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Private Property Rights Are the Key to Freedom. Currently, you don’t own your home and land; you rent it from the government. No you say? Stop paying your taxes, fees etc., et el and see what happens.


Private Property Rights Are the Key to Freedom

The increasing encroachment of government regulations, pontificating politicians, and the enforcement of Social Justice schemes have led to a loss of understanding of the terms private property and property rights. It was once understood that the unauthorized entering of private property was a violation to the utmost. The property owner was justified and supported in taking necessary actions to remove the trespasser and secure that land.

Today, such ideas are considered radical, old fashioned, out of touch, and even reprehensible. The homeowner can be arrested for defending against an armed intruder. The intruder can actually sue a homeowner for shooting them even as the intruder breaks down the door intending to rob and do harm. Home protection is called violence, perhaps even racism. It’s a whole new world of compliance, fear, and acceptance rather than pride, protection, and prosperity in ownership.

So, if we are to succeed in restoring the ideals of property ownership and benefit from the prosperity and freedom it creates, then a short discussion of the full definition of private property is in order.

In the beginning of the nation – after the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution, and the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain — the American people became complete, sovereign freeholders in the land with the same prerogatives as the King once had. Now in this new nation the English King had no further claim to the land and could not tax or otherwise encumber it.

From that point the United States government acknowledged private ownership by issuing land patents, also called “Letter Patents.” They were signed by the President of the United States and recorded in the county record. From that point the land then became the owner’s property in a “true land title.” There were no other claims on the land. Land Patents or “Allodial Titles” were one of the major motivators of the American Revolution, providing rights to the land, free and clear of the liens and encumbrances of the King of England.

Land Patents are a contract or Document of Title, issued by government for the conveyance of some portion of land from the public domain to private individuals. According to Black’s Law, a Land Patent Contract means the complete and absolute ownership of land; a paramount and individual right of property in land.

But, as expert Ron Gibson has written, the enjoyment of free and clear title allowing owners to “own” their land without interference from any government, including the government of the United States, didn’t last long. Writes Gibson, “As a result of generations of constructive Trust Fraud perpetuated against the American people. . . we’ve been conned into believing we are ‘owning’ property, when in fact, and by law, we’re only in ‘possession’ of property utilizing it as a renter or tenant would. So long as we pay our rent (i.e., taxes and mortgages), get the licenses, pay the fees, have it insured, regulated, zoned and permitted, we can still remain ‘in possession.”

Gibson goes on to say, “Our Land Patent Laws were largely derived from Old English Laws, knows as Allodial Patents, which means (The King of your Land). Once a patent has been issued by the United States Government, signed by the President of the United States, and recorded in the county recorders records in which the land is located, it then becomes your fee simple title (owing to no one). Meaning a true land title!”

Today, this history has been largely ignored by our government. Instead of a Land Patent or Allodial Patent issued when one buys property, we are issued a Warranty Deed. That is not a true title, but rather a “color of title.” That means you have a partner in the ownership of the land. The partner is the State, which encumbers the property with taxes and liens and all of those things, which simply render you a tenant on what should be your own land.

The government’s refusal to acknowledge true property rights has led to a massive destruction of the American system, and is at the root of the creation of the largest reorganization of human society ever attempted.

In the 1990s, an all-out assault on property rights was well underway, led by a radical environmental movement, resulting in massive federal land grabs in the name of conservation. As one can imagine, courts across the nation were flooded with cases of people attempting to defend their property rights from government taking. In the state of Washington, one of the major targets for such programs, the state Supreme Court realized it didn’t have an adequate definition of property rights to use in considering such cases. That’s when State Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Sanders wrote a “Fifth Amendment” treatise which included the following definition of property rights:

“Property in a thing consists not merely in its ownership and possession, but in the unrestricted right of use, enjoyment, and disposal. Anything which destroys any of the elements of property, to that extent, destroys the property itself. The substantial value of property lies in its use. If the right of use be denied, the value of the property is annihilated and ownership is rendered a barren right.”

Clearly Sanders’ definition is based on the concept of Land Patents and Allodial Title. “Use” of the land is the key. Using the land in a productive way beneficial to the owner is what gives the land value. Simply paying the taxes and mortgage while some undefined government entity can rule and regulate how the property is used, according to Justice Sanders, is a “barren right” that annihilates its value.

So, if private property rights are to be saved in the nation that practically invented the concept, let there be no doubt in what the term means.

