[samtheman]

Property doesn’t have rights. It can be forfeited at the whim of any law enforcement agency in our former republic.

[Russ]

What are property rights? I have to pay county and school taxes on my property. If I don’t it’s taken from me. I’m not allowed to build on, improve on or add on to my property with out a permit. I’m not allowed to burn, hunt or let the grass grow above a certain height. If the government wants all or part of my land for anything they can just come in and take it under eminent domain.
Property rights... what a joke.

[cotton1706]

Republic, Res Publica:

The word res, as everyone knows, signified in the Roman language, wealth, riches, property; the word publicus, quasi populicus, and per syncope poplicus, signified public, common, belonging to the people; res publica, therefore, was publica res, the wealth, riches, or property of the people.

Res populi, and the original meaning of the word re-public could be no other than a government in which the property of the people predominated and governed; and it had more relation to property than liberty. It signified a government in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them, was secured and protected by law. This idea, indeed, implies liberty because property cannot be secure unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use, or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.

It implies, moreover, that the property and the liberty of all men, not merely of a majority, should be safe. For the people, or public, comprehends more than a majority, it comprehends all and every individual; and the property of every citizen is part of the public property, as each citizen is part of the public, people or community. The property, therefore, of every man has a share in government, and is more powerful than any citizen, or party of citizens. It is governed only by the law. - John Adams

The laws, which are the only possible rule, measure, and security of justice, can be sure of protection, for any course of time, in no other form of government: and the very name of a republic implies, that the property of the people should be represented in the legislature, and decide the rule of justice. - John Adams

[arthurus]

The new EPA rules posted yesterday eliminate property rights in land in all but the paper title. It is not even a law passed by Congress. It is a law passed by the EPA. Congress is more and more just a showpiece.

[panaxanax]

Thanks for posting.

Here’s another good website to visit. Lots of good links and info.

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/loggers.htm

[Jabba the Nutt]

Property Rights are Human Rights!!! Property rights create a spiritual connection between human beings and the material world. Without them, it’s barbarism.

[Vaduz]

Wonder if there’s a connection with eminent domain the SCOTUS passed and Obama’s illegals allowed?.

[thirst4truth]

Bought some "raw" land 13 years ago, 80 acres that was zoned farm grazing which determines it not build able until you can produce a certain level of income on the property. This is Oregon, worst zoning laws in the nation.

Decided it is time to get it legal for building, using certain loopholes in the zoning regulations. It is long, expensive and arduous, had to hire a former planning employee to help get it through the planning process and get a permit.

I wish I could list each and every expense, before breaking ground, to just get permission from "the man" to build a house on my paid for property. Have not broke ground other than piercing the surface with drill bit to get a hole for a well and we are $17,778 into the process. BTW we got 2.5 gpm at 288 feet deep!

[Carry_Okie]

Environmental management is a property right, now completely a socialized commons. The antithesis is here. For the record, I wrote the book.