Dallas City Council member mad she can't steal land

[EW]

wow!

[War Machine]

Fuck em!!!

[Fastback]

God dammit. I hate that some guy (rich or not) had to spend millions fighting to keep HIS shit. These shit heads probably could have built around his property for less than the legal battle they just forced us to pay for. One point she made, I can twist to agree with...a poor man should be able to defend his shit to the same extent...in other words, fighting legal battles is too damn high.

[BoostedD1]

She's cute.

Just sayin.

[bird_dog0347]

cog·ni·tive dis·so·nance
nounPsychology
noun: cognitive dissonance

the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.

[jw33]

Marvin John Heemeyer.

[GhostTX]

I wonder how much money they would have saved if they'd just gone around instead of having a governmental temper tantrum and fought it?

[Gasser64]

We need a constitutional amendment to make them fuck off. Like George Mason wanted:

"That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."


Needs to be a bit more clear than that. Something like no government agency of any kind, can EVER take land for ANY reason.

Then maybe we could put something in there like: If they absolutely must have the land, they must pay the landowner 100x the value of the land, as appraised by an independent appraiser who can have no government affiliation whatsoever. Or they can go off whatever it was worth before they started wanting it. We really need some fucking land rights revisions. All in our favor.

[AnthonyS]

Fuck socialism in all its forms.

[black50]

so what's the details and background of this story....sounds interesting...and who is the rich guy who fought them off for years?

[LANTIRN]

We need a constitutional amendment to make them fuck off. Like George Mason wanted:

"That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."


Needs to be a bit more clear than that. Something like no government agency of any kind, can EVER take land for ANY reason.

Then maybe we could put something in there like: If they absolutely must have the land, they must pay the landowner 100x the value of the land, as appraised by an independent appraiser who can have no government affiliation whatsoever. Or they can go off whatever it was worth before they started wanting it. We really need some fucking land rights revisions. All in our favor.

I would go one step further and outright ban that shit. If any government wants the land, they can offer whatever they want, but the owner can say no and that is the end of it. Eminent domain has been used in the past for a few OK things like highways, but I hate the government taking anything, and they have abused it too much and it needs to be taken away.

[quikag]

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2016/september/monty-bennett-tarrant-water-fight/

[Fastback]

I would go one step further and outright ban that shit. If any government wants the land, they can offer whatever they want, but the owner can say no and that is the end of it. Eminent domain has been used in the past for a few OK things like highways, but I hate the government taking anything, and they have abused it too much and it needs to be taken away.

I feel sorry for the people hit by the George Bush tollway eminent domain. It being a tollway just adds insult to injury.
The intruder should get to make handsome offers, and if blocked, relocate. This new bullet train is a threat to landowners. You'd think they could run a train along the interstate or existing railway lines. Theres just a lot of shady shit that goes along with eminent domain like preemptively buying/developing land with insider knowledge, in order to cash in when eminent domain deal happens.

[Scott Mc]

Fuck that cunt, hopefully karma takes her fucking property just like she has done to others.

[line-em-up]

That's why I was so killing mad about 12 years ago when they were going to steal people's land for the TTC. There were guys on here defending them too. They were going to take land and let a spanish company build a tollway on it and then bleed off all of the land owners' money to use it.