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Sycophants Invade Vacation Rentals

By Ron Lee
Published: 04/22/24 Topics: Government, Legal, Lodging Management, People, Regulations, Software, Vacation Rentals Comments: 2

Vacation Rentals have been around for centuries often called by many names: lodging, sharing, vacation rentals, bed and breakfasts, and now short-term-rentals.

It has only been in recent years that cities, counties and homeowner associations have conspired to attack rentals and all without logic, reason or adherence to the bundle of real estate rights codified in the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other laws for 250 years.

Did you know that property rights are the most mentioned right in the Bill of Rights? Because without being able to protect those rights, all other rights can be further trampled on. For example, you can’t have freedom of the press, if government can take away your right to occupy your property.

The reasons for those vicious anti-rental attacks are false and found to be based solely on another age old situation - Xenophobia - the fear of others. The incidence of noise, parking, and even garbage collections are so statistically small as to be non-existent.

Def: Xenophobia [noun]

Aversion or hostility to, disdain for, or fear of strangers.

Synonyms: Bias, Bigotry, Animosity, Classism, Hatred

Now, however, governments have found new sycophants to help them batter responsible private homeowners and, as might be expected, it is none other than Artificial Intelligence software developers taking up the war.

The dictionary points out the threat of these:

Def: Sycophant - [noun]

A self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.

Synonyms: flatterer, fawner, flunky, toady

In the war on property rights, governments are turning to profiteering software soldiers to encourage neighbors to spy on neighbors and to report them for any perceived slight, real or imagined. (Neighbors hating neighbors is nothing new, but now governments are rewarding that hateful conduct.)

One participant in the war on vacation rentals is Deckard Technologies of San Diego, California. Their website, (www.Decard) fosters the idea they are mainly in the business in helping local governments with "tax". But parse their words more closely to learn that Deckard is in the "compliance" business. In other words, governments hire them to control humans.

That makes them sycophants for the same reason court jesters bowed and scraped to kings. It is all for the money. Deckard says governments can fine neighbors using their expensive software to bust them.

With those software contracts costing hundreds of thousands of dollars for cities and counties struggling to balance budgets, those governments will learn that this kind of A.I. ("Awful Intelligence") generated system produces complaints that won’t hold up in criminal court where rules of evidence abide.

And yet counties fall for any pitch that says it won’t cost them anything. Even if they then suspect, and later learn, that the huge cost of such software can never be recovered.

Even if officials admit there is no pay-back for that software, busting people for gossip appeals to government officials who don’t base their decisions on fundamental concepts like property rights.

To see how their xenophobia functions, substitute their words "Vacation Rental" or "Short-Term Rental’ with the names of minority groups to make their rational sound just like what it is, just another form of hate crime.

With apology to the people of south Africa, and the terrible harm they suffered for so many years, it can be seen that segregating vacation rental property owners and guests is used by people who insist on oppressing vacation rental property owners and guests. They steal their rights while allowing others those same rights.

Def: Apartheid [noun]

Rigidly segregating and economically and politically oppressing people.

Synonyms: Segregation, Bigotry, Chauvinism, Injustice, Intolerance

On the Deckard company website, Nick Del Pego CEO claims to be a mathematician, a seasoned corporate senior leader and a U.S. Air Force SpecOps veteran. Isn’t that the service branch who can be called in to attack people with no regrets?

Del Pego and his software soldiers make it easy for neighbors to hate other neighbors who use their Constitutional right to share and rent out their homes.

Plus, his software makes it comfortable for nosey neighbors to report people anonymously, as if they were Peeping Toms. And the penalty for false reporting is - you guessed it - nothing. No liability, no accountability.

In his novel 1984, George Orwell warned about a society where government watched over every little thing done by every little citizen.

And now Del Pego’s Deckard Technologies gets paid to help cities and counties do exactly that.

