City rules for canoes, kayaks don't hold water
Did you know that on our city lakes/water sheds, the City Council has decided for us that we cannot properly supervise our children under 16 in our own single person paddle boats? They have taken away our right to teach our children how to kayak/canoe independently.
Who learns how to ride a bike independently if restricted to a tandem bike until they are 16 years old? The same is true with boats. Can we look forward to no single person bikes allowed on public property (which by the way means our streets)? After all, biking is responsible for more accidents per year than kayaking.
Oh, then all of a sudden, 16-year-olds can go out with no supervision on the lakes in a boat. I'd rather supervise my kids for years -- somehow I think that's a little safer.
Karen Hanf
Summerfield
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"They have taken away our right to teach our children how to kayak/canoe independently."
...on CITY lakes. You have no right to do ANYTHING on public property.
But, it being public property, it's your property, you say? Well, not really. Public property is a strange concept indeed. It belongs to everyone and no one. It belongs to everyone in that everyone supposedly is free to use it, but it belongs to no one in that there is no consistent way to apply decisions concerning it since there are ever-shifting majorities on any given issue for which a decision must be made.
I dream of the day when there's no such thing as public property anymore, only private property and clearly defined property rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
Posted on July 7, 2007 11:27 AM