URGENT: DISABLED VET TO MAKE HISTORY AS FIRST FLORIDA HOMESTEAD TO BE CONFISCATED VIA EMINENT DOMAIN

The Golden Gate Gazette ^ | March 10, 2003 | Kaydee Tuff

[Teacher317]

Despite talk of offers of up to $5 million, Hardy says he has no plans to sell his property for any price.
"Living here is what has kept me going," he says. "It's my home. I'm too old to go anywhere else."

What a convenient offer. He gets $5M, then the government gets most of it back via estate taxes in a few short years.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Teacher317]

If someone offered me $1M, I would throw the kids out and they could have everything.

So you're easily bought and care nothing about your own children... what does that have to do with the case at hand? He obviously does not want to sell.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Teacher317]

Beware bureaucrats with a vision. Their cruelty is boundless.

That would make a great tagline.

[Teacher317]

You seem to be overly obsessed with money. Possibly you are the one living in squalor.

Squalor of the soul

[Jennifer in Florida]

Up to that page, the document gives details the effect that the SGGE has had on the salinity, water tables, wild fires, and fresh water shock to the 10,000 Islands Preserve to the south.
Knowing first hand about the effects of drought in Florida (well went dry), it is hard to turn ones nose up at a million plus dollars.

Maybe if Collier county stopped giving the nod to every single golf course community developer that want to set up shop here we wouldn't have these environmental problems. I don't think 160 acres of undeveloped land are going to make a huge difference.. or most of Golden Gate Estates, for that matter.

[Teacher317]

Yes, God forbid people send messages of support for the rights of others. You are a paragon of ideological virtue.

[AppyPappy]

So you're easily bought and care nothing about your own children

And you want pedophilia to be legal and hate America.

Don't you people ever think before you post?

[TonyWojo]

The good people of Florida are well able to decide this sort of local issue themselves without Ohioans chiming in, telling them how they should conduct their own affairs.

You must reside in the ISA, Individual States of America.

[Mr. Quarterpanel]

I don't think 160 acres of undeveloped land are going to make a huge difference.. or most of Golden Gate Estates, for that matter.

If you would refer to the document cited, it states that Southern Golden Gates Estates IS the problem. While I hear you regarding "Luxury Living on the Golf Course", the restoration of the Everglades is quite important. It effects more than the immediate area, it has implications throughout the state.

The state has done a great job mucking up the Everglades, any attempt to fix it should be welcome.

[Savage Beast]

Maybe you're right.

[Mr. Quarterpanel]

I live appx. 6 miles north of Jesse's property, amd my well has never run dry.

And it never will. You live over the source, and you would be the last to run dry. But the farmer in Sarasota county may one day turn on a faucet and get salty water (or none!)unless some action is taken to restore the Everglades. Water quality and availability are everyone's concern.

[TonyWojo]

The state has done a great job mucking up the Everglades, any attempt to fix it should be welcome.

The Sierra Club sounds like a group you would fit into quite nicely. I hear they are looking for people to sit in trees in California.

These environmental groups all have one thing in common. They do not care about people and individual freedom, or property rights.

[dmz]

Not every talk host on a Rush station is gracious or good-mannered.
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LOL. Do you read what you write? If Rush is on the station, that's an iron clad guarantee that at least one of the hosts will not be gracious or good mannered.

[blackie]

Hey government, leave Jesse alone!

Molon Labe!

[E.G.C.]

Well,(LOL)actully some talk stations vary from one place to the other. Some stations will have well-mannered talk hosts like for example WBAP with Mark Davis and Gary Macnamara. Out of Ft. Worth-Dallas of course.

But then you have stations like WINK and the West Palm Beach station with very ill-mannered talk hosts bashing conservatives all the time.

It basically depends on what part of the country you live in. I'm just sorry that the local talk station in Ft. Myers chooses to take such a sour attitude towards this veteran. When I saw the station on the list of stations that carried Rush I thought they'd take a different tack but I was wrong.

Like I said not every station is like that so take heart. There are plenty like me on this guy's side in this battle with these berueacrats.
Regards.

[Jeff Head]

By the same token, the good people of Florida, and particularly this individual, are all capable of deciding for themselves whether they want input or not ... they don't need outsiders tlling them they don;t need it.

Giving the input does not force or coerce anyone into using it ... it does not lessen them as free americans ... it merely gives them the chance to decide if said input is worthy of consideration and use.

[Beck_isright]

After reading some of the moronic pro-government anti-freedom posts, all I can do is shake my head. I have emailed and called Governor Bush and find that the valuation attached to that property is beyond shocking. The governor might as well send in 100 FHP troopers in their all black gear and do a WACO on this guys house while he's in it. This is theft. I have yet to hear of any property going for less than $50K per acre in the Naples area!!!! If there are any SEALs on this board, you need to get this out to your association asap. This is a crime.

[Teacher317]

You're the [expletive deleted] who posted that you would take the money and kick your kids out. Don't blame me for your lack of character.