It must be asked, why would Craig Brown, Greg Rose, Jess Flanagan, Chloe Sasson, Tom Hemmings, Tony Moriarty, Matthew Duggan, Dr. Victor Xie, Loren Vasquez Rivera, Vicki Lane, Dustin Reilich, Stacey Kurtz, Rob Piskorowksi, Dave Brown, Melissa Mijia, Faith Chaza, Dana Lormer, Branden Reese and all the cronies at Deckard agree to help him do it?

Perhaps, they enjoy facilitating gossip and think hate mongering is good. Probably it is that, like everyone else, they just need a job.

Maybe those employees should look for employment in a more reputable industry, where their actions do not deprive others of their basic property rights. There are many worthy causes. How about ending poverty, feeding the poor, volunteering at charities, working to end war, etc.?

Of course, those kinds of jobs don’t pay as well as promoting Deckard’s hateful service.

Chelan County Doxxing Vacation Rental Owners

By Ron Lee
Published: 04/22/24 Topics: Government, Regulations Comments: 1

Doxxing someone is considered a kind of hate crime. So how does Chelan County get way with doxxing Vacation Rental owners on the county’s online parcel map?

Purple shows a permitted vacation rental Orange is ____, pink is _____. It says -Hey look out, your neighbors are criminals because they rent out their homes. Officials have gone so far as to spend $300,000 to a company that provides an online website so neighbors can spy on neighbors. (Think George Orwell!)

And are published so neighbors can keep an eye on those "wascawwy wabbit" as Elmer Fudd used to say in the Porky Pig cartoons of old.

The term "doxxing" is derived from the phrase "dropping dox (documents)". originally involving online hackers attempting to embarrass, shame or even harass individuals by publishing home information, images or videos..

In more recent years, celebrities have been frequently attacked when online websites publish their personal address, phone number, email addresses, and even the names and photos of their children. And all to serve their own bizarre thoughts.

There is a deep-seated flaw in the human character of officials who have no limits to the joy they take in harassing property owners..

Andrey Vyshinsky, a jurist during the Stalinist Soviet era, was know to proclaim me "Show me any man and I’ll come up with a crime." Vyshinsky knew he could dredge up, or make-up, some crime for whoever his bosses disliked.

Since County Commissioners voted in the anti-vacation rental statue in 2001, which limits vacation rentals to about 800 homes, there have been a grand total of one complaints. (You read that correctly only one complaint County wide). Clearly there never was a problem but pompous leaders like to find a

Whoever thought that 34 years after the fall of the Soviet Unit, Chelan County Commissioners in little old Washington state, would vote to be become the Soviet Union of Chelan County?

The most discussed right in the U.S. Constitution is that of property rights. And all because with out property rights, all othes are greatly at ririsk. But the County Commissioners just choose to ignore the U.S. Constitution.

It was only a matter of time, but today citizens who dislike what elected officials, judges, police officers or public servants, began to dig up and publish their home address, phone numbers and email addresses.

Instead of testifying at public meetings, working to elect or defeat officials at the pools, or even protest at government offices, hot heads now like to picket and even attack the personal homes of bureaucrats.

That too is a deep-seated fault in the human character.

It Gets Worse

Now elected officials have retaliated by doxxing property owners who have committed no crime and are, statistics show, highly unlikely to misbehave or even violate unnecessary rules.

Government use of doxxing is the most serious type because it is perpetrated by public officials who feel they have are immune from criticism and have no obligation to look at the fundamental right and wrong of things.

Cutting property rights to the bone, is criminal in itself. Doxxing is just another step in that direction. It is time for County Commission to do things immediately. First, remove the doxing from county websites and records. and Second, to throw rental regulations, limits, and prohibitions into the trash heap.

Government Officials Driving Tourism Economy Away

By Ron Lee
Published: 04/16/12 Topics: Government Comments: 0

Tourism is a clean, responsible industry that brings in visitors anxious to shop, attend events, tour attractions, rent lodging, and pay the taxes that go with them. So why do local government officials want to drive away vacation rentals and turn away the easy spending guests who want them? Read more

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