Everybody must be on the road or something, and I'm impatient, so...
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/09/23/one-arrested-in-new-london-eminent-domain-protest/You do not own ?your? property. It belongs to the state. And whenever the state decides it wants to, it can take ?your? property from you, and give it to whomever it wishes, for whatever reason, or no reason at all. This was the effect of last year?s Supreme Court decision in the Kelo v. New London eminent domain case. But despite the fact that the case is long over, people are still protesting.
On Friday morning, Lauren Canario was arrested when she refused to leave one of the Fort Trumbull properties as developers moved in to board up the buildings.
Canario, who had been renting an apartment from one of the property owners, reportedly was sitting on the front porch of one of the buildings and refused to move. Police came in to arrest her and had to physically carry her away. She has been charged with criminal trespass, interfering with a police officer, and refusal to be fingerprinted, according to a New London police dispatcher who did not identify himself, is being held on $5,000 bail, and is being denied visitors, according to people who have attempted to schedule a visit.
A dispatcher could not say on whose property Canario was trespassing.
One of the officers involved said that he felt Canario ?victimized? him by refusing to submit to his oppression.
The properties had apparently, after the property owners were forced out, taken over by local homeless.
After the arrest, the New London Police Department and City Hall were inundated with phone calls from protesters asking why Canario was arrested, what the charges against her were, and if she was being treated well. People came from as far away as New Hampshire to protest Canario?s arrest at noon Saturday in front of the jail.
A year ago this week, Canario was arrested for trying to attend a New London City Council meeting. The council had postponed and moved the meeting at the last minute, apparently to prevent attendance by eminent domain opponents, and Canario was arrested for trespassing, interference with a police officer, and refusal to be fingerprinted.
When they come for your home, will you go quietly and take the table scraps they offer you, which is what most of the property owners in this case wound up with, or will you fight it to the bitter end ? and beyond?
