{"id":398896,"date":"2019-03-10T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sleeping-is-now-a-crime\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:18:00","slug":"sleeping-is-now-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sleeping-is-now-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Is Now a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-705150\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- amazon_content\/c9cc480a96e981191dfcfcf94a09d21f Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/eric-peters\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Eric Peters\" rel=\"author\">Eric Peters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetersautos.com\">Eric Peters Autos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">March 9, 2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become one of those self-evident truths Massa Tom once wrote about to state that government has become overtly punitive \u2013 as opposed to keeping the peace, its sole\u00a0<em>legitimate<\/em>\u00a0function.<\/p>\n<p>There are many examples. Here is the latest.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s Roanoke County has hurled a\u00a0<em>fatwa<\/em>\u00a0(news story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/news\/virginia\/roanoke\/roanoke-county-bans-sleeping-in-cars\">here<\/a>) making it a crime to sleep in your own car \u2013 even if that car is parked on your own property.<\/p>\n<p>Which nicely delineates the true ownership of \u201cyour\u201d property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolators\u201d are subject to arrest \u2013 and a $250 fine. Also a possible\u00a0<em>Hut! Hut! Hutting!<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 since the\u00a0<em>fatwa<\/em>\u00a0endows armed government workers with the legal power to come onto private property, rap their knuckles or flashlights on private property (the vehicle, its windows) and demand ID and so on from someone not harming anyone.<\/p>\n<p>If the person questions, is the least bit recalcitrant . . .\u00a0<em>Hut! Hut! Hut!<\/em>\u00a0Bash the window in and drag the victim out.<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right last-count\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amazon-com-Gift-Card-Gold-Hearts\/dp\/B016CID2JY?psc=1&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B016CID2JY\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/513XEAJc99L.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amazon-com-Gift-Card-Gold-Hearts\/dp\/B016CID2JY?psc=1&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B016CID2JY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon.com $50 Gift Ca&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$50.00<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 10:45 EST &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=B016CID2JY&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind: The law not only permit but specifically empowers the AGWs to perform these operations . . . even on\u00a0<em>private property<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I am test driving the 2020 Mercedes GLE450 this week (review will be posted soon). It comes with massaging seats, which I happen to not have inside my house. And so I have been spending time in the Benz \u2013 which is parked on my driveway. The one I am forced to pay taxes on, for the privilege of being\u00a0<em>allowed<\/em>\u00a0to use \u2013 and the fiction that I own.<\/p>\n<p>Doubled-down on by this\u00a0<em>fatwa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Armed government thugs \u2013 what else are they? \u2013 who notice me snoozing in the Benz, parked on my driveway,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2019\/03\/eric-peters\/sleeping-is-now-a-crime\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Peters Eric Peters Autos March 9, 2019 It\u2019s become one of those self-evident truths Massa Tom once wrote about to state that government has become overtly punitive \u2013 as opposed to keeping the peace, its sole\u00a0legitimate\u00a0function. There are many examples. Here is the latest. Virginia\u2019s Roanoke County has hurled a\u00a0fatwa\u00a0(news story\u00a0here) making it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}