Posted on 12/01/2008 8:47:32 AM PST by SmithL
Yes...Alvin’s home will soon be a “compound”, ripe for a nice big government fire. You never want to have your home under the “compound” brand..Your days are numbered.
This would bother me a lot!
It would bother me too. “Public welfar” is a really big basket that a lot of excuses can be thrown into.
That’s a hard concept for a lot of people to grasp, unfortunately.
Actually the wetlands are not his total property. According to the article the FWS took an easement from his father to protect the wetlands. These easements are typically in perpetuity and usually go for about 80% of the fee market value of the property. The landowner still controls access but can’t develop or destroy the wetland. The landowner is compensated. This guy wants both compensated and the right to destroy the wetland. Sorry, but daddy already signed that “right” away.
” Sorry, but daddy already signed that “right” away.”
Oh, crap. Here comes the “dead hand” doctrine - again. Our ancestors left Europe because of the “dead hand” dictates from Church and state that controlled land years after the original decree was made by prelates and lords long dead. Ever hear of serfs?
How many damn times do we need to refight these battles? What daddy did is not inherited by the son. The son has rights in his property - to use, to develop, to sub-divide, to farm, to sell. Daddy and the state already benefitted from the deal. If the state wants swamps for birds, let them negotiate with the present owner.
Agreed!!!!!
“His dad sold the rights. Money traded hands and possibly became part of the estate the son inherited.”
Doesn’t work that way. Children are not chattel that can be sold into involuntary servitude.
People forget that we are guaranteed, by birthright, individual freedoms and liberties granted by God. That includes rights in our property. You can’t pass down to children obligations of the father.
Much has been written about these fascist conservation easements. They are little different from obligations pressed onto serfs by the church and state in medival Europe.
To give the state de facto ownership of private property in perpetuity is 100% opposite of what existed and was intended when our constitution was written.
People have simply forgotten their rights and birthright and no longer demand them. We have sailed far away from original intent, and the criminal syndicate occupying Washington is doing its best to strip away our rights.
That the “dead hand” can reach out from the grave and obligate others to terms and conditions agreed to before others were born is abhorrent and destroys the peace of the community.
Plus there are common law contractual issues in these medival conservation easements concerning offer, competence and unconscionability.
The “dead hand” conservation easements have not been adjudicated sufficiently and need to be tested in court.
The son has done nothing wrong by filling in the swampland. In fact, he is asserting his common law rights in his land. That the state can illegally trespass on his land and tell him how he can use his property is nothing more than thinly disguised fascism and outright government theft.
My dad sold a house the renter before he died. I wanted the house and hoped I would inherit it as part of his estate, but dad decided to sell it anyway. Using your logic, that is still my house. Now substitute wetland for house and government for renter. Your argument only makes sense if there was not a consensual contract. There is nothing serfdom about dad profiting from the sale of his property.
You’re out here cheering for government to take over this man’s property.
You haven’t addressed a single issue I’ve presented.
Frankly, you smell of Sierra Club fascism.
You’re a left-wing punk.
You crack me up. Keep an eye out for the UN Black Helicopters Seargent Dave, they’re coming any day now.
Yeap. Who defines public welfare?
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