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For
Immediate Release

20th
June 2010

“Stop the War on
Land Owners, Home Owners and Shareholders.”

The Carbon
Sense Coalition today claimed that the war on carbon was just another battle in
the long war on property rights by populists in Parliament.

Speaking
yesterday at the well attended annual meeting of Property Rights Australia in
Emerald, the Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv
Forbes, said that Mark Twain was right – “No man’s life
liberty or property is safe while parliament is sitting”.

He added:

“The
war on property rights is always carried out under the spurious slogan of
“the public interest”.

“It is
always secretly serving a private interest.

“Mainly
it is being used by politicians to buy votes from swinging voters or to attract
green preferences.

“Currently
‘global warming’ and ‘carbon pollution’ are their
preferred vote winners. As these scams are exposed as grubby schemes to serve
private interests in the carbon trading and alternate energy industries, new
slogans will be found.

“But
always it will be an attack on the right of property owners to use and enjoy
the security of their own property.

“Farmers
have been robbed of their rights by bans on controlling woody weeds and
regrowth on their properties. Seaside property values are being damaged by
sudden changes in zoning laws and development plans using the excuse of
possible sea level changes. Shareholders in mining companies have seen the
value of their retirement funds slump under the threat of super taxes needed by
the federal government to balance the books after the extravagant stimulus
packages and roof insulation disasters. Real job opportunities for aboriginal
people are destroyed by ‘Wild Rivers’ legislation. Fishermen are
being deprived of the right to fish, and foresters are locked out of the
forests.

“And
at this moment many property rights are being trampled to force feed the
unnatural growth of the wind, solar and natural gas industries, using various
spurious climate excuses. Those whose assets are suffering include landowners,
miners, tax payers, shareholders and electricity consumers.

Mr Forbes advised
members of Property Rights Australia to focus on the real problem, which is in
parliament.

“It is
not other property owners such as miners, gas producers and native title
claimants who are your main enemy – they too have bits of paper signed by
politicians giving them rights which are often vague
and, too often, overlap and degrade your property rights. These overlapping
property rights are at the root of all discord between various classes of
property owners.

“My
advice to all land owners is “Know your rights, get good legal advice,
negotiate hard with other conflicting property owners, but keep out of court
battles with them – the only winners in that battle are the lawyers.

“Focus
your legal weapons and court actions on government property invaders, and make
sure your politicians feel the heat.

“And
as the global warming scam is exposed, watch for their next excuse for grabbing
control of your lives and property.

“There
will be one – bio-diversity, sustainability, soil conservation, ocean
acidity, saving something cuddly, energy conservation, or, most likely, all of
the above.”

Viv Forbes

Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition

Rosevale,
Qld, Australia

www.carbon-sense.com

Phone 07 5464 0533

Email: [email-masked]