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*Environmentalists don’t like property rights because property rights mean we have legal control over nature, and environmentalists want it the other way around. (2739) (P.J. O’Rourke) Our Founding Documents guarantee certain rights pertaining to our ownership of our land. These rights have successfully been nullified by circumventing those documents. We all know the liberal camp is quite adept at circumventing anything it wants, so private property is fast becoming a beloved memory. Richard L. Stroup, in a paper he wrote for the Political Economy Research Center, paraphrases the government’s Endangered Species Act as this: “The owner must sacrifice any use of the property that federal agents believe might impair the habitat of the species—at the owner’s expense. Furthermore, if the owner either harms the species or impairs its habitat, severe penalties are imposed.” I remember, about 25 years ago in California, a section of the Sacramento Valley was subdivided and the lots sold. Then the government enviro-nazis came in and told the new owners that they couldn’t do anything with their property because of an endangered moth. The old-timers said they’d never seen that moth around there, and the enviro-nazis said “Of course you haven’t – it’s never been here. We’re going to introduce it to this area.” A few years ago I remember reading about a town in Idaho that almost had its water supply turned off. Seems there was an endangered snail living in the aquifers that the town used. The snails are about the size of a dot. And there were only 30,000 of them per cubic yard of water in the aquifers. That was reason enough for the government enviro-nazis to turn it into a ghost town. The towns-folk revolted and the enviro-nazis left. Ross Perot said something like, “Our government used to come from the people, now it comes at the people.” |