LIBERTARIAN
TRAVEL GUIDES, LIBERTARIAN TOURS & LIBERTARIAN TRIPS Fight urban planning regulations and oppose historic
preservation laws. They are hysterical perversions and historical perversions.
Fight the dogma of Edward Bellamy, Francis Bellamy, and Looking Backward
at the Pledge of Allegiance
As a libertarian lawyer, Dr. Rex Curry is often asked about legal ways
to do things that are normally illegal in the USA or in some states. One
way to avoid the USA's growing police state is to travel. http://rexcurry.net/trip.html
Vacations are a fun time to leave the USA and to avoid as many US laws
as possible (but not really "breaking" the law because U.S. laws don't normally
apply in foreign countries). It can be a fun time to leave your home
state and to avoid as many home-state laws as possible in another state
(whenever friends visit from New York City we fill the car with guns and
take them out shooting). Another example: Cuban cigars can be bought
in most foreign countries (the USA's police state prosecutes its citizens
with felony charges for the peaceful non-violent vice of importing and smoking
a Cuban cigar). Gambling is enjoyed (the USA's police state prosecutes its
citizens with criminal charges for the peaceful non-violent vice of gambling
in much of the USA and the only reason Florida has any land-based casino
gambling is thank goodness for the Indians). Grand Cayman has a turtle farm
where humans can handle sea turtles (the USA's police state prosecutes its
citizens with felony charges for merely handling sea turtles. The USA's
government nearly destroyed the Grand Cayman turtle farm). Grand Cayman
serves turtle burgers and turtle fritters and turtle anyway it can be prepared
(that's illegal in the U.S. and they will confiscate any jewelry or products
that you purchase that are made from turtles). Mexico lets you walk
on top of Mayan ruins (that is probably an arrestable offense in the USA's
police state). At the Grand Canyon, the Hualapai Indians, on their
reservation, will let tourists do things that might result in arrest or hassling
by federal bureaucrats.
Cruises are a great time to learn about and liberty and meet people who
love liberty too. Take T-shirts and caps that read "Say No to Searches"
and "My socialist Slave number is 262-00-6302" and "More government means
you need more guns" and "RexCurry.net" all visible at http://rexcurry.net Your audience
is captive. Every time a boat photographer wants to shoot you, say "yes."
Your shirts and caps will be sprinkled throughout the photo gallery
and every single passenger will see them. And join in the videotaped
activities that the cruise line replays constantly on the TV.
Nothing ruins a vacation like the government, and especially the U.S.
police state. They demand your papers coming and going, search you
and your luggage, and they want the asinine U.S. Customs form 6059B (19 CFR
122.27, 148.12, 148.13, 148.110, 148.111, 1498, 31 CFR 5316) upon your return.
You can be held prisoner for hours waiting in the heat for your government
to let you go home. Everyone is fuming all over the boat about the local
gestapo, and that is the perfect time to walk all the way around each level
of the boat and then switch your shirt and cap and do it again, over and
over, until the prisoners are freed.
For more ideas on liberty the historic district problem and others see
http://rexcurry.net
Historic preservation laws are bad. When government aids historic
preservation with tax dollars, regulations, or in any way, the government
becomes the violator of property rights. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
The purpose of government is to protect individuals and their property
from interference by others. That is why Libertarians, Objectivists,
and freedom-loving people oppose government assistance in historic preservation.
http://rexcurry.net/commentary/historic.html
So long as preservationists spend their own money and time, and do not
use government to pursue their petty fetish, they may do as they like with
property they own or purchase, and leave the property of others alone. http://rexcurry.net/curry-mansion.html
As an attorney, the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets") is consulted about historic preservation laws, historic districts
and other violations of private property rights. Known as the "Libertarian
Historic Preservationist," he notes that today's historic preservationists
impede greater histories of the future. Historic preservationists block
future historic structures. They prevent historic homes from being replaced
by new homes that would also become historical. Newer structures become
more historical than the old ones, thanks to capitalism.
Historic preservationists owe their entire movement and a debt of
gratitude (which they will never pay) to capitalism. Historic homes
and buildings were built by capitalists and they are historical only because
capitalists kept building other homes and buildings. Preservable history
exists only because change occurred.
Historic preservation is antidisestablishmentarianism. The 28-letter
word describes people who stop others from fighting the establishment and
changing things. Preservationism was thoroughly debunked by the capitalist
philosopher Ayn Rand in her novel "The Fountainhead." Preservationists
are neo-luddites and, like the luddites of 19th Century England, they fight
progress as well as the liberty, property rights and capitalism that bring
progress, and they use old structures as an excuse. http://rexcurry.net/commentary/philadelphia.html
It is the dogma of American socialists like Francis Bellamy (author of
the "Pledge of Allegiance") and Edward Bellamy (author of the book "Looking
Backward") and their desire to nationalize all property in their global
nationalism movment. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
That dogma of socialism not only destroys history and historic structures,
it also destroys prosperity and lives. It did all of that and more in the
socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million slaughtered
under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples'
Republic of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers'
Party. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
Some preservationists say that they are trying to "teach history."
What lesson is to be learned? Judging from the regulatory slant of
preservationists, old structures are grotesque reminders of how bad things
were before government grew so big and preservationists grew so powerful.
A principled preservation group would restore not just old structures,
but what produced them: free enterprise, progress, and the historic relationship
of government and people. Old homes would teach of times when taxes
and government revenue were tiny, when old neighborhoods and private mass
transit flourished, when historic preservationists could not impose their
whims on private property. Old homes would memorialize a history of individual
rights and capitalism. A principled preservation group would act without
government aid and against it. Now that's historic preservation! http://rexcurry.net/curry-mansion.html
Modern preservationists do not preserve history. All real estate
has history spanning the age of the earth. Why do preservationists fixate
on present structures? "Hysterical" preservationists can only histrionically
whine, "It's what's there now!" Preservationism is strange idolatry
that romanticizes old homes as empty symbols of arbitrary times. They
do not want to preserve everything that is historic, and they do not want
to restore the historic Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, nor even remind
anyone about those parts of their romanticized history. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
Historic preservation does not involve conflicts between property "rights"
and "responsibilities." There is never such a conflict. People
have property rights and everyone's responsibility is not to violate those
rights.
The same government that trumpets preservation destroyed historic neighborhoods
with urban renewal, strangled downtown businesses with taxes and bureaucracy,
and helped build highways through historic communities. The expansive
government preservationists support destroys more historical private property
than it ever saves.
Modern preservationists shirk responsibility. Preservationists do not plan
ahead, but wait until new construction nears and then cry for government
to intervene. It never matters how preservation impacts dreary people
who need jobs, food, clothing, and shelter. Preservationists who enlist
government are cavalier people with a love for old structures no deeper
than their neighbors' pockets.
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Join libertarians against historic preservation legislation. Learn about
the Committee for the Protection of your Rights (CPR). The fact that CPR
opposes the historic ordinances does not mean that they oppose historic preservation.
They oppose laws about historic preservation.
Learn about Randal O'Toole, a researcher with the Cato Institute in Washington
D.C. He says that government planning does more harm than good. He is well
known for his libertarian opposition to any form of urban planning. He
exposes the nonsensical interventionist moves by government to disrupt the
forces of supply and demand in an effort to engineer certain outcomes in
our sadly mixed economy.
