Property Rights Are A Basic Principle of Liberty

You heard about this incident on Leland Conway and Glenn Beck. Virginia is the Birthplace of Freedom. We set the standards for others to emulate and meet. The incident which generated this legislation was the best example of power-mad officious little pricks getting their jollies threatening landowners, farmers and small rural businesses.

JOIN VIRGINIANS FLOCKING TO SUPPORT THE BONETA BILL The Boneta Bill, HB 1430, DEFENDS SMALL FARMERS;   REDUCES GOVERNMENT INTRUSION ON CITIZENS AND BUSINESSES Martha Boneta’s small farm shop is shut down and the fruits of her labor -- herbal teas from her garden, handcrafted soaps from her goats’ milk, and wool crafts from her alpacas, llamas, and sheep -- are going unsold. Why? Martha is facing a $5,000 fine for hosting a birthday party on her private property for eight 10-year-old girls without a “special” permit from Fauquier County. Martha also was threatened with two additional $5,000 fines for other supposed infractions:  One for advertising a pumpkin carving and another for operating the small shop on her property where Martha sold her fresh produce and handmade crafts.  A Fauquier County bureaucrat told Martha that she was “out of line.”  But Virginians know that it’s Fauquier County that’s out of line. That’s why citizens from around the Commonwealth are coming out in droves to support Delegate L. Scott Lingamfelter and his House Bill 1430, the Boneta Bill, for the relief of Martha and small farmers like her. Delegate Lingamfelter (R-31 Prince William and Fauquier) introduced the legislation to strengthen Virginia’s Right to Farm Act (VRFA) and protects farmers like Martha against future encroachments by local government. In 2012, seventy-five percent of Virginians voted to protect property rights in a state ballot initiative, and the Boneta Bill reflects that sentiment that government is going too far.  The Boneta Bill has galvanized property rights advocates, supporters of the free market, and all who cherish our Constitutional freedoms.   Delegate Lingamfelter has met with the Farm Bureau and invited them to the table to help improve the bill.  Delegate Lingamfelter doesn’t care who gets the credit for the legislation. He cares about getting relief for Martha and other farmers and citizens whose lives are being invaded by all levels of government.

Make Your Voice Heard
The House of Delegate Agriculture Subcommittee will hold a hearing in the General Assembly Building, 1000 Bank Street, Richmond, VA.  The hearing will be held in the 5th Floor East Conference Room at 5:00 PM on Monday, January 28th. It will be essential to continue to get citizens from every part of the Commonwealth out to demonstrate widespread support for the HB 1430, The Boneta Bill. Please join us on Monday, January 28th at 5:00 PM and stand beside Martha Boneta and Delegate Scott Lingamfelter as they fight to get this bill out of the committee and on the House Floor for a vote.

Written Comments
In addition to joining us on Monday, January 28th at 5:00 PM, we will be collecting written emails which you can email me directly at slingamfelter@scottforva.com.  Send them to me and I will ensure the committee receives your emails.  Please take a few moments to write down your thoughts and let the committee know that you don’t want any level of government overstepping and limiting of our rights as individuals, small businesses, and property owners.

