The county's new
General Plan is riddled with impostor terms and gobbledygook, including
terms that are undefined or indefinable. The overview sets the stage:
"General Plans ... provide a vision of the community's future. They set
the philosophy and policies that decide, in general, what's built where
... how communities will accommodate growth while preserving character
and protecting what the community values."
Within this plan
bureaucrats use all-inclusive and collective terms such as community,
community's future, community values, preserving community character, as
well as other terms in official documents such as: the public, public
interest, public good, public benefit, good of society or the people.
Much like "Hope and Change" these terms are designed to confuse and
mislead, meaning different things to different people with each
consigning their own peculiar subjective definition.
For instance, the term
"the community" in actuality means every man, woman and child within the
same region. "Community values," as used in the General Plan
legitimately can only mean the combined values of every man, woman and
child. It's stupid to assume that every man, woman and child actually
share the same values, goals and ideas. It's more correct to assume that
the "planners" or bureaucrats envision all of these "community values,
etc.," to reflect their personal notions to create a sustainable and
green utopia.
Law professor and
property rights authority Bernard Siegan has written, "Planners must
consider questions of compatibility, economic feasibility, property
values, existing uses, adjoining and nearby uses, traffic, topography,
utilities, schools, future growth, conservations and environment for
each parcel of land. Just to determine the feasibility of one use for
one site at one time would require a market survey costing possibly
thousands of dollars."
Yet the new General
Plan claims to know the most desirable use for most if not all the land
in the county's unincorporated area, 800,000 acres, for the next 20
years or so. Ludicrous!
Whenever other impostor
terms such as "growth, growth management and growth controls" are used,
they actually mean people control. In other words they are dictating
where and how we will live, including our lifestyles. These are
government determinations now backed up by police power. So it's easy to
see that the bureaucracy uses the term "growth control" because using
terms such as "controlling people or people control" conjures up
negatively charged images that would be highly offensive to most people.
A major guiding
principle of the County General Plan is "Sustainability;" Guiding
Principle 7. A generally accepted definition states: "sustainability
meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs." (Quote from the United
Nations on County General Plan Page 2-12).
Introducing
sustainability as a way to screw rural landowners and take property
without compensation is led by people who call themselves
environmentalists. These are people who would never steal anything
themselves, but who have no compunction about demanding that the
supervisors do the stealing on their behalf. These are people who
actually should buy the land they covet with their own money, but who
won't. They seem to relish controlling other people and their property
and making them suffer financially. Instead of increasing wealth, they
wish to redistribute it from present owners to future owners.
Sustainability or
sustainable development sounds nice and is another imposter-term
sprinkled throughout the General Plan designed to confuse and mislead.
It implies that rights belong not to individuals, but to indefinable
groups, i.e., "future generations," which means people not yet born.
When they are born they no longer are part of a future generation
because they obviously become part of the current generation. Thus,
according to the new General Plan, as soon as they pop out of the womb
they relinquish all rights to the resources conserved for future
generations.
Sustainability is
misleading because the present residents of the county are being
required by the government's use of Police Power to sacrifice their
well-being today for future generations that can never come into being
because resources must always be conserved for successive unborn
generations. Gobbledygook for sure!
