Just like first mortgage holders, or corporate bond holders, the property owner with water rights comes first and does NOT share common status with all other "claimants" or "stakeholders" or "claim-jumpers!
The property owner with inalienable and self-evidident property rights that has the rightful control of all his property and accompanying water rights wrested away from him by federal, state, local, or any other governmental entity is being denied one of the most fundamental and elementary reasons this nation was founded in 1776!!!
This right ranks right up there with freedom of speech, religion and the right to keep and bare arms to defend said property and it's inherint rights!!! What this Governor has suggested in this statement is blatantly UN-American in every respect!!!
Best not "bare" those arms or they will be confiscated, SW. ;-)
(I'm just tryin' to keep that sense of humor you were talkin' about earlier).
This right ranks right up there with freedom of speech, religion and the right to keep and bare arms to defend said property and it's inherint rights!!! What this Governor has suggested in this statement is blatantly UN-American in every respect!!!
I didn't coin this perception, but when property rights go, along go the rest of your rights.
Individual rights are being trampled. Corporate rights are being trampled.
About the only way to stop this nonsense, is to shrink government until it hasn't the staff to dabble it's fingers into everyone's business. And while we're at it, the land conservencies and NGOs should be defunded, liquidated and the land sold off to "INDIVIDUALS". These massive land conservancies operate like drunken sailors who answer to no one.
The left hates corporations, unless those corporations are buying up land with government funds so that private people can't.