Posted on 01/05/2005 11:55:47 AM PST by george wythe
maybe they'll unload the city people out into the countryside, as the cambodians did under pol pot.
Guess he took lessons from Mugabe but failed to notice the effects on food production later on.
I wonder how long it'ss be before Citgo pumps go dry here.
Amend you statement to .... "Chavez is simply trying to take land ."
... and you hav ethe jist of it.
LAND GRAB BY A BULLY, pure and simple.
It worked in Zimbabwe, why not here?
"I'm betting that the American liberals are watching with keen interest. They're thinking, "Could we get away with something like that?"
I have .45 good reasons why liberals should not try this in America.
"Idle land can be claimed by people who live on it after a length of time."
I can't speak for the rest of the country, but in California squatters have no rights *unless* they have paid the taxes on the otherwise unencumbered property for five consecutive years. Recorded deeds of Trust have primacy in order of filing subject to subjugation regardless of this point of Title Law.
The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Alabaster, Alabama, is the one which came to mind right away. WalMart was using another company to do the dirty work, but the land was being seized to be able to put in a WalMart. I don't know what happened to this plan after the spotlight of national publicity was turned on it.
Another attempt in Arvada, Colorado, was smacked down by the Colorado Supreme Court where the property had been declared an "urban blight" two decades before. The owners fixed up the property but the city tried to use that 1981 designation for running the owners out to use the land for a WalMart parking lot.
There are others. Just google for Walmart and eminent domain.
Are your papers in order?!
Zimbabwe II
Cuba II
Didn't Chavez just return from a trip to China where there was a mutual pledge of eternal admiration? Isn't China looking to South America, not only for oil, but for arable land to feed its people? Couldn't this appropriation of idle lands be in part to make land available to China farm cooperatives to set up shop in Venezuela?
Just wondering....
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