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alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: potato28
Sounds really stupid, I'd paint my house bright pink with orange stripes if they said something about the color I was gonna paint it before.

And they'd forcibly repaint it and place a lien against it in many areas.

Against me any force would be met with lethal resistance. Of course I'd lose eventually, but the overall loss of life would be so staggering that it would hopefully bring eventual change for the better. When city councils have to face the possibility of dozens or hundreds of dead over these trivial matters I believe people would change their tune quickly.

In other words I'm willing to kill or die to defend my right to my property. I don't think very many others are willing to kill or die over the monetary value of their homes.



Hundreds of deads? Don't you think it's a bit much over a house color.

OK how would you do it?

First he'd put his HALO CD in his XBox....
 

IronWing

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Originally posted by: MetalMat
I live in farmers branch, they need to do this..... trust me...... unless you want FB to end up like Houston with half the billboards in spanish. This is just another way the Farmers Branch is trying to get all the illegal immigrants out the city, they already tried passing a few things to where you cant rent a house or apartment if you are illegal but I think it got overturned, not sure.

At least I am learning spanish via rosetta stone :)

Seems that the community standard in Farmers Branch is that it is okay to hire illegals or they wouldn't be there in such numbers as to cause a fuss. Doesn't it make sense to also let them live there, seeing as that is where they work?
 

natto fire

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Some of these responses are kind of scary, and probably a hint of the socialist hellhole this country is going to become. Kranky has summed up what is wrong with this law in a very good way.

So the problem with the housing market is that the houses are just painted ugly colors and no one is buying them?
 
May 16, 2000
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Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: potato28
Sounds really stupid, I'd paint my house bright pink with orange stripes if they said something about the color I was gonna paint it before.

And they'd forcibly repaint it and place a lien against it in many areas.

Against me any force would be met with lethal resistance. Of course I'd lose eventually, but the overall loss of life would be so staggering that it would hopefully bring eventual change for the better. When city councils have to face the possibility of dozens or hundreds of dead over these trivial matters I believe people would change their tune quickly.

In other words I'm willing to kill or die to defend my right to my property. I don't think very many others are willing to kill or die over the monetary value of their homes.



Hundreds of deads? Don't you think it's a bit much over a house color.

OK how would you do it?

It's not about house color at all, it's about the right to private property and personal choice. I wasn't saying hundreds in one instance, I was saying the total cumulative cost if many people resisted to the extreme.

As to how, it's not hard. Police are ill equipped to deal with serious situations, at least in my little county. Sniping, explosives, chemical weapons, booby traps...it all leads to pretty serious body count without much trouble. No one should have a problem achieving a 3:1 or 4:1. People with military training and all the know-how might be able to double that before they're taken out. Ideally you'd defend against the first attempt and then make your escape so that you could assassinate the political leaders who established the rules in the first place. I suppose you could do it the other way around, but once you start dropping targets with precision the police aren't going to play nice and you have much less chance against them.
 
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: potato28
Sounds really stupid, I'd paint my house bright pink with orange stripes if they said something about the color I was gonna paint it before.

And they'd forcibly repaint it and place a lien against it in many areas.

Against me any force would be met with lethal resistance. Of course I'd lose eventually, but the overall loss of life would be so staggering that it would hopefully bring eventual change for the better. When city councils have to face the possibility of dozens or hundreds of dead over these trivial matters I believe people would change their tune quickly.

In other words I'm willing to kill or die to defend my right to my property. I don't think very many others are willing to kill or die over the monetary value of their homes.



Hundreds of deads? Don't you think it's a bit much over a house color.

OK how would you do it?

First he'd put his HALO CD in his XBox....

Not a chance...that's a microsoft product. End up with a blue screen on my revolution. :cool: