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U.S. Gov't Backs Off Seizure Plan, Says Flight 93 Landowners 'Will Be Treated Fairly'
thepittsburghchannel.com ^ | 6/5/2009 | General

Posted on 06/05/2009 11:33:22 AM PDT by AbeKrieger

SOMERSET, Pa. -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the U.S. government will not use eminent domain to seize people's land for a permanent Flight 93 memorial and instead will renew negotiations with landowners near the terrorist crash site in Somerset County.

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and Salazar met with families of victims and landowners on Friday in Shanksville to discuss issues surrounding the planned national memorial for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, fatal hijacking.

Specter's office said Friday's meeting also focused on what still needs to be done for the memorial to be complete in time for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2011.

Recently, the National Park Service said it would use eminent domain to seize land from seven property owners needed for the memorial. But Salazar said those plans are now changed.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bhointerior; cair; eminentdomain; flight93; flight93memorial; islam; memorial; mosquewatch; pennsylvania; salazar; snarlinarlen; terror; turncoat
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To: w1andsodidwe

That’s harder to do than this memorial.


21 posted on 06/05/2009 11:57:29 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: pnh102
Well a small monument would only require one part-time Park Ranger.

This one will require a staff the size of an Army battalion and a 30 bureaucrats to oversee them.

22 posted on 06/05/2009 11:57:59 AM PDT by Never on my watch (At least with Doctors I can get a second opinion. With 'Professional Journalists' there is only one)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well, I believe they already have the land.


23 posted on 06/05/2009 11:59:34 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well, maybe there’s an ‘interfaith’ islamic center design in the offing in the ‘buffer.’


24 posted on 06/05/2009 12:00:54 PM PDT by combat_boots (The 5 Stages of Collapse: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47157)
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To: AbeKrieger
The announcement, though, doesn't take eminent domain completely off the table. The government said it still has the option to use it, but will do so only as a last resort.

The landowners will be victims of totalitarianism regardless. Damn this government!

25 posted on 06/05/2009 12:01:13 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr
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To: BikerJoe

I’d be interested to know exactly WHO, by name,
designed this mockery of a memorial.


26 posted on 06/05/2009 12:03:34 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: AbeKrieger

Some farmers are going to be rich the almighty Uncle Obama has spoken.


27 posted on 06/05/2009 12:05:00 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: AbeKrieger

What better way to commemorate the murder of Americans on 9/11 than to steal more private American land! It isn’t theft if it is patriotic!

/unfunny


28 posted on 06/05/2009 12:05:10 PM PDT by M203M4 (A rainbow-excreting government-cheese-pie-eating unicorn in every pot.)
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To: ReneeLynn
Next step, make the property owners look greedy and force them into accepting squat for their land. Or just raise the property taxes, they won’t be able to pay, and take the land anyway.

Why bother? Zero will just print up a wad o moolah and pay em off... gets better press that way, and he still gets to build his tribute to mecca.

29 posted on 06/05/2009 12:10:12 PM PDT by glock rocks (SEVERE at 2009: divide by zero error at HopeAndChange( ).injectCrisis( ).runDistraction()
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To: AbeKrieger

I don’t understand the need for such a huge tract of land.


30 posted on 06/05/2009 12:30:52 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: AbeKrieger

A small pull-over area by a nearby road that overlooks the area would suffice, imo. It was enough a horror without snatching someone’s home as well.


31 posted on 06/05/2009 12:37:03 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: DBrow

They want to encompass the ENTIRE crash site.
Currently, the site is off limits because of possible souveneir seekers.

By taking that much land, they can dig it up completely or cover it with concrete.


32 posted on 06/05/2009 12:37:24 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: AbeKrieger
Place the memorial at the intended target. Have it state:
"Never forget: the people of flyover country saved your asses! Let's Roll!"

We're here from the government...
...to memorialize you

33 posted on 06/05/2009 12:41:09 PM PDT by Theophilus (Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
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To: AbeKrieger

I find this news surprising in light of the fact that Obama hasn’t planned to sieze United Airlines as yet...


34 posted on 06/05/2009 12:41:10 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (In just 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

According to Wikipedia, of the $57 million required to build this thing, as of April 2007 only $11 million had been raised. It may be a real long time before we see the revamped version of the “Crescent of Embrace” (that was the real name, folks), architect Paul Murdoch’s red, crescent-shaped memorial that just happened to face toward Mecca. Gee, I wonder if Murdoch is a conservative. /s


35 posted on 06/05/2009 12:46:47 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now.)
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To: AbeKrieger

Move it to NYC !why have memorials all over the place.


36 posted on 06/05/2009 12:51:20 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: All

Please, folks!

It's not like the Obama Administration suddenly gives a damn about NOT infringing on the property rights of Americans.

The National Park Service, Interior Department, Specter nor Obama deserves NO credit for this "decision"— it's more about the negotiations between the land owners and a National Park Service "misunderstanding":

Parks service officials have said they needed to take the land because negotiations with landowners weren't successful, but landowners said those negotiations never took place.

Landowners will receive fair market value for their property, Salazar said. The government still has the option to use eminent domain but said it will do so only as a last resort.

37 posted on 06/05/2009 12:56:35 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2

Yup. Eminent Domain is not off the table; it’s just a “last resort”.

After the New London CT case I doubt the locals will get anywhere.

But maybe this’ll delay it so much we can in the meantime get a decent redesign, and get rid of the homage to Islam.


38 posted on 06/05/2009 2:27:41 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: AbeKrieger

Specter actually does something that’s right? Color me surprised.


39 posted on 06/05/2009 2:35:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: AbeKrieger
Until Friday, the National Park Service had planned to seize the remaining land that's needed for a $58 million, 2,200-acre memorial and national park at the crash site -- an extremely rural area 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

What the hell? I believe it's something like 660 acres for a square mile. They actually though they needed four square miles of land?

We're talking about a very large tract of land here.

40 posted on 06/05/2009 3:08:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama post 09/11. The U.S. is sorry, we are a Muslim nation, and we surrender.)
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