In Florida there is one law for the illegal immigrants from Mexico and another for the ones from Cuba which changes them into legal immigrants if they can touch the beach before the Coast Guard arrests them, I am sure you have heard of it the Wet foot/Dry foot rule....
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/nov/14/editorial_election_fallout/?opinion
Now laws on property, the Supreme Court changed the law so what was once against the law "taking peoples property for a private developer", is now legal. So the laws of men are arbritary, so if I must obey them then I will fight using their own codes of law so that true justice is done. So if Christian "
must submit himself to the governing authorities," tin my opinion, there is no reason we can't use their own rules against them as Paul used his badge of Roman citizenship to advantage.
Just so you get an idea of the injustice and the millions being spent for this developer, here is what I wrote about just ONE of over SIX major roads being built or widened for this developer using eminent domain:
"Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension will not be built because the people are against it, the cost of building roads has gone up astronomical so the estimate of 150 million has already doubled, and the political landscape will be changed at the voting booth at the next elections. Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension also is directly for the benefit of special interests and developers instead of the Golden Gates Estates Area residents. We were led to believe the roads they were building like Livingston, widening of Immokolee road, and Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension was to help the people of Golden Gates Estates, instead they were just highways leading straight to the developers front door.
It is so obvious the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension is solely for the benefit of special interests and developers and was never to help Golden Gates residents except as a afterthough or side effect. Both the Immokolee Road expansion and Livingston Road were for allowing more growth, as well as the failed drive to expand Logan/Santa Barbara and connect to their development road grid that they are building. We must fight the road grid for more growth and demand they build roads for us, and pave our limerock roads, and build corridors for our access not just for more growth, developers and their rich friends.
The residents who live along the Vanderbilt Beach Road extension corridor believe the extension isn’t needed to serve existing residents but to serve developers wanting to build subdivisions farther east in the future. Instead of getting support from the Golden Gate Estates Area Civic Association they were ignored, this is a important issue especially since enimient domain is creating fear among many Golden Gates Estate residents these days and knowing their civic associations stand behind them may have ease some of those fears. Instead it just made them worse and openned their eyes to what may be behind the undue influence and power plays by those who would reap the rewards from growth, roads to new developments and the Vanderbilt Beach Road extension.
The Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension has Golden Gate Estates residents running scared and frustrated ash they know they are going to give up their homes in the Estates just so developers can build more million dollar homes and benefit directly from the road. The roads for growth are getting heavy political pressure from Collier Development, which owns the land in the Big Cypress special development district that has yet to be developed at DeSoto Boulevard, where the Vanderbilt extension would end. Golden Gate Estates residents are sitting there not knowing what will happen to their nerborhoods with all these roads being bulldozed or expanded so close to their homes, not able to sell or move out till they find out how it will affect their real estate price.
At present no one will buy their houses or anything near the zone of destruction that the footprint from these roads or Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension might require. Their whole life is put on hold till the the roads are widened or built and the full extent of traffic noise and pollution becomes evident. Most Golden Gates homeowner’s don’t know who to turn to, the County Commissioners who betrayed them to this fate or the Golden Gate Estates Area Civic Association who helped them put in roads that some say goes directly to developers and the Big Cypress district and will make them millions when it has a road grid making it accessible. The County says that the roads aren’t being widened or built to benefit a particular developer of a future project, but to handle the serious traffic snarls, but everyone can see how Collier Development, Ave Maria University and the other developers will benefit or reap profits.
The Golden Gate Estates Area Civic Association had a chance to take a stand on supporting or opposing the Vanderbilt Beach Road extension, as well as giving a show of support to others facing the same fate such as the residents on Green Boulevard and the 16th Avenue extension projects, but they betrayed their constituants. On one side we need roads in Golden Gate Estates but on the other hand if all the roads are being built for developers and developments outside of Golden Gate Estates it doesn’t seem fair that Golden Gate Estates residents have to give up their homes so more growth and million dollar homes can be built at their expense.
Opposition from affected residents has been and will continue to be fierce and will slow them down and add litigation to the costs as the lawsuits will be many. They will not have enough money so the roads will get half done then they will try to come back for more taxes to pay for them. No one is going to be spared in this debacle from the taxpayers on down, residents losing their way of life, to the Golden Gate Estates Area Civic Association.
When all is said and done, most of Golden Gates Estates residents will be long gone, and along with them the memories of what once was a beautiful place to live."
