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 “Testimony
By Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation of
America, Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and
Public Lands of the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House
of Representatives Regarding H. R. 1286, Washington-Rochambeau
Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail Designation Act,
October 30, 2007”
The proposed 600-mile Washington-Rochambeau Historic Trail
through nine states from Rhode Island to Virginia poses a threat
to private property rights because of the National Park Service’s
pattern of secrecy, lack of true public participation, piecemeal
development, use of municipalities and non-profit agencies as
false fronts, and use of eminent domain (directly, indirectly
through local municipalities, and later to widen trails). Amendments
to H.R. 1286 are proposed to eliminate these deficiencies.
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topic: Trails—National
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 “Small
Business and Private Property Rights” - By Raymond J.
Keating, Chief Economist, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Council, Washington, D.C. and Columnist, Newsday, Long
Island, New York; Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Local zoning often is a tool of special interests to force
small businesses to give up. Government uses its power of eminent
domain for economic development for well-financed entities at
the expense of small business. During the past 100 years, government
has lost respect for private property owners when developing
sports stadiums, which used to fit around private property. In
addition, it should be more recognized that intellectual private
property rights protect the interests of small businesses, not
just “big pharma.”
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topic: Eminent
Domain — National
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topic: Zoning
& Building Codes — National
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 “Eminent
Domain-Where We Are, Where We’ve Been, & Where We Should
Be Going”- By Gideon Kanner, Professor of Law Emeritus,
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Tenth Annual National Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 14, 2006)
Eminent domain is the dark corner of the law. There is no
“public use” requirement increasingly
in eminent domain, and the “just compensation”
is concededly unjust. The legal development of private eminent
domain took several key turns in American jurisprudence, but
the big problem surfaced in the Berman case in 1954 in
Washington, D.C. Eminent domain for redevelopment in New York
involves favored, wasteful, big money deals.
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topic: Eminent
Domain—National
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- “A History
of Government Theft” - By Sarah Foster, April 2006,
Reprinted from Whistleblower by permission of WorldNetDaily.com,
publisher.
The U. S. Supreme Court’s Kelo v. New London
ruling was not the beginning of the abuse of eminent domain to
destroy communities for private development. It began in Washington,
D.C., during the 1950s, where slum clearance was the excuse for
cruelly displacing 20,000 residents, mainly families from good
homes, others people in scattered poor conditions, who suffered
especially, and even died, from the evictions.
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topic: Eminent
Domain—National
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- “Turning
the Tables — ‘Good Guys’ Using Environmental Law”
- By Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute, Washington,
D.C, Speech at the Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, November 16, 2002)
Federal agencies fail to abide by environmental law that everybody
else has to adhere to. NWI’s Endangered Species Act
lawsuit complains that the EPA and other federal agencies are
failing to protect the bald eagle and the short-nosed sturgeon
during construction of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac.
Their Clean Water Act lawsuit charges that the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers allows the Washington Acqueduct to discharge 200,000
tons sludge annually into the Potomac.
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topic: Endangered
Species—National
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