WW ll fighter pilot’s widow determined to keep her husband’s plane
He constructed a plane on his property as a labor of love. Now busybodies want it hauled away as garbage.
The “Great American Outdoors Act” is a federal land grab slush fund
In a display of bipartisanship that is as rare as it is frightening, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are joining forces to impose their own brand of socialism on rural America.
Hudson Valley couple takes Green cabal to court to save their land
The cabal coveting their land took a piece-meal approach, using lawsuits and harassment to gobble up chunks of their dream.
Governments seizing private property for bike paths
Using eminent domain for bike paths.
CFACT Undercover: Exposing radical UN sustainability conference
“Nobody wants to talk about population control…Well we can’t kill everybody…” David Terungwa, Executive Director, Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation. Hundreds of youth are attending the UN panels, where panelists call for extreme population control and centralized planning. “We need to change behavior at an individual’s level. We must start acting now,” Satay Tripathi, UN Assistant Secretary General. Those were just a few of the radical comments from speakers at the United Nations’ 68th Annual Conference for Civil Societies, taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah this week. CFACT’s on-the-ground operative is attending the conference under-cover, [...]
Landowners in Fauquier County, Virginia battle severe restrictions on their property rights
The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a radical overhaul of its existing Rural Lands Comprehensive Plan that would trample on local property rights.
Supreme Court dishes property owners a Fifth Amendment victory
The ruling restores rights under the Fifth Amendment, opening federal courts to property owners seeking “just compensation” for the taking of their property by government.
Supreme Court ditches Clean Water Act conviction posthumously
His crime? Building a firebreak ditch and some ponds on his Montana property.
CA fines homeowners $4 million for blocking public access, but there’s no public access to block
It is yet another example of property owners being dragged through the mud by agenda-driven bureaucrats with nothing else better to do than throw their weight around.
Farmer settles $2 million lawsuit against high-flying Green realtors
Virginia farmer Martha Boneta has reached a settlement in her $2 million lawsuit against a husband-and-wife team of realtors whom she accused of colluding with an environmental group to drive her off her land.
Florida legislature smacks down land-grabbing county officials
Efforts by county officials in the Florida Panhandle to undermine both the property rights and the First Amendment rights of owners of a beachfront home came to naught March 23 when Gov. Rick Scott signed a law reaffirming key foundations of the U.S. Constitution.
Florida Keys “takings” property rights case before Supreme Court
The children of a Korean War veteran and his wife are hoping to realize the dream of their late parents and build a home in the Florida Keys, thereby undoing a government “taking” of the family’s property.
Virginia judge Jeffrey Parker tramples property rights
Martha Boneta: "It is my hope and prayer that no American citizen ever has to suffer the way we have on our family farm.”
Property owners to Dominion: Pipeline YES, eminent domain NO
They didn’t expect Virginia property owners directly affected by the pipeline to show up, advocating for their rights. The property owners’ message was simple: “Pipeline yes, eminent domain no.”
Support grows for right-to-farm
Many states have right-to-farm statutes, but right-to-farm constitutional amendments are something new.