Collecting rainwater in barrels is a common Earth-friendly and off-grid living practice, but the sustainable existence chore is illegal in many states. Unless you own the water rights on the property, it is not permissible to salvage rainwater in barrels for future use. Western states where water is in high demand, like Colorado, Utah, and Washington, have laws which prohibit rainwater collection or diversion. It may sound like common sense that a deed to a piece of property includes the rights to the water below, but that is not always the case. As a real
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TULSA, Oklahoma – Denise Morrison is suing the city of Tulsa because she says code enforcement officers destroyed her much needed garden without cause. Morrison said she had over 100 hundred varieties of plants in both her back and front yard. All were edible and had specific purposes. Now, these much needed plants have all been cut down by overzealous and insensitive city workers. Because Morrison had issues at her last property over code enforcement she says she had been careful to learn what the ordinance calls for. The city ordinance in question stipulates that
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Though a number of cities and county governments have taken steps to break ties with what is sometimes known as the United Nations Agenda 21, Alabama has become the first state to take such a stand. The new Alabama law prohibits any government involvement in ICLEI, or the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. At its heart, ICLEI has essentially been an end around by which environmental activists have been able to push their globalist agenda through what is often called “soft law”. When countries like the United States fail to adopt the environmentalist agenda
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If I have a constitutional right to own property, and there is no tax legislation that can take away that right, then what loophole does the government use to make me pay to live on my own land and take it away by force if I don’t? Your lawyer and the government give you the
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I remember studying in my economics class how the process of civilization ends when a government systematically violates property rights. You can see this of course under communist governments, but it is a characteristic of any dictatorship. Peaceful civilization involves delayed gratification, saving and building. If you think how the United States was built, these
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