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WHY PROPERTY RIGHTS MATTER: PART 3 – THE GROWING ATTACK ON PROPERTY RIGHTS
American Policy Center ^ | 16 MAR 2021 | Tom DeWeese

Posted on 03/21/2021 7:44:04 PM PDT by george76

The increasing encroachment of government regulations, pontificating politicians and the enforcement of Social Justice schemes have led to a loss of understanding of the terms private property and property rights.

Once it was understood that the unauthorized entering of private property was a violation to the utmost. The property owner was justified and supported in taking necessary actions to remove the trespasser and secure that land. Today, such ideas in the new America are considered radical, old fashioned, out of touch, and even reprehensible. The homeowner can be arrested for defending against an armed intruder. The intruder can actually sue a homeowner for shooting them even as they break down the door intending to rob and do harm. Home protection is called violence, perhaps even racism. It’s a whole new world of compliance, fear, and acceptance rather than pride, protection, and prosperity in ownership.

The Green New Deal is the current name for the agenda to control living standards and obliterate private property and sound energy sources. Massive wind and solar farms bury massive amounts of land under their steel and concrete infrastructures, as private land and farms lying in their path find it nearly impossible to co-exist. Driving people off the rural lands and into the cities is the stated goal.

Inside the growing high rise city forests, the new Biden Administration is now preparing an all-out assault on private property ownership. In the name of Climate Change, Biden plans to form “denser, more affordable housing next to public transit.” This is be done by removing zoning protection for single-family neighborhoods, destroying property values as public housing complexes are moved into the neighborhood. This is already being done in Oregon and in cities such as Minneapolis, where the mayor calls single-family zoning, “racist.”

Landlords are also under attack as some new policies are actually forbidding them to even ask if a potential tenant can afford to pay the rent. Meanwhile, more regulations on landlords are raising costs, yet forbidding them the ability to raise rents.

Most of these programs come under programs with names such as Smart Growth or Sustainable Development, and are enforced through community comprehensive development plans mandated by state legislatures and funded through federal grants, primarily from HUD, EPA, or the Department of Transportation. Compliance to the grants dictates even more Sustainable policy.

The most recent attack on property rights, now gaining momentum across the nation, is called 30×30. The plan calls for locking away 30% of America’s land and waters. Under Biden’s new EO, at least 30% of all land in the U.S. would be permanently set aside and maintained in a natural state. Activities such as energy development, forest management, livestock grazing, mineral exploration and development, and many recreational uses would be prohibited. This would require at least 680 million acres of land to be set aside – more land than the entire federal government currently manages.

Most of the land dedicated to achieving the 30 x 30 goal necessarily will be the federal land found in the 11 western states and Alaska. Forcing rural communities and businesses that depend on the use of public lands and national forests to bear the brunt of the program would be inequitable. There is no other alternative, however. The bottom line is that “30 x 30” is an excuse to end the productive use of public lands and national forests and to set aside massive tracts of land to remain fallow.

If these policies for community development, landlord control, and confiscation of rural lands are allowed to carry out to their logical conclusion, eventually there will be no private property in the United States and all housing, farming, and industry will be simply government programs. In a word, communism.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda21; agw; bidenvoters; climatechange; communism; greennewdeal; privateproperty; property; propertyrights; un; unagenda21
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Clearly John Locke’s warnings have been vindicated. Private property ownership is much more than a house. It is the root of a prosperous, healthy, human society based on the individual’s freedom to live a life of his own, gaining from the fruits of his own labor. Take that option away and the people always react the same way. They stop producing...

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1 posted on 03/21/2021 7:44:04 PM PDT by george76
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Looks like we’ll be going the way of Dr. Zhivago.


2 posted on 03/21/2021 7:45:07 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: TEXOKIE; Whenifhow; MileHi; Mr. Silverback; Alamo-Girl; abigailsmybaby; afraidfortherepublic; ...

UN Agenda 21 / 2030 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


3 posted on 03/21/2021 7:45:22 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Nailed it!


4 posted on 03/21/2021 7:46:43 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Blessed Mother of Bitch!)
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Would you still agree when a near majority of Apartment Complexes have foreign ownership - either Communist Chinese or Indian? And these companies are the most aggressive in late fees, evictions and do on? These are the slum lords of today.

We need laws restricting foreign ownership as is done in most of the world.


5 posted on 03/21/2021 7:57:59 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: george76

Another example is the “vacancy tax” that is now being used against investors who don’t rent out their properties to tenants. In places like SF and Oakland, a tax (penalty) is now assessed, essentially forcing property owners to rent out their properties.

However, the Supreme Court has long held that a fundamental property right is the right to exclude others from your property.


6 posted on 03/21/2021 7:59:14 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: EvilCapitalist

Just in time to cue Comrade Kaprugina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq__Z-Z_Ofs


7 posted on 03/21/2021 8:02:15 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: george76

Biden picking up from where Obama left off.


8 posted on 03/21/2021 8:14:40 PM PDT by libh8er
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When you read stories like this, just remember the Republican Party made this happen.
9 posted on 03/21/2021 8:17:18 PM PDT by libh8er
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Without full Republican cooperation and Republican appointed Justices there would be no President Biden.


10 posted on 03/21/2021 8:19:27 PM PDT by libh8er
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Just the fact that police don’t give a fig about solving “property crimes” shows how little value property rights have now.

They don’t even care about returning your car.

Rush once made the point that your body IS your property, and thus by extension non-body property is also important.

But we treat the body as if it is totally separate from property, and right now, the body is more important. Only if you are killed do the authorities care at all, and maybe actual battery.

We need to understand that ALL property is important.


11 posted on 03/21/2021 8:39:27 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: george76

The unstoppable communist purge is rolling along gathering steam...

Not to many sheeple care...

It is going to get much, much, much worse...


12 posted on 03/21/2021 8:55:18 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: george76

Thanks!


13 posted on 03/21/2021 8:58:16 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: george76

Red states matter


14 posted on 03/21/2021 10:28:29 PM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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What really bugs the crap out of me is this whole “title-lock” stuff. What? Now, I’m supposed to pay more than just my taxes to keep some bank from colluding with a con man... Just exactly how is it that I become indebted to a bank who wrongly loans money to a shyster? The bank is the victim, the shyster the criminal. How is it that I have any part in it when I did NOTHING? Let the bank suffer their stupidity and let the law hunt down the shyster. BUT NO! NOW! The “ONUS” is being thrust upon us to keep the bank from colluding with the shyster... HENCE the whole “title-lock” scam. Guess who dreampt up the whole “title-lock” scam? The banks and the shysters.


15 posted on 03/21/2021 11:15:41 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: george76

9 years. Not sure I’ll still be around then. More and more, I’m beginning to question wither I really want to. At the moment, I doubt it.


16 posted on 03/21/2021 11:22:07 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: libh8er

Biden isn’t making policy.


17 posted on 03/21/2021 11:23:26 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Paul Ryan... is sitting behind his FENCED mansion. As though he earned it. Where did the money come from? He could NEVER pay for it from his salary. So where did the money come from? It sure as hell wasn’t from the salary from the people. So WHO was he REALLY working for?


18 posted on 03/21/2021 11:34:32 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: george76

Glad to see DeWeese is still around.


19 posted on 03/22/2021 1:54:48 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: george76

Property rights have been violated routinely since the “Civil Rights” craze came upon us in the 1950s. The anti-drug craze finally ended them. In today’s post-Constitution era of illegitimate tyranny there is no such thing as property rights altogether. And the GOPee voted for it! GOPee Delenda Est!


20 posted on 03/22/2021 3:40:55 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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