Dear Zack, Thanks for posting this. Now I know how land tenure is SUPPOSED to work in the Philippines.
In actuality, land tenure here is a stew of fraud, falsification, incompetent record keeping and sheer chaos, vigorously stirred by the legislature which adds Agrarian Reform as a further cloud on title. In fact, squatting is a very rewarding activity, because the procedures for ejecting squatters have been made so difficult and complicated that in actuality, squatters have to be "bought off" with money, and sometimes even with titled land and houses built for them. Make no mistake: crime does pay. Marc de Piolenc Iligan City __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Freedom exists only on the frontier It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ...H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertarianisland/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
