Title: Daryl Hannah and Elderly Land Owner Arrested for Trespassing on Land Stolen Under Eminent Domain Source:
infowars URL Source:http://www.infowars.com/daryl-hanna ... d-stolen-under-eminent-domain/ Published:Oct 7, 2012 Author:Kurt Nimmo Post Date:2012-10-07 07:39:40 by noone222 Keywords:None Views:1383 Comments:83
Actor Daryl Hannah and an elderly land owner were arrested in Texas on Thursday for criminally trespassing on land stolen under eminent domain.
From the Washington Post:
Hannah and landowner Eleanor Fairchild were standing in front of heavy equipment in an attempt to halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on Fairchild’s farm in Winnsboro, a town about 100 miles east of Dallas. They were arrested for criminal trespassing and taken to the Wood County Jail.
In August, a court in Paris, Texas, ruled that the Canadian energy company has the right to build a pipeline on private land despite widespread opposition by land owners. The transnational corporation is exploiting a loophole in Texas’ oil and gas regulation, according to the New York Times.
In Texas, if a company qualifies as a “common carrier” the state allows it to condemn land without the consent of land owners, a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment, which state “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
As the founders knew, property ownership is a natural and unalienable right. This is spelled out in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In 1766, English jurist Sir William Blackstone wrote that there are three natural rights: the right to personal security, the right to personal liberty, and the right to private property. In America, circa 2012, we have mostly lost the sense of this and have allowed the state to steal our private property under “eminent domain” without much of a fuss.
As William Norman Grigg notes, the Fifth Amendment has unfortunately served as “one of several Hamiltonian-mercantilist Easter eggs covertly embedded in the Constitution…”
The familiar civics class platitude describes this provision as necessary for the construction of bridges, hospitals, and other amenities that are supposedly “public goods” only government can provide. The inescapable reality is that eminent domain is a particularly vulgar form of plunder used to enrich the political class and their corporate cronies at the expense of the rest of us.
Predictably, the state has characterized the theft of private property as job creation in order to get the commoners to accept the act of corporate rape as somehow beneficial. In April, as partisan politics played out as usual, House Speaker John Boehner lambasted Obama for his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.
“He should listen to the voices of the American people and unlock the project so we can get Americans working and address high gas prices,” said Boehner.
This, of course, does not include the voices of the Tar Sands Blockade carried out by a coalition of Texas and Oklahoma landowners and environmental activists opposed to TransCanada’s use of eminent domain to steal private property for the pipeline.
The inescapable reality is that eminent domain is a particularly vulgar form of plunder used to enrich the political class and their corporate cronies at the expense of the rest of us.
Civilization and society in particular, have always understood that seizing of private property for public benefit has ALWAYS BEEN A NECESSARY EVIL.
For the good of the many vs the detriment of the few.
When public benefit is interpreted to mean a "New Wal Mart" or any private for commercial purpose benefit - I protest.
Indeed you should.
This project will make some rich people richer as is always the case, however it will benefit untold millions over a very long period of time.
Example...Here untold hundreds of miles of pipeline are being laid on State and mostly private lands to gather the output of hundreds of natural gas wells,
All are connected to a thirty six inch line that is going to NYC, to benefit the twelve million people in the NYC metro area.
Because of this the millions in the Metro area were able to stop importing LNG from Qatar at twice the the price. My natural gas bill has dropped thirty per cent in the last three years.
To my knowledge, no farm owner tried to stop the project. They were all well compensated and millions of NYC residents are now happy to know they have a safe and affordable energy source, free of foreign manipulation.