Most Local Zoning/Ordinances are B*llsh*t!

We discuss local zoning, ordinance, and government problems...from a personal view.

Email me your opinion at JackAtlasTRM@gmail.com

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Head it down at dawn Yeah I shadow the mass shoes headed down at dawn Ain't no place gonna hold me when the road keeps rolling on Hello everybody and welcome to the Radical Middle with your host Jack Atlas and we're gonna get this show on the road now for this first episode and I know the first episode is always hard, right? Because you don't know there's so many things you want to tackle, but you don't know how to kind of present yourself to the audience. Um yeah, we're gonna be doing a lot of politics and and economics and philosophy and history and that kind of stuff on this show, but how do you start it? You know, do I do uh something stupid that Trump's doing and turn away all the Trump supporters? Or do I go after uh big business and turn away all the Republicans? You know, or do I promote the Second Amendment, right? Uh or the Constitution and make the Democrats mad. You just don't know how to start it off because you want people and you want listeners from all stations of life. I think the show is for everybody. This isn't for Republicans or Democrats, or rhinos or republicans, or MAGA in the in the left-ling loony left. You know what I mean? It's not a one or the other, it's for all of us. That's why I called it the radical middle. And that's why I call my stage name here Jack Atlas, Jack of all trades, with it feels like the weight of the world weighing on our shoulders. And what do I mean by R? I mean the worker bees of this country. I don't mean the people who were born privileged, inherited money, was was reared to become a politician or a statesman or a banker and then a politician and run our lives almost like a modern aristocracy. I'm talking about the nurses, the EMS workers, the welders, the oil drillers, the miners, the mill rights, the factory workers, the farmers, the ranchers, the real people. People who have to learn how to fix stuff on their own and not hire an expert every time that they want to do things. People who learn how to work with their hands and not work with their wallets. People who actually hold this country together. None of these politicians are gonna show up when you need them, but your local EMS worker will every time. Your neighbor will come with a chainsaw, but these people are gonna cut your benefits. So this isn't a Republican or Democrat thing, and I didn't know how to start off this first show because I didn't want to alienate people. You know, you just do one subject on this show and you alienate, say, all the mega people, right? They're not gonna listen to another show, even if it's something on another subject, like the next subject, uh, that they would like. So I thought I'd bring it down to a little bit personal. I said I wouldn't do a lot of personal stuff on this show, but uh just for this first episode, I think we're gonna start it out a little bit personal, and that is local government. Local government. And this can go down for everybody. Local government, what people don't realize is the most important government in your life. Everybody concentrates on the presidential election. I mean, this president has definitely uh, let's just say, accumulated more power than the constitution allows, and accumulated more power than has ever been given to a president, except for maybe Lincoln under the War Powers Act at the time. But the president's not supposed to have a lot of power. There's actually only five constitutional duties that a president is supposed to be able to do. He's supposed to run or enforce the laws and enforce the directives and spend the money according to the wills of Congress, not on his own, not through executive order, not through some authoritarian uh true social post in this in this president's case. There's a lot of presidents before have done this. Um this one's just taking it into overdrive. What I'm talking about is they is they don't get to direct the legislature. They don't get to decide what's right and wrong, they don't get to decide the law or where to spend money. At least they're not supposed to be able to. And we'll go on this another subject specifically with this president in a different show. They're just supposed to spend the money appropriated by Congress, make sure the checks are getting paid, make sure everything's going to the right department, as appropriated by Congress. And they're supposed to enforce the laws as appropriated by Congress. That's that's just number one. They handle interstate disputes, interstate commerce. They are in charge and the highest authority when it comes to interstate commerce, right? And that's us dealing with other countries as far as trade and the states dealing with each other, whether it be travel or business or taxes or anything else. They are supposed to protect our homeland and our border, be in charge of the armed forces, okay? So they are in charge of the military if we go to war. That does not mean that they are supposed to be using the military every time they want. They are supposed to ask permission to use the military, and then they are in charge of military operations. Of course, that's not happening right now. It hasn't happened in the last couple presidents either. It's getting on overdrive right now. We'll get to that subject, but that's the second duty that they're supposed to do. They're supposed to protect our land. Duty number three. This is