Alabaman Land Theft

If you hear the phrase "for the public interest", or "common good", scram immediately. These are euphemisms that aggressive people use to mask their theft, or propose theft. Eminent domain is the confiscation of land for supposedly public good. The privileged corporate goons that thrive of this theft never have the gumption to take it outright. Instead they hire a middleman, whom retains the monopoly of security production within arbitrarily drawn borders. Our enemy, the State.

The Institute for Justice dares to enter the home of the State, and spit at its face.They oft defend land theft victims, in monopolized dispute resolution centers (courts).  IJ writer Nick Sibilla tells us that Alabama legislators had actually reduced the legal privilege to steal land. No one who cares about justice should ever be lukewarm on the issue of land theft. For though they reduced the privilege temporarily, now they have given the State license to

ensure the location and expansion of automotive, automotive-industry related, aviation, aviation-industry related, medical, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, computer, electronics, energy conservation, cyber technology, and biomedical industry manufacturing facilities 

These are sectors of the economy littered with State monopolies of patent, copyright, and licensing. Three tools used daily to discriminate against the poor. Patent and copyright prohibit the sale of a gal's own property to whomever she wants. Licensing bars entry to lower income professionals that cannot afford the cost of schooling, or regulatory paperwork. In addition to this lack of free competition, Alabama legislators are now burdening the poor with the potential to have their land legally stolen.

My opponents may say, that there is no theft afoot. Their evidence would be the recompense given to victims of land theft. The subjective theory of value disproves this claim. There is no objective price to land. If a land owner wants to exchange her land with someone else, that is her right. She may peacefully trade it for free, for services, or for currency. Eminent domain users choose a price for their victims, and their price is backed by the authority of a gun in the victim's face.

Everywhere and always, eminent domain use is abuse. Furthermore, we must end the State.


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