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Dishonoring the passengers of Flight 93
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Once again Uncle Sam proves he is The Great Thief. The federal government has invoked eminent domain to confiscate 500 acres of private land in order to install a memorial for United Flight 93, which crashed in Somerset County, Penn., on 9-11.
Among those who will lose property is a man whose father had purchased land there during the great depression and a pastor who owns a cottage there where he planned to retire. Landowner Randall Musser told the Associated Press he served on the committee that helped establish the memorial's boundaries and said that back in 2002 landowners were promised that eminent domain wouldn't be used.
Eminent domain is a criminal statute used by the state to steal property from private citizens under penalty of death. There is no negotiation, discussion, or debate. You either get out of the way of the wrecking ball or you become part of it.
The passengers of Flight 93 believed they were defending their country from foreign invaders. Unfortunately, however, it seems they were merely defending parasitic politicians in the nation's capital who would eventually turn around and exploit their bravery as an excuse to plunder innocent civilians.
Roughly 30 percent of all the land in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, yet instead of erecting a memorial on property it already maintains, the scumbags in D.C. would rather build it in the middle of nowhere as long as it presents another opportunity to add to its own booty at the expense of private property owners.
Instead of celebrating these victims of 9-11 the federal government is tarnishing their memory. You cannot honor the dead by disgracing the living.
