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As this attack on private property evolves in America you'll hear politicians start to talk about "public ownership of all real estate."

Politicians are already saying this via the laws they support. Their mouthpeices in the so-called environmental movement clearly state that government should control private property. The correct word for this is "fascism."

All your rights to private property are stripped away thru the Endangered Species act, smart growth, biodiversity and other Marxist phrases. Your right to develop your property, sub-divide, log, farm, use your water are controlled to the point where the only "rights" remaining are the "right" to pay taxes and the "right" to manage your property as some unelected Marxist bureaucrat tells you to develop it.

This seizure of private property for de-facto government nature preserves - without compensation - has been allowed by corrupt courts and politicians.

Here in Michigan our Marxist governor wants a state-wide land use plan that would affect every blade of grass in the state.

This land use plan:

1) Calls for the seizure of private property - without compensation - to create de-facto state nature preserves for “viewsheds, swamps, wildlife habitat” and other arbitrary and questionable state mandates.

2) Recommends that voters be stripped of the power of the recall vote and the referendum initiative.

3) Dictates how many homes and the type of home that may be built on private property.

4) Demands the establishment of unelected soviet-style regional planning commissions to rule over county and local governments.

5) Elevates the welfare of bugs, trees, animals and swamps above the needs, interests and liberties of Michigan’s citizens.

6) Allows the seizure of people’s homes and businesses through “administrative warrants” - without compensation - if homes don’t meet state-mandated aesthetic codes.

7) Establishes “no growth” zones to destroy owners of farms, woodlands, streams and shorelines, to discriminate against low income families and to devastate the rural and suburban tax base.

8) Engages in social engineering by attempting to move people off or bar people from rural and suburban property through harassing regulations and forcing them into cities.

9) Tries to slam shut the courtroom doors to citizens who wish to file suits and seek legal remedies against arbitrary or illegal state mandates.

10) Allows land use policy to be written or influenced by unelected, politically motivated environmentalists, foundations and university researchers who are hostile to private property.

Politicians are playing with fire and will get their hands burned.

Sergeant Dave - You have correctly identified the true intention of the environmental movement - that is to bring an end to private property as we know it.

The Clean Water and Air acts, and all those laws protecting endangered species, are a fraud that make lawyers rich and strip Americans of their property rights.

So, while the lefties are whining about Ashcroft trampling on civil liberties, property owners outside of the major urban centers are slowly and systematically being robbed of their property rights.

Wake up America!

All your rights to private property are stripped away thru the Endangered Species act, smart growth, biodiversity and other Marxist phrases.

"smart growth" is a term that some Conservatives unforunately buy into.

Here in Texas, there was/is a court fight going on over some city wanting to place a Wal-Mart on land that is owned by individuals. Basically they wanted to take the land from the owners and give it to Wal-Mart. Somebody would lose their land simply because somebody wanted to shorten their trip to Wally World.

I don't know where this factors into all of this, but people are giving up plenty of rights when they buy homes in areas where you have sub-divisions that can take your home/land if you don't keep your grass mowed, your flags under a certain size, and your house a certain color. Sure, they are signing a contract when they move in, but why give anybody that much power. It's a conditioning in my opinion.

I am just lumping a few things in here that have nothing to do with your post, but recently there was somebody who spent over $500,000 so they could live down on Sixth Street in Austin, Texas. After moving there, they then bugged the city to change the sound/noise properties. Typical liberal - move into an area known for music and loud noise for decades, and then demand that everybody else who has been there for a long time change to suit their demands.