Ten Points to Define True Private Property Rights

the owner’s exclusive authority to determine how private property is used;

The owner’s peaceful possession, control, and enjoyment of his/her lawfully purchased, real private property;

The owner’s ability to make contracts to sell, rent, or give away all or part of the lawfully purchased/real private property;

That local, city, county, state, and federal governments are prohibited from exercising eminent domain for the sole purpose of taking lawfully owned private property to resell to a private interest for a private project;

That no level of government has the authority to impose directives, ordinances, fees, or fines regarding landscaping, color selections, tree and plant preservation, or open spaces on lawfully purchased/real private property;

That no level government shall implement a land use plan that requires any part of lawfully purchased private property be set aside for public use or for a Natural Resource Protection Area directing that no construction or disturbance may occur;

That no level of government shall implement a law or ordinance restricting the number of outbuildings that may be placed on lawfully purchased/real private property;

That no level of government shall alter or impose zoning restrictions or regulations that will devalue or limit the ability to sell lawfully purchased/real private property;

That no level of government shall limit profitable or productive agriculture activities by mandating and controlling what crops and livestock are grown on lawfully purchased/real private property;

That no level of government representatives or their assigned agents may trespass on private property without the consent of the property owner or is in possession of a lawful warrant from a legitimate court of law. This includes invasion of property rights and privacy by government use of unmanned drone flights, with the exceptions of exigent circumstances such as protection of life, limb or the private property itself.

These points speak specifically to the right of USE of the property. They do not infringe on a local government’s ability for local rule or to impose local, reasonable, legal policy, so long as such policies recognize and protect the owner’s use of their private property.

Under current policies being implemented in every state and nearly every community, each of these points are being violated daily. Local governments are creating partnerships with private developers, using the powers of eminent domain to confiscate property for the building of private entities and enterprises such as shopping malls, manufacturing plants, and housing developments with the express purpose of raising tax revenues.

Federal agencies such as HUD, EPA and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have been systematically fining property owners, even confiscating and locking away private land, prohibiting its use and destroying traditional industry and farming.

State and local governments are forcing developers to set aside large tracts of land to enforce open space and green areas, which imposes punitive financial impositions on the property owners.

Finally, governments at every level routinely trespass on private land to measure, photograph and map, with the express purpose of creating new regulations.

Each of these actions is taken by government for the sole purpose of controlling the use of the land. The very idea of “unrestricted right of use” by the property owner terrifies the powers in charge as they race to control every inch of land and its use. Meanwhile, under such plans the very idea of private property rights has become ignored and voided by government edict. The owner, then, has lost the ability to defend his property, or control who has access. The result is that private property rights, according to Justice Sanford’s definition, have ceased to exist.

Nearly an unlimited variety of government programs, schemes and tricks are employed to control land use and violate the concept of private property. There are international rules and treaties, federal regulations and programs, state projects, and local plans — many interconnected to one specific goal designed to change our society, form of government, and way of life. Each focus on control or destruction of private property to achieve its goal. Leading that drive are powerful forces in partnership with private organizations having specific agendas and nearly unlimited funds affecting and affecting policies necessary for bringing it about.

To preserve our freedom, every American must understand why private property ownership must be protected.

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Social Justice, Destruction of Property Rights, and Government Tyranny (Part One)


You are a poor minority living in a government housing project called “Affordable.” It’s all paid for by the tax dollars of mostly middle-income Americans. Included are still more government programs that are providing monthly checks and coupons to supply food, free healthcare, free education, and let’s also throw in free cell phones.

Does that not make us a generous nation? Are not the poor well cared for and satisfied? Aren’t the taxpayers proud of their contribution to the common good? The answer to every one of these questions is NO!
 

First, consider these facts about that stipend income from the welfare check. Originally, it was called “assistance” and the purpose was to help out when the paycheck wasn’t quite covering needs during difficult times. Over time the system changed from “assistance” to “Government Benefit.” Now it’s an entire system of total dependence. While promises to help provide job training and even some actual jobs exist, few actually provide enough income or security to allow recipients to leave the program. In addition, if a recipient even tries to put some of that money away in savings, as an attempt to provide for an emergency, it is confiscated and possibly the welfare check stops all together. It’s no longer “assistance” during hard times. Now it’s control.
 

Then there is that public housing situation. Here’s what it’s like to actually live in those government projects. In many cities the neighborhoods are drastically rundown in disrepair as lights, air conditioning, and appliances fail to work. The roof leaks, windows are broken, and the plumbing backs up. Trash around the grounds is in ever-growing piles, and is rarely, if ever cleaned and hauled away. Don’t even think about any kind of yard work to create a place for the children to play. Worse, the residents live in fear of gang elements like MS-13 that have taken over the neighborhoods to rule as their territory. Pimps, pedophiles, and drug dealers prey on the children. And no matter how many times residents may ask for repairs, it never happens.
 

