Frederick, a teacher at the Laconia Middle School, whom he nastily refers to as a "government school teacher." It's typical Free Stater on 2 levels; contempt for public schools and contempt for women. Tuck has the whole story at Miscellany Blue.

That State Representative Michael Sylvia himself is a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL seems to have escaped him. 

Belmont has public water and sewer. One hopes that, on principle,  Michael Sylvia has had those services disconnected. Belmont also has a fire department, a police department, and, get this - they have residential curbside trash pickup. One expects that Sylvia has told the police and the fire department never to come to his house, and that he takes his own trash to the dump -  never mind that socialist trash pickup. I'll go out on a limb and say he probably eschews the public library, since he undoubtedly already has his own copy of Atlas Shrugged. 

The voters of Belmont chose to enact zoning laws. The State of NH did not impose them - it was a locally controlled decision. The Free Staters often tout their love for local control, while displaying no respect for it whatsoever. 

 Representative Sylvia drinks gummint water and pees into gummint sewers. His trash gets picked up by gummint trucks, and taken to the gummint dump.  He drives to the State House on gummint roads and bridges. He serves his district from the gummint State House, where presumably he drinks gummint water, and pees into gummint urinals. 

If Michael Sylvia had even a bit of the courage of his convictions, he would have moved to one of the  19 NH towns that has no zoning. That he ran for office while  holding nothing but contempt for the government makes him a pretty fierce hypocrite. 

Another Douche With a Blog

Every time I write about the Free State Project, some members of the hive elect to respond. Their responses are always condescending, because only an idiot who doesn't understand their marvelous theories would dare disagree them.They just can't imagine that anyone could research their whole belief system and still decide it's a clown show. 

The latest responder is this guy. robotnotes takes FSP commentary to a new level. He's responding to my most recent column for the Conway Daily Sun. I wrote about the recent Senate finance committee hearing at the State House:

People who have disabilities and rely on wheelchairs were there to speak about how much they need and value their personal care attendants, and how little these people are paid for the great work they do. A family with a deaf son was there to speak about his special needs. Other families spoke about their fears for their children with disabilities, and the possibility of being put on the infamous developmental disability wait list. This is all painful stuff, put out there in public, while members of the committee listen for hours with their eyes glazing over. It’s a process that is awful for everyone involved, a process that lacks any sort of kindness or compassion.

robotboy's response to this:

So pathetic and exploitative were their performances, these people had no shame bringing out their own mentally-disabled children, bring them in front of a room full of people, point at them, and tell the committee and all there to hear how worthless and incapable they are, how they will never amount to anything, never overcome their struggles, never make anything of themselves, and can only survive on the government dole. Seriously. That level of dependency was a disgusting sight to see.

In any other circumstance, my heart would go out to these struggles. The pains of life can be heavy. I know it. But to see these “my life is so hard, so unfair, give me your money” was vile. To parade your mentally-disabled children, who had no idea why they were trotted along to sit through a totally boring hearing, to be used as props to get free money is pathetic.

Allow me to summarize roboboy's remarks: people in need are vile. They will never make anything of themselves. They are dependent and disgusting. To his credit, he's far more honest here than most of them. They only hint at their contempt. roboboy is saying it out loud and proud! 

This is what the FSP thinks of the residents of our state. 

The cultists dream of a world where "gummint" is gone, and they will all be manly men doing brave deeds, and engaging in free enterprise. But - there's always a new boss, and he's often same as, or worse than the old boss. Someone is subsidizing the roboboys, and the day Someone takes over, the subsidies will end, and roboboy is going to find out what it's like to work for a living. They'll shove his copy of "The Ethics of Liberty" up his ass sideways and send him out to spread nightsoil on the turnip fields.

roboboy describes himself thusly:

I’m an atheistic yet spiritual, Rothbardian-inspired anarcho-capitalist homosexual with a degree in Computer Science, Animation, currently living the caveman/paleodiet lifestyle, desiring AI to learn from our unfortunate hubristic mistakes, and about to bring some LA sensibilities to this god forsaken place called New Hampshire.

Gag me with a shrugging atlas. The most honest thing this guy says:

Or, really, I’m  just another douche with a blog.

h/t to Eric Jackson for the nightsoil and turnips.