WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb The selling out of America Posted: December 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com For nearly 200 years, governments in America rarely bought private property, except "... for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards and other needful buildings," as specified in the U.S. Constitution. In the last 30 years, however, all governments – federal, state, and local – have gone on a buying spree, gobbling up land everywhere to protect and preserve, which, incidentally, is not one of the purposes authorized by the Constitution. Why has this change in acquisition policy come about,...