[ngat]

Yeah, interesting, except the Salena Zito’s attempt to find any parallels between George Washington and Wall Street Bankers and the Occupy Wall Street protesters and the people who were trying to take George Washington’s land grant from him, fails utterly.

[Timber Rattler]

At the time, Washington's land "grant" was of dubious legality. That was the issue, since he and his agents had staked out most of his claims quite illegally while the British 1763 Proclamation Line was still in force, which clearly prohibiting such activity.

In his correspondence from the period, he complained bitterly about the Proclamation Line and secretly planned to subvert it.

For reference see Letters from George Washington to William Crawford, September 21 and 29, 1767, in C.W. Butterfield, ed., The Washington-Crawford Letters. Being the Correspondence Between George Washington and William Crawford: From 1767 to 1781. (Cincinnati: Robert Clark and Co., 1877)