= &nb= sp; Our Letter

F.H. Ernst Jr., M.D. = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; Our Letter No. 6

F.H. Ernst III, writers &= nbsp; &nbs= p; March 28, 1984

INTERVENTION - "Protection" Uncontrolled Regulatory Sprawl

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What is right? "The right as we s= ee it involves self-responsibility, individual freedom of choice, private ownersh= ip and control of property, open competition in a free market, limited and localized government."

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= How do people in a free society lose their freedoms: of speech, of worship, of assembly ?

= How are private property rights and freedoms denied to owners ? Freedom of the press ? The right to bear arms ? To be presumed innocent until proven guilt= y ?

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&n= bsp; Too often now the free are led to believe "it is easier" to turn the settling of contentious matters over to "impartial" 3rd parties, = big brother, big daddy, campus wanderers; instead of taking care of affairs with each other.

For example:

* Binding arbitration

* Planning Commissions - their existence is justifi= ed by the reasoning that they are needed to settle and prevent land disputes a= head of time. There are two kinds of planning: governmental and other. The ma= in characteristic that distinguishes planning done by a government from planni= ng undertaken by others is that the former can employ coercion to help achieve= its purposes.

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We believe Uncontrolled Regulatory Sprawl at every turn to be far worse for the health of the community than what our "protectors&qu= ot; (predatory controllers?) still call the need to protect the free market of housing from "uncontrolled urban sprawl." With uncontrolled urban sprawl, utilities were reasonably priced, taxes were less and housing was affordable to the private buyer. Now with uncontrolled regulatory sprawl "affordable housing is only for the low income person" or the affluent. About agricultural land? The U.S. Department of Agriculture alrea= dy subsidizes and pays out $20 billion a year to hold down food production.

* = Marriage and Family Counse= ling

* = Family Planning=

* = Continuing Education<= /o:p>

* = Welfare Departments

* &nb= sp; Re-apportionment - = The California initi= ative issue if passed would allow representative's district lines to be settled by a non-representative group of judges picked by "drawing names" from= a barrel.

*&nb= sp; = Redevelopment

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= Intervening in (protecting) the freedom of spee= ch.

- = spokesmen for large groups of people; the right of individual citizens to speak is perceptibly lessened by the so called impac= t of the spokesman speaking.

- executive committees' so called endorsements of issues or projects without polling its memberships (e.g. League of Women Voters, psychiatric societies, medical societies, taxpayers' associations, building trade union= s, political parties, advisory boards, service organizations, Chambers of Commerce, school districts, etc.)

= Intervening= in the freedom of assembly.

- = bingo, fraternal, service clubs, churches, restauran= ts.

- = "church groups might not be compatible with the neighborhood."

= Intervening= in the freedom of worship.

= Intervening= into freedom of press.

= Intervening= into the right to bear arms.

= Intervening= into the right to be presumed innocent until prov= en guilty.

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= The "protector" - intervener is to be differentiated from the interve= ner "consultant" who has a "fiduciary responsibility" to his client. Many of the so-called= new interveners these days cannot be held= accountable; they have no fiduciary responsibilities.

= For example "campus wanderers" on high school campuses are handing ou= t family planning data in "rap sessions" without the knowledge or consent of the parents of the high school students. = Data includes birth control methods, sex education data (whatever that means), p= hysiology descriptions, and probably information on abortions and venereal diseases associated with promiscuous

sexual habits and multiple partners. Officially school authorities are hardly aware of this. = But the "campus wanderers" have the blessing of county and state heal= th departments.

= The problem is that these "campus wanderers" have no legal requiremen= t to keep their new found information confidential despite expectations of the younger people (students) they are counseling.

= This may be "reverse intervention". = = The= State and County Health Departments are not intervening where th= ey should and intervening where they should not= . In effect they are encouraging students to talk about their parents and as a result the kids probably talk less to their parents for the reason of feeli= ng ashamed of what they've said about their parents. The parents on the other = hand are talking to their friends, colleagues and counselors about their kids and talking less to their kids; ashamed of their kids or ashamed of what they've said.

