{"id":3565,"date":"2013-08-22T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/standing-before-the-bocc\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:43:28","slug":"standing-before-the-bocc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/standing-before-the-bocc\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing before the BOCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

By definition, complaints not grounded<\/em> in an injury, an injustice, or a wrong, are groundless.<\/p>\n

The parade of green<\/em> complainers<\/em> before the BOCC, so overwhelmed with love for the environment that they must testify their fealty at every public microphone, have not experienced an injury, an injustice, or a wrong, and do not even have the reasonable potential that any of these things might occur to them.\u00a0 So, their complaints remain groundless.<\/p>\n

Still, they fear, and they claim, that injury is inevitable, foreseeable, virtually certain to occur.\u00a0 The EPA, however, recently said it has not found a single case in America where produced water from shale gas fracturing has injured a potable groundwater aquifer.\u00a0 Not one.\u00a0 But no matter.\u00a0 Green love<\/em> is a deep pool.\u00a0 It needs no facts to sustain it.<\/p>\n

When the Greens<\/em> benefit from a government action, the government can do no wrong.\u00a0 But when the government fails to uphold a green<\/em> agenda item, it must be corrupt, in the pocket of industry, the idiot bastards must be recalled, etc.\u00a0 Green<\/em> rhetoric is tediously predictable in this respect.<\/p>\n

All courts have a standing<\/em> requirement – an injury in fact<\/em> must exist before the court will listen to you.\u00a0 Courts don’t convene to discuss groundless fears, and our BOCC, a quasi-judicial body, should not consume public time, money, and bandwidth entertaining interminable political questions, regardless of how green<\/em> they look.<\/p>\n

Political questions are for the ballot box, not BOCC business meetings.<\/p>\n

B_Imperial<\/p>\n

ref:<\/p>\n

1st Amendment <\/strong><\/p>\n

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BOROUGH OF DURYEA v. GUARNIERI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Opinion of the Court
\n564 U. S. ____ (2011)
\nPp. 7-8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both speech and petition are integral to the democratic process, although not necessarily in the same way. The right to petition allows citizens to express their ideas, hopes, and concerns to their government and their elected representatives, whereas the right to speak fosters the public exchange of ideas that is integral to deliberative democracy as well as to the whole realm of ideas and human affairs. Beyond the political sphere, both speech and petition advance personal expression, although the right to petition is generally concerned with expression directed to the government seeking redress of a grievance<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Courts should not presume there is always an essential equivalence in the two Clauses or that Speech Clause precedents necessarily and in every case resolve Petition Clause claims. See ibid. (rights of speech and petition are \u201cnot identical\u201d). Interpretation of the Petition Clause must be guided by the objectives and aspirations that underlie the right. A petition conveys the special concerns of its author to the government and, in its usual form, requests action by the government to address those concerns. See Sure-Tan Inc., supra, at 896\u2013897.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Black’s Law Dictionary defines grievance<\/em><\/u> as<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

An injury, injustice, or wrong that gives ground for a complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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