[madfly]

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[Carry_Okie]

This will guarantee a Democrat majority forever. It is demographic gerrymandering in reverse: move the people into the political districts and construct majorities.

They will move bureaucrats, immigrants, and retirees into rural areas and drive the middle class into the cities.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Where does the federal government get the power to control local lands within the states?

[DrDavid]

I'd like to see a private charity set up to purchase expensive homes near these liberal do-gooders, and rent them for a nominal amount to low-income families.

[bloggerjohn]

The Southern Strategy rears its ugly head.

If air conditioning is "unsustainable," then the South will once again become a dominated backwater. No large office buildings, that's for sure. And forget Wal-Mart. People would be fainting in the aisles. Back to pickin' cotton for our northern neighbors. Guess I'd better dust off the overalls and the gumby-rake.

[KC Burke]

Last week I posted a Backgrounder from Heritage.org on this act. The thread had a number on interesting links. For those who want to read the related article, you can go to it at Will Sprawl Gobble Up America's Land? Federal Data Reveal Development's Trivial Impact

[OldFriend]

NJ has something called Mt. Laurel II..........it is horrifying in it's scope. Forcing ALL communities to provide low cost housing. Our tax money is used for this purpose and if your community doesn't provide a suitable number of houses, you are hauled before the courts.

Without a doubt this is unconstitutional, but they get away with it anyway.......liberal judges forced this upon us.

[Angelique]

All Clinton's moves have been toward communism. This is nothing more than a smokescreen to take away a very fundamental right to own property. "Smart Growth Legislative Guidebook."--what a joke.

[Jay W]

The Community Character Act requires localities to ....

More proof, as if any more is really needed, that the Constitution is dead and gone and that the principle of federalism, with power balanced between state and federal governments, is a thing of the distant past when America was a nation, not a "homeland."

[E Rocc]

Whenever statists of either the liberal or moralista variety use the word "community", they are up to no good.

The community armed with the power of compulsion has a precise definition: Government.

-Eric

[MissAmericanPie]

This is right out of the United Nations agenda book, if this horror passes it should be immediately challenged in the Supreme Court, it's completely Unconstitutional.

[Richard Axtell]

I am curious. Which NGO or Federal Government Agency will design, distribute, and administer the ear tags we will all wear that will determine which particular pens we will be held in before our trans shipment via railcar to the various pre-planned "communities" (camps)?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

PinG

[Kay Ludlow]

Good Article!

[Mudboy Slim]

"...sustainable development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of a national zoning system. In such a system, the federal government, backed by an army of private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), like the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood and the National Education Association will influence, if not dictate, policy in state government and in local communities. Locally-elected officials will no longer be the single driving force in making decisions for their communities. Most will be done behind the scenes in non-elected "sustainability councils" armed with truckloads of federal regulations, guidelines and money."

Clinton and his Commie DemonRAT comrades would love to see States, Localities, and Individuals lose all control over their particular jurisdictions in favor of an ever more-powerful Federal Leviathan. It'll be interesting to see the scumbag socialists who come out of the woodwork in favor of this legislation. When they do, we will know without a doubt that they are Enemies of the Constitution!!

Good find, J.T., and good seeing you again...MUD

[Salvation]

legalize enforcement of sustainable development in every community in the nation.

Not over my dead body!

[Salvation]

The bill contains not a single mention of private-property rights protection.

And this is why!

[ridensm]

The question we really need to ask is why wasn't this garbage abolished with the election of GW? But, of course, most folks around here would rather stick their heads in the sand than ask a question like that.