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Show Page 8, Cdntinued from page 1 dispossessed in their o wn country. In opposing passage of the federal land-us- e bill. Sen. Curtis stated: " Whoever determines the use of land, determines its value. If a citizen has a piece of land and the purpose for which he would like to use it causes it to have a value, say, of $500 an acre and the wise, all-power- ful bureaucrats concern which are of more that statewide significance . So broadly does the bill define what is meant critical areas, by these Jhat almost any land could he considered subject to federally dictated zoning restrictions. FED ERA L REG ULA TIOXS REGARDING STATE LAND-US- E PLANS bill proThe federal land-us- e so-call- ed in claims: land Washington decide that Nothing in this Act shall he should have another use, either construed to expand or diminish because of the irav it would affect federal, interstate or State jurisadjacent property, or something diction. responsibility, or rights in else, and the land ends up with a land and water revalue of $200 per acre, they have the field of taken property from that citizen sources. planning, development of control.... without just compensation or due This is a deliberate and blatant process of law. He had something of the American people worth $500 and the government deception inasmuch as one of the prime purdeliberately reduced it to $200. bill is to the land-us- e The Senate bill contains no poses of diminish State jurisdiction, guarantees that owners will be and rights. for any losses responsibility compensated Proving the lie of the above resulting from imposition of land-us- e claim in the bill, the bill itself concontrols. Indeed, the land-us- e tains the following stipulations of hill itself specifically forbids States federal control: from using any federal grant to The Executive Office of the compensate property owners for President shall issue guidelines to diminution of value of their land the federal agencies and the States because of provisions of land-us- e to assist them in carrying out the laws. of this Act. Sen. Curtis then went on to requirements The Secretary of the Interior, declare: after appropriate consultation with What ic are doing here is representatives of the States...and embarking upon a program in upon the advice of the Interagency which the federal government Board on Land Use determines land use. not for the Advisory and the heads of federal land owned by the federal Policy agencies represented on the Board, government, but for all the private shall promulgate rules and regulapeople. The land in volved might be tions.. .to administer this Act. the smallest lot in a city; it might be The Secretary shall have a patch, or it might be afarm authority to terminate any finof 10,000 acres, but the federal ancial assistance extended to a government launches into the State..and withdraw his deterbusiness of determining land use.... mination of grant eligibility whenA very few years from now, if land-us- e statewide ever.. .the we embark upon this measure, the planning process or the State land-us- e the federal great power of program of such State is deterwill be used to mined government not to meet the requiredetermine the use of all land in the ments of this Act. count rv." Each recipient of a grant purTURMXG THE STA TES IX TO suant to this Act shall make rePUPPETS OF THE FEDERAL ports and evaluations in such form, GOVERNMENT at such times, and containing such The Land Use Policy and information concerning the status, Planning Assistance Act, as passed disposition and application of fedby the Senate, proposes to make eral funds and the operation of the grants to assist the States to statewide land-us- e planning prodevelop and implement State land-us- e cess or State land-us- e program as programs and to coordinate the Secretary may require by regulfederal programs and policies ations published in the Federal which have land-us- e impacts. Register... The States are encouraged" to The function of promulgating develop their own programs, but regulations by mere publication in those land-us- e programs must the Federal Register simply means conform to so many specific law by bureaucratic decree. federal provisions that the States FASHIONING A FEDERAL arc, in effect, relegated to rubber-stampin- g BUREA L'CRA TIC EMPIRE the federal policies. bill tells the The federal land-us- e During the debate on the federal States that they will get millions of land-us- e bill. Sen. Curtis stated: dollars in federal aid simply by The federal government with its planning red-tapsetting up a land-us- e its bureaucracy, its great scheme under a process its ability to pour out power, billions of dollars in grants to get approved by Washington. However, as Sen. Fannin States and individuals surrender their rights, is a mighty powerful pointed out. the federal government will dictate what each State institution. " must include in its land-us- e program, how they must implement it. and how they will be And. under the provisions of the judged on the adequacy of that land-us- e bill, the federal implementation. bureaucracy will be expanded to One provision of the bill demammoth proportions. mands that each State have a State For example, the bill creates the planning agency with authority to following additional bureaucratic carry out the will of the federal Office of Land Use re e, entities: government. The July 7, 1973. issue Events stated: The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand The Utah Independent, November 29, 1973 of Human the Policy Administration, the Interagency Advisory Board on Land Use Policy and an Ad Hoc Federal-Stat- e "Perhaps the greatest opening Joint Committee or toward federal control, however, is Committees. the provision giving the Interior I he Advisory Interagency to ensure the power Department Board on Land Use Policy is to be use the all of restrict States that the composed of: The Director of the areas of critical environmental Land Use w ho shall serve as Chairman; and representatives of the Departments of Agriculture; Health, Defense; Commerce; Education, and Welfare; Housing Office and of Urban Development; Transportation; and Treasury; the Atomic Energy Commission; the Environmental Protection the Council Environmental Quality; Agency; on the Council of Economic Advisers; and the Office of Management and Budget. The reason for the inclusion of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on the board is doubtless because of the section bill which of the Senate land-us- e states that in order for a State to have continued eligibility for federal grants, the State must prove that it has developed a program which assures that local regulations do not arbitrarily or capriciously restrict or exclude development of public facilities, housing or utilities of regional benefit. In other words, one purpose