I hope you are all paying attention to what I believe is an assault on property rights happening before our eyes. Freedom and property rights, which are intricately linked, do not disappear overnight. They erode gradually until one day you wake up and realize we have replaced God as our shepherd with government.
At the Jan. 29 City Council meeting, there was a six-minute segment following executive session that may have been overlooked during the more than two-hour meeting. The mayor of Isle of Palms made a motion to forgo seeking permanent easements from residents for the upcoming beach renourishment and instead proposed simply assuming an easement. This was done with the concurrence of the city administrator, who stated that obtaining easements had been difficult during the last renourishment effort.
New council member David Cohen wisely objected, saying, “I disagree. I don’t think that we should be going onto people’s properties without their permission.” Thank you, David, for your commitment to property rights. Why is this important?…