Free Talk Live - eminent domain

Irish Woman Jailed Indefinitely for Illegal Forest

celestrion — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:44:20 +0000

Ms. Teresa Treacy loves her 100 acres of trees, which is why she's refused the demands of Ireland's state-owned Electricity Supply Board to chop them down to make way for new power lines. Claiming that her homestead is a country haven from city life, she simply does not want the power lines to cross her property, at the expense of trees she's tended for decades.

Why is the Government Driving Folks Off Their Land?

joestros — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:14:41 +0000

From Reason.tv. Nuisance Abatement Teams in the Antelope Valley, CA, are enforcing ridiculous code violations in order to get people to stop living on their land. The Mayor, Mike Antonovich, responsible for enforcing these rules is now, not-so-ironically, heavily involved in promoting an "inland port", a high desert corridor, and a high speed rail line through in the same area.

"New" Germany seizes, scrubs [private] Stasi museum. Apologetics?

Agent Dale Cooper — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:36:18 +0000

1 in 20 East Germans were informants. "The Lives of Others" is a sad and unsettling movie about what results when Soviet statism is executed with German efficiency: The Stasi. Funny how much of East German communist assets like this museum were homesteaded, and now the "kindler, gentler" western state wants to seize it all over again. Never again!

Campbell Soup Advocates for Eminent Domain in Camden

redgar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:16:09 +0000

Diner: "Waiter, theres a fly in my soup!"

Waiter: "Your soup? We don't respect private property anymore, its his soup too."

Unable to purchase an old Sears building in Camden using fair negotiations, Campbell Soup Company has asked the Camden Redevelopment Authority to use government force to acquire the property for them.

Town residents refuse to leave, not paying taxes

maulotaur — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:18:29 +0000

State forcing residents out of 'dangerous' town who refuse to leave.