Shaw v Santa Cruz County:
Letter to the Board of Supervisors
One compelling reason for objection is that your authority does not include the power to require a citizen to forsake unalienable rights, guaranteed by the United States and California constitutions...
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Private Property:
After Decades of Abuse - The Challenge to Restore Property Rights in California
In 1939 Winston Churchill struggled with the task of forecasting the actions of Russia: “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The same can be said of the jurisprudential state of the United States Constitution’s takings clause, as set forth in the Fifth Amendment: “[N]or shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”
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Private Property:
The Necessity of Government
Political-economic theory in America is increasingly losing its compass. Sustainable Development activists promote policies of unlimited government intervention and many intellectuals promote the opposite side of the political spectrum – anarcho capitalism. This 30 year old essay charts the course for a political-economic theory predicated on reason and logic – the necessity of limited government. From the Freeman, April 1974.
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Private Property:
What is Private Property?
Free enterprise seeks and achieves the objective of ecological health, as Liberty Garden also demonstrates. There, a former weed lot now supports a wild wonderland with a plethora of productive native plants, which in turn support an array of indigenous species. Like the forester's land, Liberty Garden proves that if people are free to create voluntary associations, the laws of economics and the consequence of stewardship will cause the earth to improve. What's good for the property owner who remains free to pursue his enlightened self-interest is also good for the earth.
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Why Private Property Matters
A discussion with an attorney from the Pacific Legal Foundation. Mr. Broderick gives his unique insight on the real world application of Sustainable Development and why Private Property is so important. Michael Shaw hosts with guest Greg Broderick Written by Greg Broderick on F21SC Radio |
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Abolishing Private Property in America
Dr Michael Coffman discusses his remarkable explanation of the American Wildlands Project with the online DVD flash presentation: Taking Liberty. Dr Coffman is one of America's most courageous and intelligent scientists. This is a two hour special you will not want to miss. Written by Dr. Michael Coffman |
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The Nature of Individual Liberty and the Supreme Court's 2005 Debacle
James Burling, Principal Attorney working in the Property Rights Division of Pacific Legal Foundation discusses three Supreme Court cases that result in the destructiion of property rights. Includes discussion of the Kelo case. Host Michael Shaw Written by James Burling on Freedom 21 Santa Cruz Radio |
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One man's battle to protect private property
After fourteen years of courtroom battles to regain control over the property he claims was taken from him, you could say that rancher Wayne Hage knows a thing or two about private property, the law and government coercion. Michael Shaw hosts a discussion with Hage during a special two-hour edition of the Freedom 21 radio show. Michael Shaw with guest Wayne Hage.
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Sustainable Development:
Understanding Sustainable Development AGENDA 21: A Guide for Public Officials
Sustainable Development is a plan for global control, using land and resource restriction, social transformation through education, and other programs to accomplish this end. The land use element of Sustainable Development calls for the implementation of two action plans designed to eliminate private property: the Wildlands Project, and Smart Growth. Upon implementation of these plans, all human action is subject to control.
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Sustainable Development:
Public-Private Partnerships, the undermining of free enterprise, and the emergence of soft facism
Sustainable Development: the Hidden Threat to Liberty was presented to the Austrian Scholars Conference 2006, March 18, 2006 Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. one of the presenters was Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Steven Yates. Reprinted with permission from Freedom 21 Santa Cruz (www.freedom21santacruz.net)
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Michael Shaw, a land manager and entrepreneur from near Santa Cruz, California enjoys the luxurious growth and sweet smell of a danthonia (Danthonia californica) meadow that he restored.
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Abundance Ecology:
Releasing the Native Seedbank
An entrepreneur turns a coastal weed lot into a blooming garden of native plants by tapping a dormant seed bank, risking the clench of the Endangered Species Act.
“Releasing the Native Seedbank” is reprinted with permission from Ecological Restoration, a publication for University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. © by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reprints of this article are available directly from LibertyGarden.com with the permission of the copyright holder.
Read more... Written by Craig C. Dremann with Michael Shaw |
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Case Study:
What resource professionals have said about the ecological achievements at Liberty Garden
Inclusion does not indicate support by the individuals quoted for Free World Ecology concept
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Mariposa Lily growing at Liberty Garden
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Abundance Ecology:
What is Abundance Ecology?
A direct relationship between man and land is paramount. An improving planet has historically been shown to be possible only in a society that respects the ideals of private property, for reasons of knowledge and innovation. To release the potential productivity and diversity of a landscape, an owner must be free to engage in rigorous disturbance and free to pursue a reasoned and creative process of trial and error. This process would be suited to the choice of each individual and the uniqueness of each property.
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Yarrow in purple needle grass field
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Abundance Ecology:
Demonstrating the moral and practical nature of Abundance Ecology
Yarrow in purple needle grass field
The ground in this picture covered completely with wild oat, rip-gut and other noxious annuals. It is now primarily purple needle grass. Although the lack of spring rain led to a poor showing this year, the area generally has been increasing in wildflower diversity and population. The pictured yellow yarrow was a surprise first this year.
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Sustainable Development:
Transforming America: Sustainable Development
The Destruction of Your Rights Creating Crisis, Shortage and a Police State Achieving Abundance Ecology requires a direct relationship between man and the land. To release the potential productivity and diversity of a landscape, an owner must be free to engage in rigorous disturbance, and free to pursue a reasoned and creative process of trial and error. This process would be suited to the choice of each individual and the uniqueness of each property. In comparison, "Sustainable Development" represents the efforts to eliminate private property in America and to control and limit human action. Sustainable Development is a synonym for "shortage ecology". The philosophy behind the creation of a shortage ecology underlies the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Endangered Species Act is the foundation of the land use element of Sustainable Development. Since the ESA puts the government in control of plants, the ideals of private property are destroyed, natural resource shortages arise, and natural calamities--such as devastating forest fires--increase.
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Shortage Ecology:
Sustainable Trouble: The attempt to transform the vision of America
The political targets of Sustainable Development include the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. The economic target is free enterprise and the ideals of private property. Justice becomes a fatality of this new order.
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Shortage Ecology:
The Nature Conservancy - a Major Threat to Liberty
The Nature Conservancy is a beneficiary of a public/private partnership - the remake of the American economic system. As inside players in the Sustainable Development scam, the Nature Conservancy has harmed many lives. Pulic private partnerships scheme to implement the Wildlands Project in order to take global corporate control of land and resources.
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Abundance Ecology:
Seeds of Change
Santa Cruz Sentinel covers Abundance Ecology as practiced at Liberty Garden. There, a former weed lot now supports a wild wonderland with a plethora of productive native plants, which in turn support an array of indigenous species... Liberty Garden proves that if people are free to create voluntary associations, the laws of economics and the consequence of stewardship will cause the earth to improve.
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California wild Hazelnut grows with up to a dozen nuts per stem at Liberty Garden
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About LibertyGarden.com
LibertyGarden.Com exists to inform the public about the philosophical foundations and practical consequences of freedom policies. This includes promoting an understanding of why private property and individual liberty are corollaries and why individual liberty and a healthy planet are inseparable.
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Case Study:
From weed lot to restored coastal ecosystem
An entrepreneur turns a coastal weed lot into a blooming garden of native plants by tapping a dormant seed bank, risking the clench of the Endangered Species Act.
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