Capitol was placed under assault some months ago, public education has been targeted for forty years, when Ronald Reagan signaled his followers that the public sector was undesirable and that private enterprise was always preferable in the nation. In the midst of the chaos caused by angry militia types working to keep in power a rogue administration, and being mindful of the distraction these events have caused, it’s past time to get educated about the future viability of public education. But these high-profile assaults on our democracy have served to obscure another, perhaps even more serious threat, an added variant and supplement to the seditious behavior of insurrectionists and a twice-impeached president who encouraged their assault on democracy. 6 by thousands of insurrectionists, and most recently, clear evidence that the former president pressured the top leadership of the Justice Department to help him overturn the 2020 election results.Ĭertainly these scary developments are newsworthy and have garnered banner headlines and filled airtime on the evening news. Those attacks include new restrictions on voting rights in more than half of the states, the storming of the U.S. This includes invasion of property rights and privacy by government use of unmanned drone flights.In the last few months, Americans have witnessed a series of assaults by the political right on key parts of the bedrock principles of democracy. That no local, city, county, state, or federal government representatives or their assigned agents may enter private property without the written permission of the property owner or is in possession of a lawful warrant from a legitimate court of law. That no local, city, county, state, or federal government shall limit profitable or productive agriculture activities by mandating and controlling what crops and livestock are grown on legally purchased/deeded private property ġ0. That no local, city, county, state, or federal government shall alter or impose zoning restrictions or regulations that will devalue or limit the ability to sell legally purchased/deeded private property ĩ. That may be placed on legally purchased/ deeded private property Ĩ. That no local, city, county, state, or federal government shall implement a law or ordinance restricting the number of dwellings That no local, city, county, state or federal government shall implement a land use plan that requires any part of legally purchased/ deeded private property be set aside for public use or for a Natural Resource Protection Area directing that no construction or disturbance may occur ħ. That no local, city, county, state, or federal government has the authority to impose directives, ordinances, fees, or fines regarding aesthetic landscaping, color selections, tree and plant preservation, or open spaces on legally purchased/deeded private property Ħ. That local, city, county, state, and federal governments are prohibited from exercising eminent domain for the sole purpose of acquiring legally purchased/deeded private property so as to resell to a private interest or generate revenues ĥ. The owner’s ability to make contracts to sell, rent, or give away all or part of the legally purchased/deeded private property Ĥ. The owner’s peaceful possession, control, and enjoyment of his/her legally purchased, deeded private property ģ. The owner’s exclusive authority to determine how private property is used Ģ. “If you don’t have the right to own and control property then you are property.” Private Property Rights mean:ġ.
Rancher and Property Rights Activist Wayne Hage said: “Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing.” “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
If the right of use be denied, the value of the property is annihilated and ownership is rendered a barren right.” The substantial value of property lies in its use. Anything which destroys any of the elements of property, to that extent, destroys the property itself. “Property in a thing consists not merely in its ownership and possession, but in the unrestricted right of use, enjoyment, and disposal. Sanders (12/10/97), he writes: Our state, and most other states, define property in an extremely broad sense.” That definition is as follows: In a “Fifth Amendment” treatise by Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Below is a start in defining private property rights. As the battle to stop Sustainable Development grows, it is important that activists have clear definitions of their points as they deal with elected officials and planners who are making policy in their community.