"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
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Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


I have to disagree with you on one point and that is everybody has the
same right to enjoy their time as the next guy. That sounds fair but it
isn't. One needs to add the qualifier that everybody has the same right
to enjoy their time as they see fit AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T BOTHERING
SOMEBODY ELSE WITH THEIR NOISE, SMELL, COMMOTTION, POLLUTION, CLOSE
PROXIMITY, SLOPPY ANCHORING, DRUG ABUSE, THEIVERY, RUDE BEHAVIOR, ETC.

In other words, it involves the golden rule. Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you. If you are such a self-centered, rude sumbitch
that you end up with your anchor rode cut you should take the hint and
shut the f*ck up. If you love loud music then wear earphones and crank up
the volume until it shatters your eardrums but don't impose yourself on
everybody else in the anchorage. That will end you up sunk or worse.

I know of one anchorage where drug dealers set up in an old derelict of a
boat. It was only allowed to continue for about a month with the coming
and goings of addicts at all hours. When it got to the point when the
addicts were stealing dinghies, motors, anchors, life jackets and
breaking into anchored boats their drug boat ended up burning to the
waterline and sinking one dark night. End of problem!

It is often said that might makes right. And, fortunately, those who are
interested in right are most often the mightiest and that works to all
our advantage.


A right is something which can be and needs be asserted. If a right is
violated, then those who assert against the transgressor needs to have the
backing of some sort of law.

The founders believed natural law backed their revolution against the
Crown. Here we have no such backing. If I were to take action against a
peace transgressor, that transgressor could and likely would set the local
law enforcement against me.

Your example of a drug dealer is off the grid of what we can reasonably
expect to encounter. Clearly a drug dealer who is making a fuss at
anchorage won't call the sheriff so he can continue to proceed with his
business. However, playing rap crap or running a genset so one can view
the latest TV Idol show is within governing law and thus the loser in a
confrontation would likely be those seeking peace.


Not necessarily so. All it really takes is two or three 'concerned'
individuals working in concert against the disrespectful source of the
nuisance. If one individual can be disrespectful, disruptive and
inconsiderate of others, several others can band together against him and
make his life a living hell, enough so that he clears out.

This is not an admirable thing to do but it is often the ONLY course of
action some selfish ******* will ever understand. Even the most dense stoner
will get a clue sooner or later that he isn't wanted and will suffer dire
consequences day in and day out unless and until he becomes more
considerate.

When the *law* fails us vigilante justice is the cure.

Wilbur Hubbard