Railroads employ eminent domain

Yuma Sun ^ | 29 September 2006 | Jeffery Gautreaux

[Sam_Damon]

When it comes to eminent domain usage by railroads, it doesn't seem to be a question of if they will get the property they need, but rather how much they will pay for it.

Arizona state law delegates the right to take property through eminent domain to railroads, which have long been considered a public use, according to Tim Keller, executive director of the Institute for Justice, Arizona chapter.

[snip to buried lede]

Easterday said he was approached by a Union Pacific representative about selling an option to purchase 200 acres he owns at County 13th Street and Avenue 3E for the potential rail line that would come up from Mexico, likely from a new superport planned for Punta Colonet.

[Sam_Damon]

Putting this on the radar screen.

Interesting how business is dealing with high-priced union port workers in the USA -- outsourcing their jobs to Mexico.

I suppose the money is there. Instead of placing it into union members' pockets, though, we're sending it to Mexico.

[Kimberly GG]

"The Sun previously reported that Union Pacific officials are researching Yuma as a route to ship cargo from 130 miles south of Tijuana into the United States. Landowners throughout Yuma told The Sun that they had been approached by Union Pacific officials about property acquisition".......

......."Local farmer Bruce Easterday has no illusions about trying to fight the railroad if it should pursue eminent domain to acquire his property.

"We would need the state government supporting us to fight it. For simple folks — farmers out there — we couldn't stop the railroad on our own."



Mr. Easterday is going to need much more than support from the government! Sounds to me like neither he nor the reporters, much like the rest of the country, are aware of the NAU/SPP agenda.

[jim_trent]

Power line companies and pipeline companies also have this "right".

[massgopguy]

They'll use "rustlers, cut-throats, muderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nit-wits, half-wits, dim-wits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian Agents, Mexican Bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse theives, Bull Dykes, train robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists."

[deport]

Interesting how business is dealing with high-priced union port workers in the USA -- outsourcing their jobs to Mexico.

---

Walmart built a 4 million sqft facility in Houston to bring in up to 28% of their far east container imports and get away from the West Coast ports because of the 2003 problems at Christmas time. They are using the Panama Canal and smaller container ships to accomplish this.

[Clifford The Big Red Dog]

Is that Hedy,


Or Hedley?


Hehehe

[norraad]

"Dang~num~it, almost lost a $400 railcar!"