[lentulusgracchus]

Do I take legal posession of your house and then offer to negotiate payment?

If you're the Government, it happens every day.

The IRS doesn't wait for a taxpayer's agreement to its demands before sending a tactical team to take his property.

After disunion, the United States Government enjoyed no special status in South Carolina as a landowner.

[Non-Sequitur]

The IRS doesn't wait for a taxpayer's agreement to its demands before sending a tactical team to take his property.

But there is a legal proceeding before hand. There was not in the case of the Southern theft.

After disunion, the United States Government enjoyed no special status in South Carolina as a landowner.

But it was the owner of the land, not South Carolina.