Thanks for your hard work OIA about time they made the right decision.

It is just too, too sad that “government for the people” often is exactly the opposite.
Why are the complete morons who refused to pay her still working? That is my question.
There seems to be zero accountablity for these “public servants”.
How very sad.
Nice for her estate, but none of it ever should have happened.
If these buffoons had to pay her out of their own pockets they would not act the same way.
But wait, I forgot, they don’t have any money because they are life’s losers, working in some pathetic public office.
How brave of them to ignore the court.
Who are these people and how do we get them??
And why can’t they be gone?

I think the award should of been double because it was obvious mis behavior by the county designed to intimidate anyother folks thinking of challenging the county with respect to property rights. It should for certain include interest from the date of the initial award.

> *Taking her property outright would clearly have been worse.*

Oh Really? I can’t speak for Dorothy of course, but I saw the Strength, Class and Grace she demonstrated. At least the man who robs the convenience market with a gun is honest that he is a thief. The only reason out right confiscation would be worse is then the county could not pretend Dorothy had any rights.

> *Just not the use rights she had prior to the state land use system voted in by the legislature.*

You have captured it nicely. How dare Dorothy think she had ANY rights. Rights are only what the Government is willing to grant to the serf. As a vassal Dorothy must bow in supplication to the sovereign council of Multnomah, The lords and ladies of the realm.

> *system voted in by the legislature twice and upheld by direct vote of the people in 5 attempted repeals.*

An excellent example of newspeak revisionist history. Paul Joseph Goebbels, and George Orwell would be proud.

Dorothy petitions for relief from the legislature, a small measure of justice snatched away by the stroke of the Royal Governors pen. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.

Measure Seven. Ohh Thank God we were saved by the black robes. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.

Dorothy begs in supplication for relief from the legislature, a small measure of justice. Our Government champion now draws his weapon, the Royal Governors pen. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.

Measure Thirty Seven. Not even the black robes have the stomach to strike down. THE GREAT UNWASHED RABBLE ARE AT THE GATES OF THE CITY.

Measure Forty Nine to save the day. Focus group subterfuge to confuse. THE GOVERNMENT HAS SPOKEN.

> *can change in the direction of granting more rights or less.*

AGAIN, the Government, the source of all wisdom, grants the rights. Only those rights the wisdom of Government chooses for the vassals. Of course rights are only what Government says they are. Never more, always less.

> *It says what one can and can’t do in order to balance individual and community rights.*

In the winter of Valley Forge you wish us to believe that George Washington and the continental army suffered to protect Community Rights.

General George Washington set a different example. He gave orders to his soldiers not to remove people from their homes and lands and not to take food or livestock without paying. *Even when his men were starving and freezing, he held firm to that principle.*

Are we to forget that Thomas Jefferson said “The true foundation of *republican government* is the *equal right* of every citizen *in his person and property* and in their management”?

Must we ignore that the constitution of the United States which prohibits government taking private property taken by the without payment.

In a quote attributed to the LA Times,

“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from *the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.”* This is the difference between a Republic link the United States and a democracy where rights are up for a vote.

> *counties hold hearings, send out notices, consider options, and then make decisons (sic)*

The history is murky, nevertheless I am quite sure that when William Wallace (Braveheart) looked down at his disemboweled intestines he chose not the word BUREAUCRACY for his last breath.

> *Private property rights are and always have been limited, either by custom or law.*
> *Assuming she still had her house and was living there, and assuming the land was zoned for forestry*

Sometimes the slippery slope argument is overused. If the nose enters the tent the camel will follow.

Here we have the inverse argument. The friction flat argument. All is well so long as the tip of the tail remains outside.

And about those public hearings. You know the ones? The hearing where conclusion is what the planner planed. The scale is an honest measure of weight. Like the dishonest butcher, watch the bureaucrats thumb.

Its just a level playing field don’t you know. So long as the property owner retains only ONE percent they are good to go. One for you Ninety Nine for me, I’m the planner man, the planner man.

Is that a bit sarcastic? Not at all. It’s Oregon law. Rules of the planner, Administered by the bureaucrat, For the Government.

> *It’s taxpayer money sent to the county to pay for a set of services.*

Really? I would be more sympathetic to that IF the County were to open the new jail, maintain the bridges, build and repair roads and other mandated services. There is money for pet feel good projects, never for the public safety.