How do you address private property ownership of rivers?
LysanderSpooner
Number 234
Conspirator for: 16 years 17 weeks
Posted on: July 26, 2012 - 4:15pm
A liberal asked me on another forum how to address a property owner damming up a river and preventing people downstream from getting the use of the water for irrigation and the like.
Can someone hear give me a cogent response?
My answer is that the State dams rivers and no one stops them. Plus, damming a river is an expensive project which is likely to flood upstream land. The creator of the dam would have to compensate the property owners.
What about diverting the "natural" progress of rivers in a free society? This is something that the Army Corps of Engineers has also done, with disastrous results.
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A liberal asked me on another forum how to address a property owner damming up a river and preventing people downstream from getting the use of the water for irrigation and the like.
Can someone hear give me a cogent response?
My answer is that the State dams rivers and no one stops them. Plus, damming a river is an expensive project which is likely to flood upstream land. The creator of the dam would have to compensate the property owners.
What about diverting the "natural" progress of rivers in a free society? This is something that the Army Corps of Engineers has also done, with disastrous results.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it
Learned Hand
In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz
Relinquish liberty for the purposes of defense in an emergency?
Why? It would seem that in an emergency, of all times, one needs
his greatest strength. So if liberty is strength and slavery is weakness,
liberty is a necessity rather than a luxury, and we can ill afford
to be without it—least of all during an emergency.
F.A. Harper