Alabama Conservative News, July 20

Alabama Legislature to consider restriction of Eminent Domain.

Alabama Legislature to consider restriction of Eminent Domain. ALERT The Supreme Court has recently decided that state and local governments can take your property for the use of developers and other private businesses unless state laws prevent it.

Act now to stop the abuse of eminent domain and protect your property rights!

• In the special session of the legislature which begins Tuesday, July 19, bills dealing with eminent domain will be considered.  Some will give us little additional protection than what we have now.  However, Senator Steve French is sponsoring the Farm and Home Protection Act that will give property owners significant new protections:

• Eminent domain cannot be used for the purpose of commercial enterprises, economic development, revenue enhancement, perceived public good or any other purpose than actual use by the public.

• When government takes your property for legitimate public use like a road, you will be justly compensated not only for the property but also for your reasonable documented relocation costs.

• Just compensation will be based on highest and best use.

• Just compensation will also have to be paid when your property is devalued by government taking away your rights to use your property.

The other bills dealing with eminent domain will not give you these protections. CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR NOW and ask him to support the Farm and Home Protection Act by Senator French. Information on the House version will be coming soon.

To find contact information for you senator or representative, go to the web address below and enter your nine-digit zip code.  If you do not know your nine-digit zip code, go to http://www.usps.com and http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/zipsearch.html

Alabama Attorney General Troy King, has been challenged to crack down on abortion clinics for failing to report cases of statutory rape. A Morgan County priest is pushing the state's top law enforcement official to crack down on abortion clinics that fail to report suspected cases of statutory rape.

Father James Henderson, a pro-life activist from Somerville, says Alabama clinics have "covered up" as many as 490 rapes in the past four years by not telling police about girls 16 or younger who have become pregnant by older men.

Those wishing to contact Attorney General Troy King, his offices numbers are 334-242-7300, 1-800-392-5658, or 1-800-626-7676. Troy King is very experienced, serving several years as Assistant Attorney General under Bill Pryor.  Read more at http://www.alabamadefenders.us

Senator Jeff Sessions shocks conservatives by suggesting that Bill Pryor should be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. "The man who prosecuted Moore before the Court of the Judiciary, former Attorney General Bill Pryor, also has been mentioned as a possible candidate for O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court. U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has encouraged the White House to consider Pryor." http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050715/moore.shtml

Bill Pryor remembered as the "Liberal" Attorney General of Alabama a. As Attorney General, Bill Pryor encouraged the spread of gambling in Alabama even though our Constitution prohibits all forms of gambling. He aided and abetted pedophile priests here in Alabama by allowing the law  to have a big hole so that priests and bishops could continue the secrecy of abuse. Pryor is Catholic. http://retakingamerica.com/news_bill_pryor_01.html and http://retakingamerica.com/commentary_kelly_021.html

b.  Bill Pryor says he will support abortion. http://www.covenantnews.com/blog/archives/013323.html

c.  Bill Pryor gutted Alabama�s �partial birth� abortion law. http://visionforum.com/hottopics/blogs/dwp/?archive=/2003_10_01_index.htm#106693215437275480

d.  Bill Pryor 5 times voted for Terry Schiavo to be starved to  death. Bill Pryor voted against the life of Terri Schiavo, by refusing to consider new evidence in the case.  https://alabamadefenders.us/defenders/2005/may/may_8.php

e.  More on liberal rulings of Bill Pryor at http://spofga.org/ten_commandments/2004/oct/bill_pryor.phtml

The Confiscation of America http://www.keepourrights.org

     The Alabama state motto is �We Dare Defend Our Rights�

The writers of both the United States and the Alabama Constitutions understood that private property is the major cornerstone of freedom and prosperity.  They clearly recognized that there is a direct correlation between a government�s defense of private property rights and the degree of liberty enjoyed by its citizens.

Our Founding Fathers and the writers of our 1901 Alabama Constitution, both having recently escaped a tyrannical and oppressive government, knew full well the destruction of freedom and liberty that accompanies the loss of private property through governmental force. Both bodies clearly stated in their constitutions that the taking of any of these rights or usages through force of government (eminent domain) should, therefore, never be allowed except as a last resort and then only under two conditions:

(1) a clearly demonstrated need for �actual� public use and

(2) only after the property owner has received just compensation for his property.

Understanding the nature of man, they further stated that eminent domain powers shall never be used to take property rights from one individual and give them to another individual or business, lest the powerful dominate, oppress and deprive the weak of their rights to �life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness�

It is absolutely essential that our citizens understand that ownership entails not just the title to property, but by definition, ?permits the owner to legally possess, use, enjoy, control, dispose of, protect and defend his property.? They must also understand that any condemnation or confiscation by eminent domain that results in a reduction in the usage, value or control of private property below those rights and privileges originally held by the owner, also constitutes a taking of private property. Any time a taking of property rights has occurred, the property owner deserves just compensation for these losses.

In a just and free society, the cost of obtaining property necessary for public use should be broadly and uniformly born by the society in general, and not unjustly born by the individual property owner whose property has been taken.

     Taking property is taking liberty.

Kenneth Freeman
Alliance for Citizen�s Rights

256-498-3802

Governor Riley supporting bad bill on protection of Property Rights

The Governor is trying to push through what he calls protection of Property Rights. According to Ken Freeman at the Alliance for Citizens Rights, this is not the bill that is going to protect us. In an effort to avoid any discussion, the bill is being fast-tracked into committee, and the only chance we have to say anything about it is TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY at 9AM in the County and Municipal Government Committee room at the Statehouse, chaired by Bill Dukes. We know this is late notice - it was done purposely. Anyone who can make this meeting tomorrow is needed. This may be our only opportunity to have a say in the matter. If you can't make the meeting please contact the Governor and your elected officials and let them know that this is not why we sent them to Montgomery and that this must stop!

With a re-election attempt coming up next year, the Governor is once again letting us know exactly who we elected in 2002. He tried to screw us with Amendment One. He tried to screw us again last year with Amendment Two. And now he's at it again. At one time I gave him the benefit of the doubt - I stopped that when he looked me in the eye and lied about Amendment Two. Your help is needed now in order to protect Private Property Rights!

Wednesday - 7-20 - 9am - County and Municipal Government Committee meeting at the Statehouse.

Private Property is the cornerstone of Freedom.
Michael Mastro
Chairman, Alabama for Real Reform 
http://www.afrr.us

To fully understand the connection between property rights, eminent domain and your freedom please view this excellent multi-media presentation by Doctor Michael Coffman. Simply click on the link below. It only takes eight minutes and runs like a movie. The information it contains is clear, easy to understand but PRICELESS in the fight for liberty. Click on: http://takingliberty.us/Narrations/propertyrights/propertyrights/player.html

For the whole story on the confiscation of America, go to
http://www.keepourrights.org then click on

�Private Property Rights Are Under Attack� then click on

�Taking Liberty�.