Why are the conditions so bad in this government-controlled housing? Government is a monopoly that has no incentive to be efficient. The taxpayers are forced to pay and the money rolls in so the politicians can puff out their chests over how generous THEY are in helping the less fortunate. Meanwhile, the management of these properties is overseen by government bureaucrats with no personal stake in the projects. Their paychecks keep rolling in, no matter what happens to the properties they manage.
 

In such an atmosphere, the inherent hopelessness leaves little room for making future goals for their lives. There is rarely a way out once the system has a hold on you. By herding minorities and low-income families like cattle into these tenements, the government is committing them to a future worse than poverty. They have lost their rights, their choices, and their ability to excel through self-determination and personal growth.
 

Yet, proponents of government’s fair housing want you to think that those favoring the programs are the compassionate ones, helping minorities to survive in an oppressive capitalist world of the rich. Essentially fear is the common tactic used to keep minorities under government control. Anyone who opposes the system and promotes sound economics and a system of equal opportunity, is accused of heartlessness and racism, determined to pull the plug on the welfare lifeline.
 

To promote the fear and division, politicians, the news media, and the public education system continually drive home the message that our nation’s founders created an oppressive society in which Whites get all the goodies and minorities are deliberately oppressed. In addition, goes their propaganda, the free enterprise system is designed to take the money from the poor and put it in the rich man’s pocket. And so, the result is strife, jealousy, and hatred between the races. Meanwhile, the middle class actually funds most of it from their weekly paychecks, purchases, and property taxes.
 

The true purpose is to move forward to impose the agenda now powered by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and others driving to change our culture and system of representative government toward their goal of global governance.
 

This, then, is the determined mission of today’s radical Leftist movement now in control of the Democrat Party They are driving to be seen as the saviors of the oppressed. Government oversight, redistribution of wealth, and social justice are the chosen tools to enforce this false equality. Yet, the only true result has been the massive growth of poverty.
 

Now these forces are moving to expand their tactics by pushing the failed government housing model into your neighborhood. The new drive is to eliminate single-family home zoning protection. Our new controllers insist that such policy is really designed as a means for wealthy homeowners to “self-segregate” themselves from those they don’t want living in their neighborhoods. Specifically, they charge that private property ownership is racist. To establish true “FREEDOM” in America, they tell us we need to open these “white privilege neighborhoods” to allow federal fair housing programs, including high rise government rental units in every neighborhood. They claim single family home neighborhoods contribute to a growing housing shortage. So goes their argument: “we could put ten families in the area where only one now lives in those neighborhoods. It’s only fair!”
 

Baltimore, Maryland became one of the first cities to feel such pressure and threats as the NAACP sued Baltimore over alleged housing segregation. The NAACP argument was that Section 8 subsidized housing programs “bunch people together, and that it only fuels more crime and other problems.” Not fair! The solution, says the NAACP, is to “integrate the poor among wealthier families.” Outrageous as it sounds, such social justice mongers actually claim this will help increase the income opportunities for the poor when they begin to live in those affluent neighborhoods.
 

The pressure from these groups, has resulted in Baltimore being forced to agree to spend $30 million of tax-payer dollars over the next ten years to build 1,000 low-income homes in affluent neighborhoods.
 

The result will be a destruction of property values and the loss of equity for the homeowners. In short, destruction of earned wealth leading to destruction of the middle class creating even more poor. It’s a growth product. Meanwhile, massively powerful corporations like Blackrock will move into the neighborhoods and buy that property at a massively reduced cost. They will then build the apartments and public housing, earning a fortune.
 

In Portland, Oregon, the infamous “poster child” of federal Smart Growth development policies, the city council unanimously approved a new tax to raise $12 million per year to pay for “affordable housing.”
 

Said Portland Commissioner Dan Saltsman, “The lack of affordable housing is the greatest crisis facing our city right now.” Perhaps he should take a long look at the twenty-year Smart Growth history of Portland in which massive amounts of land was locked away to limit the “sprawl” of the city. This led to land shortages, which led to bans on single-family homes, which led to the need for massive high-rise apartment buildings, all of which led to higher costs and shortages of homes. Now, Portland has a “crisis “over a shortage of “affordable” housing. Their solution is another tax on construction, driving up housing costs even more.
 

These same attacks on private property are growing across the nation. Landlords of privately-owned apartments are being labeled the new boogey men of our day. They now must deal with more taxes, rules, regulations, and even a ban on their ability to determine if potential renters can afford to live in the building. Such policy is the destruction of private property rights, targeting an entire industry.
 

Of course, the government argues that denying people who can’t afford to pay the rent to live in your property is “discrimination by right-wing capitalism.” Anyone with a small amount of rational thought would logically ask how the landlord could survive and provide his property for housing if the tenant can’t pay? The only result will be fewer landlords and fewer choices for housing. Housing shortage, indeed!
 

