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NJ smirks and cites ‘eminent domain’ to seize a 175-year-old farm so it can build welfare housing
American Thinker ^ | 26 Jun, 2025 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 06/27/2025 5:19:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What radicalized me? Oh gee I don’t know, maybe stories like this one?

Per a report at Fox News, township officials in the unincorporated community of Cranbury, NJ are in the process of seizing a historic family farm that has been under the family’s ownership for 175 years—that means since 1850—because they want to use it for a welfare housing project.

Benji Farraro reports that in April, Andy and Christopher Henry, the two brothers who currently own the farm, received a letter that informed them that Cranbury would be seizing all 21 acres, but government officials have now decided that they’ll make do with just half of the farm, and benevolently leave the house for the Henry family—now the Henry family gets to be neighbors with the third world foreigners who will no doubt be taking up residence in the “affordable housing” units built on Henry land! (Kind of reminds of when Abraham Lincoln spitefully directed the federal government to seize land that belonged to Mary Custis Lee as retribution for her husband’s allegiance to country over the Union, citing a “tax” dispute.)

The only thing I found surprising was that one of the owners of the farm was “shocked” that the government would operate in such an evil way:

‘It makes me feel terrible,’ Henry said. ‘It was a shock. We are surrounded by warehouses, been turning down developers for years. We just wanted to be left alone and take care of our place like my ancestors did before us.’

I’m sorry sir, but where in the he** have you been?

The entire system is built on theft, murder, and all other evils.

Operation Northwoods? Operation Paperclip? MK-Ultra? Ruby Ridge? Waco? Tuskegee experiments? Poisoning in St. Louis? Testing Big Pharma drugs on foster children? Operation Mockingbird?

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: americanstinker; andyhenry; cranburytownship; eminentdomain; leftism; middlesexcounty; multiplenicks; newjersey; oliviamurray; paranoia
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1 posted on 06/27/2025 5:19:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Welfare housing: democRAT voters.


2 posted on 06/27/2025 5:19:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The same justification the politicians used to try to seize this land should be used to seize the same politicians’ houses - every last one of them.


3 posted on 06/27/2025 5:21:47 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

Gangster government. The way the left loves it. NJ is a hellhole. I work with a lefty who is from NJ, and he even says it is. He’s close, but he’s not quite putting 2 & 2 together yet.


4 posted on 06/27/2025 5:22:52 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: MtnClimber

Are these the same Joysiens who call US FACIST NAZIS?


5 posted on 06/27/2025 5:23:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: vpintheak

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984


6 posted on 06/27/2025 5:26:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

If they did that to my farm, I would burn down the house of every official that made it happen.


7 posted on 06/27/2025 5:27:06 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: vpintheak

“You are a slow learner, Winston.”
“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984


8 posted on 06/27/2025 5:29:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s not just Cranbury, it’s happening in Bernards Township as well. Before anyone is too hard on the towns, the State forces us to build a certain amount of low income housing. The townships fight but you know the NJ Courts.


9 posted on 06/27/2025 5:29:18 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: MtnClimber

If you are the last vacant property owner somewhere, your property will be the first taken with eminent domain when the government wants land.


10 posted on 06/27/2025 5:29:45 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: bk1000; MtnClimber

Here’s how to save it:

Have it put on the National Registry of Historic Places...............


11 posted on 06/27/2025 5:30:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

This story is disgusting.

It really reminds me of what’s going on in South Africa with White farmers being kicked off their land for no other reason than the government says so.


12 posted on 06/27/2025 5:31:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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13 posted on 06/27/2025 5:31:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, that, or “find” some “endangered” species on the land...


14 posted on 06/27/2025 5:31:51 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)
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To: Hegemony Cricket; bk1000; MtnClimber

While putting the property on the registry is no guarantee, it would slow down the process considerably..............


15 posted on 06/27/2025 5:33:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

I totally get their thought process. I think I would have taken the money and run. 21 acres, a small farm, surrounded by warehouses and other industrial blight ( houses ) sounds horrible.

Take the money, find a nice quiet corner and live in peace......with peaceful, like minded neighbors.


16 posted on 06/27/2025 5:34:48 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: FlipWilson

The Trump Administration announced this week it is moving to stop this farm theft.


17 posted on 06/27/2025 5:34:51 AM PDT by laconic
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


18 posted on 06/27/2025 5:37:34 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Every time I hear of NJ it reminds me of that fat pig Christie, no way to go through life.


19 posted on 06/27/2025 5:38:11 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: FlipWilson

The infamous “Mount Laurel” decision.


20 posted on 06/27/2025 5:41:59 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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