The push for zoning in Benewah County has been ongoing for many years. It was soundly rejected in 2014 by the people, but it was snuck in by the County Commissioners through county ordinance since then. You can find more information on that here:
What is happening to Benewah County is nothing new, but has been going on for many decades in counties across the country:
“The Cliches of Zoning” is a compilation of published newspaper articles dating back to the 1960s against a zoning proposal in Ogle County, Illinois. I lived in Ogle County at the time. I read it when I was nine years old. It became a nation-wide classic.
The author, Mr. Raymond Buker, was a friend of my mother’s uncle, Clint Ortgiesen, in the Ogle County Taxpayer’s Association. (It is worth mentioning that the “Ortgiesen’s” were and remain a well-known name in Lee County, the one next-door to Ogle County. Dixon is the county seat, the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan. My grandmother, Millie Ortgiesen, went to high school with Ronald Reagan.)
The efforts of these American patriots to stop the zoning juggernaut failed. My freckled, red-headed – but obviously grayed -grandfather was a contentious opponent. In defiance of the newly formed zoning board, he built a three-car garage made of cinder blocks in which one of the bays was used as a small machine shop. But the zoning board struck back. They made me tear-down my treehouse, then denied my grandfather a permit to build an apartment above the garage, where my parents – now with five small children – could live. After such reprisals – and there were others – we had to eventually move out of Illinois to a place where there was more freedom. When zoning followed us there, we moved away again, eventually ending up in Benewah County over twenty-five years ago.
Practically the whole country is now zoned and is experiencing different phases of control from criminal syndicalism. You can learn more about that from Jo Hindman’s classic, The Metrocrats.
There is no where else to go where there is freedom. American patriots must now “take a stand.”
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James Stivers, Website Creator