PROPERTY RIGHTS

  

Rejoice! As an American, you are blessed by the wisdom of our Founders. They hammered out provisions that protect your right to “acquire and use your own so as not to harm your neighbor.”

 

Leaving a country that suffocated the pudding out of them, our Forefathers made damn sure they built their new country – America - on a solid Foundation of Property Rights.

 

Take time to re-review the Bill of Rights 10 Amendments. You’ll find all are connected to protecting Property Rights: Tangible property like Land, Water, Gas, Oil, Mineral, Structures, Your Body, Animals, Guns, Equipment and Vehicles. Intangible property like Speech, Religion, Intellectual and Due Process.

A young man asked his immigrant Father, “Why did you bring our family to America?”
The Father kneeled, scooped up a handful of dirt and said, “Son. You see this dirt? I OWN this dirt. I couldn’t own any dirt in the country I came from.”

 

People die trying to steal and or protect their “dirt.” It’s called war.

Our Fuel and Food Providers have more dirt than do urbanites. Why? They NEED all that dirt to produce the Fuel and Food that sustains a thriving environment for all.

 

Tragically though, there’s a kink in some human’s makeup that drives them to stealing instead of earning dirt.

Sure. We’re grateful for high tech and innovative practices. But a windowsill garden can barely feed one and you can’t load a carrot on a wind turbine and hope it gets to market.

Marrying a cowboy farmer took me to meetings where dirt owners were in constant conflict with bureaucrats who were trying to take their dirt.

Wanting answers, I sought out and found Dr. Angus McIntosh (1957-2021), one of the top experts in Property Rights. For years Angus patiently slammed me over the head with a 2 X 4 before I finally grasped this simple fact: Property Rights are never extinguished.

 

Like the water molecule, a Property Right is always there. It will change forms, but it’s never extinguished.

Because I’ll never know Case Laws, Statutes and Policies that protect Property Rights, I leaned on Angus then blazed forward on “Good Faith.”

 

Angus was a walking encyclopedia of Property Rights. I could call with any question and get an answer that he always backed with a statute.

 

He taught me to look for the key words, Pre-existing, Valid, Vested, Senior.  They back up your Property Rights that are sealed in LAW (Statutes).

Using Angus’s knowledge and constant vetting we co-developed the following ways you can protect your property. Please use them, along with a good dose of Good Faith!

Ways to significantly protect your Property:

1)    Post signage with this exact verbiage: No Trespassing. Trespassers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. No immunity for criminal trespass by government parties.
Add exemptions, like fishermen, hunters etc. at the bottom.

2)    Regardless the location of your Land or Water, find documents that prove up the dates Land was tilled/grazed, and Water was put to beneficial use.

3)    Signing a Property Admittance Agreement Private Property Admittance Agreement (landandwaterusa.com)  is a requirement. With exception of extenuating circumstances like fire, no one, including law enforcement, may access your property without your permission. To do otherwise is “trespass.”

4)    Government employee must sign Public Law 93-579 Public Servants Questionnaire. THE PUBLIC SERVANT QUESTIONNAIRE (landandwaterusa.com)

5)    Send any entity that includes your Property in their materials, a Demand to Remove Property References letter. Land and Water USA: DEMAND TO REMOVE PROPERTY REFERENCES

6)    Know the difference between a “regulation” and a “law.” Laws are made by Congress; regulations are doled out by agencies. Then “question government as to what they claim as statutory authority to regulate your use of your property,” Dr. Angus McIntosh.

7)    Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments declare “governments cannot deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property" without due process of LAW.”

8)    The "Takings Clause" in the Fifth Amendment, limits the power of eminent domain by requiring "just compensation" be paid if private property is taken for public use.

 

In summary, remember: 1. Protect your Property. 2. Whosoever wants your property must compensate you. 3. Your Property Right has never been extinguished. 4. Go forth in Good Faith.

Thank you,

 

Roni Bell Sylvester
References: www.LandAndWaterUSA.com