"The Dartford Crossing is a tollbooth on the road to serfdom. It looks trivial..."
I understand what you meant by this but it made me chuckle because anyone familiar with the crossing will know it looks anything but trivial. The thing is a monstrosity, both figuratively and literally, and it physically embodies the outrageous imposition you have articulated in this piece.
I grew up in a town not far from Dartford and remember when it was just 2 tunnels under the Thames. Just like Poll Tax (the pre-cursor to Council Tax), I remember the outrage at the hike in charges for the newly constructed bridge and services that nobody asked for. But, as you point out, it's only a matter of time and people don't rail on the injustice anymore, they just pay because everyone has to pay, it's what makes society work.
But even when you spell out the injustices (as you do so articulately), what makes it all so difficult to stand up to isn't just the mafia like reaction of the state, it's the indignation of others' and their overriding belief that you have to 'go along to get along' and that it's those of us who don't that are the problem.
However, it's nice to finally find like minds with non-negotiable principles and whose lives are similarly disrupted by the effects of continuing to do the right thing over the easy thing.
Final question(?): Does this *automatically* affect the magistrate, County, and/or Crown court systems, meaning that they must all conform their operations to this "legal legacy", making *all* court systems transactional/contractual, not just the magistrate court system by the more recent laws you have been citing before now?
"The Dartford Crossing is a tollbooth on the road to serfdom. It looks trivial..."
I understand what you meant by this but it made me chuckle because anyone familiar with the crossing will know it looks anything but trivial. The thing is a monstrosity, both figuratively and literally, and it physically embodies the outrageous imposition you have articulated in this piece.
I grew up in a town not far from Dartford and remember when it was just 2 tunnels under the Thames. Just like Poll Tax (the pre-cursor to Council Tax), I remember the outrage at the hike in charges for the newly constructed bridge and services that nobody asked for. But, as you point out, it's only a matter of time and people don't rail on the injustice anymore, they just pay because everyone has to pay, it's what makes society work.
But even when you spell out the injustices (as you do so articulately), what makes it all so difficult to stand up to isn't just the mafia like reaction of the state, it's the indignation of others' and their overriding belief that you have to 'go along to get along' and that it's those of us who don't that are the problem.
However, it's nice to finally find like minds with non-negotiable principles and whose lives are similarly disrupted by the effects of continuing to do the right thing over the easy thing.
And there it is. Thank you, Martin.
Final question(?): Does this *automatically* affect the magistrate, County, and/or Crown court systems, meaning that they must all conform their operations to this "legal legacy", making *all* court systems transactional/contractual, not just the magistrate court system by the more recent laws you have been citing before now?