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Summer in the WEST SUMMER 2011 Summer in the WEST Display until September 15 www.paragonfoundation.org $5.95 US The Journal of the PARAGON Foundatiion,, Inc.. photo by Audrey Hall OUR MISSION The PARAGON Foundation provides for education, research and the exchange of ideas in an effort to promote and support Constitutional principles, individual freedoms, private property rights and the continuation of rural customs and culture – all with the intent of celebrating and continuing our Founding Fathers vision for America. The PARAGON Foundation, Inc. • To Educate and Empower We invite you to join us. www.paragonfoundation.org IN THIS ISSUE 10 62 100 Of Note On Your Horses’ Feet Bending Tradition Current Events and Culture By Pete Healey The Craft of Matt Humphreys From Out West By A.J. 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Mangum SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Nicole Krebs ASSOCIATE EDITOR Marilyn Fisher SPECIAL FEATURES EDITOR Robin Ireland ART DIRECTOR Audrey Hall FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER Darrell Arnold, Mark Bedor, Dan Gagliasso, Guy de Galard, Mary Williams Hyde, Dan Martinez, Thea Marx, Jane Merrill CONTRIBUTORS THE PARAGON FOUNDATION GB Oliver EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER Don “Bebo” Lee VICE PRESIDENT Alice Eppers 4 TREASURER Bobby Jones Daniel Martinez William C. Reynolds DIRECTORS For sponsorship inquiries, contact Nicole Krebs – 575.434.8998 at the PARAGON Foundation, Inc. office, 1209 Michigan Ave., Alamogordo, NM 88310. To join or renew your membership or sponsorship, call toll free 877.847.3443. The Cowboy Way is published quarterly by the PARAGON Foundation, Inc. Memberships are $50.00 per year. The PARAGON Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3. Postmaster: Send address changes to the PARAGON Foundation, Inc. 1209 Michigan Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310 WWW.PARAGONFOUNDATION.ORG Copyright © 2011 All Rights Reserved FROM THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT GB OLIVER Don’t Let Ignorance Go to Seed Will Rodgers said, “It isn’t the things that we don’t law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, know that give us trouble, it’s the things we do know that without just compensation.” just ain’t so.” No words better illustrate America’s Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the Constitution understanding of the value and definition of private reaffirms that “No State shall make or enforce any law property. So important was private property in the minds which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the Framers of the Constitution, that they elevated of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person property to the same level as Life and Liberty. It has been of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor the driving force that set America apart from the rest of deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal the world. The freedom to individually own property – to protection of the laws.” build, expand, leverage and create wealth with the only So, how does government, through their agencies, limitations being one’s creativity and courage – was an continue to regulate and restrict its citizens from building, experiment that built the richest Nation the world has expanding and using their properties without “just ever known. Americans have lost their understanding of compensation?” Through our misconceptions of this most property and its value, and, as that understanding subsides, valuable right, it has been swept away and replaced by a so then does their freedoms and wealth. thousand other righteous causes, none of which are We in this country view property as a physical thing, protected under the Constitution or provide any wealth to something tangible that we can see and touch, and it is our Nation. In our minds, because we are still paying the through this actual misunderstanding of the definition of property taxes on a piece of dirt we can’t use, somehow our property in America, that we as a nation are taking a very property has not been impaired. different path than those spoken of in our founding The California Coastal Act is a prime example of ignorance documents. In the popular view, many consider property gone to seed. Passed in 1974, this act was to, in the words of the as nothing more than a piece of dirt. And, given that false act, “promote the public safety, health, and welfare, and to protect reality, Government has been able to restrict our use of our public and private property, wildlife, marine fisheries, and other own property and circumvent those provisions in the Fifth ocean resources, and the natural environment, it is necessary to Amendment that were put there specifically to stop such protect the ecological balance of the coastal zone and prevent its infringements. The famous economist Thomas Sowell said deterioration and destruction.” Now who among us could argue it best, “Neither property nor the value of property is a with such a noble cause? But, over the years, this act of human physical thing. Property is a set of defined options…It is charity has been used like a blunt object on California the options and not the physical thing which are landowners living within an eleven-mile radius from the high- ‘property,’ economically as well as legally. But because the tide mark of the Pacific Ocean. public tends to think of property as tangible, physical But, the California Coastal Commission – who would 6 things, this opens the way politically for government have us believe that their authority comes directly from confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options Yemaya, mother Goddess of the Ocean – hands down while leaving the physical objects untouched.” edicts as if they were summary orders from some distant Take a moment and just think about that statement. god-like source of truth. But in truth, we live in a Mr. Sowell’s understanding of property is in lock step Constitutional Republic, and the Coastal Commission has with the countless rulings of the United States Supreme no power other than that which was given to them in the Court which have described “Property” as something Act itself. Are we to believe somewhere in the California tangible and intangible, visible and invisible. A right Coastal Act, the State of California granted the Coastal vigilantly protected by the Constitution, any invasion of Commission the authority to restrict the use of, and take, those property rights, either by government or individual, private property without compensation, and to use means is to be an actionable wrong. In fact, the architects of the that meet the legal definition of extortion in negotiating Constitution believed that even our very thoughts were your rights? That through this act, the State mandated our “Property,” and so, held a position of importance that your local elected officials to dispense with your Life and Liberty and property were inseparable. The Fifth unalienable, expansive, Constitutional rights and bow to Amendment makes clear that we would not be “Deprived this appointed commission in order for you to get a permit of life, liberty, or private property, without due process of to add a bathroom onto your home? Long answer – no. WWW.PARAGONFOUNDATION.ORG The State of California did none of these things. Odds are there can be no rule making or legislation which would that those who have been negatively affected by this act abrogate them.” Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) could tell us that Hines Ward is the current Dancing with the Stars champion, but have never read the act that has The following are actual sections – word for word – been given credit of robbing them of their property. found in the California Coastal Act, Chapter 1 The State of California makes clear in Section 30010 of (Findings and Declarations and General Provisions) the 2010 Revised Coastal Act that nothing in the act could be Section 30010 Compensation for taking of private construed as authorizing the commission or local property; legislative declaration governments to deny any permit in a manner which would The Legislature hereby finds and declares that this damage private property without payment of “just division is not intended, and shall not be construed as compensation.” Section 30005.5 says that neither the Act nor authorizing the commission, port governing body, or local the Coastal Commission can require the local governments government acting pursuant to this division to exercise to exercise any powers it does not already have under the their power to grant or deny a permit in a manner which Constitution and the laws of the State of California.
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