Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

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I said it in the WatchMMe groupme chat, but if we want to talk about theft IMO the real government theft is "eminent domain"

As a landowner of a decent amount of property in one of the hottest markets in the nation, this is a legitimate concern for me.  There is very little recourse if I move into one of the houses on our farm or build our dream home there and our property is suddenly in the crosshairs for some proposed toll road or government property.

My wife's family's entire ancestral farm in West Virginia got snatched away from them because the state decided to build a new high school there.  One of her uncles literally chained himself to the front porch of their farmhouse for a week.  The sheriffs finally showed up, forcibly removed him and they bulldozed the house.  Yeah they got "compensated" for it but aside from losing their family home they also had to give up their mineral rights on the property which, for better or for worse, can be worth millions in residual income for a surprising number of people up in that part of the state.

http://mynorthwest.com/1080203/dori-show...precedent/

Right now, you can’t touch the buildings inside this Pike Place Market Historic District, but the Showbox sits a little outside of it. So the Seattle City Council has arbitrarily said, “OK, let’s go zik-zak-zik, and draw a new boundary so that suddenly the Showbox is in the historic district.’ It is the government taking someone’s private property.

I remember reading that article on your Facebook page.  Staggering.

Honestly, I'm considering talking to my dad about trying to get the property set up as a historic property (validly, a portion of the main house and the logs and foundation from our cabin are from the 1740s).  That is probably the only thing I could think of outside of finding a Native American burial mound on the property that could sort of shield us from the government grabby hands