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Whatcom County Council Votes to Opt Out of Ruckleshaus

1/14/2012

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Citing concerns about insufficient protection from lawsuits and a lack of sufficient state funding, the Whatcom County council voted 5-2  to opt out of the Voluntary Stewardship Program, ESHB 1886 (with Sam Crawford and Bill Knudsen dissenting). 

The dissenting members agreed with Farm Bureau arguments. The Farm Bureau literature that WE saw seemed to indicate that Farm Plans would be discontinued, but the county legal opinion differed – the Farm Plan requirements would remain. The confusion over this issue when it was brought up in a preliminary afternoon meeting seemed to throw everything back into question, causing council members who had previously supported opting in to question their decision.  One council member observed that the property rights crowd and the environmentalists were united in their opposition to this measure (but undoubtedly for different reasons). This odd coincidence might also have affected the outcome.  

WE have already explained why WE think that the Voluntary Stewardship Program is a bad idea (despite its delicious name). WE wish the council had voted to opt out because of the threat to liberty and self-determination. 
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childofww2
1/14/2012 06:07:34 am

I made the assumption because of the new faces on the council this would be a lost cause, and was surprised to hear they had turned it down - however not for the soundest of reasons. I figured there would be a back story to it and as usual it's dollars rather than ideals.

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Anti-Kakistocrat link
1/14/2012 07:01:57 am

I guess the liberty minded folks will have to start filing lawsuits whenever liberty is threatened, if it is only lawsuits they fear.

"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." ~ John Basil Barnhill (often mis-attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

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MissOdie
1/16/2012 12:40:58 am

The WC Council has done the right thing here. The main objective here is to "do no harm", and an "opt-in" would've done exactly that. Once we loose all "local" control of our property rights (as if we haven't lost enough already) we will not be given them back before irreparable harm has occurred to "all" property owners. Without the rights to your property as penned in the State and Federal Constitutions, how exactly is value created?

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