09-12-2015, 02:06 PM
(09-11-2015, 09:06 PM)Benton Wrote: I'll preface this by saying I don't own stores of weapons or MREs. I don't think the government is coming for me.
But I do understand some of where "those people" come from. I grew up (and still live) near Land Between the Lakes. The short of it, back in the 1960s the Tennessee Valley Authority wanted to experiment with making a recreation area. They got friends in the federal government to seize more than 100,000 acres of land and kick the residents off. Many were removed forcibly. They played around with the land they took over, but really never got things lined out and eventually just turned the land over to the forest service. Recently, the USFS decided it was going to just raze the area, but told the public it wasn't. It's been a big area of contention for the people who lived there or who use the public property.
Those people don't trust government intervention, much like Native Americans don't. Much like those who had relatives interred during our concentration camps during WWII. Much like the growing population of people imprisoned by a broken justice system.
I actually brought this up in another thread where someone was whining about police officers confiscating cash without charging people. I don't agree with police doing that, but at least people have the right to go to court and get that money back. And most people who go to the trouble to contest it do get their money back if they are not guilty of anything. But with Imminent Domain the person whose property is seized doesn't have a lot of recourse. Courts have up held multiple cases of the government taking property through imminent domain purely for private business development. The seizure was justified because the development was in the best economic interest of the entire community.
That is a very dangerous power the government has that a lot of people don't talk about.
People who have their property seized do get paid for it, but that does not make it right in all these cases.
