Monday, May 25, 2020

Disc Golf Courses Dismantled in Austin

Disc golf clubs and businesses basically went along with the local government in threatening disc golfers that they'd pull the targets if people didn't follow the closure rules. When the ball golf courses got shut down the Attorney General of Texas made a ruling that cities couldn't do that. There wasn't even a court case. The AG made it happen - for ball golfers. Can you believe an attorney ensured ball golf courses stayed open? Before churches and other institutions, the AG had his priorities right. 

Disc Golf courses have not had the same providence as their rich baller counterparts. Disc golfers defied the closures at first, which provoked the authorities to pull the targets. That stops most people, but I still played without them. Once. Until now I've been able to escape the draconian destruction. They only altered the basket slightly until a few days ago - putting a bag on the target or holding the chains high with locks or plastic constraints. The pics show people cut the chain holders.

I'm waiting for the city of Austin to rip up the turf at all the parks to keep people from visiting them. That would be consistent with their fascism. Maybe ban cigarettes and smoking which kills a half million people every year. But please, instead, tear up the concrete and tar roads and streets so people don't drive on them. People are dying everyday from cars and the pollution from cars and car production and fuel production and processing and global climate change and ... please destroy it all. Yet I'm not holding my breath. What these liberal fascists decide to destroy and reconstruct in there fantasies of protecting and preserving life is unknowable and frightening. Many people scoff at the label of fascism saying it's not a police state or militaristic. We already had militarism. Now we got the police openly restricting first amendment activities with the threat or commission of arrest and civil penalties. And corporate control of the government and economy remains. Guess what all that means - FASCISM, yo!




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