gsvol
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When any government can dictate
everything you can or cannot do on your own land,
the result is always bad.
This information was provided by the
Government of Australia to the 5th and 6th
Sessions of the United Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development.
(Sound like what Al Gore, Barack Obama and company
want in the USA??)
Be sure to read the Warwick Spooner quote in the
following article.
A family in Victoria was heavily fined
because they cleared a firebreak around their property.
They were dragged through the courts - treated like
criminals.
Their house is now the only one standing in the area.
They were labeled law breakers, fined $50,000 and left
emotionally and financially drained.
But seven years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to
make a fire break an act that got them dragged
before a magistrate and penalized they feel
vindicated. Their house is one of the few in Reedy
Creek, Victoria, still standing.
...Although Liam Sheahans 2002 decision to disregard
planning laws and bulldoze 250 trees on his hilltop
property hurt his family financially and emotionally, he
believes it helped save them and their home on the
weekend. The house is safe because we did all that,
he said as he pointed out his kitchen window to the
clear ground where tall gum trees once cast a shadow
on his house. We have got proof right here. We are
the only house standing in a two-kilometre area....Mr
Sheahan is still angry about his prosecution, which cost
him $100,000 in fines and legal fees.
The council stood up in court and made us to look like
the worst, wanton environmental vandals on the earth.
Weve got thousands of trees on our property. We
cleared about 247, he said.
"Both the major parties are pandering to the Greens
for preferences and that is what is causing the problem.
Common sense isn't that common these days," Mr
Sheahan said.
He would also like his convictions overturned and fines
repaid.
"It would go a long way to making us feel better about
the system. But I don't think it will happen."
I thinking we all need to dust off our old copies of Walden Pond,
do we not??
everything you can or cannot do on your own land,
the result is always bad.
This information was provided by the
Government of Australia to the 5th and 6th
Sessions of the United Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development.
(Sound like what Al Gore, Barack Obama and company
want in the USA??)
Be sure to read the Warwick Spooner quote in the
following article.
A family in Victoria was heavily fined
because they cleared a firebreak around their property.
They were dragged through the courts - treated like
criminals.
Their house is now the only one standing in the area.
They were labeled law breakers, fined $50,000 and left
emotionally and financially drained.
But seven years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to
make a fire break an act that got them dragged
before a magistrate and penalized they feel
vindicated. Their house is one of the few in Reedy
Creek, Victoria, still standing.
...Although Liam Sheahans 2002 decision to disregard
planning laws and bulldoze 250 trees on his hilltop
property hurt his family financially and emotionally, he
believes it helped save them and their home on the
weekend. The house is safe because we did all that,
he said as he pointed out his kitchen window to the
clear ground where tall gum trees once cast a shadow
on his house. We have got proof right here. We are
the only house standing in a two-kilometre area....Mr
Sheahan is still angry about his prosecution, which cost
him $100,000 in fines and legal fees.
The council stood up in court and made us to look like
the worst, wanton environmental vandals on the earth.
Weve got thousands of trees on our property. We
cleared about 247, he said.
"Both the major parties are pandering to the Greens
for preferences and that is what is causing the problem.
Common sense isn't that common these days," Mr
Sheahan said.
He would also like his convictions overturned and fines
repaid.
"It would go a long way to making us feel better about
the system. But I don't think it will happen."
I thinking we all need to dust off our old copies of Walden Pond,
do we not??
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