Letter to the Editor: Opposes storm water ordinance management

As I understand it, under Article I and II (under the Storm Water Ordinance Management O-12-13) gives far to much power and authority to an “administrator” that I not elected by the people nor answerable to the people.

As one example, it gives the administrator the right to enter into or upon ones property without probable cause.

Under the fourth amendment of our Constitution, it states the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

This dictated regulation abolishes our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our legal right to own property and to use said property without government infringement. We are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This proposed regulation violates all of these.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. There is nothing in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution that enables the government to alter or abolish the Constitution or rules of law without the following Article V of the Constitution for changes and alterations through the amendment.

This dictated regulation circumvents the U.S. Constitution and our rules of laws for the United Nations Agenda 21, America’s sustainable development. Laws are suppose to come from U.S. legislators that derive its just powers from the consent of the governed. Do not support this ordinance.

Robert C. Whitaker
Providence Forge