Incident in Fairhope
Oct. 24th, 2025 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenRecently, Reason reported on Alabama police arresting a sixty-one year old woman for wearing a penis costume at a No Kings protest. Her “No Dick-Tator” costume may been vulgar, but wearing it was still protected by the First Amendment.
One point which struck me is that this occurred in Fairhope, which began as a Georgist settlement. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation owned at least a large part of the land, charged land rent, and used the money to pay the government-imposed property tax on land and buildings. Unfortunately, a lawsuit from some tenants put an end to this decades ago. Anyway, I know about Fairhope, although I have never been there, and I used to be friends with an aging couple of Georgist activists from the town, and with their teenage daughter (I think the youngest of multiple children), who has since gone on to become an active Georgist herself (hail to Alodia Arnold!).
I wonder whether this sixty-one year old woman happens to be a Georgist, or to have much familiarity with Fairhope’s history. One would expect a Georgist not to be fond of Dishonest Donald.
One point which struck me is that this occurred in Fairhope, which began as a Georgist settlement. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation owned at least a large part of the land, charged land rent, and used the money to pay the government-imposed property tax on land and buildings. Unfortunately, a lawsuit from some tenants put an end to this decades ago. Anyway, I know about Fairhope, although I have never been there, and I used to be friends with an aging couple of Georgist activists from the town, and with their teenage daughter (I think the youngest of multiple children), who has since gone on to become an active Georgist herself (hail to Alodia Arnold!).
I wonder whether this sixty-one year old woman happens to be a Georgist, or to have much familiarity with Fairhope’s history. One would expect a Georgist not to be fond of Dishonest Donald.
