The Resolution!
Published April 12, 2010
Citizens Resolution and Proclamation
To the Bay County Board of Commissioners
Bay County, Florida
July 7th, 2009
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, Ladies & Gentlemen,
I am here today to represent the Bay Patriots and hundreds of our fellow citizens who believe that government at all levels is exceeding the powers granted to them by the Florida State Constitution and United States Constitution.
In just this last year we have seen the nationalization of the banking
industry, the insurance industry, the automobile industry, and soon the health care and energy industries.
Deficit spending is out of control, threatening our national security, our economic strength, and the preservation of Liberty.
The limits found in the US Constitution are being ignored and the federal government is rapidly overreaching its limited authority. Our state and local governments have failed to adequately restrain spending, while increasing taxes and imposing new fees as a device to balance an already over-inflated budget.
Because governments may only govern with the consent of the people, we therefore petition for redress of these grievances.
We may not be able to immediately influence action at the state and federal level, but we cry out for your attention to our local distress.
Here are our requests;
1. We ask you to include in all acts, directives or administrative rules
that portion of the U.S. or Florida State Constitution which authorizes such action.
2. Taking of private property by eminent domain, code, restriction,
administrative rule or zoning that negatively affects the value of private property must be properly justified and justly compensated.
3. No citizen shall be detained or seized for ANY reason, no matter how noble, without probable cause. This right shall not be violated without warrant, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place, persons or things to be seized, as stated in the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
4. Good stewardship of our natural resources is prudent, but the rights of personal property shall not be violated in preference to the interests of any plant or animal, without just compensation to those private property owners, as stated in the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
5. We petition this Commission to issue to the State a Declaration of the Rights held by the Sovereign State of Florida, as stated in the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
6. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things. The people cannot lawfully delegate to our government any power that we as citizens would be held accountable as unlawful. If it is against the law for any citizen to forcibly take from one person to give to another, no matter how benevolent, it must be held that the government has no right to do likewise. If the government deems the taking as lawful, it has further violated the one’s rights to appeal the taking. Be wary of using our tax money and your commission authority to fund projects which do not benefit all citizens of the county.
7. The Right to Life, to Liberty, and to Personal Property are so entwined as to be held as one. The loss of one is the loss of all.
Finally,
We encourage and will support those of our representatives who adhere to and honor the United States and Florida State Constitutions and who fiercely uphold the Creator-given, unalienable rights of all people and the inviolability of personal property rights.
Respectfully,
Derrell Day
Bay Patriots