of ' bill would be the federal land-us- e to abolish any local regulations which now prevent federally-assistehousing in the suburbs. low-inco- FORCEFUL MEASURES BEING PLANNED Although in the form passed by bill makes the Senate, the land-us- e State compliance voluntary, it nevertheless contains a provision that after the third fiscal year following If you oppose the federal Policy-Administratio- enactment, the land-us- e program, buy and distribute extra copies of this paper. Send to members of your State all legislature, your mayor, officials of your city and county governments, and your local newspapers. Send copies also to property-own- er groups, land developers, real estate agents, home mortgage institutions, etc., as well as your friends and neighbors, in order to help mobilize local opposition to all land-us- e plans financed by federal funds, and thus controlled by federal bureaucrats. DREXLER SHOT IN Bill BREAK-THROUG- from John R. Rarick U.S. Representative H ARM FOR REBELS Drexler, YOUVE A RIGHT TO KNOW after TAX 6th Congressional District, Ixmisiana the government put 155 witnesses on the stand and proved that he had taken in over 52 1,000 per year for three straight years, had a jury acquit him in 15 minutes of three charges of wilful failure to file". THANKSGIVING 1973, A TIME IN TO TAKE STOCK AMERICA In recent years, this country has stumbled from one crisis to another. The senses of the American people seem to have Drexler told the jury of Supreme been so disoriented by this crisis Court decisions he had relied upon. mentality that we have lost sight These included the Murdock, of the great things in America. Sullivan and Albertson cases. The This Thanksgiving season offers greatest help to one accused of us an opportunity to help regain wilful" failure to file is our sense of national direction. summarized in US v Bishop, No. The purpose of the original argued before the United Thanksgiving was to pause from States Supreme Court on January-16the troubles of the day and give 1973 and decided on May 29, thanks to God for the bounties of 1973. The case is cited as 98 S Ct this land. The Pilgrim Fathers gave 2008 (1973), and in Headnote 8 their thanks to the Lord, not to the holds as follows: government. Their praise wras not that a tax offense only for the natural greatness they Requirement be committed willfully" is not met found on this continent, but for the if a taxpayer has relied in good liberty to harvest that abundance faith on a prior decision of the as free men. The basic objectives of Supreme Court. 71-16- . Interagency Advisory Board on Land Use Policy would Thanksgiving havent changed. In other words, wilful means recommend to Congress not only still give thanks to God additional land-us- e criminal". The charge of wilful Our people policies, but also methods by which such failure to file" really means for the blessings of this land. criminal failure to file. Criminal Because of technological policies are implemented. advancements and plain hard work One of the promoters of the failure to file really means federal land-us- e bill. Sen. criminal exercise of ones by our farmers, our land has in the Ldmund Muskie. during the Constitutional rights which is become the most productive Senate debate described each an absurd contradiction of sense as world. Our crop yields set new method of implementation as well as of English. There is no such records each year. The number of farmers needed to feed our either incentives or sanctions thing as criminal exercise of population has been decreasing designed to move the States to a Constitutional rights. each year, thus freeing more people national land-us- e policy." Drexler showed the jury that he for other areas of work necessary I he menacing word sanctions" had indeed relied upon the Sullivan to build the advanced economy we was mentioned on a number of occasions during the Senate debate case. (US v Sullivan. 274 US 259) now enjoy. Our farmers produce as a means of compelling State which had held, regarding a tax more food of higher quality now for answers that the than at any other point in history, return, acceptance of a national land-us- e was privileged from defendant policy. The very word denotes yet we arc told that there are food he could raised have the coercion, a means to repress, curb making shortages in America today. If in the return, but could objection or compel. there arc shortages, the fault lies not on that account refuse to make not in the A FEDERA L DOSSIER OF A I.L ground or with the men all. like at return Drexler, any who till it, but rather with over-zealoPROPER TY O WNERS? Jerome Daly and many others, politicians who try to feed claimed I'ifth the on Amendment he Land Use Policy and the entire world while overlooking face the of the returns submitted , their homeland. Planning Assistance Act, as passed Sullivan. on relying U.S. the If there are crises at this time, Senate, provides that by the Office of Land Use Policy Drexler also relied upon the they are the result of misguided Administration shall develop Murdock case (US v Murdock. 290 leadership and a turning away F and maintain a ederal Land Use from the qualities that have made US 389 (1933) wherein the Information and Data Center with this country great. There have such regional branches as the Supreme Court held that wilful meant with an evil purpose". How always been problems. But our Secretary of the Interior may deem could a patriot with a love of people have faced them with appropriate..." In the and a desire to save the courage and determination. Just what docs the term land-us- e country been solved. Constitution and to legally stop his end, they have data inventories mean? Would It should he remembered that rulers Irom violating it possibly be I this not be a massive file on every is a uniquely hunksgiving guilty of wilful failure to file? in owner each State as to property American holiday, not an how he uses his property? I hus the observance. The Marvin conviction is international federal bureaucrats would have owed to theCooleys problems of this age can only be the Judges usurping information readily available in jury s I unction, and deciding solved by looking within for the to order make future decisions as himself that I Cooley had no right to answers. hey can onlybe tnct and to how you may or may not use rely upon the decisions of the conquered by n return to the basic your private property. Supreme Court which saved principles of Americanism upon WHAT YOU CAS DO Drexler with the jury. Patriotic which this nation was founded. us 1 Most State Legislatures arc some form of land-us- e legislation in order to qualify- for federal grants. now-considerin- - challengers of unlimited government have to reach the jury with what they relied upon as a reasonable person and they will begin to win. Ulcers are what - you get from climbing Qver mole hills. |