Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 8, 2012

Confronting the loss of his business through the institutionalized theft called ?eminent domain,? Norfolk, Virginia resident Bob Wilson, owner of Central Radio Company, erected a large protest sign on his property ? and now faces threats of fines of $1,000 a day for protesting.

The Norfolk Housing and Redevelopment Authority has seized more than 100 homes and businesses in an eminent domain rampage conducted on behalf of the State-funded Old Dominion University. The tract where Central Radio is found hasn?t been thus designated, but it sits inside several parcels that have been condemned ? so the land-grab soviet has announced its intention to confiscate that property as well.

In protest, Wilson hung a 375-square-foot banner on the side of his building: ?50 YEARS ON THIS STREET; 78 YEARS IN NORFOLK; 100 WORKERS; THREATENED BY EMINENT DOMAIN.?

City inspectors issued a summons for violating a municipal ordinance that supposedly limits signs to a size no larger than 60 square feet. Yet in the same neighborhood can be seen much larger signs advertising Old Dominion University ? the corporate benefactor of the Norfolk land grab.

If the state can seize your property at gunpoint, you have no rights it is required to respect.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.