Property Owner Paul Carrick Reports November 27, 2008
Partial Reversal by Judge Burdick of Previous Denial of Santa Cruz County's DemurrerSanta Cruz County Judge Burdick allowed the County’s 5th and 6th Causes of Action against CV158731, ( laches and estopple), after previously overruling them. He granted the Demurrer with leave to amend.
There Goes The Neighborhood: Y2Y’s concern is for “our monkey, bear and ferret cousins”
by Vern Westgate
Here is an example of the impact environmental activists have on our constitutionally protected private property rights. They come at us under the guise of “fixing” an issue by creating a “local” or “regional” body to control individual property rights. The error in their thinking is that they are promoting the “common good” in the same manner and for the same reasons that the United Nations attacks private property.
Environmental activists’ groups almost always transition from nice people with good motives into intrusive, controlling bureaucrats. Y2Y (Yukon to Yellowstone) impacts my backyard. The question you need to ask and answer is what is going on in your backyard that will impact your property rights?
It is seldom that we find a community so devastated by a lawsuit that it faces bankruptcy. It is even more unusual to see the exposure potentially repeat itself in a similarly explosive lawsuit. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case in San Mateo County.
In January, I published a Viewpoint article about the case of Joyce Yamagiwa, Trustee v. City of Half Moon Bay. The City of Half Moon Bay had prohibited development on a 24-acre parcel because the parcel was determined to constitute wetlands. The California Coastal Act prohibits residential development on wetlands. However, the California and United States Constitutions mandate the payment of just compensation for the taking or damaging of private property for public use.
Restoring the Heart of America: American Crisis Newsletter Part 1
by Clyde Cleveland
At the end of 1776 Thomas Paine wrote a series of articles entitled "American Crisis." This series played a critical role in saving the Revolutionary war against the British. Most of the British officers returned home for the winter thinking that the war was over. It was a very bleak time for the colonial army after their humiliating loss in New York. Most of the troops went home for the winter, and those that stayed were freezing and starving. Many defected to the British.
Paine's first letter in the American Crisis series shifted the public awareness, and troops enlisted and people donated essential materials. Paine’s articles made a major impact.
"The density of our population makes us all rats in a maze without a place to roam. Perhaps, rats in a frenzy is a more appropriate description." JoAnn Revoir
Unless you are talking about China or India, the density of "our" population in California is rather illusory. Not that you won't find people packed closely together in various places in our State or nation, but they are either choosing to live in crowded conditions voluntarily, or are PREVENTED from settling in vast areas of open space, usually by government.
The Unalienable Right to Use and Enjoy One’s Property
by Michael Shaw
Our ancestors recognized the idea and the ideal that every individual possesses unalienable rights. When this idea is respected it provides great advantages to individuals and society.
Sustainable Development: Global to Local Action Plans (BRAND NEW PAMPHLET! - 68 pages)
Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21 - (recently updated 28-page pamphlet)
Transforming America: Sustainable Development (9-page pamphlet)
"Sustainable Development: Ending the American Experience" (Michael Shaw's Radio Liberty speech text)
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NEW! The Taking of Private Property by Mob-Rule & The Stop The Real ID Coalition
