Posted on 06/12/2003 1:48:48 PM PDT by AAABEST
My area has literally been under a full frontal assualt by my bought and paid for county commission, governor's cabinet, and these rogue agencies under the charge of our President. You're witnessing the attempted wholesale destruction of a community and it's residents livelihoods, to placate the immoral ends of the influential and greedy.
I attended this meeting last night and wrote this email on the subject if you need more info.
( Hint- the richer folks live on the islands, and this would have lowered their insurance rates... at our expense. )
I'll try to get back later- I try to stay offline when my wife's on the road to & from work, in case she needs a hand.
I'm supposed to do an interview with WINK on this later. Henry Lamb indicated he'll be running the email I sent out in the next edition of Eco-logic. I'm honored that a property rights heavy hitter like Henry even reads my emails. He's a golden guy who has been kind enough to take time from his busy schedule to edit and give feedback on some of my "writings" in the past.
Course they have to get in line behind the the Department of the Interior, the national park service and the EPA...
any questions...
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
My house is on a hillside, and the last time our "hill" was covered by a flood, there was a big wooden boat resting on top of it. I went to the county offices and looked at FEMA's own maps. My property was clearly NOT in the zone they said it was, but that wasn't sufficient proof. I had to buy the insurance, up front, and THEN proceed to fight their flood zone designation.
After a cash outlay of about $500.00, which included a survey of my property, FEMA issued a letter of map amendment saying, no, my property wasn't in the flood zone after all.
We won the battle, but $500 bucks is quite a bit of money to throw away on fighting an arbitrary (and incorrect)designation by the feds. Of course, none of it is refundable.
Since these are NEW maps how come FEMA doersn't have to prove they are correct? What was wrong with the old maps?
Simple legal robbery. Isn't it odd that whenever they "discover" that (EUREEKA) that their flood maps have changed, it's always a bunch of properties that have to be added to the flood zone. They never seem to "discover" that a bunch need to be removed.
That's because they're plundering thieves.
The old maps didn't enable them to extort millions of dollars from my friends family and neighbors.
They're well aware of this dynamic and the process is intentionally difficult and costly. I find it particularly enraging that the same oranization (FEMA) that is responsible for raising the money is the one that determines who pays.
The way this and other rogue agencies operate nothing less than anti-American. The un-elected career bureaucrats that are making these sweeping arbitrary "declarations" are given monarchal powers, to which they commence to abusing ASAP. The FWS came here not too long ago and "declared" boat docks dangerous to Mantees and quit issuing dock permits (yes Fish and Wildlife is the federal agency charged with handling dock permits). Now they're looking at mandating slow speed zones that will turn a 20 minute journey to the gulf a 3 hour ordeal, further destroying our marine and tourist business.
I'm not kidding when I tell you my area is literally under assualt. These are just a few examples.
That being said I'm glad that you were able to prevail. God bless.
In this case, the flood insurance was only $250 per year, so it'll take me two years to recoup what I spent in fighting the flood designation. I wonder how many people even know they can fight the designation?
FEMA didn't issue a declaration to me in writing, they notified my mortgage holder, who sent me the letter, and it only said flood insurance was a requirement, it was not the bank's fault, but nothing about how to fight it, etc. I had to research that on the web.
They have so many confusing zone designations: X, AE, B, C, that the average homeowner just rolls over and takes it.
It is a typical federal agency tactic to issue a decree from on high that is immediately to be viewed as gospel, and adhered to. If there is any disagreement, the onus of proof is on the dissenter instead of the Feds. They are right by default.
FEMA decided that the 4-mile across, bounded on three sides by salt water, fully built-up City And County Of San Francisco was in a flood zone such that it could not receive any federal funds for anything until it filed a flood control plan.
FEMA made this call because its statistics showed that there had been one death from flooding in San Francisco in the previous year.
The dude was a wino who fell asleep in a gutter. A gush of water from a burst water main pinned the sleeping wino against a car so he drowned. San Francisco's Congressman - my godfather Phil Burton - got FEMA to change its ruling.
This is a bit ridiculous; you can't build your house on stilts as a means of flood protection?
We have a similar problem here in Houston; the FEMA maps don't bear any resemblance to the actual floodplain.
That's at the polls and it's not sticking with tradition of voting democrat or republican , it's voting third party for CHANGE.
Everybody falls for the "Shell Game" if we had a republican house or if we had a democratic house , and the politicians feed the fire with "party" differences and lack of bypartison support.
WELL , let's see , who are all of them supposed to be supporting?
If you ask me they have failed big time at supporting citizens and have succeeded in supporting themselves and their masters.
The whole time citizens watch as their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS disappear in front of them , while politicians use treaties , executive orders and special cabinets to completely change our form of government.
Why , so they can prove to YOU that our Constitution is outdated and stopping us from having a better life.
It's Our Constitution that prevents them from BEING the TOTAL TYRANTS that they want to be.
Most American's give PATRIOTISM lip service. Boy it feels good though when the president calls us all patriotic for supporting our troops ( which has nothing to do with securing our Freedom ), which he used to secure a nest egg for himself and Cheney.
Just like a car salesman complimenting you on being such a smart shopper.
Let's compare the American politician to the communist politician and see where the difference is.
In 1848 Karl Heinrich Marx wrote the communist Manifesto ( my reading says he reintroduced it from an earlier time )
1. ABOLITION OF PROPERTY IN LAND AND APPLICATION OF ALL RENTS OF LAND TO PUBLIC PURPOSES.
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. ( I'll capitalize this in a different article )
3. Abolition of ALL right of inheritance.
4. CONFISCATION of the property of all "emigrants" and "rebels".
Remember WHO gets to define this. As it stands now , ANYONE who repeatedly refers to our Constitution or is willing to fight the federal government or UN to protect it is considered a "TERRORIST". HEY , didn't we just go to Iraq to defend this?
Oh no that's not right , we went there to eliminate WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
No , that's not right , we went there to FREE the Iraqi people while our government STEALS American's FREEDOM'S.
Ah who cares , the rich people in America got richer and a few of us died. Sounds like all the other "WARS" the world has had.And hey , if we go along they will give us some of the jobs THEY have shipped out of our country , while flooding us with immigrants ( to take the jobs WE don't want ).
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State , by means of a national bank with State capital and an EXCLUSIVE MONOPOLY. This is that INNOCENT thing called the FEDERAL RESERVE , which is a privately owned monopoly that nobody wants to talk about.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Is it just me or does that sound like Gore the bore?
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State ( what a surprise ) , the bringing into cultivation of waste lands , and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. The common plan is "We" pay for the clean up of the mess they made and they continue to profit from our labor.
8. Equal libility of all to labor. ( I think that used to be called slavery )Establishment of industrial armies , especially for agriculture. Now I know why so many Mexican's are being shipped into our country and dying in railcars and trailers.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of population over the country. BIG TIME EXECUTIVE ORDER.
10. Free education for all children (by the government) in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in it's present form. ( remember this was written a long , long time ago. Combination of education with industrial production. Good CORPORATE citizens , not a FREE thinking populace.
If You people can actually look at what our country is going through and accept this for your children , I must be in the wrong country.
Don't get me started!
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