something the quite a few presidents recently haven't done either, especially with immigration policies. They have not protected our borders. They've let terrorists in, they've let spies in. We just had a mayor found to be a Chinese spy. We have Chinese police stations regulating Chinese citizens in the United States of America. Our presidents have not been protecting us in our border. And instead, like the modern one, you know, he says he's doing it, but what they just do is they just turn around and mostly turn on American citizens. So they go about it all wrong. But anyway, that's another job of the president. The other one is treaties. Treaties have to be ratified by the Senate only, but they are our chief diplomat. The president. The president is supposed to be handling our international affairs as our chief diplomat, our chief negotiator. Something that at least the last four presidents have been awful. Just terrible at. And it seems to be keep getting worse. And that's it. The president is not supposed to be in charge of gas prices. The president is not supposed to be creating executive orders managing football games. The president is not supposed to be personally taking in just oh all these presidents in my lifetime have just been horrible and seem to have no concept of the direction of the actual constitution. There are five duties per president. But anyway, I'm going off on a tangent here. We'll go on this in another show. I know this is taking too long. Alright, but the point was the federal government has very little actual impact on your life. And yet that's where we spend most of our time in the news, in our conversations, at the voting booth, worried about. The level of government that will have the most, the most impact on your life is your local government. Your township officials, your county commissioners, your zoning board and zoning ordinances. Those are the kind of things. Those local taxes are going to hit you the most, and those are the kind of things that are going to allow you to be able to use your property as you see fit or not use your property as you see fit. Zoning ordinances does more against property rights and against innovation than anything the federal government can even possibly try to do. Anything. And yet the news is always worried about the federal government. Senate, Congress, and Trump. Right now, Trump. You almost never hear anything about the states, and now that local news is pretty much gone. I mean, NPR is no longer funded. Most of the local newspapers have gone down in the digital age. And so we really don't have a lot of local news anymore keeping these county commissioners and whatnot in check. And that's also where the most corruption happens. Well, it used to be where most of the corruption happens. Right now, I've never seen corruption like what's going on in the White House right now, but again, that'll be for a different show. But that's actually where most of the government corruption happens. You know, a family member owns a construction business and gets a bid. This guy gets on the board so he can rezone around his uh business. This is actually going on on uh where I live right now. We have uh people who moved up where I live in our small, nice little community, and then they opened up a business, and then they origin immediately got on the board and then they immediately started zoning things for a commercial. And they wanted to do that and ruin our entire community because they want their business to thrive. So they get on the board, they do all this zoning stuff, people really don't pay attention, and next thing you know, they're screwing the community for their own benefit, and they got on the board to do that. That is corruption. And what got me on this tangent today anyway is two things. Number one, to recognize the local government is, and I've been saying this for you know 20 years, I the local government will do the most damage to you. It'll do the most damage to your freedom, your property, and your finances, and let's just be honest, your sanctity of life. I got a letter in the mail yesterday from my zoning township, and it was talking about how I have uh derelict vehicles, a couple boats, trash and tires and stuff in my yard. Now, there's no correlation or causation here or you know that I know of, but I will say that we're having a bunch of zoning laws suddenly just shoved down our throat. The community had no real time to even know that it was happening. And I posted something on social media and our local community page saying, hey, who is behind this? Who's on the board? Maybe we need to look into this and see who these people are, why they're doing it, and uh uh who's who actually seeks to benefit, who's having them do it, right? And granted, that's questioning a possible corruption. Well, exactly a week later, I get a letter about my yard, my house, from the township zoning zoning. Now, whether that's actually causation, yeah, I don't know. Correlation seems really fishy to me that it seems like I'm being targeted. So I call up the guy yesterday and I said, hey, look, all those vehicles, I'm a mechanic. I fix vehicles. Those vehicles are going to be fixed. I'm either waiting on parts or waiting on the right time. You know the two boats? I run those two boats. It got too expensive last year because you guys took away, you sold our marina to the DNR, and then you took away all of our marina slots, and the few that are left are charging more than what my boat costs. So now I gotta slip it in every now and then, but the boat's good and it