“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session,” is a quote attributed to both Mark Twain and Gideon Tucker, but, rather than the Legislature, I would amend it to say, “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Democrats are in control.”

We have recently reported on property rights not being protected from squatters in Philadelphia, and how Governor Maura Healey (D-MA) has asked, asked, mind you, residents to provide shelter for the influx of illegal immigrants in their homes. In older stories, we reported on how property rights are simply not respected by the left.

Then there was this:

Federal judge vacates CDC’s nationwide eviction moratorium

Court rules agency lacks legal authority to impose it

By Kyle Swenson, Staff Writer | May 5, 2021 | 3:11 PM EDT

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its legal authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium, a ruling that could affect millions of struggling Americans.

In a 20-page order, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich vacated the CDC order, first put in place during the coronavirus pandemic under the Trump administration and now set to expire June 30.

“It is the role of the political branches, and not the courts, to assess the merits of policy measures designed to combat the spread of disease, even during a global pandemic,” the order states. “The question for the Court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium? It does not.”

The Biden administration has indicated it will appeal the decision. The ruling does not affect state or local eviction moratoriums. In Washington, D.C., for example, the city government’s ban on all evictions remains in place.

Translation: the ruling is very limited in scope. But here was the line that really got to me:

After Wednesday’s decision, tenants’ rights advocates called for the Biden administration not only to defend the policy but to step up legal protections that will keep people in their homes.

No, no, no, no, no! The eviction moratoria have not kept “people in their homes,” but kept people in other people’s homes!

That was May of 2021, a bit over 2½ years ago, but there has been a precedent established, a precedent which says that the government can commandeer your property for some public policy use.

Now, the government may acquire private property, without the owner’s consent, but only under the conditions specified by the Fifth Amendment:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

This has been taken to mean that government may purchase, forcibly if necessary, a private owner’s property, for a legitimate government purpose, and at a fair price. But the nationwide eviction moratorium never gave the government either ownership of or responsibility for the property which landlords continued to own. In most cases, the cities and states provided rental assistance, which may or may not have been what the property owner required, and involved a lot of red tape and hoops through which the property owners had to jump. The property owners were, as before, still responsible for the maintenance and upkeep on the rental units, regardless of whether they had been adequately paid, and selling the property, if the owners chose to do so, was made much more difficult.

It seems that everywhere we look, we can see how the rights of individuals and of taxpayers are being trampled upon by government. From The New York Times:

A School Sheltered Migrants in a Storm. The Hate Calls Poured In.

Migrant families were evacuated to the auditorium of James Madison High School. The school went remote the next day, and families and elected officials protested.

By Troy Closson, Liset Cruz and Wesley Parnell | Wednesday, January 10, 2023

Also read: William Teach, “SCNY Parents Outraged After Kids Put On Remote Learning So Illegals Could Be Housed In School“

An angry backlash erupted at a Brooklyn high school on Wednesday, after New York City officials housed about 500 migrant families in an auditorium there overnight because of heavy rains and fierce winds at their shelter site.

About 2,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday evening from their tent shelter at a remote former airplane runway in Brooklyn to James Madison High School. Families with children piled onto the floor and into auditorium seats to sleep. By 2 a.m., several families said they were asked to prepare to return to the tents.

The evacuation led officials to call a remote day of classes for the more than 3,400 students enrolled at the high school, sparking immediate backlash from politicians and parents that echoed on a national stage. Local elected leaders, right-leaning media personalities and even Elon Musk, the tech billionaire, weighed in to criticize the government response.

The outrage was the latest political eruption over the tens of thousands of migrants crossing the southern border in recent months. Republicans have attacked Democrats over how they are managing a crisis that has overwhelmed government agencies.

In an amusing editorial change, the article was originally entitled “James Madison High School Shelters Migrants and Prompts Right-Leaning Protests,” but an editor changed that so it wasn’t quite as politicized. Nevertheless, the Times kept telling readers that “right-leaning media personalities” were part of the problem.

But this, too, is an attack on individual Americans! We have already seen the educational losses that piled up when students had to learn ‘remotely’ during the COVID-19 panicdemic — and no, that’s not a typographical error; “panicdemic” perfectly captures how I see the response to the virus — school shutdowns. But, more than that, parents who have to work during the day were suddenly scrambling to find child care for “more than 3,400 students”, or having to take the day off of work to care for their children, both cases costing individual families a lot of money. For how many Brooklyn families will February’s mortgage or rent payments be made more difficult due to this?

All of this is due to another provision of the Constitution which the government is failing to honor. Article 4, §4 states:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

From USA Today:

More than 2.8 million migrants have had encounters with authorities so far this fiscal year, compared to more than 2.7 million migrants in 2022, according to the latest Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics. The current migrant figure includes August, but not September, the last month of this fiscal year, which has yet to be announced.

About 2.2 million people were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border through August, compared to 2.38 million border encounters for all of last year.

“They’ve already exceeded last year’s totals by now. There’s no doubt. The encounters probably beat 2022 sometime during the middle of this month,” said Adam Isacson, director of defense oversight for Washington on Latin America (WOLA), a nonprofit advocacy organization. Isacson, who researches border security, said it’s possible the overall migrant encounter number this year could reach 3 million or more. “It looks like it’s on pace,” he said.

In just 2022 and 11 months of 2023, 4.58 million border crossers were encountered by our border guards, and that ignores those who were able to sneak through without being encountered by authorities. The largest military invasion in history, the Third Reich’s Operation Barbarossa, involved ‘only’ 3.8 million German soldiers. How can this virtually unrestricted surge of illegal immigrants be regarded as anything other than an invasion?

Illegal immigration and the erosion of our property rights are two sides of the same coin, the coin of the loss of the rights of Americans in favor of people who shouldn’t be where they are, and most of this has happened under the rule of the Democratic Party. Yes, the COVIDiocy began under President Trump, who was completely flummoxed by the problem, and who went along with the advice of advisors who also didn’t know what they were doing, but even with the advent of the vaccines, which did not become generally available until the dummkopf from Delaware was in the White House, the greatest abuses occurred under the Democrats, at the federal, state, and local levels. Our rights were systematically trampled by Democrats acting as tin-pot dictators, stomping on our rights to peaceable assembly, free exercise of religion, freedom of speech and of the press, rights to our own property, travel, and to hold jobs.

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe when the Democrats are in control.
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