baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) (02/09/85)
> > As far as I know, if I attack you with a pitchfork and threaten to air you out > if you don't give me your money, there are no laws against you leaving my > presense. Does that mean that there is no problem with me threatening you with > a pitchfork? The government points its pitchfork at me and then I am free to > leave. > Well, I would assume that if I were on your land then you would have some right to demand payment or departure. I thought that was basic libertarian dogma. Consider the following scenario: Some enterprising individuals seize some distant colonies from the King of England, as the PRIVATE PROPERTY of the victorious revolutionary leadership. Being enlightened or completely insane, they form a corporation to administer their vast holdings, and draw up articles of incorporation that provide for indirect participation in the administration of the corporation by free males who reside on its property, and that severely limit the scope of its activities, even on its own property. Don't you think that such a corporation has the right to charge rent? Baba