tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post4315190115777843963..comments2020-10-03T06:18:18.780-07:00Comments on Progressive Positive: Tipping Point Specifics: When the Police Protect the Users and MakersLanceMillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967321155433918187noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post-50616069052144363872008-10-09T11:46:00.000-07:002008-10-09T11:46:00.000-07:00Bootleggers - anti-prohibition organized-crime alc...Bootleggers - anti-prohibition organized-crime alcohol-smugglers originally, were popularized primarily from Chicago-based gangsters. Now bootlegging - in the form of the casual participation in trafficking illegally obtained intellectual property (primarily entertainment originally stored on CD's and DVDs,), is a common activity that may be taking place in more households than not in most urban areas in our country. This bootlegging - like alcohol smuggling before it - is seen as a necessary evil by those who do it, who face an unjust system where power holders are dictating availability of a product undemocratically. This Sheriff of Chicago is essentially bootlegging housing, bootlegging being the primary social justice meme out of Chicago.B. F. Galbraithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584029720031925872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post-39360023100480826022008-10-09T08:23:00.000-07:002008-10-09T08:23:00.000-07:00Police work is inherently socialist. This THE SHER...Police work is inherently socialist. This <B>THE SHERIFF OF CHIGAGO</B> is just the first of many. Absentee ownership does not work without the ability to project influence long distances through trade. <BR/><BR/><B>THE SHERIFF OF CHIGAGO</B> does not care about whether lawlessness reigns on Wall Street, his duty is to protect Main Street. The bureacracy and paperwork that he uses to slow down the eviction process exists for exactly that purpose: friction holds the whole thing up. At a certain point - if our connected world fails - the absentee landlords will be kings of nothing, their cities devoured in the chaos.<BR/><BR/>I disagree with your lumping together the problems of the early and late middle ages. By the time the plague hit the roman creditors were long dead, and the modern banking system was already starting (via the crusades and the terraforming projects of Europe.) The middle class was emerging (or re-emerging) and technology was progressing rapidly. <BR/><BR/>The plagues, famines, peasant revolts and beer riots of the 14th century were not the end of the old Empire or even the bloody birth of a replacement but the growing pains of the old Empire which after a precocious childhood had languished in prolonged adolescence, bullied at times by it's younger siblings.<BR/><BR/>Which brings us back to resilience. <B>THE SHERIFF OF CHICAGO</B> has not only bought time for his people to adapt, he has given the absentee owners and the rest of us time to think about the world we want to live in, who is worth bribing with our stolen tax dollars and who is unworthy of our imperial protection.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03072541194513236270noreply@blogger.com