AN ANTI-PROPERTY INITIATIVE GETS A
BOOST FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE:
U.S. SENATOR GEORGE ALLEN
By Dr. Peyton Knight
Senator Allen is the chief sponsor of legislation that would create a massive federal "National Heritage Area" that would stretch from Charlottesville, Virginia, through Frederick County, Maryland, and end in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Such areas are best described as heavily regulated corridors where property rights may be strictly curtailed.
Allen's bill would deputize special interest groups -- many with clear anti-property rights agendas -- and federal employees to oversee land use policy in the corridor.
Senator Allen often describes himself as a "Jeffersonian" Conservative, which he defines as someone who doesn't like "nanny, meddling, restrictive, burdensome government." However, if you fail to support your rhetoric with substance, you're all hat and no cattle.
Senator Allen's initiative in some ways resembles a pork-barrel earmark, as it disburses funds to pre-selected preservationist interest groups. Unfortunately, it is even worse than an earmark, as it would threaten property rights by --
Robert J Smith, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, said:
Mychal Massie, National Chairman of the African-American leadership network Project 21, which is affiliated with the National Center, notes that the impact of Allen's bill would be felt disproportionately.
Dr. Roger Pilon, Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, notes the irony that overzealous preservationists at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello are corrupting Jefferson's legacy, ostensibly in an effort to protect it: "They want to traduce Jefferson's views in order to save his views," says Dr. Pilon.
Citizens of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania might look to property owners caught within the boundaries of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area in Arizona to catch a glimpse of their possible future.
The Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources has filed a report explaining the situation in Yuma. The report, which accompanies legislation designed to amend the Yuma Heritage Area in order to protect property owners, states:
Thomas Jefferson was quite clear in his views regarding property rights when he wrote: "The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management."
Robert J. Smith states:
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