No doubt if caught they will be persecuted.
Mustn't allow any self reliance to break out among the serfs.

You know what I love about those photos? The guys fixing the roads are doing it with masks over their faces. Haha!!! That's funny. I may go plant a tree or clean out the sand box (cats) in my neighborhood park with a mask over my face, now.

We had a someone who plowed the bike paths for the area south of Madison without authorization. Madison has great snow removal on paths within the city. Apparently the authorities were officially against it and wanted him to stop for insurance reasons or something, but I got the idea they were looking the other way because many commuters who go from Madison to Fitchburg benefit from having the paths cleared. I really appreciated the rogue plowing when I worked in Fitchburg.

Good for them..should send the state a bill.

And, from Maryland/West Virginia, a private toll bridge saving local residents 15 miles and a half hour of driving: http://wvuncovered.wvu.edu/stories/fa.... "In the mid-1990s, the State of Maryland . . . closed the bridge over supposed safety concerns, and . . . erected large jersey barriers on both ends of the bridge. . . . '[A] bunch of the older guys in town…took [a steam]roller and moved the concrete abutments that were sitting in front of the bridge,' [a local business owner] said. 'They never did put them back.'”

Also, despite the way many people conflate them, anarchy and chaos are not synonyms. The distinction I like best, though I've been unable to locate the author, says, "Anarchy doesn't mean no rules; it means no rulers." When Dagny trespassed into the Gulch, no ruler sent minions to punish her, because as Galt told her, "Our first rule here . . . is that one must always see for oneself."

Rand stated something to the effect: government causes problems with its ineptitude and then proposes more of itself to fix the problem it caused. And she was so right.

My mother volunteered at school libraries in Virginia Beach for many years. She never had any librarian education, yet she did understand the system and was awarded many accolades. She is now living in a retirement community. I agree this is not a government facility, but it does have a library. Oh, by the way she is 102!

Thumbs up to everyone.
I know a fellow who received s substantial fine for using his skid steer to remove snow from the from his cul de sac. I remove snow from the street in front of my house manually. Hopefully they don't think I can damage the street or curb with my shovel or snow scoop.The RCMP fellows have given me the thumbs up as they go by, but I wonder about bylaw. The funny thing is that they will hand out fines for people removing snow from the streets with a machine but fail to fine people who shovel or snow blow snow from their sidewalks and or driveways onto the street thus potentially putting public safety at stake. I thought about filling in the odd pothole with at least sand and gravel until the repairs can be done properly, but alas don't want the ticket.

When we first moved to Florida in the late 70s, the county libraries were mostly staffed by retirees who volunteered their time. As the years passed, the union got either the state or the county to pass a law forbidding volunteers and mandating that only professionals with degrees could work at the libraries. I think it's ridiculous that willing volunteers are barred from working, while taxpayers are forced to pay for work which was offered free -- but that's the way of government.

I find that you have to say to the local gov't I'll fix the the damn pothole. The response is very quick, a crew is out their the next day doing the repair. It works here in Az.