http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/propertyrights/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:01:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411885/posts FAIRFAX, Va. - As Erick Williamson sees it, being naked is liberating, and if passers-by get an eyeful while he's standing in front of a picture window, that's not his problem. A Fairfax County judge saw it differently Friday, convicting Williamson, 29, of indecent exposure in a case that raised questions about what's OK when you're in your own home. Two women said they saw much more of Williamson than they cared to in October, even though he never left his home. He received neither jail time nor a fine but is appealing anyway, saying a larger principle is at... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411885/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411647/posts When the new West is won, will there be cowboys? In light of what her neighbors are up to, Double O Ranch owner Vicki Olson isn’t so sure. “I guess the point that I keep hammering at is that if they succeed, that means all of us third- and fourth-generation ranchers are gone,” Olson said. She is the average Montana rancher, 56 going on 70, working a spread gouged from the pebbly soil by her grandparents 100 years ago. Her neighbor, the nonprofit American Prairie Foundation, is methodically acquiring ranches and crafting a 3.5-million-acre wildlife reserve out of private property... The Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411647/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:40:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409694/posts “Not good news ... but that's life. We all end up dead in the end ... it's what we do between birth and death that counts.” Those were the words of our friend, Larry Toelle, just days after receiving the news that he had only a short time to live. Having battled cancer for several years and thinking he’d conquered the beast, this came as a shock to all of us who knew and loved this fine American gentleman. We thought he had more time, that we would get to see him again, but when I got the email from... TheTownCrier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409694/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:25:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/659688/posts A Tribute to my friend Jeff Head, Free Republic’s Eagle Award-FREEPER OF THE YEAR It had only been a few minutes earlier that I hugged blackie, Barb, GrandmaC, redrock and his precious family and headed north out of the narrow canyon, glancing in the rear view mirror at the tiny community of Jarbidge, Nevada. The sun was low in the west, bouncing glistening sparks off the tips of junipers and the winding creek that the narrow dirt road followed. It had been a long three days, my car, gear and my body was covered with a quarter inch of Nevada... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/659688/posts#comment Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:51:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576827/posts The United Nations says it can end poverty, stop global warming, and end the threat of contagious disease while also unlocking $7 trillion of hidden wealth from developing nations in the process. If this sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. In a new book launched with great fanfare at last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) claims to offer “innovative financial mechanisms that could dramatically reduce the cost of managing global risks can now be implemented by governments across the world.”... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576827/posts#comment Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400258/posts Jeremy Engelking will appear in Douglas County court this afternoon to face a trespassing charge. But here’s the kicker: The Superior man allegedly trespassed on his own property. Engelking, 27, aimed to hunt deer Wednesday morning when he noticed a pipeline crew on his land. He hopped on his ATV and told workers they had no right to be on his property because he had received no compensation from Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. for an easement. Engelking said workers told him he was in an unsafe place and asked him to come to an equipment staging area, where he continued... Duluth News Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400258/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:23:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400651/posts Jeremy Engelking will appear in Douglas County court this afternoon to face a trespassing charge. But here’s the kicker: The Superior man allegedly trespassed on his own property. Engelking, 27, aimed to hunt deer Wednesday morning when he noticed a pipeline crew on his land. He hopped on his ATV and told workers they had no right to be on his property because he had received no compensation from Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. for an easement. Engelking said workers told him he was in an unsafe place and asked him to come to an equipment staging area, where he continued... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400651/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:53:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399842/posts Eminent Domain: Four years after the Supreme Court told a Connecticut homeowner that no one's house is safe from developers, Brooklyn homeowners may lose their homes to a pro basketball team. On June 3, 2005, by a 5-4 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively repealed the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, deciding that your constitutional right to be secure in your home didn't matter if your state or community decided your property could produce more revenue as a shopping mall or condominium development. Pfizer coveted Susette Kelo's working-class neighborhood for an office park and condominium complex. The city fathers... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399842/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386320/posts An entire neighborhood was uprooted to make way for a big money development which will never be built!Want to know why people are mad at the nexus between big government and big money? The Famous 'Kelo House' Property Is Now A Vacant Lot By John Carney The Business Insider Law Review Nov. 10, 2009 What you are looking at above is a monument to government folly. It is the vacant lot where the home of Susette Kelo once stood. A decade ago, the town of New London, Connecticut claimed Kelo's house by right of eminent domain. The plan was to... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386320/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:14:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385844/posts ALL HOMEOWNERS BETTER READ THIS Cap & Trade legislation: This bill is only 1428 pages long. The House passed it without reading and it is in the Senate now awaiting to read it after they come back from their August recess "fact finding trips". Here is the link for the bill http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bil Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!!! Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to complywith the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the... E-Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385844/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:21:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383075/posts Stories like this just make me weep for my country. In September local Connecticut news station WTNH reported: Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation’s most notorious eminent domain project.There are a few signs of life: Feral cats glare at visitors from a miniature jungle of Queen Anne’s lace, thistle and goldenrod. Gulls swoop between the lot’s towering trees and the adjacent sewage treatment plant.But what of the promised building boom that was supposed to come wrapped and ribboned with up to 3,169 new jobs... Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383075/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:59:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382307/posts The private homes New London, Conn., took through eminent domain from Suzette Kelo and others, are torn down now, but Pfizer has just announced that it closing up shop at the research facility that led to the condemnation. Leading drugmakers Pfizer and Wyeth have merged, and as a result, are trimming some jobs. That includes axing the 1,400 jobs at their sparkling new research & development facility in New London, and moving some across the river to Groton. To lure those jobs to New London a decade ago, the local government promised to demolish the older residential neighborhood adjacent to... