Add Highland Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania to the growing list of communities conned by the CELDF who now regret being taken in by the radical scammers.

A little over two years ago, Jim Willis of Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) and I wrote here about a legal battle going on in Indiana and Elk Counties, Pennsylvania. We discussed the radical nature of the CELDF and its campaign to essentially throw out our Constitution and government, replacing all with some sort of statist utopia where big big guy Tom Linzey could sit on the throne, eating drumsticks and grapes while dispensing socialist justice and reflecting on far he had come from his days as the spoiled school nerd. It was all about yet another pair of communities sucked into the Community Environmental Defense Fund (CELDF) whirlpool of extremism and enticed to adopt one of its plainly unconstitutional “community rights ordinances.”

Highland Township, Elk County (population of 492) was taken in by the CELDF. It passed a a version of the same basic community rights Tom Linzey has used to manipulate other communities into supporting his revolutionary agenda using issues with bottled water plants, trains and others wherever he can find them. The smaller and more naive, the better, of course. Realizing, shortly after, that this strategy was going nowhere legally, the Supervisors seem to have been given the equally bright idea by Linzey they could simply avoid the Constitution by adopting a home rule charter. Now, those hopes have been dashed by a Federal Court decision once again demonstrating CELDF should be the acronym for Community of Elitist Lawyers Doing Flimflam.

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