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December 11, 2024
Title: Taking Back Property Rights
Topic: Property Rights
Discussed by Tom DeWeese
with American Policy Center (www.americanpolicy.org/)
The great economist John Locke, whose writings and ideas had a major
influence on the nation’s founders, believed that “life and liberty are
secure only so long as the right of property is secure.”
Today, American Policy Center President, Tom DeWeese, discusses the
importance of taking back individual property rights. Tom is an internationally
recognized expert on the issue of Sustainable Development and its attack on
private property.
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Questions/Issues Discussed:
Why should we care about individual property rights? Tom believes the
right to own property is as important as the right to free speech.
Is property and the ability to own and control it as sacred as the laws of God?
When a government takes control of private property, what happens?
Is the right to own and control one’s property secure today? Tom
discusses the many ways that property ownership is under attack in America
today.
What is “sustainable development”? NOTE: This is NOT a good
thing!
Is it too late to fight back for individual property rights?
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January 22, 2024
Title: Can the State Confiscate Someone’s Property without Compensation?
Topic: Property Rights
Discussed by Jim Burling
with Pacific Legal Foundation (www.PacificLegal.org)
Jim Burling is the
Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Pacific Legal
Foundation. Today, Jim discusses a very sad case involving
a Texas farmer and his family who were harmed due of the actions of the State of
Texas.
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information about this case, DeVillier v. State of Texas.
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the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Questions/Issues Discussed:
What did the Texas Department of Transportation do to Richie Devillier’s family
and hundreds of other families?
Has the State of Texas admitted to any wrongdoing?
Why is the State of Texas denying just compensation for the farmer and his
family?
What does the law state about just compensation in cases like this?
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Pacific Legal Foundation.
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May 31, 2019
Title: Will Trump Help Protect Your Property Rights?
Topic: Property Rights
Discussed by Jonathan Wood
with Pacific Legal Foundation (www.PacificLegal.org)
When bureaucrats make rules that impact the American people, they’re supposed to submit them to Congress for review. Unfortunately, today’s reality is that alphabet soup agencies – FDA, USDA, EPA, USFWS – adopt most of the rules that Americans are subjected to.
These laws have become so numerous and oppressive that one civil rights lawyer estimates that every American has committed at least three federal crimes by dinnertime every day.
Jonathan Wood is an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation’s WDC Center, where he litigates environmental, property rights, and constitutional cases.
Questions/Issues Discussed:
How important are secure property rights?
Have bureaucrats become legislators, judges, and gods when it comes to controlling our lives, our businesses, and our property?
Was it the original internet of Congress to pass laws allowing bureaucrats wide freedoms in interrupting and implementing those laws? Jonathan says yes and no… Listen as he explains…
Is ignorance (of the law) any excuse?
Has Congress attempted to rein in out-of-control bureaucrats? Jonathan discusses the 1996 Congressional Review Act…
What is President Trump doing to protect our property rights?
Are some countries actually endangering their own citizens because they offer more protection for wildlife and the environment?
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