This should absolutely infuriate everyone, my heart goes out to this farmer and his family. Sounds like it's too late for any public outcry or help, but this story (and many others) deserves far more attention. I know he isn't the only one who's being trampled over, and it's DISGUSTING.
Sincerely, someone who likes too eat.
by WillingnessProof
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Nope. Not reading it. It will make me too mad.
Oh no! Anyway…
It seems like this guy should have sued years ago and didn’t bother. The way the article frames this stuff is super fishy too, with no official sources and heavy editorializing
I see nothing in the article about hiring a lawyer to fight this. I also see nothing about putting his land into the Georgia Farm Conservation.
Eminent domain same as all the houses and land taken for highways and parks
Dude, it’s called eminent domain. Really the only thing you can do is get a lawyer and squeeze the government for as much as you can get.
Also, anyone who is angry about this obviously doesn’t understand that when it comes to land, it is more accurate to say that rather than owning the land, you rent the land from the gov’t. The rent is called property taxes, and if you don’t pay the taxes the gov’t will sell your land to someone who will.
I get it. It’s sad for this guy and his history but we are running the largest economy in the world and supporting a third of a billion people.
Sacrifices gotta be made and this guy’s card came up. So sad. He’s gonna have to cry all his cries and then if he wants more he can use some of the millions of dollars he’s getting out of those to pay people to cry for him.
We wont live in a free country until eminent domain is abolished.
Happens. When I was doing fieldwork for the I-69 extension I ran into this poor guy who’s land was going going to be taken by imminent domain. He bought his 70ac property in the hills of southern Indiana after a utility corridor and Indianapolis airport expansion took his previous property. At 70yo he was ready to throw in the towel.
Before ya’ll cry too hard for this guy, consider that his land alone is worth $33M, making this guy way wealthier than the rest of us. This is just another person in the top .1% whining.
all Land in North America is stolen…
I’m not a fan of eminent domain in the least. However I looked at the documents. He’s known since 2016 this was happening. He has time to lawyer up and get more money.