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Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:17:05 PM EDT
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"when you pay, I'll tell you where the landmines are buried."
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:17:51 PM EDT
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If it makes the owners of the seized land feel better the rail line under construction on O'ahu is just as fooked up. Shorter, but just as incompetently planned.

Long WSJ article (paywall), outline.com won't print it

HONOLULU—The train through paradise should have been complete by now.

The dream was an elevated rail system to bypass what has been some of the country’s worst traffic, whisking commuters from the farmland and swelling suburbs of West Oahu into the heart of Honolulu. The 20-mile route parallels one of the world’s most glorious tropical shorelines.

More than a decade after inception, having spanned the tenures of three mayors and three governors and outlived its most powerful benefactor in Congress, the project is only half built. Hopes it might transform the crowded island city anytime soon are fading.

Among the cascade of problems: Honolulu pushed ahead before fully planning the project, and nearly 100 contracts had to be reworked, causing delays. The city began construction before fully checking Native Hawaiian burial grounds, and a judge halted the project for over a year. Planners built too close to power lines, so Honolulu must shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to move them.

Dogged by such blunders, the project has seen its price tag soar to more than $9 billion from about $5 billion. The cost overruns are among the largest that transportation experts say they’ve ever seen. The cost has led to an extra excise tax on businesses, which can affect the price of goods and services, and it has hit tourists through an expanded hotel tax................................
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:17:57 PM EDT
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I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:18:28 PM EDT
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Then just take your land back, break the deal face the wheel.
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Brunch standoff 2.0.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:20:33 PM EDT
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They gave it to illegals ebt accounts? Idk
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:20:52 PM EDT
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They had billions to give to illegals for Heath care in CA, but not to pay people whose property they took?
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This.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:21:15 PM EDT
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Communists literally do not believe in private property.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:21:39 PM EDT
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Politicians and judges should be forced to go in person to remove people from their land instead of hiding behind police.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:23:09 PM EDT
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they never had the money to pay for it.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:23:58 PM EDT
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Didn’t that happen in England and the farmer shot him?
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:25:36 PM EDT
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Trump took the feds or threatens to take the feds contribution back. Besides it's Commifornia, any one who objects is a counter revolutionary.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:25:56 PM EDT
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If an illegal owned the ground, they would get paid double and have a statue erected in their honor.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:30:44 PM EDT
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Yeah, take it all the way to the 9th circuit of appeals.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:31:38 PM EDT
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Think it would be a good lesson.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:33:21 PM EDT
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Seems like a good reason for the farmers to kick off the boogaloo.

I mean salt of the earth farmers ripped off through eminent domain by the evil government. They should load up their pickup trucks and drive into Sacramento.
Takeover a few government buildings and demand payments.

Dare the government of California to act against a masse of farmers whose land they stole. It would be bigger than the Bundy ranch. It would also be a righteous crusade against socialist tyranny.

One can dream.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:34:23 PM EDT
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This is why they want to ban all guns.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:35:32 PM EDT
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Who do you think pays the judges?  Who decides which judges get appointed to higher courts?  It's so cute when people say "go to court" when something like this happens, or when we get an anti 2A law.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:39:37 PM EDT
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Fuck you, we'll just steal more property.......

Fed:

Motherfuckers need to do jail time over this, lots of jail time.

meanwhile in reality.....aint a damned thing gonna happen.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:44:27 PM EDT
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All the courts are corrupted in the sad state of Commiefornia. They'd side with the state instead of the former land owner.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:45:29 PM EDT
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You don't have to kill them, burning a couple of their houses should send a message.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:47:13 PM EDT
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IIRC, Boston bought whole apartment buildings in the way of "The Big Dig"  for $1 using eminent domain, telling the owners to sue for what the building is worth.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:48:07 PM EDT
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Bingo!

shit will change real quick when there is pissed off land owners
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:54:01 PM EDT
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Interesting you should say that, since the rail project was pretty much handed to Tutor Perini corp without a genuine bidding process. At the time Diane Feinstein's husband Richard Blum was at the helm of Tutor Perini. It's also not the first time that Feinstein's husband magically secured contracts within California.
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You don't say...well I'm sure that evil bitch of a former Senator Clair McCackle had some inside jobs to family members too. Glad that bitch got ousted last fall. Time to get rid of douche bag Barry's cousin, Cleaver from US Congress next.

Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:58:46 PM EDT
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I’ll say it’s killdozer time
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OP can you hotlink a news article on this or are you the source?
there was an article somewhere the other day about it.  I was going to post it here but figured it would be a dupe.

It just doesn't sound like CA has the money, and they are also going back and telling the landowners they need more or different parcels.