= Intervention (intimidation) promises to break up families, friendships, partnerships, institutions; to take away your rights to handle you and your family's affa= irs in return for more "protection". It feeds itself.

Family is where the bonds should be the strongest.

Sex education is a matter = of procreation and therefore a family matter.

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FEAR OF INTERVENTION: state licensing, accredita= tion, tax collectors, real estate controllers, etc.

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One elected official ably pointed out to me that the State has set = up standards and licensed me to be an architect - not withstanding my own commitment to abide by my own set of standards in being licensed. I'm expec= ted to abide by the standards set by society in order to provide society a mini= mum uniform level of output. In other words it has nothing to do with me person= ally except that I've taken on the role of an architect. I can abstain from bein= g an architect and maintain my rights as an individual, but when I stand out soc= iety threatens me, to squash me for being a stand out unless I adhere to not "making waves", not being a standout; Do what you are "spose= d to do".

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= This same prominent leader told me on another occasion "They'll get you&quo= t; (the elected officials) in context of a discussion about the conflict betwe= en intervening boards (and commissions) and elected officials.

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The fear of having someone intervening is reflected in the type of bland architecture and bland land use policies now in place in California. Policies for intervention, therefore limiti= ng imaginative creations is all mandated into planning and zoning regulations;= it is pre-designated.

Banking adheres to these bland standards. They dictate where funding will go. They interfere by being fearful of intervention. They do not lack imagination, but are fearful of standing out. Banker’s loan money to = our foreign neighbors who build and design beautiful places without oppressive = zoning and unrealistic long range mythical planning. Their plans are related to specific projects and goals. The bankers in our country cannot loan to us h= ere for large specific projects because of the loud, threatening, role played neighbors, the intervening commissions, boards, state laws, local interests= , the intervention of legal intimidation (a broad base of subtly terrorizing the creative citizenry of our state and nation).

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= During the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, & 70's we saw a major shift "toward Federal responsibility for security and welfare and prosperity, political determination and dictation of human affairs, public ownership and control = of property, price and wage and interest and rent controls, and centralized government growing out of bounds - a way of life we believe to be wrong." (Foundation for Economic Education)

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= We're not sure this rising tide has slowed.

<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= There is talk now of returning control back to the local level. This is laudable = but many locals are now intimidated by "committee rule."

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= [The alternative is not to return our own self-determination back to committees and commissi= ons; committees and commissions are merely more intervention minded. Legislat= ors, councilmembers, supervisors ought to encourage more individual speaking at = the public forums of our government with guarantees the speakers will not suffer reprisals, ostracizing, victimized for their willingness to stand out.. It is right to not want more inte= rvention.]

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By the age of 3 or 4 years most people know the difference between "that's mine" and "that's yours (not mine)." We are born free, become housebroken during the first year or two of life and in a coup= le more years taught to have some manners. For the most part we will honor property rights, i.e. the distinction of what is "mine" and "yours."

But gradually over the last 4 or 5 decades in California we, the grown ups, have been legislatively losing our property rights all in the guise of "prote= cting the public safety, health and welfare." We, the people, = have voted into office enough representatives to effect major changes in our rig= hts to private property: State Lands Commission, Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation District Com= mission, Fish and Game, etc. Each and all have taken very large slices of property and/or its rights from property owners. These acts have been performed under the rubric of "protecting the people" and by our (sometimes misinformed), ruling "representatives."

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Until now, though, we the people have not as such voted on these matters ourselves. We the individual free citizens have not directly taken land uses and property away from other similarly free individuals, the owners of record.

Hold everything though! Here come the boys from New York to give out their instruction= s, assignments and their directions. Now the boys and girls from Berkeley have been busy, too. They plan= to "protect" us all! From ... .? OUR FREEDOMS ??

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= Their master plan for "protecting the people" is the exercise of persua= ding us we all need to be protected from personally negotiating and dealing with= our neighbors and instead if we would but give up some of these "unnecessa= ry freedoms" to their preferred regulations and moratoriums we can have "greater protection" from our, up to now, free ability to deal wi= th our free neighbors. They would instead regulate them for us, "for our = own protection." If only we would be so kind as to take away the rights of= a few apparently more prosperous neighbors. They don't tell us our own indivi= dual freedoms are next in line in their program "to protect" our more immediate neighbor from us, e.g. if we are the ones with a "noisy" body repair shop.

