There's no "right" to pollute. There is also no right for a government to govern pollution. Property rights govern pollution. The market for clean air or clean water is what drives pollution reduction. It is the same concept as purchasing insurance or AAA. Exhibit A from the Article is just an example of crass stupidity.

Forgive me, but will someone please explain what on earth "white guy" as in race/gender has to do with any of this crap?

I see the right to pollute on purpose in a simple (maybe naive) way. You can do whatever you want as long as you make those whose property you devalue "whole", i.e. clean up your mess. You can examine the market price for properties around a lot of soot and smoke and how much more they pay for properties without air pollution. You can calculate how many people get asthma or health problems and how much customers are willing to pay for treatment.

This gets the gov't out of the business of determining what's worthwhile pollution: my 15 year-old car, cracking a window while the furnace is running to reduce humidity in the house, going to a water park, jet travel for pleasure, lighting a bonfire for the Solstice, riding an ATV, flying a Cessna for pleasure --- we should be out of the business of judging and just make people pay for their mess. I think intentionally making an engine pollute is incredibly stupid, but my opinion shouldn't stop people from doing whatever weird things they enjoy.

First, it doesn’t matter if you have ”the right” to protest via coal rolling. You just do it if you want to. Most protests and protesters don’t look to see if they have the right to protest.
Until this piece I had never heard of “coal rolling”. Seems to me that if we focus on coal rolling itself, we miss the point.
Like so many other pieces written about those who are upset at where the country is going, this piece attempts to apply the drive-by media’s standard labels: white male, white nationalism, ethnonationalism, and the like, going so far as to say that at the core of the GOP is White Nationalism. Oh but that it were.
So what is Black Lives Matter if not populist/socialist/nationalism? What is the LGBT movement if not nationalist and populist? What is La Raza if not an Hispanic nationalist/populist movement? Seems that all these groups and more can be populist or nationalist and it’s OK. But be white, and stand up for your rights and you are suddenly fascist, populist nationalists; the reason is that the leftist populist/nationalists want to classify whites with Nazis and the KKK.
Most Republicans and nearly all conservatives do, in fact, stand for small government. Most stand for economic freedom, and, yes, the nuclear family and national defense. (Interestingly there was a piece I saw today where a college professor says that the white nuclear family promotes White Supremacy! http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/31/... )
The media portrays Trump as a white populist/nationalist. Maybe that’s true. If so, is it not an appropriate reaction to Obama’s populist/multicultural globalism? And what makes Trump’s populist nationalism evil and Obama’s good? Again, Nazis and the KKK.
For 8 years Americans watched while Obama and his minions attacked every traditional value that exist in this country. The message was: Yes, we are going to destroy that, but not for “people of color”, illegal immigrants, the poor, the “under-privileged”, blacks, women, etc., etc. So you take out all of these populist groups and what’s left? White Males. And the writer wonders how our government can adopt this socialist, egalitarian, racist, sexist globalism and not expect some kind of reaction from those who are the targets.
Both Obama and Hillary Clinton made what is probably the clearest statement ever made by either one when each said they were going to war against coal, and were going to put them out of business. So who works in the Coal Industry? Far and away White Men. So why shouldn’t they respond?
According to TheAlternativeHypothesis.com those in the economic top 40% of taxpayers in the US, the group which pays 97.7% of taxes paid to the US Government are overwhelmingly white at roughly 77%, and a huge proportion is white men. So why, again, should they not react and respond when they see their tax dollars being used to promote an agenda that ultimately marginalized them in favor of illegal immigrants who take the jobs of the white “working class”, women who take their white collar jobs, other “people of color” who get the bulk of college scholarship money, preferences in hiring and services, and all the rest.
Coal rolling seems to be just a symbol of white male anger among working whites, primarily because the government HAS been co-opted to favor Other groups against them, they HAVE been ignored and marginalized, and the war on them is being conducted by the political establishment using their own hard earned money.
What they should do is go Galt.

I must, for the record, correct a statement made in the piece. As a founding member of the Tea Party, I can state without qualification that the Tea Party was NOT formed as a result of Obama’s election, but was a grass root reaction to the continuous failure of the entire government to address the country’s financial problems - the national debt and deficit spending. It was only in the sense that Obama’s populist agenda to “spread the wealth around”, and that at public expense, was seen as additional deficit spending was the Tea Party anti-Obama. However, the people who support the Tea Party were and still are equally opposed to deficit spending and increased national debt under George W Bush, and will also be opposed to such policies under Donald Trump.