still runs. Why don't I have my cars registered? Because they've been broken for about a year. The two that are in my my house. And I'm not going to pay the state. I mean, it's already bullshit that you got to pay the state on a car every single year that you already paid for. It's basically a yearly sales tax, and that should have been banned a long time ago. It's even worse already that I got that you gotta have an insurance on a car that you that you're not running. But if you're not running a car on the road, then it shouldn't need to be registered. What does that matter on your property? Now I'm I'm from out west. I'm from Wyoming. And I lived way outside of a city of Wyoming where we basically had zero zoning ordinances, so I'm not used to this kind of crap. To me, it's anti-freedom. Unless I'm doing something environmentally or whatever to specifically affect your property, you have no right, zero right to tell me what I can and can't do with mine, at least until you start paying my mortgage. And mine isn't over an environmental thing. It's not garbage in my house or going after me. I'm a mechanic, I'm a jack of all trades, I do a lot of things. I do everything for my tea work to fix appliances, to fix cars, to fix diesel engines, and I do spare parts. And I have spare things all over the place. Everything has a purpose, everything is a tool, or everything is a part. Heck, I might even put up a picture with this video, I'm not sure. I mean, we've had a long winter, there's some things that are disorganized, but heck, the snow just broke last week and I haven't had a time to pick it up. But this nasty gram said not only will they find me, but they'll compound interest every day, which by the way, that's loan shark stuff. That shouldn't be allowed by our government, that's loan shark stuff. Either way, I can't help but to take this personally. See, I live in a tourist area, and there is a group of people, including the people running the township, that only care about the tourists. They don't care about us locals. Us locals are being pushed out by the rich people that are coming in and buying homes and only staying here for two weeks in the summer or renting them out. We ran out of places to live. We've we're running out of jobs that pay any good, and the township wants all the houses to look beautiful, cold and not lived in. I am I live right outside of town. I'm the only person that lives year round on my street here. And I'm surrounded by people who come up for like two weeks out of the year or rental or rent their house. They use it as cabins. And let me tell you something, there's no soul to it. They're just cold. I mean, the facade outside, oh yeah, they look good and it's nice and clean, but there's just no soul to it. It doesn't look like anybody lives there. It's just cold. You know, it's like the difference between a really beautiful architectural building and some steel montrosity that they stuck up. My house looks lived in. It's not dirty, it's not environmentally hazard, it's not getting anybody's way. It's just lived in. It's lived in by somebody who works with his hands, does a jack of all trade, you know, and maybe I'm in a position that people don't understand. The person that's coming after me was inherited a bunch in in her life, you know, and has worked, but has always been able to just kind of keep a nice, clean life with nice, clean finances, nice and organized. Some of us have had just had to do things messy, and I will always continue to do things messy because I always got 50 projects going on at the same time. My way of life and my way of income is something that they don't understand in how I operate, which yes, has something to do with my ADD as well. I got massive ADD. And so I'm always working on 15 things at once, and then all of a sudden things come together after a couple years, but they don't have the patience for that. They only care about what the tourists are seeing when they're walking by my house. And that is bullshit. It's aesthetic. I called the township yesterday and I said, I want to know who's complaining. And they said, Well, we can't tell you that. Constitutionally, you know, maybe I have to take it to court, but yes, you have you do. And at least you should. Because we that's another problem we have in this country right now, um, in a lot of these local neighborhoods, and especially the local governments, is you get to go to your government, complain. The person gets fined or warning by the government whether the complaint was usually valid or not. Because let's just be honest, any zoning person can show up at your house and find 15 zoning. I don't care if you keep your house perfect. They're as bad as the homeowners association crap. Right? They're anti-freedom, is what it is. With the exception of environmental uh over congestion and a couple small things that zoning is supposed to be there for, it has become a completely anti-freedom. John Locke, life, liberty, property. And what they directly do is take away property rights when what I do with my property is not affecting the people around me. And if you say property value, that is 100% bullshit. Because the property can be cleaned up the minute I sell my house while I live there, it doesn't matter. And I don't care that you're trying to sell your house to the next rich person that's gonna come and ruin the island. I really don't. But here's the thing why couldn't this person come talk to me first? I hate this about the modern world. Everybody calls the police right away. I've never called the police in my