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This is a story of raw power, collusion and government
corruption. A story that is taking place in countless towns all over America. A
story of “reinvented” government, where self-proclaimed private “stakeholders”
and pressure groups set the rules, local elected officials rubber stamp them,
and non-elected regional governments enforce them, sometimes with an iron fist
– all with no input from citizens, and apparently no rights for private
citizens and property owners to stop them or even have a say.
It’s the story of the destruction of private property rights
in America. Of injustice and tyranny. Of unaccountable government run amok. We
need to take action! (See below for what you can do.)
Jennie Granato is a tax-paying citizen of Montgomery County,
Ohio. She and her family own a 165-year-old historic house and farm just
outside of Dayton. They’ve lived there forty years. On July 31, Jennie’s front
yard was demolished – thanks to local, county and planning commission
bureaucrats!
The Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission (MVRPC) has
begun seizing people’s private property for its latest “essential” project – a
$5-million bike path extension! It has seized almost all of
Jennie’s front lawn. The bike path will come within just a
few feet of her front door!
Jennie and her family tried for over a year to negotiate and
reason with this unelected planning commission. Unfortunately, their neighbors
were advised by lawyers not to say anything publicly about the pending land
grab, so the media viewed it as a non-story. The county and its appraisers kept
stalling, saying they wanted a meeting with Jennie, even as they ignored her
pleas and offered a pittance for taking her front yard, and likely driving the
value of her home down by tens of thousands of dollars.
The meeting never came – and officials didn’t even allow
Jennie’s uncle to speak at a hearing. But the bulldozers certainly came! Last
week, with no warning, they just started demolishing trees. Jennie and her
family still own the property – BUT the county has barged in, torn out their
trees and destroyed their front yard! They will never be able to walk out their
front door again, without worrying that they will be run over by bicyclists
roaring by at 10 or 20 miles per hour, just inches from their bottom step.
The government trucks and bulldozers also precipitated an
even worse tragedy. Jennie’s 85 year old mother became so upset over seeing the
government’s heavy machinery destroying her yard and favorite trees that she
suffered a heart attack and died.
Of course the government refuses to accept any
responsibility for this tragedy. It was just promoting the “public welfare” of
the private “stakeholders” and pressure groups it works with.
That too has become far too common. The government and these
groups want more and more control over our lives, more power to tell us what we
can and cannot do with our property and lives. But they accept no transparency
and no accountability, responsibility or liability when their actions hurt … or
even kill … someone – or when they destroy the property values, peace and
integrity of a home.
The MVRPC is an unelected regional government force driven
by federal Sustainable Development grant money. It never faces voters over its
actions or positions of seemingly unbridled power. It simply deals with other
government agencies – local, state and federal – and with private groups like
the American Planning Association, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability,
and a hoard of other organizations that represent faux “conservation and
environmental” interests whose real motivation is money, and the power to
control our lives.
They are “stakeholders” only in the sense that they want
something – and are holding the stakes that their government friends are
driving through the heart of our constitutional rights.
With the assistance of Federal and State grant programs and
willing politicians, who see another way to build their own power and get
elected over and over, they rule over us like unaccountable dictators. It’s the
same story in nearly every community in our nation.
Neither Jennie nor any of her neighbors voted to institute
the agency or its policies.
* There was no vote for this bike path.
* There was no referendum on the ballot to approve this
project or the spending of their tax dollars.
Yet the MVRPC imposed itself on privately owned property,
giving the owner no say in the matter and giving her a pittance in exchange for
the land it is taking away. Soon, strangers on bikes will be crossing her land,
passing within seven feet of her front door. And she fears there is nothing she
can do about it.
How does she secure her home? How can she ever hope to sell
it? Who will compensate her for the loss of value, now that her once lovely and
private front lawn is gone? Certainly not the MVRPC.
My American Policy Center has warned Americans over and over
about the dangers of this fraud called “Sustainable Development” – and the
enforcement of top-down control through non-elected boards and regional
governments. Here is that reality, in all of its outrageous raw power.
Jennie’s neighbors, property rights activists and Tea Party
leaders are joining forces to support her fight to stop this outrage. They have
gathered at the property, to protest and take the issue to the news media – and
will do so again. To its credit, the media are finally starting to notice what
is happening. But if that is the extent of it, you know full well that these
government officials will simply laugh, ignore the protests and news stories,
wait for the attention to go away, and then grab someone else’s property.
That’s why concerned citizens across the nation need to join
this fight and put power behind this effort to stop these bureaucrats from
taking Jennie’s property. Freedom fighters need to build a huge protest fire
and turn this into a national property rights issue.
Corrupt government officials use taxpayers as doormats,
pawns, bank accounts and land holders for their agendas and power plays. If we
continue doing nothing to stem the rising tide of government tyranny and
corruption, we will watch our rights and property disappear, one by one.
Here’s what you can do to help
1. As the local Dayton area residents do all they can with
sign waving, demonstrations and protests to call attention to this blatant
property theft, outraged Americans from across the country must bring an
avalanche of signed petitions to the perpetrators – the scoundrels who think
they can prey on any citizen without consequences. Make them feel heat for
their actions!!
Click here to sign APC’s petition to the MVRPC
(https://americanpolicy.wufoo.com/forms/petition-to-mvrpc/) to demand that
these unelected officials stop the bulldozers on Jennie’s property, honor her
private property rights and serve the people, not the power-hungry special
interests who are enforcing Sustainable Development as a means to reinvent and
destroy America’s system of representative government.
2. Please help the American Policy Center lead this fight to
stop Agenda 21 across the nation. I urgently need your financial support. Your
donation now of $100, $50 or $25 will help me continue to travel across the
nation spreading the word Against Agenda 21. It was my recent trip to Dayton,
Ohio that exposed Jennie’s plight and rallied local activists to her cause. I
need to continue lighting those fires across the country.
Please sign your petition and donate whatever you can today.
(https://americanpolicy.wufoo.com/forms/petition-to-mvrpc/) APC is making a
major difference, lighting fires, and winning battles across the nation. I can
only do that with your help.
Americans concerned for their own liberties need to bury
these officials in calls and emails of protest. We need to make these dictators
and thieves aware that what they are doing is unacceptable and will not be
tolerated. We need to inform them that We the People have rights, and will
fight for them.
Let them know they have overstepped their bounds. Destroying
a family’s home, property, civil rights, peace of mind, and a woman’s life –
for something as unnecessary as a bike path – is an outrage.
There is still a hope that some official or judge will
listen and take the proper action to stop this theft and destruction of
Jennie’s land.
If we can win this fight for Jennie in Ohio, we will have
the strength and momentum to help the next victims of government overreach. And
make no mistake, there will be one. So don’t wait. Sign the petition now
(https://americanpolicy.wufoo.com/forms/petition-to-mvrpc/)
Click here to sign the petition
(https://americanpolicy.wufoo.com/forms/petition-to-mvrpc/)
See original article and pictures on the americanpolicy.org
website.
The “construction limits” stake in this photo is less than 5
ft from the front wall of the Granato home. The “essential” bike path is just a
foot from the sign, where the front yard used to be. The plastic shows where the bike path will go
– right up to the bottom step of the Granato home.