What?

The government owns that land, that's the whole point. We have to respect land ownership rights, even when the land is owned by the People in common. If the government tried to claim my land, I would simply provide our tax records from the courthouse as evidence of my ownership. (As a matter of fact, I would provide the results of the title search I did on the property all the way back to the original claim, as well as records of taxes paid.)

If I wanted to put a chinese power plant on my cane field, I'd just tell the cane farmer not to prepare the field for the next planting. I don't care if his father was farming that land for my family before I took ownership, if it's my land, I have rights as to what I can and can't do with it. That includes evicting one tenant for another.

What I DON'T want to see is the tenant having more rights to MY land than I do just because his father farmed it on a lease.

That's what this is about, tenant vs land owner rights. What rights do tenants have? If the rancher owns that land, let him prove it through weight of evidence. If he doesn't, I'm afraid his rights to it are limited.

Look, my family did it right and have been paying their taxes on the land the whole time. Why should this guy be able to get away with not paying rent OR taxes for land he claims?

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Posted by BRgetthenet

Member since Oct 2011

117734 posts

Posted on 4/13/14 at 11:16 am to WildTchoupitoulas

Did they confiscate any weapons?

Can anybody confirm that?

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Posted by bulldog95

North Louisiana

Member since Jan 2011

20728 posts

Posted on 4/13/14 at 1:10 pm to WildTchoupitoulas

That's all great until the government says imminent domain.

quote:
"...The property of subjects is under the eminent domain of the state, so that the state or he who acts for it may use and even alienate and destroy such property, not only in the case of extreme necessity, in which even private persons have a right over the property of others, but for ends of public utility, to which ends those who founded civil society must be supposed to have intended that private ends should give way. But it is to be added that when this is done the state is bound to make good the loss to those who lose their property."

Doesn't matter if you own the land outright and paid taxes for the last 500 years.

This doesn't pertain to the current situation just thought you would like to know so if they ever come to take your shite don't cry wolf then when it's you.

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Posted by bencoleman

RIP 7/19

Member since Feb 2009

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Posted on 4/13/14 at 5:10 pm to WildTchoupitoulas

I think there is more at work here than just tenant/ owner conflict. I think the rancher holds some disputed water rights, a big thing in a desert area, that the Govt. Has been trying to Billy him into giving up. Bully. I don't know the whole situation but I don't think any of us does.

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