I nearly vomited trying to read the nonsense in this article. It is so obviously a piece from someone who wishes this was an accurate reflection of reality that it makes me gag to think that people can delude themselves to this point.

Of course, the people regulators will examine anything that's fun and seek to ban it. There is room for naughty. By that I mean the childish pranks that adults often play to get a thrill or a laugh. Note the word childish. So what if a person wants to act like a kid, so long as any damage is minor and kept to an individual. When I was a kid (pre teen) we'd fill a brown paper bag up with dog poop and set it on fire on the person to be tormented's front porch. If things went as planned, he'd stomp the fire out with his foot and carry the poop indoors. Naughty? Yes. Nasty? Perhaps. But it was a howl.Black smoke? Pfffft. Got off easy. I spent two years of Halloween in Worcester, MA. Those kids went for the jugular. They poured home made library paste all over a guy's car and then covered it with confetti. It washed off, but I heard some new expletives that November 1st. Childish pranks, but also an expression of freedom and the punishment when caught was doled out by secretly amused parents.I can hear Grandpa now, "Ay-Yi Herbie.Doing nasty pranks. Is this a Jewish occupation? Shame on you." We don't need another stinkin' law.

Interesting on rights to pollute, but far more interesting is whether this negative view of Republicans is at all true. This article describes how I see the Republican brand: Promoting a "zero-sum game" of demographic groups locked in struggle with one another to get an expensive, intrusive, and authoritarian gov't to wield power for their own side-- the quintessential enemy of ideas in Ayn Rand's books. This view may be partly Democratic propaganda, but it rings true.

I think these modifications are already against laws of many states at least in metro areas. I am fortunate to live where I am not compelled to have my exhaust inspected by bureaucrats every year to renew a car tag, but I voluntarily keep my vehicle in shape so it doesn't spew out excessive pollutants. The GOP has never stood for liberty and it never will regardless of it's party propaganda. This is another non issue that idiots in congresses use to expand powers of government. Secession is an idea that should be foremost in the minds of all who favor liberty.

Some people have that attitude. I do not believe that you have a right to force your smoke on other people, anytime, anywhere you want. I do not believe you have the right to force your (yuckh!) cigarette smoke on other people in a closed-in space. (This, of course, depends on who owns the space. I am against government laws prohibiting smoking in privately-owned res-
taurants; but in a place owned by all people there, such as a jury room, that would be different). I do not go along with the "nationalistic" attitude. Irving Berlin, who wrote "God Bless America", was a Russian-born Jew.
And so, for that matter, was Ayn Rand.

I don't see any point in 'rollin' smoke' to get the government to change its mind about whether or not it can control you. It is very likely that the government will react to prove they can sending their enforcers with weapons and use the courts to 'legitimize' their actions. Trying to prove a tyrant doesn't have power to convince him not to use power encourages the tyrant to use violence to prove he has that 'right'.

I am a proud Objectivist man whose ancestors came over from Europe to avoid the tribal ethic and pursue their own happiness. American is not a race, religion, color, or creed. It is an ideal.

The historical presence of certain races in the country does not constitute any part of the American dream. It is, rather, the spirit of individualism and sense of life that distinguishes America from all other countries.

Let those who seek to engender racism against minorities , "racialism" against non-minorities, or accuse other's of racism for judging behavior rationally be damned.

Are their laws to restrict white guys and white guys are not with suppositions to have anger toward white guys? Is a white guy a wise guy to certain people?

What is a white guy? Who is a white guy? Who are white guys? What are white guys? Where is it starting? Are they at group meetings?Is it a way to interrupt computer writings and meetings?Where is one to locate white guys?If one is not the color, is it pollution?Is it ethnic, racial, political, and vehicle pertaining?

Under the Common Law you could do whatever you want, so long as it does not leave your property. Put the truck in the garage. Smoke it up. When done, have somebody air out the place with filters to remove the smoke. Simple. Getting rid of your body because you remained in the truck is tougher.

Pollution is a violation of property rights. And that is the business of the government. I agree that markets will impel toward excellence, but government stands in where the markets fail because personal morality has failed. A polluter is just another kind of burglar or more correctly a vandal who just destroys your property without even making it his.