SJ3-On the Ballot For Novemeber

SJ 3 Constitutional amendment; taking or damaging of private property for public use (second reference). Mark D. Obenshain | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles another bill?Log inLIS Home- - - - - - - - - - - - - -Bills & ResolutionsMembersCommitteesMeetingsCalendarsCommunicationsMinutesStatisticsLobbyist-in-a-Box Summary as passed Senate: (all summaries) Constitutional amendment (second resolution); taking or damaging of private property; public use. Revises the prohibition on the enactment by the General Assembly of laws whereby private property may be taken or damaged. An existing provision authorizing the General Assembly to define what constitutes a public use is removed. The proposed amendment provides that private property can be taken or damaged only for a public use, only with just compensation to the owner, and only so much taken as is necessary for the public use. Just compensation must equal or exceed the value of the property taken, lost profits and lost access, and damages to the residue caused by the taking. A public service company, public service corporation, or railroad exercises the power of eminent domain for public use when such exercise is for the authorized provision of utility, common carrier, or railroad services. In all other cases, a taking or damaging of private property is not for public use if the primary use is for private gain, private benefit, private enterprise, increasing jobs, increasing tax revenue, or economic development, except for the elimination of a public nuisance existing on the property. The condemnor bears the burden of proving that the use is public, without a presumption that it is. The Resolution incorporates SJ 67 and SJ 117. Full text: 11/21/11 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100006D pdf | impact statement 01/31/12 Senate: Committee substitute printed 12104981D-S1 pdf 03/15/12 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ3ER) pdf 04/10/12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) pdf Status: 11/21/11 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100006D 11/21/11 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections 01/31/12 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (13-Y 2-N) 01/31/12 Senate: Committee substitute printed 12104981D-S1 02/01/12 Senate: Incorporates SJ67 02/01/12 Senate: Incorporates SJ117 02/02/12 Senate: Read first time 02/03/12 Senate: Read second time 02/03/12 Senate: Passed by for the day 02/06/12 Senate: Read second time 02/06/12 Senate: Passed by for the day 02/07/12 Senate: Passed by for the day 02/08/12 Senate: Passed by for the day 02/09/12 Senate: Passed by for the day 02/10/12 Senate: Read second time 02/10/12 Senate: Reading of substitute waived 02/10/12 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 12104981D-S1 02/10/12 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SJ3S1 02/13/12 Senate: Read third time and agreed to by Senate (23-Y 16-N) 02/13/12 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 02/13/12 Senate: Agreed to by Senate (23-Y 17-N) 02/15/12 House: Placed on Calendar 02/15/12 House: Read first time 02/15/12 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections 02/16/12 House: Assigned P & E sub: Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee 02/27/12 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) 03/02/12 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 2-N) 03/06/12 House: Taken up 03/06/12 House: Agreed to by House (83-Y 17-N) 03/06/12 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (83-Y 17-N) 03/15/12 Senate: Enrolled 03/15/12 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ3ER) 03/15/12 House: Signed by Speaker 03/17/12 Senate: Signed by President 04/09/12 House: Assigned Chapter 738 (effective - see bill) 04/10/12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738)

SEIU Thugs In Action

Barbarians at the Gate

I think they have made a serious mistake. It probably won't matter to 90% of America. Sheeple.

Nina Easton wrote this:

“Waving signs denouncing bank “greed,” hordes of invaders poured out of 14 school buses, up Baer’s steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer’s teenage son Jack — alone in the house — locked himself in the bathroom. “When are they going to leave?” Jack pleaded when I called to check on him.

Baer, on his way home from a Little League game, parked his car around the corner, called the police, and made a quick calculation to leave his younger son behind while he tried to rescue his increasingly distressed teen. He made his way through a din of barked demands and insults from the activists who proudly “outed” him, and slipped through his front door.

“Excuse me,” Baer told his accusers, “I need to get into the house. I have a child who is alone in there and frightened.”

Imagine what you would have done if your child were inside that house and that mob was on your front lawn as you tried to reach him

This behavior is totally unacceptable. These people need to be arrested. This is NOT FREE SPEECH, this is public endangermnent and a violation of private property rights.

These asshats are dangerous. This is the kind of stuff that gets people killed and guess who'll get blamed?

If you're a member of SEIU and consider yourself an American first, I hope you'll speak out against this atrocious mis-use of your dues and bad behavior in general.

Montgomery County Police Not Notified of Public Rally
Full disclosure-I have worked with the Montgomery County Police Department while organizing rallies. They are total professionals and public safety is Job One.

The Montgomery County Police Department was deliberately not notified because had they known about this in advance, it would not have happened, I can assure you.

From Breitbart this morning:

According to [MCPD Cpl] Friz, “members of protest groups know how far to push the envelope” and wait for “the key words” – for example, the property owner’s request that they leave – in order to avoid arrests or citations. For example, protesters are required to keep on the move, since a standing protest violates a Montgomery County code. And, while photographs clearly suggest that many of the SEIU protesters were stationary, the District police don’t have any authority to enforce Montgomery County laws.

So, let’s sum this up: A caravan of SEIU buses receive a Metropolitan (D.C.) Police Department escort to a private home in Maryland where the protesters, from all appearances, violate Montgomery County law by engaging in a stationary protest. The Montgomery County police were not informed by their cross-jurisdictional colleagues of the impending, unusually large protest pending in their jurisdiction.

What’s up with that? Had the mob decided to torch the house, the D.C. police would not have been authorized to intervene. Not their jurisdiction. They’re just escorts. Meanwhile, a teenage boy is home alone, frightened by what’s happening outside his front door.

There’s something very wrong with this picture.