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Freedom Advocates

A Civil Liberties Advocacy Group

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There Goes The Neighborhood: Y2Y’s concern is for “our monkey, bear and ferret cousins”
by Vern Westgate   

Here is an example of the impact environmental activists have on our constitutionally protected private property rights. They come at us under the guise of “fixing” an issue by creating a “local” or “regional” body to control individual property rights. The error in their thinking is that they are promoting the “common good” in the same manner and for the same reasons that the United Nations attacks private property.

Environmental activists’ groups almost always transition from nice people with good motives into intrusive, controlling bureaucrats. Y2Y (Yukon to Yellowstone) impacts my backyard. The question you need to ask and answer is what is going on in your backyard that will impact your property rights?

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The Uses and Abuses of Conservation Easements
by Ronald A. Zumbrun   

20 years ago approximately 300,000 acres of land in the United States were subject to conservation easements donated to private, tax-exempt charitable trusts. Today, over 7,000,000 acres are so held, an almost 25-fold increase. This amount of acreage is in addition to the millions of acres held in trust by federal, state, and local governmental entities.

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The Unalienable Right to Use and Enjoy One’s Property
by Michael Shaw   

Our ancestors recognized the idea and the ideal that every individual possesses unalienable rights. When this idea is respected it provides great advantages to individuals and society.

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Don't Fence Us In.
by James Anderson Merritt   

"The density of our population makes us all rats in a maze without a place to roam. Perhaps, rats in a frenzy is a more appropriate description." JoAnn Revoir

Unless you are talking about China or India, the density of "our" population in California is rather illusory. Not that you won't find people packed closely together in various places in our State or nation, but they are either choosing to live in crowded conditions voluntarily, or are PREVENTED from settling in vast areas of open space, usually by government.

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The Consensus Process
by Henry Lamb   

"Consensus" meetings  have predetermined outcomes. They pretend to garner community input.

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