Tuesday, July 31, 2007

A wall on private property, international boundaries, U.S.-Canada relations, a firing...all in one

You can read the whole story here--a couple in the very northern reaches of Washington state do their homework, get the approvals they need, build a wall on their property--and then are told by some commission that it stuck out into a buffer zone between the U.S.-Canada border, and that if they don't tear the wall down, the commission would do it for them and send them the bill. The couple went to court. They might win. The Bush administration fired the U.S. appointee who's been harassing this couple. Good for it, and good for the Pacific Legal Foundation for defending these folks' property rights.