Truly Important

[Flanders]

Barring contested election results because of larceny, come tomorrow morning you’ll know who won the presidential election; you’ll know who won Senate and House races, and who won state and local races. If you are not brain dead you’ll not only learn who won the presidency —— talking heads will tell you what color socks the winner was wearing when he won. If you do not live in Virginia you’ll have to search for the result of this one:

Question 1 on the ballot for Virginians this Tuesday is whether to adopt a constitutional amendment to protect private property owners from damage or under-fair market taking of their property through eminent domain.

That Virginia even needs a constitutional amendment to protect this most basic of all American notions -- private property rights -- is evidence enough of a more serious problem.

It turns out that the greatest violators of property rights are our local governments. While many of us are fixated on the theft of rights and lawbreaking at the federal level, local governments have made an unusual set of allies in the property rights battle: business cronies and anti-private property groups posing as environmental conservationists.

The result of that Virginia ballot initiative is infinitely more important to ALL private sector Americans than is knowing which douche bag lives in the White House for the next four years.

The current crop administering every level of government in this country are determined to abolish private property. They are not the first generation. Abolishing private property Rights has been in progress for at least three generations.

To understand the importance of the Virginia ballot initiative start with this:

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895)

Abolishing private property Rights has always been about much more than Communists/Socialists implementing communism’s foundation principle. The true importance to governments lies in a basic truth: It is impossible for totalitarians of every stripe to control a private sector with protected property Rights.

Note that the Supreme Court already sided with the abolition of private property in Kelo et al v. City of New London, 04-108.

"Promoting economic development is a traditional and long accepted function of government," Stevens wrote, adding that local officials are better positioned than federal judges to decide what's best for a community.

He was joined in his opinion by other members of the court's liberal wing — David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, as well as Reagan appointee Justice Anthony Kennedy, in noting that states are free to pass additional protections if they see fit.

High Court Expands Reach of Eminent Domain
Published June 23, 2005
Associated Press

High Court Expands Reach of Eminent Domain | Fox News

There is no doubt a case will end up in the Supreme Court if Virginia’s Constitution is amended to protect private property Rights. Take this one to the bank. Assuming Justice Kennedy did not mean “additional protections” for the government Virginia’s Constitution will amount to doodly-squat when it confronts eminent domain in a federal court. In fact, Virginia’s Constitution means less than nothing to EPA bureaucrats today and tomorrow.

Let me close with this:

George Mason authored Virginia's Declaration of Rights. Section 1 states:

"That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."

Private property rights are fundamental to our American heritage. The most valiant warriors have always been those who defend their property from invaders. Citizens like those in Fauquier County are exposing and engaging against this property corruption by local government invaders.

November 5, 2012
Virginia to Vote on Property Rights
Mark J. Fitzgibbons

Blog: Virginia to Vote on Property Rights

 

[Flanders]

Here’s one tiny bright spot in last Tuesday’s tragedy. Note that the word “opponents” is doublespeak for the word parasites:

RICHMOND, Va. — Voters have approved an amendment to the Virginia Constitution limiting government’s ability to take private property through eminent domain.

The amendment approved Tuesday had been championed by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation. They argued property rights are so fundamental, they should be enshrined in the Constitution.

Opponents warned that passage could cost state and local governments tens of millions of dollars. They said a 2007 was sufficient to protect property owners.

Voters OK amendment to Virginia Constitution limiting government’s eminent domain powers
By Associated Press, Published: November 6

Voters OK amendment to Virginia Constitution limiting government’s eminent domain powers - The Washington Post