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U.S. gives Flight 93 site landowners one week to sell (Update #14, Nixed)
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 6/6/09 | Amy Worden

Posted on 06/06/2009 8:44:45 AM PDT by jimbo123

The federal government issued an ultimatum yesterday to people who own land designated for the Flight 93 memorial in Western Pennsylvania: They have one week to reach an agreement on the sale of their land or the government will initiate proceedings to seize it.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bho44; flight93memorial; landgrab; mecca; nixupdate14; notnixed; propertyrights; terrorism
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To: jimbo123

It’s time folks meet the grabbers with pitchforks and some hot lead.

There has to be a tipping point where enough is enough.


61 posted on 06/06/2009 10:09:01 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: biff
That is an interesting twist. Are they offering to donate a limited area, probably where the plane impacted, to convince the government not to condemn the rest? An interesting approach.

The question whether the government is taking too much land gets us close to the Kelso case in which the land owners would be asking the court to rule that the taking is not for a public purpose and therefore not authorized by the Constitution. The evidence that it is not a taking for a "public" purpose, I presume, is that the government is condemning an unreasonably large area. I'm not sure that conclusion follows in logic. Surely the government would say that it needs parking areas and space for infrastructure and especially a green buffer properly to memorialize the site. Should the court substitute its judgment for the judgment of the Congress or the administrators whom the Congress designates? Would not that call for the kind of judicial activism we conservatives deplore?

I do not raise these points as a matter of justice but out of intellectual interest. In justice, the landowners might be perfectly right the government is perhaps being too broad in its seizure, but do we want judges to be making these decisions in the absence of a flagrant departure from reasonableness?


62 posted on 06/06/2009 10:28:39 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: jimbo123

Why are the Idiots doing this ? it needs to be with the rest of the memorials in NYC.


63 posted on 06/06/2009 10:28:53 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: jimbo123

I got that picture with a bucket of KFC on the floor.


64 posted on 06/06/2009 10:29:46 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: jimbo123

Sale of their land or the government will initiate proceedings to seize it.So long freedom it was nice to have known you.


65 posted on 06/06/2009 10:33:53 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: jimbo123
almost perfectly ≠ exactly

Which is it, I wonder.

66 posted on 06/06/2009 10:40:26 AM PDT by TankerKC (01/20/09 = 09/10/01)
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To: edcoil

What it means is that the crescent is aligned toward Mecca, so Muslim visitors know which direction to pray in. The whole thing appears to be a Muslim shrine of some sort—bizarre.


67 posted on 06/06/2009 10:41:04 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: jimbo123

It makes me furious and sick to my stomach that this thing is a muslim crescent. That’s not a stretch, that’s exactly what it is. Sick bastards are laughing at us.


68 posted on 06/06/2009 11:04:49 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: jimbo123
The Hijackers seized privately owned air crafts
with many private citizens aboard.

Now the Gov is going to seize privately owned
land in order to “honor” these events.

????????????makes sense to me???????????????

JJ61

69 posted on 06/06/2009 11:05:55 AM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: SlowBoat407

good point.


70 posted on 06/06/2009 11:07:06 AM PDT by annieokie (i)
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To: biff

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.


71 posted on 06/06/2009 11:09:12 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: AuntB

Good point.


72 posted on 06/06/2009 11:24:13 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: OCCASparky

Problem is the Park Service wants to build a 5000 acre Park for their staff with golf courses, etc, etc. I guess!! The land owner was willing to give them a couple of acres. But no someone wants to make a fortune off of the backs of those that died and build a tourist attraction instead of a “Marker of Honor”.


73 posted on 06/06/2009 11:49:07 AM PDT by org.whodat ("Way past time for new commodities regulation")
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