U.N.
has deemed commercial agriculture unsustainable and has used taxpayer dollars and
local supervisors to re-zone, re-shape, and prohibit land use for local
agriculture or building that is not approved by their bio-diversity plan of
limiting human habitation – all in the name of saving the planet.
Our
planet does not need saving, Mother Earth is doing fine. The problem lies with progressive
humans in positions of power who want to control everything we do while they
line their pockets with our hard-earned taxpayer dollars.
Unfair
regulatory actions against Martha Boneta, a farmer in Fauquier County, Virginia,
“violate fundamental rights and unfairly restrict her property rights.”
Delegate L. Scott Lingamfelter (R-Woodbridge/31st district) plans to
strengthen Virginia’s Right to Farm Act and to “protect farmers against future
encroachments by local government.”
Delegate
Lingamfelter, who represents four of the Fauquier County’s 20 voting precincts,
is planning a press conference to discuss his proposed legislation on January
8, 2013 in Richmond, Virginia. Two prominent property rights advocates will be in
attendance, Joel Salatin and Mark Fitzgibbons.
“Martha
Boneta’s rights have been wrongly challenged. I am bringing legislation in the
2013 session of the General Assembly to improve the Right to Farm Act here in
Virginia, so small farmers like Martha will enjoy fully their property rights.
It’s not about demonizing anyone in this controversy. It’s about standing by
property rights and our Founder’s vision.”
Local
Governments for Sustainability, formerly known as ICLEI, the International
Council on Local Environmental Initiatives has been quite successful since 1992,
when U.N. Agenda 21 was adopted, in infiltrating and recruiting local
governments to do their bidding. When Americans exposed their nefarious plans,
they have changed their name. Their main goal is to control zoning and land
use.
Martha
Boneta’s plight and subsequent lawsuit stemmed from a planned birthday party
for eight ten-year olds on her farm. County officials notified her that she
should have obtained a prior permit for hosting this party and thus would be
fined $5,000 for failing to abide by the local ordinance. She was charged with
two additional violations of up to $5,000 each, one for advertising a pumpkin
carving and another for operating a small shop on her property from which
Martha sold her fresh produce and homemade crafts. The county made these
allegations without ever setting foot on her farm. The Fauquier county board of
zoning appeals upheld the zoning administrator’s decision that Boneta held “temporary
and/or special events without the required county approvals.”
I
have written about Martha’s plight in my book, “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental
Piracy.” Martha purchased a ruined and abandoned farm under an agricultural
conservation easement. Nothing in the bill of sale was mentioned that she could
not farm. A lot of hard work, sweat, and tears went into breathing life into
this property. She never dreamed that stumbling blocks will be placed in front
of her along the way by the very Americans who are supposed to protect our
freedoms.
She
got a business license. She built an apiary, harvested hay, grew herbs, and
rescued 165 animals, sold chicken, duck, turkey, emu eggs, candles made from beeswax,
birdhouses, and fiber from llamas and alpacas.
First,
she was told she could not cut grass on her property. Then she had to fence in
20 acres for two years because it was considered “hallowed ground,” although
nobody died there during the Civil War, it was just an encampment area. By this
rule, the whole state of Virginia should be cordoned off to any kind of use due
to its many battlefields and movements of troops across the state. After two
years, a “clerical error” was declared and Martha could use her land, no
reimbursement for loss of property or revenue.
A
trench was dug to prevent parking on her property because it might obscure the
view shed. Then came the infamous pumpkin carving party that actually never
took place, it was cancelled. Yet the harassment from the county and the
moneyed environmentalists never stopped.
These people prefer and define farming as penny-loafer farming, running
a few horses on lush endless green grass fields, nothing to grow that people would
need.
The
battle did not stop with Martha. Thirteen vintners filed lawsuits against the
same county for not being allowed to serve wine on their premises after 6 p.m.,
another Fauquier County restriction passed to please one vintner who chose to
close early. Why leave things alone? Force everyone to do the same, control
what everyone else does.
Americans
are waking up when they run into legal battles at the state and local levels
involving zoning issues driven by one ultimate goal, global governance. U.N.
Agenda 21 “soft law” document is not legally binding per se but morally
obligatory. Unfortunately, so many of its 40 chapters of rules have already
been written into law within other laws passed by Congress and they provide
specific rules and regulations about local organizations and their practices,
limiting everyone’s behavior and freedom, individuals and organizations alike.
Add zoning ordinances passed by local and state governments and you have a
recipe for disaster, total control of what you do with your own property.
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