Protestors removed from PRIVATE land

[MODU]

This guy is so right:

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"Daryl Hannah removed from tree"

Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to make room for a warehouse Tuesday, touching off a furious protest in which actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels. At least 39 people were arrested.

Authorities cut away branches and used a fire truck lift to bring down the "Splash" actress and another tree-sitter, who raised their fists as they were removed. It was not immediately clear whether Hannah was under arrest.

"I'm very confident this is the morally right thing to do, to take a principled stand in solidarity with the farmers," Hannah said by cell phone before a fire truck raised officers into the tree.

About 350 people grow produce and flowers on the 14 acres of privately owned land, in an inner-city area surrounded by warehouses and railroad tracks. The garden has been there for more than a decade, but the landowner, Ralph Horowitz, now wants to replace it with a warehouse.

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[John Dibble]

If they cared so much, they should have offered to buy the land.

[adam]

Good. If they were on private land, than they were trespassing.

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It was public land until the city was forced to sell.

Of course we don't need any inconvient facts.

[John Dibble]

It was public land until the city was forced to sell.

Of course we don't need any inconvient facts.

Does that change the fact that it is private land at this current time? No. So it's irrelevant.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Horowitz had offered to sell 10 of the acres, but those celebrity posers wouldn't come up with the money needed to meet his asking price.  Yet another inconvienient fact I guess.

[John Dibble]

Horowitz had offered to sell 10 of the acres, but those celebrity posers wouldn't come up with the money needed to meet his asking price.  Yet another inconvienient fact I guess.

Heh, I was thinking the same thing just now - if those celebrities really cared, they'd donate more than a bit of time to get free press.

[Mr. Paleoconservative]

Horowitz had offered to sell 10 of the acres, but those celebrity posers wouldn't come up with the money needed to meet his asking price.  Yet another inconvienient fact I guess.

How about An Inconvenient Truth? 

Hardy Har Har....

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Daryl Hannah? Meh. I'd have left her tied to the tree and started the bulldozing.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Any of you all ever hear of the Homestead Act?

[J. J.]

It was public land until the city was forced to sell.

Of course we don't need any inconvient facts.

Who "forced" the city to sell it?

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Any of you all ever hear of the Homestead Act?

What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?

[J. J.]

Any of you all ever hear of the Homestead Act?

What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?

I'm familiar with it, but it dealt with publicly owned land.