DEP fines Teacher $12,000 for planting too close to Wetlands

NorthJersey.com ^ | 08.07.07 | BARBARA WILLIAMS

[Hoodat]

he said. "I don't know what else I'm supposed to do."

Try voting Republican next time.

[P-40]

I have some extra herbicide if he needs it...

[Texas Eagle]

Fave Reagan quotes:

"Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. "

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. "

"Government is not the solution to people's problems, government IS the problem"

[Crim]

Propety rights my arse...

[metmom]

They go after the little guy cause they know he can’t fight back.

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development.

[free me]

This is NJ, it makes no difference.

[WorkingClassFilth]

He knew about the wetland area and still bought the property for use as he saw fit - bad mistake. As long de facto control of the land is in governmental hands through the handy tool of environmental regulation, he has no rights. He's saddled with the property's tax burden and the reponsibility to uphold some bureaucrat's fiat decree. Silly serf, what did he expect?

[ricks_place]

Some private company surely has a plan for a bigger economic return and an increase to the tax base. The Jeff White “farm” should be condemned and confiscated.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Bureaucratic terrorism!

[ken21]

the right to own property

is a key issue of the

u.s. constitution.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Up to ten percent property tax rate and you can’t even plant tomatoes on your property. It’s past time to be tarring and feathering. Only willing sheeple are sheared.

[Sender]

This completely upends the concept of ownership of land. This guy is even bending over backward to tend the land, plant nice plants (which animals like to eat) on the land, and yet the envirowackos want to fine him into oblivion. If he cannot do nice things, green things, with the land, he does not own it. The State owns it, and his deed means nothing. This is the kind of thing that started the Declaration of Independence.

[tina07]

eesh, my hometown...

[Nathan Zachary]

Unbelievable idiocy. Why would an idiot sign over land to these enviro-wienie groups/organizations in the first place I'll never know. What are they thinking?
And why in the world does the government even recognize them, and allow them to make their own laws outside of the law making powers of the government?

The laws of this nation are not transferable to international entities like these UN environmental protection agencies, groups, or NGO's, it is a violation of the constitution. No person regardless of ownership can trade the laws governing land ownership in this country to foreign agencies, or wacko groups outside of official government regulatory agencies, wetland protection agencies, etc.

Or can they?

It's time Americans stand up and put a stop to idiot politicians signing agreements with UN NGO and giving them the power to declare tracks of American land as "heritage sites, "wonders of the world" sites, signing over authority to alien governments (UN) of groundwater supplies, national forests, or authority over ONE INCH of American sovereignty.

It's illegal.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development.

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development kickbacks they give to politicians. There, fixed now.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development.

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development kickbacks they give to politicians. There, fixed now.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development.

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development kickbacks they give to politicians. There, fixed now.

[Stegall Tx]

My farm has a pond on it and one of my coworkers suggested that I check into a program his grandparents used where the Agriculture Department paid for part of the expense of developing a “wetland” on their property. He thought it was a great way to get some cash from the government.

I thought it was probably just a way to get thrown off my land some day. Between the “wetland” (the pond that fills up once every 10 years or so) and the prairie dogs, I’m sure I’ll never get to spend my retirement years on land that has been in my family for three generations.

[Rabble]

A matching fourth posting would get even more attention than your three identical posts, 5 would get even more than 4, and so on......(/sarcasm)