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- Book Review by Nathaniel R. Dickinson, PRFA, October 17,
2006)
During the Twentieth Century, private property rights, the
cornerstone of freedom, were greatly diminished in exchange for
government power under environmental law, regulatory takings,
rent control, scenic regulations, historic preservation, architectural
review, and eminent domain abuse. The radical left is winning.
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- PRFA’s “Informed Consent” checklist is designed
to help the private property owner and his legal counsel to level
the playing field in dealing with the slick experts who negotiate
for the land trusts.
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- By Nate Dickinson, July 22, 2002.
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- A Letter to the Editor by Joshua Reichert, Director ,Environment
Program, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Penn, in Agri-News,
May 11, 2001. “Your 4/13 issue carried a reprint of an
article from InsightMag.com suggesting that conservation easements
are all ‘connected with’ a grand conspiracy called
The Wildlands Project (TWP). The article is incorrect and misleading
in several respects.”
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- By Don Fife and Ralph Pray.
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Update - February 2002: - Sec. Gail Norton asks for Ideas
to Guide Budget, Goals, & Performance Measures.
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- By Richard Miniter, Founder and President, Brussels Institute,
Brussels, Belgium; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23,
2004)
Property rights are already lost in Europe, but in the United
States only a few battles have been lost. It is time to win.
Modeled after successful movements, Richard Miniter’s
ten steps to win start with recruiting a legislative champion.
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- Index page of information about intellectual property rights.
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- Index page of information about international property
rights.
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- By Robert J. Smith, President, Center for Private Conservation,
Washington, D.C., Speech at the Seventh Annual Conference on
Private Property Rights (PRFA, October 2003)
Invasive species are everywhere. If the Greens get an invasive
species program started, they’ll have an Office of
Invasive Species or Invasive Species Program so that they can
take all the things they dislike, whether it is crown vetch or
whatever, and put them on the list and then start eradicating
them, and that is going to mean an end to your private property.
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- Index page of information about invasive species.
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- By Henry St. John FitzGerald, Attorney at Law, Arlington,
Virginia; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23, 2004)
The Constitution is the biggest bulwark to protect our rights,
including private property rights. Government keeps trying to
expand its power, and important cases hold its power in check.
The cases protecting property owners from regulatory takings
began in 1922 with Pennsylvania Coal. “Inverse
condemnation” is when so many land rights have been
taken away that a Fifth Amendment Taking occurs.
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- By Thomas J. Borelli, Ph. D., Managing Partner and Portfolio
Manager, Free Enterprise Action Fund, Eleventh Annual National
Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October
13, 2007)
Environmental organizations are harnessing major corporations
like Pepsico, Caterpillar, General Electric and JP Morgan Chase
against their own corporate interests and capitalism itself to
promote universal government government-funded health care and
an economy centered on global warming-based regulation. Acting
as a shareholder activist, the Free Enterprise Action Fund successfully
sought a stockholder proxy at JP Morgan Chase against their support
for global warming regulation.
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— By Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, September
21, 2002)
The Sierra Club’s radical fund-raising letter misaccuses
commercial logging of creating desolate moonscapes. On the other
hand, the club fails to note the pivotal role that extreme wilderness
policies played in the intensity of recent forest fires.The law
established National Forests in 1890 to guarantee a future supply
of timber, not to provide wilderness areas for the enjoyment
of Sierra Clubbers.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, February 18, 2005)
Nine oversized pages of invasive questions in the American
Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau cause citizens to
justly worry about their privacy. But Congress precipitated the
inquiries in the long form census in order to obtain exhaustive
data to plan and fund big government programs.
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- Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, December 2002)
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- The Long Island Pine Barrens Lesson. It’s easy to
pass laws to restrict property owners, a lot more difficult to
come up with hard cash to compensate them. By Carol W. LaGrasse,
reprinted from New York Property Rights Clearinghouse
(Vol. 3, No. 2, April - July 1996).
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— Commentary by Nate Dickinson (PRFA, February 21, 2003)
An older woman would like to build a ranch-style home on her
property in Altamont, N. Y., so that she will not have to climb
stairs and will have her daughter living next door in the existing
house. But angry neighbors “mobbed” the town hall to
protest this perfectly reasonable plan.
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