{"id":9673,"date":"2012-04-08T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2012-04-08T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:09:38","slug":"update-a-countys-war-on-the-little-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/update-a-countys-war-on-the-little-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: A county’s war on the little guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last June, I posted about a Southern California county’s all-out war on the little guy<\/a> — and the little guy’s property rights.<\/p>\n

At the time, nobody was really sure why thuggish “code enforcement” teams were rampaging across the Antelope Valley, evicting homeowners and demanding that people tear down their homes.<\/p>\n

But we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that it turns out to be yet another post-Kelo landgrab<\/a> by a government on behalf of government cronies. (H\/T to S for the update.)<\/p>\n

This time it’s the so-called green energy industry. And how can you blame them? After they get billions in subsidies from the fedgov and customized regulations from the state, they naturally assume it’s their right to have local governments steal the land for them.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Kelo<\/i>, 40 states changed their “takings” laws to be more favorable to private property owners. That was supposed to halt “public” land grabs for private use. But governments, being the gangster mobs they are, simply came up with an even more profitable form of robbery. <\/p>\n

Instead of paying<\/i> homeowners before giving their homes to crony businesses, cities and counties now declare the homes to be so substandard, so hazardous, and in violation of so many bureaucratic regulations that they have to be torn down. At the owners’ expense. The people are kicked out and all that’s left is the value of the empty lot.<\/p>\n

Such a racket, eh? Mafia dons must be green with envy.<\/p>\n

In sending the new link, S (who knows about as much as anybody about the energy industry) wrote:<\/p>\n

[T]his episode illustrates the personal savagery and barbarism that energy policy at gunpoint requires. Desert rats were the victims this time, but make no mistake, these thugs will rob and kill anyone who gets in their way.<\/p>\n

The “Nuisance Abatement Teams” almost certainly never knew what master they served. That’s how our society works. To quote Father Zebelka<\/a>, these grotesque acts of depravity “are carried out by a long chain of individuals, each doing his or her job meticulously while simultaneously refusing to look at the end results of his or her work.” <\/p>\n

Subsidies to solar and wind power are incredibly destructive on both large impersonal scales and to selected individuals. No intelligent person working within these “industries” dares contemplate the totality of the system. The immorality would drive them insane in short order. Instead, they do their little part, and avert their eyes as people’s homes and lives are destroyed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last June, I posted about a Southern California county’s all-out war on the little guy — and the little guy’s property rights. At the time, nobody was really sure why thuggish “code enforcement” teams were rampaging across the Antelope Valley, evicting homeowners and demanding that people tear down their homes. But we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that it turns out to be yet another post-Kelo landgrab by a government on behalf of government cronies. (H\/T to S for the update.) This time it’s the so-called green energy industry. And how can you blame them? After they get billions in…<\/p>\n

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