I LOVE THE SMELL OF GOVERNMENT THIEVERY IN THE MORNING

Oh oh, here comes KELSO----or I'm from the government and I'm here to help you--Volume 7,540
Albert Posey was a hard worker, who labored in a factory full-time, grew corn and soybeans on his 60 acres of farmland in his time off, and raised his kids on his own. He died in 1989, and since then the government has grabbed off parts of his land, just because they could. One of Posey’s daughters still lives on what is left of his land.

Now get this: the Red Lion Area School District has tried to buy the farm twice. When the remaining kids refused, they took it anyway. 9.9 acres in the 1960s and 7.9 three years ago -- condemning the land through the power of eminent domain and giving the family a check for what the school district determined to be fair market value.

The Posey farm is now part of Mazie Gable Elementary School.

Pennsylvania is about to do even more “for the people of the state.” York county is about to seize 915 acres along the Susquehanna River, known as Lauxmont Farms, for a state park. They will vote on stealing the first 80 acres Wednesday. And of course, the Supremes have made it all but impossible to stop these government thefts. What you may not know is that Supreme Court has a steady record of backing up all land grabs going back to the first one in 1896 when they allowed the government to seize the Gettysburg battlefield. Just over 100 years later, the National Park Service used eminent domain to seize and destroy the National Tower on the battlefield.

In the early 1950s, the entire concept of "public use" changed, when the Supreme Court upheld the efforts of Washington, D.C. to condemn a dilapidated section of downtown---ask not for whom the bell tolls--- after the city argued the area was "blighted" and rehabilitating it was for public good. There have been more than ten thousand (10,000) seizures or threatened seizures in the United States from 1998 to 2002 that involved handing the property over to another private party

Pennsylvania leads the league here and there is little a property owner can do to stop seizure. A landowner can take the governments to court over the price, but courts almost invariably defer to the government's stated reasons for the seizure. Often, government bodies don't even have to file eminent domain suits to get the land. Property owners will many times settle out of fear of having their land taken for much less than it is worth. The threat of eminent domain is a powerful one. It costs a lot of money to defend an eminent domain action. If you mount a legal defense, it can really put your life on hold for a long time.

If you want to puke over this data---warning, sea sickness remedies won't work---go to the main article HERE. For a detailed account of a series of government land grabs for the purpose of handing the land over to the wealthy skiers and golfers over a thirty year period, read “Drive by in Paradise” my very long essay about the death of old Carmel by the Sea and the adjoining towns of Monterey and Pacific Grove as our government stole the land and gave it to the super rich.