Don’t you believe in personal freedom? You said quote; "why don't we all write our local suit and try to get legislation for the gov to issue permits and/or licenses to dig". This permit stuff can get out of hand. We have too many controls placed on us as it is. This is called violation and/or loss of personal freedoms.

Remember that in the socialist and/or countries with imperial rule and as what was in Bureaucratic Communist USSR permits were required just to travel from one region to another. Would you want to obtain a permit to travel here from state to state? I can carry on further but rather close this post now.