Here is the wrench I am throwing in for number three.... So whether property is held by a citizen or an emigrant or a rebel it can and will be taken if the government so desires..."the machinery is already in place"
CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY
"Now it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism upon a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."
This famous quote was made by Ronald Reagan... former president of the US
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Notice in this article how property can and is taken even when no charges have been filed and/or the person IS INNOCENT!!!! I saw on the news how in California a law to seize homes was put into place if a person was caught growing marijuana or involved in drug trafficking. The person would then be jailed on top of this. A investigation arose later over teh amount of homes being taken, revealed that LAPD were deliberately planting marijuana and/or making claims against homes in nice areas so that the home could be taken and sold to their friends, families, politicians and even themselves!!!...so once again THE CORRUPT "MACHINERY IS IN PLACE ALREADY"
Government Has Property Rights – To Your Houseby M. Anthony Carr
http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20021011_govtrights.htmIn the United States of America your property can be seized, condemned and turned over to another owner if the government finds a good enough reason to do so. In addition, if you are suspected of being involved in the drug market, your house could be confiscated and sold by local authorities – before you’ve even been tried or convicted of a crime.
"No criminal arrest or conviction is necessary to subject property to forfeiture," according to the American Civil Liberties Union’s web site (
www.aclu.org). "Indeed, nearly 80 percent of the victims of forfeiture have never been indicted of a crime. All the police have to do is satisfy a requirement of probable cause that the property was used in an illicit activity or was purchased with funds from illicit activity."
The concept of taking your property is not a theory, but a hard cold reality. In the area of law enforcement, many crime-ridden communities have been cleaned up using this particular practice, but many innocent citizens have also been victimized by this mode of law enforcement.
An online piece by FindLaw.com "If the Government Wants Your Property," states, "If you’ve been convicted of a crime, the federal government can seize any property used in the crime, including your house. The property may then be sold and the proceeds used to further the government’s crime-fighting efforts. So if you own a crack house, your arrest and conviction may lead not only to jail time but to permanent loss of the house and your equity in it."
The above mentioned legal action can also be taken against a property owned by an investor who has a tenant suspected or convicted of illicit drug activity.
Fortunately, Congress amended the above mentioned laws a couple of years ago to protect innocent homeowners from aggressive civil forfeitures. FindLaw.com reported: "The new law prohibits the government from confiscating property unless it can show ‘by a preponderance of the evidence’ that the property is substantially connected to the crime. This is a much higher standard of proof than 'probable cause' . . . If a property owner successfully challenges the seizure in court, the government has to pay legal fees. And if the confiscation causes substantial hardship to the owner, the government just may release the property."
If you find yourself in this type of land forfeiture situation, by all means, contact an attorney. Please don’t waste your time emailing me or any other real estate writers, for that matter. Call an attorney. Period.
Unfortunately, even people who stay away from the crime scene can have property condemned and forcibly sold to the government if a local jurisdiction decides there’s a better use for the house. Such is the case of one elderly lady in Illinois.
"In Des Plaines, Ill., Irene Angell still lives in the house where she was born more than 80 years ago," reports Castle Coalition. "The city is currently threatening to condemn her home for a Walgreens drugstore. Ironically, Ms. Angell worked for Walgreens many years ago and met her husband there."
This process of property seizure is called "eminent domain." The Internet is full of sites operated by a lot of irate people who have had their homes and property taken through the process of eminent domain. There are also many sites for eminent domain professionals – the people who use eminent domain as a means of acquiring property for transportation and commercial development. One such site is EminentDomainOnline.com.
LawInfo.com contains a clear explanation of how eminent domain works:
"Eminent domain is the right of the government to take ownership of privately-held real estate regardless of the owner's wishes. Land for schools, freeways, parks, public housing, and other social and public interests are obtained in this manner and the structures on the existing land may be condemned and destroyed. Quasi-public organizations, such as utility companies and railroads are also permitted to obtain land needed for utility lines, pipes, and tracks. The property owner must be paid the fair market value of the property taken from him or her."
