The Expansionist

Monday, November 27, 2006

Smash Homeowners Associations! The fascistic, tyrannical nature of "homeowners associations" has made the news again today. An AP story hilited on AOL reports:

A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.

Worse, the tyranny of this particular group resolved to the tyranny of one man:

The association in this 200-home subdivision 270 miles southwest of Denver has sent a letter to her saying that residents were offended by the sign and the board "will not allow signs, flags etc. that can be considered divisive."

The subdivision's rules say no signs, billboards or advertising are permitted without the consent of the architectural control committee.

[Homeowners association president] Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn't say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members.

Two polls accompanying the story on AOL showed wide public distaste for such tyranny (results as of 1:15pm EST):

Who[m] do you side with in this dispute?
Woman with wreath 90%
Homeowners association 10%
Total Votes: 386,410

What's your general opinion of homeowners associations?
Negative 70%
Neutral 20%
Positive 11%
Total Votes: 370,557

Why do we tolerate private tyrants' exercising essentially governmental power over their fellow citizens? Homeowners associations are not branches of government and are not authorized in any sane legal system to exert governmental control over anyone. It is time to smash all homeowners associations and free this country from the tyranny of the smallest of small minds. Government, subject to Constitutional protections of basic rights, such as free political expression, must be the only entity that exerts governmental control. All homeowners associations should be abolished as a matter of public policy. If people want to show political signs on their own property, that is their right. To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr., "Let freedom ring from all the lawns of all the tract homes in all the subdivisions in all the suburbs of the Nation. Let freedom ring!"
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,880 — for Israel.)

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- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:37 PM

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