STUART, Florida - March 19, 2008 - A Florida County is using a declared war on killer bees to justify violating the property rights of local citizens.

Commissioners in Martin County have unanimously passed an ordinance allowing county employees to go onto private property without permission to kill Africanized bees and treat areas where mosquitoes are breeding.

The county's mosquito control administrator Gene Lemire said the county already responds to bee and mosquito complaints with the permission of property owners.

But he said they have had an increasing number of incidents in which property owners either cannot be found or are unwilling to clean up the infestation themselves.

Killer bees, which Lemire said have been moving into Martin County, are more aggressive than regular European honey bees and will chase people farther to sting them when a hive is disturbed.

Ed. Note: Your right to private property is not subject to local ordinances.  You do not have to allow a county inspector on your property, regardless of his reasons or what this ordinance says.  Resist!  Do not comply!  If someone comes on my private property despite the numerous No Trespassing signs I have around its perimeter, then the intruders may be shot!  That is the American way!