Copy that Jan and Woodlema.

I have had to jump through all kinds of hoops to make our property taxes affordable. My bride and I have Galted on a 700 acre ranch in Texas far from any populated areas (my choice of where to buy said ranch was predicated on night time Sat pics observing the LACK of lights, ie, REMOTE), and to keep from being taxed to death we have had to resort to any and all tax exemptions available, currently offered by fed, state, and local govts, including ag exemptions, wildlife exemptions, soil conservation exemptions, blah, blah blah. All of which costs us money to comply. I wonder when, in my dreams, will we be offered school tax exemptions since we are in our 60's and have no kids, nor will we, since we are both now infertile. Where is THAT exemption?
On top of that, ALL those exemptions, at the whim of cash starved govt thieves, can be eliminated with no real due process. So, there is no security regarding retirement planning .
We have no real heirs that would appreciate our off grid life style, which is mostly mute, because even if they were deserving, they would have to sell off half the assets just to pay the effing inheritance taxes.
I believe my final solution will be an automatic sequence of events that will be initiated upon the final demise of the last survivor, either me or my bride.

I have the technology, in part trained by a govt destruction machine, aka, military.

Scorched Earth.

Molon Labe!

What ever the Kakistocracy says you do...

Lol!
However, I think that they might be impressed with the invention of: "The Handyman's Secret Weapon"!

Strangely, every place that the mafia runs is well-run.
However, they prefer to be their own police force. That doesn't always fare well.

If you aren't hurting another PERSON or his/her property you aren't a criminal.
The police can suspect all that they want...
They are being paid to protect...not "enforce".

Well, we just gave up the right to informed consent here in California. You aint seen nothing yet, my friends.

If you don't have free will, you don't have shit.

Weren't they the state that just outlawed civil forfeiture, though?

It's an open-and-shut violation of due process, and any judge who upholds it has violated his oath. It is not possible to honestly believe differently.

You are spot on as to safer:
"February 1, 2013 (CHICAGO) --
In this I-Team report, Chicago's rising murder rate in a new context, how the numbers of shooting deaths compare to the city's most notorious crime era, the one that has tarnished Chicago's reputation around the world for a century.
The surprising stats show the city is worse off now in the category of murder than at the height of the era that has driven Chicago's reputation for almost a century, Capone's "gangland" Chicago."
http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8977635/

Read up on the R.I.C.O. laws signed by Nixon 1n 1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackete...
There ain't no Constitution no more. That's what all this crap is based on.

so that DEA agent must have been acting federally then

None.
Without property rights, no other rights are possible. That is why police seizure of property without a hearing and the proper legal steps is not only unconstitutional, but immoral to the nth degree. It is especially egregious when prosecutors and judges help foster such actions. If the Founders were alive today, they'd need a lot of duct tape to keep their heads from exploding.

Just in case you haven't noticed those charged with implementing the laws do so at their own discretion.
This has been going on for years and years. We do not have property rights any longer unless we are otherwise towing the line. Towing the line means don't upset the apple cart i.e. the police who believe they are the ultimate authority because if you do buck them the judges will still support them regardless how right you are. Welcome to the USA.

Thanks for the warning. It is difficult to keep track of 'which' states are standing up for 'which' specific freedoms (whilst simultaneously crushing other freedoms). I keep hoping that one state will pull definitively 'ahead of the pack' in support of personal and economic freedom.

I have been reading dire reports of mass graves in Mexico. Keep safe!

Jan

Too bad Ragnar Danneskold cannot go in and destroy "forfeited" assets after they are seized.

Sorry but any seizure of assets without a warrant is unconstitutional unless fair restitution is paid at the time (this allows for eminent domain which is not the subject here I think).

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Ad valorem apparently includes sales tax as well as property tax and inheritance tax. I would agree to sales tax as a reasonable method of funding a minimalist gov, but I totally agree with you, woodlema, about perpetually renting your property from the gov via property tax. That needs to GO!

Jan

I think ALL fines and police confiscations should NOT go to the people doing the fining or confiscation. Its a plain conflict of interest. The way it is now encourages policing for profit.

These posts shed some light on the extent that "property rights" have been legislated away:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...

I've heard it said that English Common Law states that your property is yours only for the span of your lifetime, then reverts to the state.

Maybe someone who knows of this can chime in .