WRONG BORDER/Canada-Vermont---US HS-
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2010/05/17/vt_farmer_draws_a_line_at_us_bid_to_bolster_border/
The bucolic setting of silos and sugar maples has become the focus of a bitter dispute that pits one of America’s most revered traditions — the family-owned farm — against the post-9/11 reality of terror attacks on US soil.
The Department of Homeland Security sees Morses Line as a weak link in the nation’s borders, attractive to terrorists trying to smuggle in lethal materials. The government is planning an estimated $8 million renovation here as part of a nationwide effort to secure border crossings.
It intends to acquire 4.9 acres of border land on a dairy farm owned for three generations by the Rainville family. Last month, the Rainvilles learned that if they refuse to sell the land for $39,500, the government intends to seize it by eminent domain.
The Rainvilles call this an unjustified land-grab by federal bullies.
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OH MY GOSH. Eminent domain at its ugliest?
Carol..things are getting far more scary from the WH than they are from foreign terrorists!
Z-the 'slow slide' has been accelerated--both parties at fault-
bho has made the slide to socialism so obvious that we in the US are finally waking up...
i guess i'm okay with eminent domain being utilized for nat'l security, but it has to meet some fairly strict and regulated tests. this is least a modicum more rational than when the SupCourt ordered the taking of a family home to give to a commercial development!
good gawd we live in interesting (read, ugly) times.
Jg--Chinese curse="May you live in interesting times."
--indeed we are-
perhaps we are 'cursed' because of inaction...
and for allowing government to grow out of the bounds of the original intent of the US Constitution...
Interesting, Homeland Security doesn't finish a fence on Arizona's border in order to allow the free passage of illegals into the U.S., but sees the need to steal a family farm in order to secure the Northern border. Perhaps it is me, but there is something incredibly wrong with this picture.
WS-that is the reason I posted this--the irony is so apparent-
Life-Liberty -Property (original words of Declaration)
I can understand national security concerns, but why screw over a poor farmer for it, why not just pay him a good sum for his land if there is no alternative. After all the feds have no problem spending trillions on crap.
MK-my take-it has nothing to do with border control --harassment came to mind when I read the article ...
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