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Monday, January 01, 2007

Hardfire EMINENT DOMAIN / RICHARD COOPER / JOSEPH DOBRIAN

Richard Cooper, Chair of the Libertarian Party of New York (http://www.NY.LP.org) talks with Joseph Dobrian, Chair of the Manhattan Libertarian Party (http://www.ManhattanLP.org) about eminent domain. Originally aired November 6, 2006. Taped October 24, 2006. Buy a high-resolution copy of this program at the program's web site above.

Topics include: the infamous Kelo decision; the case of St. Luke's Pentecostal Church in New Cassel, Long Island and their fight with the Town of North Hempstead; the owner and tenants at 99 Orchard Street in Manhattan versus the Lower East Side Tenement Museum; the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards/Nets Arena project to seize land and the New York Times headquarters scheme that Cooper calls Time$cam.

Cooper notes that both GOP gubernatorial candidate Faso and his Democrat rival Spitzer, who was later elected Governor of New York, support the Atlantic Yards/Nets Arena scheme.


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