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Christopher Scharpf wrote:
> >Okay, right. I am adamantly oppossed to the government confiscation of
> >private property.
>
> Has the gov't confiscated privtate property in the past to protect a protected
> species?
> I honestly don't know, so that's why I'm asking.
>
> Or is this more of an issue of the feds telling private property owners what
> they can
> or cannot do to their property?
>
> If so, to what extent is property fully private? To wit,
>
> If I dump chemicals into a section of the river that flows through my property,
> can the gov't force me to stop because I'm polluting the river downstream?
>
> If I'm a farmer who wants to remove all of the riparian growth on my property,
> can the gov't make me stop because of the stream erosion and flooding
> my practices are contributing to?
>
> Excuse me if my questions and scenarios are simplistic and naive.
> This is a new area of discussion for me.
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
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