Eminent domain foes to protest eviction, Halpers must quit farm by Monday (FRee Republic Mentioned)

Star Ledger ^ | 07.07.06 | AMISHA PADNANI AND PAOLA LORIGGIO

[Coleus]

A California-based group op posed to the use of eminent do main is planning a protest over the weekend at a Piscataway farm seized by the township. The group wants to show support for the Halper family, who must be off the property by Monday afternoon.

"We must draw a line in the sand and say: NO MORE!," reads a notice posted on www.freerepublic.com, a site run by Freestar Media LLC, a conservative organization that lobbies against eminent domain. "We must defend our constitutional right to own property. If this event isn't worthy of your time, then you will never find an event that is."

The group is calling for protesters to camp out at the 75-acre farm at Metlars Lane and South Washington Avenue beginning Saturday, hoping they will stay throughout the eviction.

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The Halper family has been battling Piscataway for the last seven years in an effort to keep the township from taking the property through eminent domain. The family lost the fight two years ago when a state judge granted the township the authority to seize the property.

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The idea for the camp-out this weekend came from Freestar Executive Producer Logan Darrow Clements, as part of a documentary the organization is shooting about eminent domain abuse. The documentary focuses on the Lost Liberty Hotel project in Weare, N.H., which Clements proposed to build on land owned by U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.

Clements contacted the Halpers, who agreed to host the protest. A band is scheduled to play on Sunday, an activity Clements hopes will "give people another reason to show up," he said. Clements said he did not know how many people would come to the camp- out.

[Coleus]

July 8-10, 2006 Camp-Out at the Halper Farm to Stop Eminent Domain

[Coleus]

Despite a court order, Halpers remain on farm   
It's un-American   
Piscataway farm family packs bags   
Halpers plan to leave the farm fighting  

[Jim Robinson]

"...a site run by Freestar Media LLC"

A slight error there.

[spunkets]

For what purpose was the property taken?

[Waco]

A new Cat House,,this is New Jersey.

[spunkets]

I thought they only allowed those in NV?

[Coleus]

 

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[Coleus]

A slight error there. >>>

Yep, just a bit. Reporters just never seem to get it right.

[RouxStir]

It was taken for "open space".

[Coleus]

For what purpose was the property taken?  >>>

more on this thread, this situation is also linked to one of the many McGreevey Scandals where in this case he used the code word " Machiavelli"

 

Piscataway gets OK to condemn farmland

[Coleus]

THE GOVERNOR & THE PRINCE: NEW JERSEY DEMOCRAT MCGREEVEY USED 'MACHIAVELLI' AS A CODE WORD FOR EXTORTION DEAL

[spunkets]

Open space... thanks.

[BykrBayb]

Because we need more vacant lots in NJ. There is a certain logic to that, but still...

[spunkets]

LOL!

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds like they're laying the groundwork to blame someone if this protest gains traction.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"A slight error there."

Perhaps Jason Dan Blair Rather contributed to this report....

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Ping

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Thank you, I was going to ask.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yet they do always seem to get it "left."

[Question_Assumptions]

The theory is that they want to put up park land and soccer fields and such (at least that's what the newsletter from the mayor said). The problem is that right now, a lot of the farmland is fallow, and thus overgrown. As a result, they have a flock of wild turkeys and other wildlife in what is, essentially, a developed area. Not sure how those turkeys are going to fare with mowed lawns and minivans full of soccer moms and screaming kids. Of course given the huge Wal-Mart/Lowes shopping center that they built right next door after clearing some other "open spaces", nobody seriously expects that space to stay "open" for long. I'm just hoping that it's a shopping center, warehouses, or a MacMansion complex, not high-density housing.