Re: ReptiliKlan Florida Land Grab

> Florida’s constitution allows governments to take your land for a  
> public
> purpose, such as a road or school, as long as you receive a fair price.
>
> But legislation — which could be approved this week — would allow a  
> city
> or county to take an individual’s land, with fair compensation, and  
> sell
> it to a private developer for a shopping center or office building.


This is very similar to how George W. Bush, when he was an owner of the  
Texas Rangers, got the Ballpark at Arlington built. The Texas  
legislature passed a bill permitting them to condemn privately owned  
land for the stadium. And some of Bush's partners (including the  
current owner) went around the Dallas area condemning parcels of land  
that had nothing whatsoever to do with the stadium project but which  
they wanted for their own private development projects. They had to pay  
the actual owners, but were able to force them to sell whether or not  
they wanted to.

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