Re: Mayoral race
Daniel C. Burton (dan@antispam.autobahn.org)
8 Feb 1998 06:41:19 GMT
Kevin Dempsey Peterson <peterson@ocf.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in article
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> On 8 Feb 1998, Daniel C. Burton wrote:
>
> >This probably means Mayor Dean is also less libertarian on social
issues.
> >Specifically, I know she supported an anti-pan-handling ordinance which
> >limited the freedom of speech.
>
> (Definitely agree that conservative != libertarian, but)
> So you are in favor of people violating a business owner's property
> rights by restricting his right to evict loiterers who are driving off
> business?
Of course not, but the sidewalk isn't his property. It's the property of
the city. You don't have the right to keep people from walking on it or
appropriate it for your own use.
I'm speculating that if Mayor Dean is willing to limit freedoms on public
land, she's also willing to do so on private property. She did, after all,
support the smoking ban in Berkeley, which will by the way remain in effect
even if they can repeal the statewide one.
Since almost everyone seems to support things like smoking bans and all
sorts of violations of individual rights, it's probably not a good idea for
us to support anyone. In fact, I'm leaning towards endorsing "none of the
above." At least low voter turnout is interpreted as a sign that
something's wrong.