My money says they will never pay, and some leftist judge somewhere will side with the state claiming its for the "greater good"
CoC prevents me from saying what should be done.
I’ll say it’s killdozer time
How easy is it to rent a D8?   Will they drop one off at your house?
About as easy as renting a car, but much much more expensive.    If you pay trucking they’ll drop it off wherever.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 9:59:15 PM EDT
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Interesting you should say that, since the rail project was pretty much handed to Tutor Perini corp without a genuine bidding process. At the time Diane Feinstein's husband Richard Blum was at the helm of Tutor Perini. It's also not the first time that Feinstein's husband magically secured contracts within California.
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Interesting you should say that, since the rail project was pretty much handed to Tutor Perini corp without a genuine bidding process. At the time Diane Feinstein's husband Richard Blum was at the helm of Tutor Perini. It's also not the first time that Feinstein's husband magically secured contracts within California.
IIRC, Blum-Ellis also scooped up vast swaths of desert wasteland for next to nothing that "coincidentally" wound up being right of way for the HSR project. Bet they paid him for the land they "took" from him.

ETA: Is that one guy saying that not only did they take land from him that they haven't paid for but also made him clear the land on his own dime? WTF?!?
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:01:19 PM EDT
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Commies doing what commies always do. Shocked I tell you, shocked!
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:01:22 PM EDT
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Funny considering that the seized farmland probably employed tons of illegals.

Of course the illegals mostly won't put 2 and 2 together but.....
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:07:13 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:26:19 PM EDT
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Yep, just take them a sheet of paper that says "Fuck you lying Bastards!"  And sign it.

What happens after that, I really can't predict.  You will have to make a decision with 32 trans council members calling you bad names.

Good luck.  (Seriously, good luck.)
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:30:27 PM EDT
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But honestly, what else do you expect from that Banana Republic we call California.
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Much worse. They are already out of money.   All they have left is to steal stuff from otherwise hard working people.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:32:02 PM EDT
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The farmers need to demand to either get paid now or price of food goes up 25%. That requires farmers to unite, and we know that won't happen. Commies win round 2.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:36:53 PM EDT
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This is what tar and feathers, and ultimately rope and lamp posts are for.  
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:39:34 PM EDT
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and make sure future politicians don't either.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:42:04 PM EDT
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The farmers need to demand to either get paid now or price of food goes up 25%. That requires farmers to unite, and we know that won't happen. Commies win round 2.
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That's not how it works.  That's not how anything works.

What you're talking about would require a cartel.  Like OPEC.  In effect, a trust that would force it's members to control production so as to manage prices.

Even if you got all the farmers in California to do that, it wouldn't affect what farmers in other States (and countries) do.  And you wouldn't get all the farmers in California to do that.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:46:04 PM EDT
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He who makes the rules...wins.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:50:09 PM EDT
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"Freedom's just another word for...nothing left to lose...."
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:51:29 PM EDT
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where's the "beware of leopard" sign?
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:52:41 PM EDT
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Interesting you should say that, since the rail project was pretty much handed to Tutor Perini corp without a genuine bidding process. At the time Diane Feinstein's husband Richard Blum was at the helm of Tutor Perini. It's also not the first time that Feinstein's husband magically secured contracts within California.
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This.

The entire CA Dem Legislature needs to be investigated right up their dark bungholes
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:53:38 PM EDT
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It's good for the collective. You should feel honored Comrade!
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You didn't see those guys in Chernobyl complaining....
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:54:08 PM EDT
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I bet Feinstein's husband got paid.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:54:16 PM EDT
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Seems like it would be a no brained in court. You have compensate people.
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Communists care neither about laws nor morality.
Seems like it would be a no brained in court. You have compensate people.
Keep in mind that the people that are not paying the land owners are the same people that do pay the judge.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:55:43 PM EDT
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This, is where killdozers come from.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:59:29 PM EDT
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<snort>
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 10:59:52 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 6/15/2019 11:05:29 PM EDT
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did they give that money to illegals for their lawyer money?

serious question..
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 11:08:36 PM EDT
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That's not how it works.  That's not how anything works.

What you're talking about would require a cartel.  Like OPEC.  In effect, a trust that would force it's members to control production so as to manage prices.

Even if you got all the farmers in California to do that, it wouldn't affect what farmers in other States (and countries) do.  And you wouldn't get all the farmers in California to do that.
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Your right except they are commies. They are already organized. Like I said most of the commie farmers will let their commie neighbor get screwed so long as it isn't them getting screwed too. When their turn comes there will be cheers so long as it is commies screwing them. It's what commies do, screw everyone and you are required to like it too.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 11:12:17 PM EDT
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One could ask did they compensate them for burning down their houses in the right of way?

Oh wait, tin foil bullshit.

Yet, the majority of fires were on the right of way. Deal with it.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 11:13:59 PM EDT
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There is land near Hanford, Washington, and Tremont, Illinois, that the US government took during WWII.  Not all landowners were ever paid.  Hanford was a nuclear site and Tremont was a POW camp and training base.  FDR was not too concerned about property rights or eminent domain, or anything else.  This the situation AOC, Bernie and Elizabeth Warren would like to be in today.
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 11:15:10 PM EDT
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Simple. They don't write a check or wire the money. What do you mean "how can they not pay?"
Link Posted: 6/15/2019 11:18:21 PM EDT
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Sounds pretty cut and dry to me.
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What are you going to do about it?   Lawsuits cost money, and when the judge tosses the suit because they're a fucking clown, you're out that money.

This is the same state that started paying bills with IOU's a few years back.   They give no fucks.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Sounds pretty cut and dry to me.
Lol, the Constitution is null and void in California. Didn't you get the memo?
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