Posted on 05/23/2016 5:03:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
They’re coming for your home. Right now. I suggest you save it. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say.
Except, this isn’t The Matrix. You’re no actor, like Keanu Reeves, playing a distraught programmer-hacker named “Neo.” Nor am I an actor, like Laurence Fishburne, playing your guide “Morpheus.” This is real life, baby.
Your home or apartment—and the neighborhood in which you live—is under siege. “Agents”—sans black glasses and black business suits—who work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have written a new regulation called “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) that rejects your Fourth Amendment private property rights under the guise of fighting “discrimination.”
16 Senate Republicans joined the Democrats last week and voted to uphold AFFH. Now, we must use our voting power to fire these Republicans and ensure our future president overturns their disastrous mistake.
Biological females may soon have no choice but to share their restrooms with individuals with male genitalia who identify as female—which is very discriminatory toward women. (Could we get a vote on this, please? Or are we regressing to the pre-suffragette days?)
I also recently wrote how HUD is giving preferential treatment to convicted criminals. So, if anyone is orchestrating social discrimination, it’s folks within the Obama administration—not local zoning municipalities.
Bad omens
Every name reflects its namer. For example, pop star Beyoncé and actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s decisions to name their daughters “Blue” and “Apple” respectively say more about them than their offspring. Likewise, HUD’s choice to name its newest housing edict the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule” tells you this federal agency is out of good ideas—and resorting to vague, flowery language to hide its inadequacy.
Effectively, AFFH regulations will eliminate local zoning in 1,200 cities and counties (see if yours is on the list) by mandating new federal rules based on race and income that will override all local jurisprudence.
Today, if you want to live in a certain neighborhood in America—you are already 100%free to move into that area. There are no laws hindering Hispanics, African Americans, women, gays, Muslims, poor people or any other so-called minority or “protected” group from living in the neighborhood of their choosing.
Jimmy Carter knew it. Bill Clinton knew it. Barack Obama knew it. Hillary Clinton knows it. The dirty little secret is: if you can convince people that you will help them buy homes, you can turn them into voters for your party. Because humans have an innate desire to own and care for a special plot of space, and call it home.
In 2016, young voters will be particularly susceptible to lofty housing promises. Millennials—who Pew Research Center now says account for as many eligible voters as the Baby Boomer generation—are also beginning to start families. Nine thousand babies are born every day in the U.S. to Millennial parents. Meanwhile, Millennials are struggling to shelter their families independently.
Obama’s great “recovery” has created so few jobs that—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Longitudinal Surveys program—over half (55%) of Millennials are moving back home with their parents by the time they reach age 27. Conniving politicians know, as more Millennials start families, the pressure to move out will escalate.
Victims, victims, everywhere
What the AFFH really does is create a new definition of victim that has never existed in America. If you are low income or a minority, AFFH assumes that you are a victim.
AFFH creates a new definition called “fair housing choice,” which states that the federal government must micromanage local zoning so “individuals and families… [are] able to achieve fair housing choice given the legacy of segregation, ongoing discrimination, and residential patterns that offer different levels of access to community assets.”
Our existing law already states that all men are equal and all have the right to choose how to go about pursuing happiness, including where to live.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” –from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Furthermore the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is quite clear that “houses” are untouchable by the federal government without “probable cause.” And the federal government has no probable cause of the “ongoing discrimination” that HUD claims in defending AFFH.
Lest you doubt me, consider how MTV recently found that nearly 90 percent of Millennials oppose affirmative action! Three in four Millennials also told MTV that they believe it would be more productive for society to stop considering race altogether. HUD is clearly behind the times, writing new housing rules that pretend first-time home buyers face an epic level of racism. If anything, our youngest home buyers are ready to move on and fully embrace the principle our country was founded upon: equality.
By ceding property rights, which stem from our individual personhood, to the federal government, we would be saying that we are not equal to our neighbor. Worse, we would be saying that we—or our neighbor—need an artificial boost from a blustering bureaucrat in order to walk shoulder-to-shoulder. What a farce.
Let’s take a tip from Millennials and tell Congress, and the Republican presidential nominee, to respect our private property rights.
Not quite yet, but they are feverishly working to destroy American heritage, culture and language.
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Liberals loathe these four words: Make America Great Again.
Lamar Alexander, Kelly Ayotte, Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Dan Coats, Thad Cochran, Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch, John Hoeven, Johnny Isakson, Mark Kirk, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Thom Tillis.
All these dirt bag leftist need to go the way of the Dodo bird....
Especially those who repeatedly show themselves to be gutless, Godless liberals... Starting with McPain..!!
Trump can’t be elected soon enough.
Agree. If Trump becomes president, you can be sure these politicians will work to undermine him. Vote them all out in November!
In the TV series The Wire, a common theme over five seasons was moving to “the county”
Few did because they simply couldn’t summon the resources and gumption to develop the resources
The law is in effect a lifting of a quarantine and spreading of the plague
Richard Burr won the primary. So am I suppose to vote for the Democrat in Novemeber?
Those would be largely my core list of pieces of crap, right there. Not that there aren’t 3x that number on closer examination. But those are just about the stenchiest.
Nice.
I’m going to quote you in the future.
I thought the same thing and was about to post about it.
I think they meant 5th Amendment, the taking of property requires just compensation, and the taking can only be for a public use.
Trump’s daddy, Fred Trump, made his fortune building subsidized housing.
Well, there's a rock for a hard place! One of the (many) reasons I don't rent anyplace to residential tenants is that there are laws providing for the confiscation of rental property if drug dealers are the tenants. In other words if I rent to someone who is arrested on drug charges, I could lose the property. But I shouldn't do a criminal check on a prospective tenant because, what? Their privacy? Their dignity?
So I the landlord would have to risk either punishment for my crime (discrimination) or the tenant's crime (drugs).
You nailed it. And in doing so, echoed Russell Kirk’s definition of liberals versus conservatives. A conservative, he said, favors liberty over equality.
This is exactly why I refused to provide anything other than the number of people living in my house and their ages during the last census.
They visited my house at least a dozen times to ask the rest of the questions on their list, and the “local chairman” left me countless messages threatening to “escalate” this issue if necessary.
They eventually gave up. I never gave in because I instinctively knew it could never be to my benefit to share information about my race or income level.
Already live in h3ll, it can only get better.
That does make a bit more sense, but still a stretch. Hardly anyone today would argue that zoning law (before AFH or after) violates the Fifth.
I have a very low regard for zoning law, but just saying, it's hopeless to argue it.
The first thing at the top of the expenditure page should be scary enough: “Office of Community Planning and Development”. Why do the feds need an office for this? Yeah, I know. Wait until the next invasive census. Only you and Momma living in an “overly large house”? Hmmm. Despite the fact the you may have worked hard to get where you are, in order to be fair, you may have the opportunity to “share” your place with those less fortunate. Cost to them? ZERO! Cost to you for non-compliance? You might become a victim and end up homeless. ‘Just-us’ my butt. Name rank and serial #.
No, the Fourth Amendment reinforces the principle that a citizen should be secure in his home against unreasonable seizure. If the government can control the party to whom you make a home sale, they have effectively seized control of your property.
I believe that’s the pivot on which the article turns. The author could have done a better job of laying that out, for sure.
One more reason to primary her when the time comes.
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