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382307/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:10:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373162/posts Copy and paste this link, its from the Tennessean they are too ashamed of their stuff to have it posted here... http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091028/NEWS02/91028067/TN+Attorney+General+says+landlords+can+ban+tenants++guns+ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373162/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:08:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370619/posts You’re standing in your kitchen making coffee. You are naked, but no one else is home. It’s early in the morning and you are in the privacy of your own home. All right, so maybe you’re a little bit odd, and maybe not everyone makes coffee naked. But your house, your rules, right? That’s probably what Virginia resident Eric Williamson was thinking last Monday morning as he made himself coffee while dressed in nothing but his birthday suit. Unfortunately for Williamson, he wasn’t quite as alone as he thought. Walking through his yard were a woman and her seven-year-old son,... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370619/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370419/posts The “innocent until proven guilty” concept is at the very heart of our legal system. Government ought not be able to exact punishment for a crime until proof has been established, beyond a reasonable doubt, by a jury of one’s peers.But this foundational principle of justice has been tossed out the window in recent years, at least in one realm, that of civil or asset forfeiture. Civil forfeiture allows police to seize more than $1 billion worth of property each year — cash, cars, boats, etc. — that is alleged to have been used in the furtherance of a crime.The... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370419/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:18:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365392/posts Taxes fund environmental suits - Environmental law firms reap billions in fees to fund lawsuits October 15, 2009 The federal government has paid out billions of dollars to environmental groups for attorney fees and costs, according to data assembled by a Cheyenne, Wyoming, lawyer. Karen Budd-Falen of Budd-Falen Law Offices [main@buddfalen.com or 307-632-5105] said the government between 2003 and 2007 paid more than $4.7 billion in taxpayer money to environmental law firms -- and that's just in the lawsuits she tracked. The actual figure, she said, is far greater. "I think we only found that the iceberg exists," she said.... The Capital Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365392/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:46:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365183/posts In a case where a firearm was locked in the glove box of a postal employee, the strong central government once again stuck it's chest out and scoffed at the Second Amendment. From an appeals case in U.S. District Five: “the Postal Service owned the parking lot...and its restrictions on guns stemmed from its constitutional authority as the property owner” How arrogant of the Judges to rule that someone other than “we the people” own the postal property. Finally there is no constitutional authority granting them any right to restrict firearms, they do so only by a string of rulings... Cheyenne Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365183/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:05:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360044/posts CANTON, Ohio — After taking a class that covered global warming last year, Jill Saylor decided to save energy by drying her laundry on a clothesline at her mobile home. "I figured trailer parks were the one place left where hanging your laundry was actually still allowed," she said, standing in front of her tidy, yellow mobile home on an impeccably manicured lawn. But she was wrong. Like the majority of the 60 million people who live in the nation's roughly 300,000 private communities, Saylor was forbidden to dry her laundry outside because many people viewed it as an eyesore,... The New York Times/The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360044/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:17:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359872/posts A British farmer who stood up to Robert Mugabe and was beaten, abducted and finally had his house burnt down has travelled to Washington to ask the Obama administration to put pressure on the Zimbabwe government before it seizes the last remaining white farms. Ben Freeth and his wife Laura with their children Anna, Phillip and Josh. Ben Freeth, who moved to Zimbabwe from Kent, joined his father-in-law Mike Campbell in taking Mugabe to an international court to stop the farm seizures. Their secret footage of the campaign of intimidation launched against them will form part of a film to... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359872/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356117/posts A Pennsylvania man who refuses to allow city officials to enter his home without a warrant has been forced out to stay in a hotel instead, evicted by a notice posted on his door that forbids him from using or occupying the building he owns. Borough Ordinance No. 1188 of Lansdowne, Penn., requires all rental properties – including the private residence of the landlord, if he lives onsite – be subjected to annual inspections, with or without a warrant. But Michael Marcavage, who lives in half of a Lansdowne duplex he owns, renting out the other half, believes the city... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356117/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:12:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351722/posts Should one of New York's great landmarks be used to honor of the 60th anniversary of the bloody Communist uprising and takeover of China? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351722/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:20:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2351352/posts Here’s a good one. An American icon, The Empire State Building will be turning red and yellow to mark the 60th anniversary of communist China. The Empire State Building is regularly lit different colors to signify different events throughout history or to observe holidays. This one takes the cake however. Communist China is in the process of helping to ruin our economy and probably does as much as possible to undercut our every move when it comes to rogue regimes like North Korea. So hey, let’s honor the commies by lighting a building in honor of what? 60 years of... The Admonition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2351352/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:30:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351039/posts Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation's most notorious eminent domain project. But what of the promised building boom that was supposed to come wrapped and ribboned with up to 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues? They are noticeably missing. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351039/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:38:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350076/posts A Chilton County [AL] woman is fighting an effort by federal prosecutors to seize her home and 40 acres in a marijuana case against her husband, who committed suicide during his trial. Mara Lynn Williams, 56, a cancer survivor who works as a nurse at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, said she knew that her husband, Royce, 53, used marijuana for chronic pain after multiple surgeries. But she said she did not know he was growing it on their acreage, and she was not charged in the criminal case. Her husband was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a car... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350076/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:20:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349049/posts Environmentalism: Sen. Dianne Feinstein votes to deny water to California's drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, families and food are being held hostage to an endangered fish called the delta smelt. (snip) The Senate rejected the amendment by a largely party-line 61-36 margin, with Feinstein opposing the restoration of water deliveries to farmers. The California senator claimed she was blindsided by the amendment to the bill she was managing in the Senate, bizarrely comparing the move to a "Pearl Harbor." "No one from California has called, written or indicated they wanted this on the calendar," Feinstein protested. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349049/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:04:40 GMT