alt.energy.homepower

>>>> Not directly and not yet. History shows that the more power a
>>>> government gets the more it wants. There's a national news story about
>>>> a guy facing jail time because he failed to get the proper permits to
>>>> "build a fence, a retaining wall, a patio and a few concrete columns to
>>>> decorate his driveway"
>>>>
>>>> /news/articles/
>>>>
>>>> Who would have thought that could have happened 15 years ago?
>>>>
>>>> Again I as you to look around you and see how far things have gone in
>>>> the last 10 years.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Didn't you read the hole story? He refused to get permits and was given
>>> six months to do so, plus upon inspecting
>>> his property they found "found eight other violations, including a lack
>>> of permits for plumbing and grading".
>>> If he had got a building permit for all of his work nothing would have
>>> happened to him.
>>>
>>
>> Which is part of my point about government, its need to control and its
>> use of force
>>
>>
>
> It needs to control stupid people from endangering the rest of us.

How? By forcing all of us to do something that reduces a danger from stupid
people which is statistically insignificant?