THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 40, February 25, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PAUL MCCARTNEY -- A VICTIM OF HIS OWN GIBBERISH
By Tom DeWeese
PAUL MCCARTNEY: ADHERENT OF THE IDEOLOGY OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & PROMOTER OF THE
ENVIRONMENTALIST AGENDA & THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT -- MCCARTNEY BECOMES A VICTIM OF WHAT HE HAS
SUPPORTED & PROMOTED: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & ITS STRICT LAND USE POLICIES THAT ALLOW A POWER ELITE
TO DICTATE WHAT PEOPLE DO WITH THEIR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY
FULL STORY:
I love the Beatles’ music. My respect for individual members of the legendary band end there. Paul McCartney has spent a
lifetime making incredible music, while uttering pure gibberish on issues that matter. It seems that, if he can’t put a rhyme and
a tune to it, his brain turns to mush.
He has been a major promoter of the animal rights scam perpetrated by PETA. And he has operated a sheep farm with a
“commitment to natural methods, and the farm and produce have gained recognition and designation as organic status,”
according to a McCartney spokesman. In other words, Paul McCartney has spent years accepting and promoting the
environmental agenda, which is based more on political ideology and propaganda than on scientific fact. Sir Paul has done
his best to toe an impossible, anti-human line. Worse, he has used his celebrity status to push that misguided agenda on the
rest of us.
But Paul is only human. He has needs and wants. And he has the money to get them. Or so he thought. It seems Sir Paul is
the victim of Sustainable Development and its strict land use policies that allow a power elite to dictate what we do with our
own private property.
Paul’s farm is an extensive estate, with lots of land, just 70 miles outside London. But, when he built a simple one and a half
story log cabin on the property to serve as a quiet retreat, away from the hustle and bustle of the farm, he was foiled. It
seems the local community planning committee doesn’t like the cabin. They say it “harms the intrinsic landscape quality and
character of the area.” Says Councilman Grey Metcalf:
“Planning laws are there for a reason. If there was a free-for-all,
people would build where they liked, whenever they liked.”
The Council says Paul ruined an area of outstanding natural beauty.
The fact is, Paul’s cabin doesn’t harm anything. It’s just that his neighbors want to control what he does on his property
because they consider the view over his fields to be their own “view shed” and they don’t want him building something in
the way to spoil their vistas and sunsets. Protecting the environment is just a euphemism for stealing property.
Paul’s problem is that he never argued before the Council that the land was his and that he should have a perfect right to
build a little cabin, if he wants to. Instead, he argues his need, saying he has a need to privacy, seclusion and security, due
to the proximity of a public foot path running next to his farm house. Of course, the foot path was already enforced over
private land as part of the open space rules. Paul then goes on to plead what a great environmentalist he is. In essence,
Paul pleaded that “I’m one of you, how can you do this to me?” The Council countered saying the cabin isn’t essential to
the running of the farm, so he doesn’t really need it. Paul then learned that the pigs he had helped put in charge, through
his support of the dictatorship called Sustainable Development, are now more equal than he is. It’s the new order of things
that Sir Paul thought he wanted.
Of course, it can be argued that Paul has received what he deserves because he’s so eager to inflict the same idiocy on the
rest of us. But gloating over Paul doesn’t restore our property rights. Will he ever understand that his actions and political
gibberish have consequences? Perhaps Paul could now be encouraged to rewrite George Harrison’s song, “Tax man,” and
replace those words with “Land Man.”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Civil Liberties -- Private Property Rights
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a
grassroots activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia, and dedicated to advancing the principles of private
property rights, free markets, and constitutionally limited government. The Center maintains an Internet website at
www.americanpolicy.org.
Copyright 2006 American Policy Center
Published with Permission of the American Policy Center
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