The Back Room Deal to Destroy America:

The Sierra Times ^ | 06. 1. 02 at 20:00 Sierra Time | Tom DeWeese

[philman_36]

Administrative warrants can be issued to search private property if the search is consistent with a valid administrative scheme, such as housing safety - probable cause is not required.

Ta-dah! More warnings not heeded! It'll pass too.

[philman_36]

I've become too cynical to even try any more, despite what Barr "claims".

[metesky]

I'm especially fond of the word scheme:

scheme

PRONUNCIATION: skm
NOUN: 1. A systematic plan of action: “Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?” (Edith Wharton, That Good May Come 1894). 2. A secret or devious plan; a plot. See synonyms at plan. 3. An orderly combination of related parts: an irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels. 4. A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
VERB: Inflected forms: schemed, schem·ing, schemes

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To plot: scheming their revenge. 2. To contrive a plan or scheme for.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin schma, figure, from Greek skhma. See segh- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: schemer —NOUN

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

[headsonpikes]

The French call one of these 'schemes' a 'projet'.

We suffer a lot of schemes and projets in Canada; that's one of the 'benefits' of bilingualism.

They're not good ideas in any language.

[philman_36]

Lots of use of the word "scheme". I don't think it's accidental.
Taxation scheme
Zoning scheme
Education scheme
Housing scheme
Poverty-free scheme
Federal regulatory scheme

So much more...

[philman_36]

A whole bunch! on Administrative scheme

[RadioAstronomer]

Bump for later read.

[metesky]

I don't think it's accidental.

I agree.

[metesky]

They can scheme to their hearts content, but I'm sure that if we, the citizens, scheme to thwart their scheme we are guilty of some heinous crime that would, at the very least, turn us into some sort of demonized pariahs.

Sort of like telling liberals you're a Freeper.

[Republic]

I find the names on the list of senators trying to ram this through to be alarming to the max (as noted in article at top). We must never ever give up local authority over land plan use. Ever. Eminent domain is bad enough... a bill that would pass all the power over all the land in the US into the hands of special interest groups is threatening, beyond belief. What can we do?

[backhoe]

Well, I sent the bloody thing to a pile of newspapers and people like Rush and Hannity- the word has gone out... how much good it does? Probably some- certainly more & better than remaining silent about it.

I have noted a big shift in the last year among talk show hosts and their callers-- both seem to be drawing very heavily on the web for news and information.
The result has been a real acceleration of the speed of these kinds of stories getting to the public's attention. Indeed, in the past "deals" like this one relied on keeping the public uninformed and misinformed for as long as possible.

That is no longer possible with the web & talk radio covering things.

I would not go so far as to say things have turned around, but rather they are in the process of turning around- in other words, we aren't there yet, but we are headed in the right direction.

[GuillermoX]

I'm certain Bush will end up signing it if it makes it onto his desk. Taking away another issue for the Dems, ya know?

[Constitutional Patriot]

Interesting. These are the same people who are fighting tooth and nail to take our guns. Hey...they are also the ones who support McCain's "campaign finance reform" which makes it illegal to tell the truth about a candidate (incumbant) within 60 days of an election. All this and they are trying to eliminate our private property rights too?

Sounds like communists to me. Yup, definately communists.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[Republic]

The result has been a real acceleration of the speed of these kinds of stories getting to the public's attention. Indeed, in the past "deals" like this one relied on keeping the public uninformed and misinformed for as long as possible.

That is no longer possible with the web & talk radio covering things.

Thank GOD for the internet and talk radio!!!! I agree with ya....back room deals are getting harder and harder to accomplish. Good!!!

[AuntB]

I only have a few minutes, but I'll be back. Let's see, this has nothing to do with what Drudge was talking about in todays NY times......that Bush and Co. have now acknowledged Global Warming...the document they signed and sent to the UN...with no fanfare....is on the EPA site.

[secretagent]

A certain percentage of current land owners will have to forsee profits or "damage limitation" from the scheme at each step to keep them from organizing. That seems quite doable - witness the broad support (lack of opposition) for current zoning laws.

[brat]

I know, I'm almost there too. I just keep thinking that its little to ask for the privilege of being a citizen. We have to keep trying.