Dick Welsh is
not a name you'll find in Monday's huge
property rights victory at the U.S. Supreme Court,
but he was the biggest winner. It was his vindication.
Welsh is the Washington state property owner who became a reluctant hero as
the father of the “reversionary rights” movement in 1985 when a chunk of his
yard was seized so bicyclists could peer in his front window from an abandoned
railroad bed that happened to be his driveway.
Big Green’s “rails-to-trails” movement and the federal amendments made in
1983 to the National Trails System Act forced Welsh into devoting more than two
decades of his life operating the National Association of Reversionary Property
Owners, a network for victims of land-greedy government agencies and their
nonprofit green-grabber touts...... “In 2006, when the U.S. Forest Service decided to seize Marvin Brandt’s land for its ill-advised trail it knew its legal position had zero merit; nonetheless, it thought it could wear him down by dragging him to the Supreme Court where it thought it could get the court to reverse itself. The federal government’s conduct in this case is nothing less than shameful!” ........So there is still a harsh burden on
property owners, placed there by people with no respect for private property or
the rights that ought to go with it. What's next? We still have to crack Big Green. When they accuse property
owners of acting only in their narrow selfish interests, they're looking in a
mirror.......To Read More....
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