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Title: Indiana Eminent Domain
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URL Source: http://www.midwestpopulistamerica.c ... nforce-eminent-domain-dispute/
Published: Jul 19, 2008
Author: Octavia
Post Date: 2008-07-19 18:12:20 by octavia
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My first attempt at a post so I hope I link right. I ran into this article while researching eminent domain in Indiana. My husband and I were notified on June 26 that the town we live near is annexing 1500 acres to include my 70 acre farm. Soon thereafter, we were notified that the mayor, although we are not yet under his juristiction, needed to meet with us about plans involving our farm. We now have more info. A neighboring landowner plans on developing a medical/commercial complex next to our farm. We are to be placed in a TIF(Tax Incremental Finance) district designated for economic development to increase the property tax base. The neighbors' plan requires 5 to 10 acres for building and another 10-12 acres to allow for a county gravel road to be paved and which will be rerouted in a large S-curve through my farm so as to maximize the neighbor's frontage space. The meeting on 8/22 is to fully present the plan and for us to present any plans which we might have for developing the property so as to maximize its economic potential. Unfortunately, it is rolling hills, grasslands, orchards, ponds and a farm rather than concrete and steel. Our lives have been shattered
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#12. To: octavia (#0)
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Tell them that you want to build a free college for gifted black agriculture students in the spirit of George Washington Carver, especially now that the collapsing economy is going to disproportionately affect the already dispossessed, forgotten minorities. Ask the council (or zoning board or whoever) to make the first donation and to make a list of like minded others who not only will act in the spirit of altruism, but will welcome blacks into the community. (Notify the press in advance) Then present wild-eyed, shoot-from-the-hip "don't quote me on this" estimates of property assessments and name drop a few corporations and foundations who've already expressed interest in supporting the plan, (contingent upon the county's approval of future tax exemption of course) including the Ford Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and mention that the ACLU has tentatively expressed interest in defending against the usual "stealth attacks from closet Klansmen in the legislature, which IN is known for" (heh heh) when the plan is publicized. Watch how they tippy toe around trying to take the land then. Most important, remember that no matter how logically and/or eloquently the solicitor or other hired hatchetman tries to dismiss your plan, be ready to scream out and finger them (pardon the expression) as the cowardly racists that we know they are!!! (But when you first finish the presentation you ask, "So, how much can I put you down for?", innocently and wide eyed and expectantly) I don't know if I could personally stop the theft of the land, but I do know that I could make them regret that they ever had favorable impressions of their positions in "public service." If you do it right (or even bungle it-that's the beauty of allegations of racism against public officials) they will at the very least always be remembered as the "______" who weren't really racists, least ways not that we could prove." Just think of all of those poor suffering folks in Indianapolis who are going to freeze and starve because we've allowed the federal reserve and alien banksters to plunder the nation's wealth! Only cruel, heartless (and probably racist) bastards would try to turn a profit at this point in America's grim history when so many of your fellow citizens are facing nightmares of unprecedented horror! (I can really pour it on) I got black activists involved in a town dispute with my wife's uncle over his rental property years ago, and the mayor (whose full time job was as director of an inner city HELP program for poor blacks) resigned as mayor and moved out of town! I felt a lot better then.... And the town council was lectured publicly and warned that they were being watched by a particularly arrogant (full time) stevedore (and part time) pain in the ass NAACP officer, who said, "Now, ain't you folks 'shamed of what you did? I sho hope we all learned sumthin heah!"
#14. To: HOUNDDAWG (#12)
i like it! what a great mind you have.
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