At 12:49 PM 4/23/02, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:32 PM >Subject: Re: Homeowners Associations - Dictatorships in the US? > > > > Matt Grimaldi wrote: > > > > > > Kevin Tarr wrote: > > > > > > > Actually this has a wider point: you don't own ANY > > > > property, you are just renting it from the government. > > > > > > That is a gross untruth. When you own property, you have > > > many, many more rights than if you merely rent it. Ownership > > > entitles you to the rights to whatever minerals you happen > > > to dig up, > > > > What about the cases in which someone *else* owns the mineral rights to > > what's under your topsoil? > > > >Then you get a small fee for your inconvenience if and only if they have to >move equipment across your land. I know I do not own the mineral rights >under my house, and before I came the neighborhood was in an uproar when >there was an oil rig working just a block or two away. The oil under my >house is probably being drawn even as we write. :-) > >Dan M.
So when the ground underneath your house suddenly gives way because there is no longer anything supporting it . . . ? ;-) -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
