The only parties allowed in NY are the DemoKrap, the Socialist and Communist.
Just ask Der Fuhrer ...
Posted on 02/03/2014 8:00:01 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
"Local officials who abuse zoning authority powers to cower citizens into submission and deprive land owners of Constitutional rights in the enjoyment of their land must be subject to fines and actual damages they cause including attorney fees," Delegate Bob Marshall noted in support of his HB 1219 recently introduced in the Virginia General Assembly.
Marshall introduced his bill in direct response to incidents precipitated by county officials who threatened Virginia citizen farmer Martha Boneta. Boneta gained national attention after she was cited and threatened with $5,000 per-day fines for hosting such 'menacing activities' as a birthday party for eight 10-year old girls without a permit and advertising pumpkin carvings. Virginians rallied at two "pitchfork protests" in support of Boneta.
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I sure like the idea of pitchfork protests.
They try and make “pitchfork protests” sound negative or something.
Add in the torches... and AR-15’s slung across backs.
I love the idea of this bill. Zoning boards have needed de-fanging for a while now.
Only in Virginia.......well also Kalifornia......................and new york
The older I get the more certain I am that most of America’s problems can be fixed with tar and feathers and lots of rope!
Put the fascists in jail.
This won’t go anywhere. The liberals are very firmly in control in Virginia. It may be decades before it shifts directions.
I never say “never”. What seems impossible today may turn out to be much easier then we believe today.
While it is true we are over ran with laws, rules, regulations and just uninformed enforcement of what someone thinks is a law, it does not mean this condition will remain so.
The citizens of this nation have been under pressure for a long time. The left has attempted to close the release valve on this pressure cooker we find ourselves by the invention of “hate speech”, voter fraud, legislating from the bench, demonizing all opposition, and when all that fails, simply ignoring the will of the people.
A point will be reached when the American people say enough is enough. At that point changes will be made.
When will this occur? I have not idea.
The only prediction I will make is that things will not continue the way they have been. I don’t know if the changes will be good or bad, only different.
Yeah, but politicians don't. That's why they're legislating against them.....
Property rights are (were) a fundamental part of the U.S. from the beginning. It is sad that now laws have to be passed to force gov’t officials to respect our fundamental rights.
Zoning is another from of eminent domain.
“We have a weapon more powerful... than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire! That weapon... is our refusal!”
—Michael Collins
Time to ramp it up. What would Michael Collins do?
“Local officials who abuse zoning authority powers to cower citizens into submission”
You don’t cower someone into submission. You cow them into submission. When they are cowed, they cower.
Moo.
I was there for the protest, with pitchfork in hand. It did no good. The council critters walked in at the last minute, ordered the police to clear the place, listened to the lawyers, then voted as the intended all along. It would be a mistake to think they are afraid of The People. The socialists own 60% of The People, all the judges, all the press, all the unions, and the entire bureaucracy.
We need to do the same thing for Conservation Commissions, the home of Luddites and eco-Nazi’s.
I have, on occasion, presented before these Commission boards to get permission to perform environmental cleanups that have impacted wetlands areas.
On one occasion, a business owner and his architect, who were trying to get permission to put a dumpster inside a buffer zone, presented to the Con-Comm before me. I assume proposed placement was to aid in traffic flow and parking for this new business. The head of the Con-Comm, a lay-woman with no technical expertise, told the owner that his proposed building, which was not inside the buffer zone (her purview), was too big (it wasn’t) and that she wouldn’t approve the dumpster placement. The owner and architect looked at each other and the architect told the Con-Comm that they’d move the dumpster outside the buffer zone so that they would not need the Com-Comm permission to do anything and left the meeting.
God help the person that did need their permission to improve their lot.
Vote them out. Run for office.
One little overstep the next day, and on Christmas Day he -- left office -- rather abruptly.
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