What if we had "intent" in anchoring laws?

[SunnySky]

valhalla360
All buisness must profit or they go away. It's not greed its survival.

It's not that I have a dislike of capitalism, and actually I fully understand and respect that businesses need to be able to make money in order to stay in business. But there needs to be certain checks and balances and a bit of common sense, if a private interest is profiting from the use of a public resource it is entirely reasonable for the public to place limits on the amount of profit that can be made off that public resource.

What I have issues with is unnecessary encroachment on the rights of the individual and small groups of individuals; in popular areas it is reasonable to institute limitations on the amount of time a vessel may be anchored based on how popular the location is but rarely does the privatization of otherwise public resources for private interests work out the way people claim it will.

I am fully opposed to "the merger of corporate and government power" (Benito Mussolini regarding fascism), whether it is privatization of public toll roads, using eminent domain to force the sale of private property which will subsequently be privately developed for an influential private interest to profit, or the privatization of public water resources that are contrary to the benefit of the public at large

"If you move to an isolated wilderness anchorage, no one is proposing anchoring restrictions." Yet...

2hullvenus
"We should just give the cops full power to give "good people" (who they deem to be good) anchoring as long as the cops want, with a "30 days or less" limit for everyone.. unless you extend through the cops, at their sole discretion."

The police already have a tremendous amount of discretion on how they choose to or not to enforce the law, given any person or group of people that much unrestrained power over any other person or group of people is a recipe for abuses of power. Some police pull a motorist over that was going 12 mph over the speed limit and let them off with a warning because they deemed they were "good people," while other cops kill unarmed civilians that simply knew their rights or committed a minor motor vehicle violation. There are plenty of laws currently on the books to deal with boats that are actually creating a legitimate problem and considerable latitude of enforcement so any and all anchoring regulations should be geared towards respecting the rights of all individuals while facilitating an equal opportunity to sustainable use of that public resource.