The SMA/SMP Update is not science and it is not
duly crafted, vetted, voted, and ratified law but will be enforced as
if it were such. The SMA/SMP Update is a perversion of governmental
function being used to impose a partisan, Statist ideology
(Unconstitutional) on the citizens and private property owners by an
unelected surrogate (Dept. of Ecology, DoE) appointed by a
controversial ‘elected’ governor (Christine Gregoire) . The
SMA/SMP Updated is an unwanted, unnecessary, convoluted, impossible to
understand, ‘blank check’ for more central government
control of citizens and their private property. (There are some
striking similarities to the very unpopular ’Obamacare’.
“You have to pass it to find out what’s in it.”) It
is a taking without compensation. The SMA/SMP Update has carefully
avoided visiting the subject of economic impact of this monstrous
policy overhaul. What it will accomplish is incrementally make the
owning of private property more expensive, less valuable to keep and
use, and more difficult to buy and sell. It moves us toward an unstated
agenda/ideology of the DoE which is to
eliminated private property
ownership altogether (ref. UN Agenda 21 and the Wildlands
Project).
This is not Conspiracy theory. Sadly this is Conspiracy Fact. (History
is full of examples of the ineptitude and tragic consequences of
central government ownership and non-citizen control of the land.)
The SMA/SMP Update should move forward without
amendment of the previous SMA/SMP Update. More regulations and
artificial legal protections on our shorelines paralyze the real
protection and stewardship of those shorelines. We do not need more
regulations and redundant protections of our environment. If it is not
currently broken, it surely will be when the SMA/SMP Update is heaped
upon us. If the State and the DoE break it, they own it. If we break
it, we own it. Please
do not fall for this DoE ploy. They want you to
do their dirty work so your finger prints are on it not theirs. Make
the State/the DoE impose and own any changes in the 2012/2013 Clallam
County SMA/SMP Update.
Karl Spees, MD (retired), Member of the SMA/SMP
Update Committee, private concerned citizen, and Pres. CAPR 13.