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NY State Constitution Article 1 Section 9.

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As of November 6, 2013, pursuant to a vote of the people the previous day …

§9. 1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government, or any department thereof; nor shall any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial proceedings; except as hereinafter provided, no lottery or the sale of lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, or any other kind of gambling, except lotteries operated by the state and the sale of lottery tickets in connection therewith as may be authorized and prescribed by the legislature, the net proceeds of which shall be applied exclusively to or in aid or support of education in this state as the legislature may prescribe, and except pari-mutual betting on horse races as may be prescribed by the legislature and from which the state shall derive a reasonable revenue for the support of government,  and except casino gambling at no more than seven facilities as authorized and prescribed by the legislature shall hereafter be authorized or allowed within this state; and the legislature shall pass appropriate laws to prevent offenses against any of the provisions of this section.

It does sound a bit schizophrenic. They should really reconsider re-writing that paragraph to make a non-run-on sentence. Laws should be understandable, and should only deal with one topic, rather then randomly stringing gambling and divorce to a section dealing with the rights of the people to assemble.

Foggy Woods

A look at our state's constitution and how it intermingles freedom to assemble, gambling, and divorce law.

We Need More Wilderness

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People sometimes ask me why I am so opposed to urbanization, and turning forests and farm fields into strip malls, office parks, and housing developments. Or at the same time, why I am opposed to closing off more public lands to wilderness, or what some call “neccessary reforms” and laws that will benefit the public as a whole.

My answer is simple: we are losing our freedoms, bit by bit. For every claim that every development is neccessary, that every new law is needed to reflect changing times or real needs, there is a counter point of lost freedoms, lost wilderness.

Powley Road Before Stars Came Out

Wilderness is not a place that is baricaded off from motor vehicles, or is highly remote. It is a a place where man can live his life relatively untrammeled by other men.

Where not every part of his life is decided by strict regulations and policies that seek to control and force him or her to act in a specific way. Where a person can be free to make his or her choices, without government dicating everything her or she must do in her life.

…We need more wilderness.