Frankly, I don’t want to live in a community where people keep rusted vehicle on cement blocks in the front yard, decorate their flower beds with pink flamingos, or paint their house purple.

As for relevance, I see it as a matter of property rights and the sanctity of contracts.

My point is, I don’t think the blogger was suggesting they cannot make their own rules. There is nothing inherently unlibertarian about this post, as long as they do not pursue compulsury intervention to change it.

She was making a connection between common character traits of the ruling class and the “power mongering, petty, little tyrants” that often run HOAs. She acknowledges that it is a private organization, but is nonetheless frustrated with the desire of some people to create needless, excessive (in her mind) rules as a means to control others.

I personally do not think this is really relevant on a political commentary site, but that is another matter.

What part of the HOA is a private organization that should be entitled to make it’s own rules don’t you get ?

The only libertarian position on this issue is to say that someone who enters into a contractual relationship should be aware of the terms they are agreeing to and should not be able to re-write the contract after they find out it applies to them.

The author mentions this in her post. It is not so much un-libertarian as it is just some venting. Just because you are a libertarian does not mean you can’t take exception with social issues.

Granted, I don’t know how much value the post has on Lew’s site, as it does not seem to involve any compulsion. But then again, what is the purpose of this post on this site?

Since Rockwell reserves for himself the right to decide that other people — specifically anyone who likes the Cato Institute or Reason Magazine — isn’t a libertarian, then I deserve to question his bona fides as well.

If he doesn’t like the rules then he has choices. He can get involved in his community and try to change the rules (trust me, its not hard for someone sufficiently motivated to get what they want from an HOA) or he can move.

This is a private organization and this guy signed a contract when he bought property in this community. He needs to respect the rules and stop whining.

I live in an older neighborhood in the city of Dallas. We have an optional neighborhood association, but many of our friends and family that live in the suburbs are forced to join the neighborhood association – including paying some expensive dues. I personally think the first amendment guarantees the freedom to not assemble, as well as the freedom to assemble.

is lew rockwell a self professed libertarian pub?

With “pub” presumably meaning “publisher”, oilnwater isn’t claiming he wrote it, but that he published it.

So, is Lew Rockwell a self-professed libertarian publisher?

Rockwell isn’t even the author of the post I linked to.

Get on topic, ok ?

(*Just to be clear, Chapman’s right and his critics are idiots.)