Homeland Security Threatens to Seize Farmer’s Land in Vermont

[Raineyrocks]

 http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-threatens-to-seize-farmers-land-in-vermont/

Homeland Security Threatens to Seize Farmer's Land in Vermont
David Filipov
Boston Globe
May 17, 2010
 
FRANKLIN, Vt. — The red brick house sits unassumingly on a sleepy back road where the lush farmlands of northern Vermont roll quietly into Canada. This is the Morses Line border crossing, a point of entry into the United States where more than three cars an hour constitute heavy traffic.

The bucolic setting of silos and sugar maples has become the focus of a bitter dispute that pits one of America's most revered traditions — the family-owned farm — against the post-9/11 reality of terror attacks on US soil.

The Department of Homeland Security sees Morses Line as a weak link in the nation's borders, attractive to terrorists trying to smuggle in lethal materials. The government is planning an estimated $8 million renovation here as part of a nationwide effort to secure border crossings.

It intends to acquire 4.9 acres of border land on a dairy farm owned for three generations by the Rainville family. Last month, the Rainvilles learned that if they refuse to sell the land for $39,500, the government intends to seize it by eminent domain.

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[AntonLee]

these walls disgust me.  My hearts go out to people who actually have to deal with these goons trying to put up these ugly barriers of freedom involuntarilly on their property.


"friendship park" where the US and Mexican borders meet.  At one time, you could walk around this monument, showing the irrationality of borders and separate countries when humans and humans can mingle.  Now, you can barely put your hand through to touch someone on the 'other side'.

They're also planning on widening this crossing, making the monument into a 'no-man's land'