life for anything, but everybody calls the police right away. Everybody goes to their township and complains about their neighbor instead of going over to the house and saying, hey, we gotta talk, and then you take it to the next level. That's what I always learned. That's what we learned in the military is you try to handle it at the lowest level first and then take it to the next level. So when I get a complaint from the township that says somebody complain and we're gonna do something about it, and I say who, and they won't tell me, the way I look at it is why are you rewarding a coward? Why are you rewarding a coward? Cowards are driving this country into the bank. They won't stand up. I don't think you people have any idea. And I'm sorry to start out the first show this way as more of a preaching venting thing, but you people have no idea how angry I am with my local government right now. Just angry. And I know it's personal. I know it's personal. And it's just a small group of people that just have power. The question is, what am I gonna do about it? Am I gonna go ahead and orderly up my house a little bit and keep getting targeted? Or am I gonna go after them? No, I'm not talking about violently, not political violence. Stay away from that. But that doesn't mean I can't go after them because let me tell you something, they may look at it as a cross between business and personal. I don't see any separation in business as personal. All business is personal to somebody. This is my personal property, even if it's just business to you. So if they're gonna continue this, what should I do? Obviously, you got the voting booth to get them out, right? But we don't have a lot of people in our small community stepping in. I'd be terrible at a board. I already know it. But there are other things you can do that's outside the system and the law. That's not violent and that's not criminal. I'm not gonna sit here and tell it what it is because if I am going to go after somebody, uh the last thing I'm ever gonna do is let it see them coming. And I haven't decided yet if I'm just gonna write a letter with a plan and try to organize my yard. There's not really anything to throw away. They keep saying trash and stuff. Everything has a purpose, everything is a tool, everything's a spare part. Um, so I don't know what I'm gonna do that. And I really don't know if it's time for me to. I don't know. It'll be legal. It won't be violent. There's very few circumstances that violence isn't the answer. I mean, there is. It's it's you know, pacifists drive me nuts because the the amount of ego that goes behind that, you know, there's zero reason for political. Yeah, there is some. Very little, but some. But not in your local government. Not assassinating a president, not anything like that, not assassination. None of that belongs anywhere in our political sphere. But that doesn't mean that these people should be able to get away with us either. Because I know, or I have the feeling, I don't know. But all the stars in the sun and the whatever lining up to say there's definitely correlation here, probably causation, but I can't prove it. Just because you can't prove it through the system doesn't mean that it's not true. So the question is, is what do I do about it? What do you do about it if this happens to you? You try to take it through the court, it's gonna cost you a bunch of money. You could do it pro se, but you're gonna get wiped the floor with local lawyers. I mean, that was actually my first thought was go, you know what, I'm gonna challenge this in court. And it's not even to win. I'm just gonna stretch this out for years and years and years, and I'm gonna cost you sons of bitches more than this was ever worth. And you could. That's definitely a viable option. And you do it pro se you're not out the lawyer money. But it's also gonna take up a lot of your time. I mean, I don't make a lot of money. I'm pretty poor, so I need to go out and make money. I don't got time to be flying to the mainland constantly and going to court and spending time in a judicial system that's literally designed to just waste money. And it's not like a judge, you know. I mean, you know, I trust the system, and specifically the judicial system. I trust the system about as much as I trust a raccoon around an open garbage can. I trust it about as much as I trust Hillary Clinton with an email server. Heck, I trust it as much as I trust Christy Gnome with my dog. Heck, we'll even go one further. I trust the judicial system about as much as I trust Trump in a dressing room full of teenage girls. So I think I'm in the right. There's no environmental damage that's happening. I mean, I don't got like oil seeping all over the place and garbage and stale water and all that crap, you know? There's none of that. It's not creating mosquito hazards or bug hazards or any of that. It's cluttered. It's not dirty. It's cluttered, and there's a difference. It's lived in. My house is lived in. So what your house is is a tool. And people don't understand that. To me, when I look at when I'm walking down the street and I look at all these perfectly pristine, nice kept up houses, I think, God, it's just cold and ugly. They look at that as beautiful and they look at my house as ugly. I look at lived in houses as interesting and beautiful and wonderful and lifelike. So a lot of it's a change of perception. So honestly, folks, I don't know what the answer is here. I do know why certain property zoning laws and ordinances exist. I think most of them are way out of hand and probably