You have a valid point - however, since the State of New Yrk ILLEGALLY attained the land, they should be forced to compensate anyone that wuld lose property... of course, the way states are, WE pay for their mistakes, because they'd raise taxes to cover it instead of cutting useless wasteful programs... ;0)
I don't advocate forced removal of people from land they own, BTW, so don't get me wrong - I just think the State screwed up and both sides are paying for it...
The problem here is NOT really the monetary compensation. Most members of UCE could easily live with a large cash settlement. The problem is soverignity, the idea that one group of citizens can (or needs to, in order to practice their beliefs) taken US land "soverign," remove it from the tax rolls and thumb their noses at State criminal and civil law.