To be fair, eminent domain is not entered into lightly. Most eminent domain actions are for the greater good of the larger community, however, if you find yourself at the "taking" side of the eminent domain stick, contact a lawyer first to find out your rights under the law, then get a good Realtor to help you get the best price on your property.
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Still another mechanism and reason to confiscate property that you "THINK" you own...
Castle Watch DailyOfficial Blog of the Castle Coalition
Documentary on Eminent Domain to Air in Seattle on PBShttp://www.castlecoalition.com/Greetings from Asbury Park will be airing on Seattle’s local PBS station January 22 at 12PM! This compelling documentary details the effects of eminent domain abuse on a community—a familiar story to so many of you.
The film has already gained national exposure from airing on several local stations across the country. It tells the incredible saga of 91-year-old Angie Hampilos, who learns that her seaside home of more than fifty years has been targeted for seizure by eminent domain.
The reason? City officials and private developers thought her property could be “better utilized” by luxury condominiums. Not only her home, but an astonishing 56 acres of private homes were slated for the wrecking ball. By combining rare archival footage, home videos, and intimate conversations with local residents and property owners, the film documents the greed of city officials in their quest for more tax revenue.
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I guess this former Army Corporal was deemed a REBEL for not going along with the plan and therefore had his property confiscated...
FBI Confiscates Personal Property Of Former U.S. Army Corporal Who Blew Whistle On 1976 Government funded "Perfect Terrorist Plan" To Topple Twin Towersby Greg Szymanski, July 31, 2005
(Posted here by Wes Penre, August 1, 2005)
Timothy McNiven says he has been harassed by the FBI and now had DOD card taken without a warrant ever since trying to alert the American people about the government's prior knowledge of 9/11.
A former U.S. Army corporal who blew the whistle on a 1976 government funded study to topple the Twin Towers using jetliners, Arab terrorists and box cutters on July 6 had four FBI agents threaten to "tear his apartment apart" if he didn't turn over his legally obtained Department of Defense ID card.
Timothy McNiven, who said he was threatened and harassed by agents in the hallway outside his Bellingham, WA., apartment, claims to be a part of a military unit stationed in Strasbourg, Germany, during the 1970s, assigned the task to brainstorm "the perfect terrorist plan" and what turned out to be the exact same scenario that took place at the WTC on 9/11.
McNiven said his military unit's 9/11-like assignment, lasting over six months and funded by Congress under the guise of airline safety preparedness, proves the government had "plenty of foreknowledge" about possible airline attacks at the WTC.
He even suggested what seemed like a harmless military airline safety study may have been used later to perfect a way to bring down the WTC in order to create another Pearl Harbor like event to facilitate a world wide climate of war.
And since 9/11, McNiven has tried in every way possible to alert the American people about his unit's mock military assignment, creating even more suspicion of the government's hand in 9/11, by first creating a web site and then telling his story in March to The American Free Press and The Arctic Beacon news web cast.
McNiven's accusations about the hidden purpose behind the Congressional study are also included in a signed affidavit as part of a 9/11 related federal conspiracy (RICO) lawsuit filed against President Bush and others in 2004 by Philadelphia attorney Phil Berg.
The publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to identify security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers," said McNiven. "However, the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off a terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario."
To back up his story, he passed a credible lie detector test, the same type of credible test taken by Daniel Ellsberg and other famous whistle blowers as well as providing many names of the men his unit who also participated in the mock WTC assignment.
McNiven claims, however, since going public and being a part of the law suit, his efforts have been met with government indifference, outright harassment and constant FBI monitoring, the July 6 FBI visit to his Bellingham home another example.
"Our commanding officer back in 1976, Lt. Michael Teague, gave our unit of about 100 a direct order and assignment to brainstorm how to bring down the Twin Towers using jetliners and even box cutters," said McNiven this week from his apartment in Bellingham about the study commissioned to C-Battery 2/81st Field Artillery, U.S. Army, stationed in Strasbourg, Germany.
"I remember Lt. Teague changed the scenario from a 100 story building to the Twin Tower, acting on specific orders from unknown superiors. He then said it was very strange to be asked to devise a plan to blow up your own home town as he was from New York.