unconstitutional. They just haven't been brought up to a Supreme Court because it's just so expensive to do. But one thing I do know is I've never met somebody who enforces local ordinance zoning laws that I thought was a decent American, freedom-loving, constitutional, salt of the earth kind of guy or gal. Never. There are always somebody who loves control, who loves everything in their nice little neat places and orders. They're always somebody that kind of reminds me not exactly, but the overall personality of who's that bad lady from Harry Potter. She's not like a Death Eater or whatever they call it, like an evil person, but she's got her own kind of narcissistic sociopathic evil, and it relies in control and neatness in organization. The wrong people that we need to have making decisions like this. Because what I see as a tool, you see as garbage. And you have all the advantage of this fight, especially when I'm poor. I don't have FU money. You know, I don't have 1.5 mil in an account and a paid-off house and a roof. Like literally, all these people who are enforcing this ordinance, they all inherited stuff. They all inherited their money in their houses. Yeah, they've worked jobs, but they were pretty privileged and got stood up in the first place. Every single one, because I've looked them up. They don't know what it's like to live poor and to be a jack of all trades and to work with everything as a tool. So I guess the question is going to be for this first episode is what do you do? I'm going to ask a couple questions with you guys and see if you can leave me some comments. You can always email me at Jack Atlas T R M. That's Jack Atlas. T as in Tango. R is in Rick. M is in Mike at gmail.com. It's Jack Atlas. The T R M is for the radical middle. You know, the name of the show. So JackAlas T R M, the radical middle, at gmail.com. If you have any comments, I'd like to talk about them on air. So let's let's let's let's see if you can answer me a few questions. Number one, what local ordinances and zoning laws do you think are valid? And which ones do you think that they go way over the top and take your freedom? Number two, has this happened to you before? And what have you done about it? Did you challenge it? And number three, what do you think I should do about it? I've already got it kind of in my brain right now what I'm gonna do, but I'd like to hear from you guys, and I'd like to hear if you were in my situation and you got this letter, and you had the kind of mentality of freedom, constitutionality, full on property rights, and you're somebody who works with her hands and has always got 15 projects going on, and so everything's spare parts and tools and all that kind of stuff on your brain. What would you do to fight this? Would you let them force your resources to be removed from your land that you make money off of, or would you fight this? And if you would, how? I guess another question would be is it is it worth the fight? I don't know. Again, let me know at uh Jack Atlas T R M at Gmail.com. I'd love to see your comments and probably read a couple on the air. Again, this is kind of an off, more of a venting thing for this first episode of the radical middle, but I wanted to kind of bring it home and I didn't get want to get right into national politics with Trump or anti-Trump or for Republican, anti-Republican, or for Democrat, anti-Regan. And I'm not either. You know, I'm not a Trump supporter or a Trumper, but I'm also not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. Even though I believe in a lot of the Democrat social values and stuff, I'm not a libertarian, I'm not an authoritarian, I'm not I'm not any of these. I'm radically in the middle. And I imagine if you're gonna start listening to the show, you are too, because you're sick and tired of the left and right politics. And sometimes it's good. To talk about something local. So I'm sorry this first show was an event, but I thought, hey, we got to kick it off somewhere, and that's what we're gonna do. Thanks for sticking around. Again, leave your comments, jackatlastrm at gmail.com on what you think about local ordinances. Have you gone through any of this stuff before? What did you do about it? And what do you think I should do about it? And remember, folks, this is actually a lesson. There's a lesson here to this thing. It's not just a rant. And that is, I know the news just consumes you with the presidency and the legislature, you know, the Senate and the Congress, and then sometimes the Supreme Court when they're out there in the news. And that's 90%, 99% of the news that you're bringing in as if they have the biggest impact in your life and they don't. They don't. Your local county commissioners, your zoning board people, those are the people who have the largest impact on your life financially, property rights, and your quality of life locally. Those are the elections you need to pay attention to the most. That's also where most of the corruption, well, before this presidency, that's also where most of the corruption in America lies. And that's where people pay the least attention. So, folks, if I can leave you with a message, is pay attention to your local government, get to know them, figure out what they're all about, figure out what their agendas are, and if you need to, get them the hell out of there. This is Jack Atlas. You have listened to The Radical Middle, and I will see you in the next episode. Have a good one, folks, and I hope you have a day of Eudaimania.

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