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Before a people's constitutionally guaranteed freedo= ms can really be taken away from them they have to = be persuaded some set of at least semi-plausible reasons and "overwhelming circumstances" (staged or otherwise) to<= /u> vote themselves out of their freedoms.

That is, a people who are free have to be persuaded first to turn in their franchises to freedom.

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= THE= RIGHT OF REFERENDUM

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";letter-spacing:-1.0pt'>= What we have mentioned above is again in part what the Reapportionment Constitutional Amendment is all about. Are people willing to hand in the= ir franchises to freedom in exchange for "protection" security? = It is actually fear of intervention. We've all seen and witnessed the gross ab= uses of power and disregard of the expressed intention of the people of California by the legislature (and by the highest court of the State) regarding apportionment= . If the people vote to approve this new initiative we will be voting ourselves = out of voting control of those who are now drawing and re-drawing the district lines every 10 years.

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<= b>= A new commission will be formed. The Reapportionment Amendment establis= hes a commission that would be responsive to no one except perhaps the self same now unresponsive State Supreme Court. If this new commission is not respons= ive to any election process it will be subject even more to Absolute Power Absolutely Corrupted.

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<= b>= We propose, instead, that it is better to leave our present system alone and l= et the troublesome legislators continue to expose themselves and their power g= reed to the public. Eventually, as with any party (machine) that becomes= too gross, the voting public reacts, and takes care of the matter itself. Don't= we have enough time to keep our present freedoms until our neighbors also beco= me fed up with the power abuses?

= THE= RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION

The Solano County Land Use Initiative proposes to take away powers from our own duly elected Board of Supervisors, our own representatives. We, = the people are being given that rare opportunity of "protecting" ours= elves from our own properly elected representatives. "Protecti= ng ourselves" from what??? = Some people and legislators are saying the initiative process is being abused. T= here is even legislation now in the works in Sacramento that would limit (even abolish) the initiative process. This reminds me of Congress actively entertaining the thought of restricting currency possessi= on to valueless coin and paper - to ban hard assets.<= /p>

Don't<= /span> forget, i= f you vote a neighbor out of some freedom he now h= as, you are merely setting it up that others in your mob will feel justified in their excesses to vote you out= of some part of the freedoms you presently enjoy= ; that you presently take f= or granted (such as running a "Garage Sale" business). = You declare! "That's impossible!" Well, ask someone from El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, etc. You may be allowed to hav= e your dreams, but the reality of "having an acre in the country with a few chickens, a cow, and house to retire onto" would be even less possible= .

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What can be done to slow and reverse the loss of freedoms and counteract the divisive forces at work on us ?=

Maximize opportunities by reducing the growth o= f intervention "protection" services. Allow individuals to get-on-with each other freely without getting a third person to rescue and take sides. Recognize intervention-"protection" for what it is.

= OUR= LETTER No. 6

= Ernst & Ernst

= Addresso'Set Publications

"A free economy is worthless with= out moral scruples, but at least in a free society the unscrupulous can be dealt with. In an unfree society the unscrupulous control, are protected in excha= nge for favors and protection."

(Foundation for Economic Education)

Fr= anklin “Harry” Ernst III

&= nbsp; Permission is hereby granted to any person, magazine, newspaper, other periodical, or media to reprint this monograph in any single issue of the periodical in question, so long as two conditions are met: (1) the monograph is printed w= ord for word, including diagrams, figures, and footnotes, and (2) the following reference is given at the bottom of the first page on which the reprinted article begins:

“This artic= le is taken from OUR LETTE= R No. 6, titled Intervention - "Protection", Uncontrolled Regulator= y Sprawl, March 28, 1984. Published by Addresso’Set Publications, P.O. Box 3009, Vallejo, California &= nbsp; 94590.&#= 8221;