Another Day In The Freedom For Texas Project

This afternoon one of my sterner taskmasters assigned me the task of figuring out how to blog the scanned version of the Case Closed Court Documents that slapped Steve Doeung in the face, along with a lot of others, who felt slapped, on Monday.

I was not able to figure out how to directly insert the Court Documents into a blog. I was able to make a picture of the start of the Case Closed Document.

And if you go here, you can read the entire Closed Case.

I was Googling for information about the dishonorable Judge Sprinkle this morning and came upon a little blurb in a subterranean part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...

"Lawyers in the case said it was only a matter of time before Chesapeake Energy’s pipeline division acquired the right of way for the pipeline, which will run beneath the front yards of more than 30 homes. State law gives energy companies that same right to condemn land through eminent domain as cities or more traditional utility companies.

Chesapeake has been working with local politicians to find an alternate route that won’t affect as many homes.

The Texas Department of Transportation announced last week that it had given preliminary approval to a new route that would run parallel to Interstate 30."

Now, this was in a short article about Judge Sprinkle signing the condemnation order that allows Chesapeake Energy to shove a non-odorized natural pipeline under Steve Doeung's property. With once again, that corrupt newspaper acting like a shill for the Barnett Shale gas drilling industry.

As in the arrogance of the Chesapeake lawyers saying it was only a matter of time before they acquired the right of way.

In other words, there is no recourse in court. It's all pointless. Everything is stacked so heavily in the favor of entities like Chesapeake Energy that no matter how outrageous a plan is, they are totally confident that there is no governing body in Texas that will come to the defense of hapless homeowners.

"State law gives energy companies the same right to condemn land through eminent domain as cities or more traditional utility companies."

Well, that is all well and good. Texas has a law. Here is where that law goes berserko. Maybe moving natural gas is in the public interest. Maybe it's for the greater public good. But the way eminent domain is used in Texas is not the way eminent domain is supposed to be used.

Common sense sort of dictates that you do not run a non-odorized natural gas pipeline under homes. Common sense dictates such a pipeline should not even be considered. No citizen, not even a Texan with fewer rights than other Americans, should have to defend his peace and security against such a threat.

A massive natural gas explosion in Texas, killing 100s of children, is why natural gas had an odor added to it.

The small pittance Chesapeake Energy paid the people of Carter Avenue does not make them whole, as in the same financial state as before Chesapeake legally assaulted them. If that pipeline goes in, the value of their homes go down.

In my opinion, any time eminent domain is used, the victim should be made whole, as in suffer no damage. In DISH, eminent domain was used to cut big swatches from citizen's property, rendering the property unable to be used for its original use.

If Steve Doeung does not feel comfortable with the idea of having a big natural gas pipeline run under his house, that is his right. If Chesapeake Energy needs to use someone's property they should be made to acquire that right only after making the injured party whole.

To do otherwise is nothing but legalized thievery, with the corrupted, co-opted various Texas oversight commissions, like the Railroad Commission and the Texas Environmental Quality Commission, where the foxes have taken over the henhouses, along with the corrupted, co-opted Texas judicial system, which does the bidding, with no application of common sense, of the gas drilling companies.

And back to Steve Doeung and the dirty dealings done to him, how is it that Chesapeake Energy's eminent domain case was not instantly dismissed as soon as it became widely known that TxDOT had agreed to an alternative pipeline route? How could this case of eminent domain abuse be allowed to continue?

There is only one reason this has been allowed to happen, and that reason is the fact that this is taking place in a part of America where the laws have been corrupted, as in "Texas State Law gives energy companies the right...." to run roughshod over Texans, with the state acting as the agents of the energy companies, and not as stewards of the public welfare.

Am I communicating how disgusted I am?