Do You Really Own Your Property?

Since the founding of our nation Americans have prided themselves on their freedoms and liberties.

In the nation's first one hundred and fifty years, or so, any individual who paid for their property they'd settled on owned it outright.

Over the last one hundred years, or so, this is no longer true. Anyone who doesn't pay their county property taxes can have their land taken from them.

But now, more recently there's a new trend being implemented by counties. It has to do with the growing resistance by many property owners more recently who are paying their property taxes, but are disregarding the county's enforcement of codes.

I read an article and watched a video the other day about how a county in the Los Angeles area of Southern California has passed a new measure which will make any property owners who are served with a code violation have to pay all the fees related to the processing of their court case about their violation of county code.

This article/video asserts that Agenda 21 is behind this trend. I was dubious, but wondered if there was anything to this, and thought this was a result of the crazy things going on in that state with their liberal policies on immigration, homelessness and gun laws. 

However, I was surprised that the next morning, I came across a local article listed on one of my subscription services for daily news which addressed the same issue in my state.

It's important to note what's said in the second article under the heading, "County Changes". If you read the first article and watch the video, it becomes rather obvious that the same process is beginning to take place in the local county of my state.

Apparently, there is some validity to this move by counties around the country to impose such measures on property owners. While many will deny that Agenda 21 has anything to do with this, it causes one to stop and think about what's going on. Are we losing our freedoms and liberties to bureaucrats at the local level of government too?

I can relate to the need for addressing issues which the  latter article addresses when it comes to code enforcement, but when some of those codes are clearly absurd or ridiculous ones, and the shift of costs for property owners to fight them becomes outlandish, then it appears our local governments are becoming tyrannical.