No deal yet to buy land for 9/11 memorial – CNN.com.
(CNN) — The government is delaying legal action against Pennsylvania landowners who haven’t yet agreed to sell their land for a memorial to victims of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, federal officials said Friday.
The government has been negotiating with several landowners since 2003 in an effort to purchase their properties near Shanksville where the hijacked jet crashed into a field, killing everyone aboard.
If final efforts at negotiations are unsuccessful, officials intend to use eminent domain to acquire the property. That right allows governments to take private property for public use without an owner’s consent, after paying a fair price for the land.
The government is seeking to buy 166 acres in western Pennsylvania to complete the area needed to build a memorial on 2,200 acres.
That’s right. The government is planning on buying, with our money, 2,200 acres to build a memorial to airline passengers killed in a terrorist act. I’m sure glad that my tax money is being spent wisely, aren’t you? On top of that, they are going to FORCIBLY take the land if the rightful owners won’t sell. Feeling better about your government now?