All of these policies, instituted in the name of social justice and redistribution of wealth, will very quickly lead to one final solution. Private homes, privately owned rental properties, and the individual owner’s ability to prosper, will disappear. That means the rule of law is dismissed in favor of “fairness.” Social Justice is purely based on redistribution of wealth. Your wealth. That’s money you worked for, saved, invested, and protected for YOUR needs; YOUR dreams; YOUR future.
 

Eventually – and very soon – the only source of housing will be from government. Take a good look at the destroyed neighborhoods now under government control and see your future. Property rights and personal ownership are equal opportunities for everyone to build wealth and freedom. It’s how the United States quickly became so prosperous in its beginning.
 

Our founding fathers fully understood that private property ownership was the vital key to freedom. They also understood that local government representation is the key to protecting liberty against a tyrannical central government that has no real stake in the lives of the citizens. Central government destroys personal choice, incentive, and the wealth created from it. It’s the reason we are now plummeting into poverty.
 

As our nation now moves toward the celebration of our 250th birthday, to save our Republic it’s urgent that American citizens unite to demand an answer from our locally elected representatives, who do you represent – the citizens who elected them or powerful special interests armed with a destructive agenda?

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Suburban Decay Is Coming To YOUR Town


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The suburbs, once considered safe havens from urban chaos, are rapidly becoming ground zero for a new wave of danger. The growing presence of violent criminal gangs, many of whom are migrants flooding into the country as part of a government plot to punish suburban communities, is turning these once-peaceful areas into lawless zones. It’s not just anecdotal anymore—it’s happening right in front of our eyes.

One clear example of this suburban decay is the situation at Moreno Valley Mall in California. This mall, like many others across the country, has been overrun by unruly teens causing chaos. And this is not an isolated incident. Malls in places like New Jersey and Pittsburgh are enacting curfews, banning teenagers from being inside after certain hours unless accompanied by an adult, and creating “waiting zones” for teens needing rides after curfew. These measures are a direct response to a spree of looting and violence that began during the so-called “summer of love” in 2020—and has only escalated since.

The result? Shopping malls, once symbols of suburban prosperity, are now unsafe. Stores like CVS and Target are locking up basic goods, and violent confrontations in malls have become a regular occurrence. And this isn’t just a problem in the cities anymore. It’s spreading to the suburbs, where liberal district attorneys refuse to prosecute criminals, emboldening bad actors to strike with little fear of consequences.

The influx of migrants into suburban areas is accelerating this decline. These individuals, often without proper vetting or legal status, are being funneled into these communities, causing a dramatic increase in crime. This isn’t a random consequence—it’s part of a deliberate government plan to punish the suburbs for their political leanings. Many of these areas, traditionally conservative and resistant to progressive policies, are being flooded with people who have no ties to the community and no respect for its laws.

This shift is part of a broader strategy to destabilize the suburbs and break down their resistance to government overreach. The Biden-Harris administration, along with far-left radicals in local governments, seems intent on punishing suburban families by placing violent criminal invaders right on their doorsteps. It’s not enough for them to watch inner cities crumble—they want the same chaos to engulf the suburbs, too.

The lamentations of media personalities like Angela Poe Russell, who mourn the loss of “safe” places for teens to hang out, only underscore how dangerous things have become. Russell reflects nostalgically on the time she spent at malls in her youth—working her first job, meeting her first boyfriend, and making memories. But here’s the cold, hard truth: the key word she uses is “safe.” And malls, like the communities they serve, are no longer safe.

The reality is that the same forces driving up crime in inner cities—government-sanctioned lawlessness, soft-on-crime policies, and unchecked migration—are now infiltrating the suburbs. The same liberal DAs who refuse to prosecute criminals in urban areas are ensuring that the criminals feel emboldened to move into suburban areas, knowing they won’t face serious repercussions there either. And with every new wave of migrants being transported into suburban communities, the threat only grows.

Suburban families must face a hard truth: the government is not interested in protecting them. In fact, they seem intent on putting you in harm’s way. The influx of violent criminals, the collapse of local law enforcement, and the increase in property crimes are not random developments. They are part of a coordinated effort to punish the suburbs for resisting the progressive agenda.

So what can you do? First and foremost, be aware that your community is changing—and not for the better. Prepare your home and your family for the increasing likelihood of violence. Lock your doors, invest in home security, and stay informed about what’s happening in your area. Don’t expect the police or the government to save you. They’ve made it clear that they have other priorities.

The suburbs are no longer a refuge from the dangers of the world. The threat is here, and it’s growing. It’s time to wake up, be vigilant, and understand that the days of peaceful, suburban living are rapidly fading away.

What are you doing to prepare your family for suburban decay? 

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