Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Rental Housing Message-ID: <496@opus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-May-84 03:46:24 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.496 Posted: Sat May 19 03:46:24 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 21-May-84 03:28:32 EDT References: <171@ccieng2.UUCP> <3300019@ea.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 17 >>If we don't allow the >>government to violate our rights (or at least, try not to let it:-), why >>should we let businesses do so? > >That one's easy - we can retaliate against a business by going to someone >else or doing without. Know what happens when you refuse to "buy" from your >local government? Come on, what's the topic? Housing. So, "doing without" is a really fine idea. And "going to someone else" works only if there IS someone else (who is neither explicitly or implicitly in cahoots with the landlord you're trying to get away from.