Unfortunately, as with many farms, the Faire farm is next to a River, which puts James in a newly invented “special class” of property owners, who are far more likely to have their property rights abrogated without compensation, or even to have their property outright stolen by the State.

You could call it the Un-Constitution Zone.

The Un-Constitution Zone is shadowy, gray place where the “real” law, written law, laws actually passed by our elected Representatives, may be ignored. James Faire has already been told that he can’t get permits to improve his house. He can’t get permits to build any other buildings. He can’t really do anything with his property except allow it to go to ruin so that the State can condemn it and it will not be able to be used for anything.

Snohomish County Bureaucrats have begun the process of intentionally destroying our rivers with unmitigated sediment, destroying riverfront property owners’ right to protect the rivers, proliferating swamps, effectively condemning property. It is theft, pure and simple, by government over a long drawn-out time period under the guise of “protecting” the environment.

What are the facts? We are limited in what we can tell you because of the pending legal situation, but you will probably be able to “fill in the blanks” yourself.

There has been a private shooting range on the farm since the 1960s. The neighborhood has changed from family farms to more upscale, yuppie horse ranches and some of the new neighbors in the last few years have decided that even though they knew about the range when they moved in, they really don’t like the noise.

There was a complaint about the noise. The Sheriff’s office investigated and found that there was no violation of the noise ordinances. In fact everything was totally legal. They have also known about the range for years. They could find no violation.

In a perfect world, this would have been the extent of it, and the neighborhood would have reverted back to it’s usual routine. No laws were broken. No harm was done. If you buy property next to a freeway, you’re going to have to live with some noise.

Except that, when you have wealthy and politically connected neighbors, there is always the possibility that pressure will be applied, back door deals will be arranged, chips will be called in and political debts will be paid off.

Did that happen here? Unlike the local news media, we leave the reader to draw their own conclusions.

James Faire received notice that the berm that was on the property to allow for safe shooting was in violation of several ordinances under the Shoreline Management Act. That huge penalties will apply if he does not immediately act. Penalties so huge that ultimately, in a short time, they will exceed the total value of the property. They will bankrupt and destroy him.

There are many reasons why the property is not in violation. Why the charges are not true. Grandfather clauses, amount of dirt moved, many things could be used as a defense. The range is not commercial, it is not public and one of the alleged violations relates to that, although the actual fact that a range is there is not what the land use violations state they are about.

Of course, what is spoken about by officials to James in private is very different. Could he really have been told to cease and desist all shooting there in order to get a continuance? But, wait, this isn’t about shooting? It’s about land use violations. Or are land use violations being used to enforce non-existent-in-law shooting restrictions. Wink, wink, nod, nod. Just make sure the person being persecuted “gets it.” After all, this is the Un-Constitution zone. And it might just apply to more areas than you would think.

Before the charges were even filed, there began a smear campaign.

Oh, it is the same old song. It begins with the siren newspaper, long since bought and paid for by the politically connected elite, maligning and libeling the intended victim.

The paper leaps on the stage, willfully throwing off it’s hallowed position as defender of liberties and watchdog of the citizens, to joyfully schmooze into the lap of villains who seek to tarnish the reputation of an innocent citizen before the kill. There is lots of innuendo, exaggeration and obfuscation. Oh, you know the score, you’ve seen it before, again and again. The victim was seen in the vicinity of a known bad person. They harbored unpopular opinions. They might have actually been in a class of people who fought to prevent the implementation of the very laws that were now being used to prosecute them. They might have a hobby that is highly unpopular with the powers that be, such as firearms training and instruction. Oh, then of course, that alone brings in every epithet ever hurled at firearm’s owners and users everywhere. Guns are bad. Gun owners all belong to some sort of networked underground organization plotting violent takeover of the government to the detriment of it’s citizens. Gun owners want a fascist/nazi White Supremacist police state and everyone should be very afraid of them.

This of course justifies that the government sent in Homeland Security, Confidential wired informants, FBI and who knows who else because in 4 decades without incident, with local law enforcement having no problem, Americans must be protected against this farmer with his small private shooting range. In contrast to economically strapped normal citizens with no means to defend themselves, we have all these ultra-expensive, highly trained and organized uber-funded agencies that are sitting around trying to find a target to justify their cushy, lush, decandent life styles and lacking enough foreign terrorists to hunt they are now hunting – YES YOU, THE ORDINARY AMERICAN CITIZEN.

While Joe American and his little Boy Scout son are out hunting deer, they had better realize that the laser sights of the omnipotent state might one day be focused on them with all the power and destructive ability that unlimited tax dollars can buy.

The problem is, we already have the creeping/fascist police state and it owns the press. And it owns massive firepower and weapons of mass destruction, and high tech surveillance systems, along with stellar prisons. These systems dwarf the ordinary citizen’s piddly rifle and hand gun. They have tanks, flame throwers, machine guns, sound weapons, laser weapons and robotic drones, but the most scary thing of all is that they have control of the courts and the legal system. Where fascism does not come boldly in with a tank, easily identified and targeted, it creeps in under the guise of “saving the planet, preventing pollution, saving the warm and fuzzy creatures of the earth, saving – “oh my god, have you ever seen anything more adorable than a spotted owl?” Evil has long since learned to disguise itself in the trappings of good intentions, using the decent nature of the gullible and uninformed to enact legislation, while behind their backs it is laughing at how easy it was to fool them into embracing their own chains.

Links to mainstream media propoganda hit pieces:

Seattle P.I. Article

Herald Article

Komo T.V. News

Some other interesting supporting documents:

Original Complaint - Resolved.