Apparently, some of Ron Paul’s more fervent supporters have decided to withdraw from society completely:
The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.
The process is forming a co-op of people buying shares in the community and these people would be granted land use at a minimum of 1 acre per share, for as long as they homesteaded the land. The community would be privately held by the co-op to establish private property for the general community thus preserving the community is 100% freedom and liberty lovers. The community votes on all community efforts, such as utilities etc. However no one is forced to consume these utilities and or pay for them, AKA people can be off grid on their share of land. This is in line with the ideals that you’re free to live your life the way you want and not be forced to do or pay for other people’s life styles you may not agree with.
“Private property for the general community.”
Yea, I don’t get it either.
H/T: Wizbang
I’m intrigued, actually, by the thought of someone starting a voluntary society off grid. But I’ve heard some of these people on the radio, and, as you point out, they curiously intermingle collectivist terminology with their rhetoric about sovereign individualism.
This is just a re-hash of the pothead communes of the hippie Sixties.
Come to think of it, some of the Paulistinians ARE potheads from the 1960s.
Fortunately, most Paulistinians are clean-cut, middle class Americans who just want the government to shut the Hell up and leave them alone; well except for roads, sewers, water, electricity, security, health care and social security. Yes, they want total autonomy with the exception of all of the aforementioned things, and of course, they don’t want to pay any share of those things, either.
Some Paulistinians do not want to withdraw into communes, but instead want to engage the political process and just get our government back under control of the citizens (e.g. within Constitutional limits).
It is inaccurate to paint all Paulistinians with the same brush. We are all not potheads, nor are we a bunch who just want government services without paying a fair share. I would have to say that the majority of Paulistinians who I met during the campaign were just typical working class folks who see our standard of living rapidly eroding, while the multinationalists continue to make BILLIONS in profits.
As for cloistered communities: We used to have neighborhoods like that until the Democrats passed the “Fair Housing Act” which took away the right of property owners to sell to whomever they wished. Up until the passage of the FHA, the integrity of neighborhoods and neighborhood schools were fairly intact.
The maneuver that Whites have been using, so far, has been to price minorities out of their neighborhoods by building communities of “McMansions.” However, now with many minorities ignoring multiple family restrictions on single family homes (and Counties doing no enforcement of such codes) even the “McMansion” communities are no longer a safe investment.
The next likely work-around to avoid the Fair Housing Act, and to keep from having to live with minorities, is to form communes. A few Paulistinians, have obviously figured out that one way to do battle against the government is to form quasi-governmental bodies of their own. These communes usually break up after the first generation of joiners die off, but I wish them the best of luck anyway. Also, they should plan at some point for the FBI to invade their “compound” citing any number of trumped-up charges such as tax evasion or their latest favorite, child abuse. The government hates competition.