Posted on 10/30/2002 12:16:23 PM PST by lpnykahuna
"Boycott the Times! Boycott the Times!" chanted angry members of the Manhattan Libertarian party outside New York Times headquarters on West 43rd Street. Their October 20 protest was a refreshing response to what party spokesman Richard Cooper calls "Time$cam" — the paper's legalized theft of other people's property.
The Times wants to build a 52-story office tower nearby on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, across from the Port Authority bus terminal. Inconveniently enough, that land already hosts about 30 companies in 11 different buildings. Rather than purchase these parcels from individual owners, the Old Gray Lady unleashed the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) on them. This government agency used its powers of eminent domain to seize this property from obscure deed holders and deliver it to America's high-profile paper of record."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
This can't be. Certain posters on FR are absolutely convinced that the Dopertarians have drug legalization as their only issue /sarcasm.
dirtboy says: "This can't be. Certain posters on FR are absolutely convinced that the Dopertarians have drug legalization as their only issue."
From the article (but not posted): "...writer David W. Dunlap described this site as 'a shabby blend of sex shops, prostitution, loitering, and drug dealing' ..."
And now and the real agenda behind the Libertarian demonstration begins to reveal its ugly face. The "good fight"? Yeah, right.
--Boot
Maybe you're right. Especially given that the LP invented the concept of property rights. </sarcasm>
Regards,
Boot Hill
They don't even have a basic understanding of property.
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