"But as I watched the Twin Towers really collapse on the morning of September 11th, I realized I was watching the very same thing we devised in the 1976.
McNiven recalls at first Lt. Teague demanded strict silence regarding the assignment, but later took him aside, giving him a direct order to "never stop alerting the American people" about the government's obvious hand in working on a plan to bring down the Twin if it ever really happened.
"I still feel I am under this direct order and have no intention of disobeying it," said McNiven, adding he still feels his active military duty has not ended due to 9/11.
Regarding the FBI visit to McNiven's home on July 6, a spokesperson from the Bellingham, WA., office confirmed agent Lance Boyer and three others confiscated McNiven's DOD card outside his apartment on the date mentioned, but refused to comment further about the nature, legality or purpose for taking his personal property.
The FBI spokesperson added that his property was taken without a proper warrant, McNiven claiming he only gave it up after being "threatened and harassed" by the four agents in the hallway outside his apartment.
"Agents did go to Mr. McNiven's home and did take his ID card, but that's all we can say right now," said the Bellingham FBI spokesman several hours after the incident occurred.
Although the FBI refused to elaborate, McNiven said he has been singled-out, intimidated and harassed for going public about the mock 1976 "perfect terrorist plan."
"This visit was not to get information but to harass me. I got a reply from the ACLU and they said that I had a legal case but they did not have the resources to take it on," he said.
"In May 2004, I wrote to several FBI offices asking them to do some research for me and to help find the members of C-Battery 2/81st FA, US Army, the men who also worked on the 1976 mock terrorist study. I have kept a copy of the email to the FBI and this is the reason why they I think they showed up."
McNiven said in the past he has tried to relocate many of his former unit members, years ago finding one member, Sgt. Riggs, who was reluctant to talk since Riggs claimed he and his family members had already experienced death threats over going public about the 1976 airline safety study.
Elaborating further on the FBI visit, McNiven recalls in detail facts indicating agents had been tracking his movements for at least a year.
"We started talking in the hallway of my apartment and they asked me if I was a federal agent and I said yes I had an ID to prove it. We walked to my room and I showed them my DOD ID card," said McNiven.
"Then we talked a little more, with one guy doing the questioning, and then two of the other guys started to make smart-ass comments, one of these guys being Agent Boyer."
He said the agents then insisted on seeing his ID card again, McNiven giving it to Agent Boyer but then ripping it out his hand after the agents questioned the validity of his identification.
"One of the Hispanic agents then began to threaten me, saying if I did not give them my ID that they would go and get a bunch of Bellingham Police and come back and tear my place apart," said McNiven.
"So I gave them the ID after, although asking for a receipt, which they gave me. It was strange, though, they knew about my trip to the Pentagon in August 2004 and the letter I sent to the personnel office, which they asked me if the Bellingham Police had come to talk to me about and I said they hadn't.
"I told them that the only people I had ever contacted about getting a new DOD card, as I used to work under cover for them but recently stopped, were lawyers like Gerry Spence, DOD personnel and Federal Judge Coughenour from the Seattle Federal Court. I also gave them the envelope and letter that came along with the ID, saying that it was a federal judge who helped me get this ID in the first place."
McNiven said the FBI has not returned his DOD card or has not contacted him since the July 6 incident, saying he believes they are "waiting for my next move" which McNiven said will be made before a court of law.
Regarding the validity of his DOD affiliation, McNiven said he went through the proper official channels, needing to renew his ID card last year in order to officially carry out his orders given to him by Lt. Teague as a result of 9/11.
McNiven added he is no stranger to DOD as he worked in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an undercover agent on several drug related government investigations.
"A DOD card is a government agency ID just like any other, in this case giving me authority for my military mission to alert the American people about the 1976 plan to topple the Twin Towers," said McNiven.
"I also have the authority to arrest on federal charges like treason or espionage and through Interpol for crimes against humanity and war crimes, which were recently expanded when the International Criminal Court went into effect."
At the time of the FBI visit, McNiven had also just sent the first installment of a proposed book about his life and participation in the 1976 mock terrorist assault on the Twin Towers to an editor of First Amendment Publishing affiliated with The American Free Press.
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