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Dr. Kirsten Lombard Explains Private Property

The following ideas are summarized from a speech given by Dr. Kirsten Lombard, Corporate Communications Specialist in the Editorial Department at a leading provider of technology services.     Continue reading this page for more discussions on property rights.

We tend to think that private property is real estate, or things we can own.  But it goes far deeper: property rights go immediately back to your person.  Just because you don’t have money, just because you don’t own land, doesn’t mean you don’t have property rights.  You are your own property.
If the government can control you, if the government can control everything that you own, then you are not free.   Either you have a right to own property, or you are property.

There are two fundamental concepts to a free and prosperous society: individualism and private property, and they go together.  Property rights not only make the person living in a shack on half acre equal to the person who lives in a chateau on 40 acres, they make this person able to become that person.
The person who lives in the shack can begin to leverage the half an acre that he has, to build  business, to do all sorts of other things, so that eventually he can own the mansion on the 40 acres.

If we don’t have property rights, we are dependent upon the government to give us whatever they see fit.  There is no guarantee you ‘re ever going to  get to the chateau on the 40 acres, and probably you won’t.  You are likely to remain the person in the shack on the half acre, and probably you won’t even own the half acre.  That will belong to the government too.

Private property rights are important because they provide a block on the government.  It is a stumbling block to their total control.  If you own things, if you are in possession of yourself, then they can’t control you and what you own.  Then they can’t control everything.  That keeps government in check.  Private property rights are really important in that respect, as well as many others.

 

View Dr. Lombard’s full presentation here:

Florida NOT All Aboard traveled to Delray Beach on August 22, 2014, to give a presentation on All Aboard Florida to citizens there.  The main presentation was given by K.C Traylor of Florida NOT All Aboard and Phyllis Frey of the American Coalition 4 Property Rights. Short video clips, as well as the full presentations are below.

K.C Traylor

Click here to view K.C’s full presentation.

 

Phyllis Frey

Click here to view Phyllis’ full presentation.

 

 

 

Here are the links to the segments videoed:

 

Planners Buy-In to Agenda 21

American Planning Association endorses Sustainability Seven50 asserts it’s not Agenda 21. Funny, that all those planning consultants who are working for or advising on the Seven50 plan probably belong to the American Planning Association (APA). Maybe they didn’t see the Newsletter that connected the dots between Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, and the new planning recommendations….

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Political Crusades

Unintended Consequences The political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes. Neighborhood home values are left in decline. Such matters often get brushed aside by ideological crusaders out to change the world to fit their own vision.   from:…

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Sustainability Unmasked

The Real UN Agenda The “green religion” is “taking over from the Christian religion” – warned green legend James Lovelock. With literally hundreds of definitions of the word “sustainable”, the term has largely become meaningless – it can be whatever somebody wants it to be. The UN agenda is to foist a “green” world order…

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Individual Property Rights

What are Property Rights? One of the principles upon which our country, the United States of America, was founded is the principle of individual property rights. What then ARE property rights? Is it the right to purchase a home and then entertain my friends there? Is it the right to sell my home or rent…

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Alabama bans Agenda 21

Alabama Legislates to Protect Property Rights A growing list of states are taking a hard look at the U.N.’s Agenda 21 and moving to ban its adoption, or any policies that can be traced back to Agenda 21.    Alabama is the 1st state to take a strong position against implementation of Agenda 21.     Their law…

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New Islands of Human Habitation

Westchester County Fights HUD If the Seven50 Plan is adopted by the counties of Southeast Florida there’s a very real fear among opponents that Southeast Florida will be controlled through funding from HUD in the same way that Westchester County is being controlled.   HUD is the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and…

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Supreme Court Upholds Property Rights

The Koontz Case in Florida Another win for property rights!    In June, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Koontz family in a case based on the Takings clause of the U.S.Constitution.     The Takings Clause, the last clause of the Fifth Amendment, limits the power of eminent domain by requiring that “just compensation”…

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Indian River County

Seven50 Opposition History In December 2012, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County voted to withdraw from the Seven50 plan. Read the letter that Commissioner Bob Solari wrote to Michael Busha, Executive Director of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, outlining some of the reasons why the Indian River County Commission disapproved of the…

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St. Lucie County

St Lucie County documents for Seven50 partnership Do your own research into some of the documents, gathered from public websites, that tell the story about the beginnings of support between the County, the City of Port St Lucie and the Southeast Florida Regional Planning Council. City of Port St Lucie Seven50 Consortium Partnership documents Read…

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Global Warming Predictions Wrong

Seven50 Link to Global Warming Lie Some of you, like me, may remember in 2010 when it became common knowledge when some of the scientists working on the global warming theory, admitted they had cooked the numbers.   It was all well and good when I read that in 2010 but I still wanted to know…

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