Gosh, for someone so concerned about property rights, you sure are willing to let government take them away easily.
In retrospect, it would appear that the smarter move would have been to leave them alone and let them keep it until they got bored with it, much as Cuba has been doing with Guantanamo since the Revolution.
Ya think?
The government is the servant of the people. It is obligated to retain no more property than the people will allow.
Conflating government ownership with private property rights is just another obfuscation dodge which is your usual modus operandi.