Mary Boneta has been fighting the conservation easement placed on her 64 acre Virginia farm by the powerful PEC (Piedmont Environmental Council) since the day she bought her land in 2006. It has been a long fight-much like David and Goliath-but the tide in the last year or so has turned in her favor. To read an update on her inspiring story follow this link.
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Virginia land trust’s transgressions draw legal, legislative scrutiny-Mary Boneta’s on-going fight
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Tagged Agenda 21, Conservation Easement, Mary Boneta, Piedmont Environmental Council, property rights
Obama To Lock Up ANWR’s Oil
Every land grab by the federal government is a threat to state sovereignty and property rights. Late January 2015 President Obama signaled his latest land grab. To learn more about the effort by the feds to lock down the 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge along with all the natural gas, oil, and minerals underground, click on this link.
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Congress’s Sneaky Tactic to Grab More U.S. Land for the Government
The 2014 mid-term elections are over and the lame duck session is doing what it does best-inserting pork into large must-have legislation. In this instance the pork is the possibility of designating 250,000 additional acres of wilderness, four new national parks and seven national park studies that could lead to more future park designations. Like having 640 million acres of land in federal control is not enough already? To learn more click on this link.
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Tagged Agenda 21, property rights, socialism, state sovereignty, Wildlands Project
Stealing from the Poor to Give to the Rich: An Anti-Robin Hood Story
Maybe there is nothing wrong with a country where no one owns property. After all, the socialists and communists believe that if no one owned private property we would all exist on a level playing field. That sounds fair, doesn’t it? Watch this three minute video to learn the fallacy of this kind of thinking by clicking on this link.
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Tagged Communism, economic freedom, property rights, socialism
Government Mismanagement Causes Water Crisis
It is likely that you have heard about the extreme drought in California. It is also likely you have been led to believe that it was unavoidable. After all you just can’t make it rain. While that part is correct, I doubt you have been told the part where, in advance of the drought, reservoirs of water were deliberately allowed to be drawn down to dangerously low levels.
It stretches credulity to believe that those in decision-making positions were incapable of imagining that California could, at any time, go into a drought situation. It is much easier to believe this was an orchestrated series of decisions designed to force farmers and others, who rely on adequate water to maintain their livelihoods, off of their land. It is not like this is the first time that California’s decision makers have used water to clear the land. Remember the EPA used the endangered Delta Smelt to destroy the agriculture community in the San Joaquin Valley in 2009. To learn more about this more recent destruction of wealth and loss of property rights watch this five-minute video by clicking on this link.
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China’s Eco-Cities Raise Concerns About Agenda 21 And ‘Rural Roundups’
Oh, yeh, that’s right, the goal of Agenda 21 is to remove the citizens from the land and force them into pack and stack human settlements where the folks can be totally controlled and dependant on the government. Oh, that reminds me, here is an article that discusses that very thing and how right now China is stepping up the pace at which they are forcing their people off the rural lands and into the ready for occupancy “ghost cities”. To learn more about this tyranny click on this link.
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Leaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab
Those of us who understand the Wildlands Project (see Lesson 3) know that the federal government has been removing land from private ownership for a very long time. To learn how in 2010 Senator Jim DeMint tried to blow the whistle on this kind of activity by leaking a secret document about a planned 10 million acre Western land grab by the Obama administration click on this link.
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The Next Step for the Sacketts
In Idaho in 2005 Mike and Chantell Sackett purchased a lot on which to build a house. The EPA without any testing and using an extremely broad definition of “navigable waters” declared the lot a wetland. Further the Sacketts were given no right of appeal and were promptly assessed a fine of $75,000 a day for non compliance with the EPA’s instructions. The Sacketts hung tough. To see how the Sacketts fought back, click on this link.
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Economic Freedom of the World Report 2013 Annual Report
Recently the Fraser Institute in Canada published the Economic Freedom Report of 2013. This report states that only in an economically free country can there be prosperity. The report also provides statistics that demonstrate that in the United States both property rights (3oth in the world) and economic prosperity have fallen (19th in the World). The Fraser Institute went even further by stating the following…
Security of property rights, protected by the rule of law, provides the foundation for both economic freedom and the efficient operation of markets. Freedom to exchange, for example, is meaningless if individuals do not have secure rights to property, including the fruits of their labor. When individuals and businesses lack confidence that contracts will be enforced and the fruits of their productive efforts protected, their incentive to engage in productive activity is eroded. Perhaps more than any other area, this area is essential for the efficient allocation of resources. Countries with major deficiencies in this area are unlikely to prosper regardless of their policies in the other four areas.
This report contains a wealth of information that will be extremely valuable if you are attempting to convince officials that it is crucial that we guard our private property rights. While it is unlikely that you would read all of the report, as it is are very extensive, if you only read the beginning of Chapter 1 of the Fraser Institute Report you will learn valuable information. Access this report by clicking on this link. For a short article about this report follow this link.
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