Thursday, March 13, 2025
Government took ranchers’ land for conservation now bulldozing it for new housing
Pam Johnson’s family did everything by the book. They paid nearly $50,000 for a grazing permit that was supposed to last 99 years. They followed government orders, sold their cattle, and gave up their livelihood—all in the name of protecting the endangered desert tortoise. But now, bulldozers are tearing through that same land to make way for homes, hotels, and retail stores. The so-called “protected habitat” was apparently only off-limits to ranchers, not developers with deep pockets.
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Whuuut? OUR Guvahmint ? Do something like That?
ReplyDeleteIn the distance, I can hear Red Skeleton doing his sarcastic
Noooo!
I have seen You Tube video by @ReventureConsulting that tells about bad govt FHA loan practices that have lured people into loans at 3% with bad credit and causing about half their income to pay for their house loan. This leads to foreclosures but the FHA then keeps the people in the loan by rearranging the loan but it goes to foreclosure later. This is causing artificial boost in home prices and more homes being built as people cannot afford them at the prices out there.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that Biden's 10 million illegal aliens need to sleep somewhere.
DeleteNo good deed goes unpunished when you're dealing with federal, state or local government because in governmentese "Trust Me" translates to "Fuck You".
ReplyDelete'Saw a similar thing happen where I live. An old local died and deeded his land to the state of California on the condition that it be designated a wildlife sanctuary in perpetuity. "Imagine the surprise" when a wealthy (dot) Indian guy came along and bought the local city council. Soon after, about HALF that perpetually designated" wildlife sanctuary was bought by "The Dot," and is now slated for construction of a MONSTROUS warehouse complex...
ReplyDeleteI think a class action lawsuit is in order.
ReplyDeleteWow, looks like some givmint folks got a nice bump in their bank accounts.
ReplyDeleteThis is how politicians get (re)election 'contributions'.
ReplyDeleteKelo v. The City of New London -- the case decided when Chief Justice Rehnquist clearly had dementia -- allows governments to use eminent domain to seize private property and sell it to developers under the guise of "public good". Even if that "public good" is something as flimsy as "higher property taxes".
ReplyDeleteGiven that the current court doesn't appear to have too much dementia, it might be time to see if Kelo v. TCNL can be over turned.
IIRC, the house and property were seized, the house torn down and then the property just sat. Maybe the developer got cold feet about building on it...
DeleteBut yeah; you don't have to buy the property anymore; just buy the city council or the county board.
Go talk to the Bundy family, maybe they can give you some ideas for going forward
ReplyDeleteJD
Land grabbers, thieves.
ReplyDeleteCalifornians using I-15 to flee the state they ruined and left behind for the crimmigrants.
ReplyDeleteTime for a financial audit of every last politician and developer involved. Hang the guilty ones, and bury them in the freshly tilled fields where the development was going to be.
ReplyDeleteAnd just to make sure nobody tries this again, throw their families in jail and seize all assets.
They're all guilty. Or they wouldn't have been "elected".
DeleteWelcome to reality: the government will fuck you, with impunity. Especially if you play by the rules. Nothing but damned liars and hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteLocally we had a large swathe of land donated by a prominent family to the county, with the stipulation that it would remain undeveloped for use only as a park, in perpetuity. About 15 years ago, the county too a large chunk of it to put up a big building, a radio tower and parking lot as an "emergency operations center". Basically an overgrown police precinct.
The balance remains a park, but with the setting largely ruined by the presence of the big ugly building and a couple of dozen police and other government vehicles present. It wouldn't surprise me to eventually see more of it sold off for other development, given the area in which it's located.
Absolutely no correlation between this random comment and the story: Developments are made of construction materials. Construction materials are made of wood. Wood burns. Over and over and over.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the storyline of the series Yellowstone.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Cliven Bundy and his stand off agains't the feds and their murder of rancher/patriot LaVoy Finnicum.
ReplyDeleteY'all think DJT being in office is going to change things? Been breathing the same unicorn farts as the Democrats. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
ReplyDeleteCliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy and MR LaVoy Finnicum. who was executed in cold blood by the feds, are hero's. i was at Bunkerville in a logistics capacity, food and water, and it was an awesome sight to see all of the American patriots who showed up to defend and support Mr Bundy's rights against federal tyranny against an American citizen.
ReplyDeletei will certainly go help Pam Johnson if the call goes out.
The government can be sued for fraud and this decision overturned.
ReplyDeleteLeft unsaid in all the various media accounts is who owned that land to begin with. FWS designated it a Conservation area, yes. A DWMA within a HCP. But that doesn't mean it was public/federal land. From who did the ranchers lease their grazing rights? Was it state or county land before it was sold? Typically, the Feds don't just sell land to developers. That was a Washington county and/or Leeds decision.
ReplyDeleteTime to purchase a dozer, a welder and some plate steel.
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