[Publius6961]

The tribe wants title to all non-residential property within a 3,600-acre area of Southampton Town

Why only non-residential??
They should go for the whole enchilada!

I got plenty of popcorn.

[monday]

"Why only non-residential??
They should go for the whole enchilada!"

because they are smart. If they included residential property they would get no sympathy from the locals. Since they aren't asking for residential property many of the socialists living there will be on their side.

[longtermmemmory]

I think because this way they only go after eeeeeeevil capitalist property owners.


It just shows how bogus their argument is.

Besides the american indians believed you CAN'T own land. This owning land lawsuit thing only happened with this advent of casinos.

[wtc911]

Non-residential is phase one. If it flies they will go after "privately owned" property next.

The shinnecock are @ 95% light-skinned black, pretty hard to see the "native" genes.

[RuthannaK]

"Why only non-residential??
They should go for the whole enchilada!"
Someone answered your question, but I being "wordy" would love to add to it. Our state was sued by a tribe of N.E. Oklahoma Indians that had used this area for hunting. When they sued they sued fifteen landowners including the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana to the tune of 260 MILLION acres. By suing individuals and for the U of I it made their suit REAL unpopular right from the start. For some reason they didnt understand that it would do that. (?) It looks like the tribes have learned. All in all I don't think their suit will work as moneyed people can be pretty powerful, strong natured and iconoclastic and this will be right in their own backyard... Liberal or not they are property holders and they don't want to get to say "well, there goes the neighbourhood"...!