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And this isn't new. My father had just started his own auto repair business in the late 1960s when the Commonwealth of Virginia came to him, told him they were putting a four-lane bypass highway through the property, gave him an offer of about 15 cents on the dollar, and told him to take it or get his property condemned and get nothing for it. He didn't have the money for a lawyer, so he took the money and rebuilt the business a few miles away, and ran it successfully for over twenty years.

But to his dying day eight years ago, he was bitter. Very bitter. When we'd drive down that highway, I'd see him glance over to where his shop used to be, just off the right shoulder of the southbound lanes. He never got over it, and he never trusted a word anybody at the Virginia DOT ever told him again.

That having been said, there's no way that something like that would justify ambushing and killing two LEOs. I can't believe anybody's even trying to. There are people here that would actually say "Well, the cops deserved to get blown away" over a freaking construction easement?

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If indeed the government took your father's property for 15 cents on the dollar, that is forcible theft.

And since one of the reasons the Founding Fathers went to war with Britain was over the confiscation of some pine(I think) forests, why not the theft of your dad's property?

I'm not saying he should have ambushed some cops who have no clue about what's going on exactly, or that your father should want to ruin his life---but when does it end?

What about the example I gave earlier where they wanted to take people's land in Maryland to give to a PRIVATE developer? It came down to a vote by the people, and fortunately most of them believed in some measure of liberty. But what if it had gone the other way?

What about the community in New York that was fighting to stop eminent domain from taking their homes to give to IKEA??!?!

When does it end, and how does it end? It seems that even when there's a big uproar the city or state does what it wants--and why should one have to worry about getting the entire populace to your side every time the government wants to steal your property?