Sorry about my erratic postings, but I've been trying to wade through Moveable Type's instructions on how to archive material which I have posted to this log. I decided to go ahead and post a few entries while working this out.
Sunday afternoon, I received an email from a couple named Merry and Brooks Porter. The subject of their epistle concerns a very important matter regarding property rights in the State of Texas. It seems that tomorrow (Tuesday, January 27), there is going to be a hearing before a judge in Angleton Texas regarding a dispute between four home owners and the State government.
The situation surrounding the matter is that these families own some property near the beach and that the State wants to take their property to create (or expand) a beach park. Apparently, the State wants to take the owner's property without paying for it and wants to require home owners to remove their homes from their property. The State says that the beach front in front of the homeowners property has eroded and that the homeowners houses interfere with public use of the beach. Ergo, it's time to give the landowners The Big Heave Ho and the landowners must remove their houses from their property.
The property owners position is that they have owned these houses for 15+ years. They would like to keep their houses and land. But if the State needs, or wants to take their land, then they need to pay them for what they take.
The homeowners have filed suit. The State is asking the Judge for a Summary Judgment to stop the property owners’ suit. Attorneys for the homeowners will argue that these questions should be decided by trial in front of a jury of fellow citizens.
According to the email I received from The Porters, this is what to look for in their trial:
Will the State retaliate against the property owners?
When we filed this suit in 2001, the State counter-sued to require us to move our houses from our land. Will they up the ante now that we’re asking for a trial?
How many taxpayer paid attorneys will the State send? In 2002 they sent five attorneys to stop me from repairing my roof. Last year they sent 13 “they’re not all attorney’s” to keep a 79 yr. old Surfside resident from repairing her bulkhead.
Well, well, well...
From The Mighty Wizard's reading of the Fifth and Seventh Amendments of the United States Constitution, it appears that this matter A) should go to court and B) these people should be paid money for their property. Acts of Nature should not invalidate the United States Constitution.
However, in our politically correct 21st century world, we know that The Constitution is nothing more than a scrap of paper that was written by a bunch of dead rich white property owning men who owned slaves. So, if you believe the Charles Beard / Marxist version of the United States Constitution, it was nothing more than a conspiracy scam pulled off by those dead rich 18th century white property owners to defraud everyone else, especially all those former veterans of the Revolutionary War who might have wanted land as compensation for their service, into keeping them as second class schmucks. Ergo, the document is nothing more than that - an outdated piece of paper.
Well, it appears that it's only a piece of paper until YOU need it...
Posted by The Mighty Wizard at January 26, 2004 09:04 PM