tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post6677661645572887212..comments2023-11-05T06:18:25.377-06:00Comments on The Privatopia Papers: SA homeowner says HOA forced him to plant a yard in a drought .Evan McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04479661304143631524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-39883043169775054862011-07-06T07:31:51.649-05:002011-07-06T07:31:51.649-05:00"I can see long lines of people clamoring to ..."I can see long lines of people clamoring to be part of this wonderful regime"<br /><br /><br />When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the official reason given by the Communists was that the wall's purpose was to keep <i>out</i> elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. And although unspoken, I'm sure that maintaining a uniform grey appearance of East Berlin was also a consideration, less property values be affected.<br /><br />But as most of us know, except for those apologists we called "useful idiots" during the Cold War, the real purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep the population of the Soviet Bloc <i>in</i>. By 1961 an estimated 1,500 people a day were fleeing to the West, with a total of 3.5 million East Germans having defected before the Wall's construction.<br /><br />I suspect that after 1989, many of the border guards who enforced the rules, and the Party <i>apparatchiks</i> who claimed that people <i>wanted</i> to voluntarily live under the Soviet-occupied regimes of Eastern Europe, found jobs at the <a href="http://www.caionline.org/" rel="nofollow">Communisty Associations Institute</a>, an organization dedicated to the collective ownership of American homes.<br /><br />Imagine how many people would defect from their common interest communities -- where they have all of the burdens, obligations, and responsibilities of home ownership without almost none of the rights -- if given a true choice to own their own homes they currently live in, free of any collective ownership regime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060417.post-86368123129310186672011-07-05T10:47:39.837-05:002011-07-05T10:47:39.837-05:00At least they are not homeless (fraudulent, confli...At least they are not homeless (fraudulent, conflict created foreclosure), assaulted, or terrorized out of their homes in one of these scams. They should be grateful they still have a yard, though, really not "theirs." However, I suspect they already know this. "Private property," with no "private property," rights, or protections, as I have been told.<br />Was that in the sales contract?<br />I am, and have bee,n so sympathetic, to the numbers forced into homelessness, in one of these scams, due to no fault of their own, but being in the wrong abusive group at the wrong time. These people/families need and deserve rectification, "their day in court..." Now, however, over the past 6-8, or, so years, there has been so much publicity, so many truthful and factual accounts of some of these bossy, pushy, bully boards and their "friends," why should anyone be surprised about a situation such as this. If common sense, good will, logic and the "law," played any role in the actions of some of these abusive boards, and especially, when involving the "targeting," of vulnerable populations and nice, competent, logical, economical, honest, people/families, this would not even be a news account. Opinion and experience, for what it is worth!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com