Botswana bushmen win land ruling

The BBC Africa has a report on eminent domain in Africa and how a group
of Bushmen fought back and got there land back.....sound familiar???



Below is a short transcript from the BBC Africa report

Bushmen from the Kalahari desert have won a court case in which they accused Botswana's government of illegally moving them from their land.

The court said the bushmen - or San people - were wrongly evicted from their ancestral homeland in 2002.

A panel of three judges ruled by two-to-one in their favour in the major issues in the case.

The case is seen as a wider test of whether governments can legally move people from their ancestral lands.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6174709.stm

-What a coincidence much of what is happening there sounds almost like what is going on here in the US. In New York City the Republican mayor Mr. Bloomberg just had the The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, New York turned into a private entity , but he is using eminent domain to appropriate private citizens homes.

The mayor hates smoking and hates trans fats but he loves to demolish and take peoples homes for the greater good. Ironically just this year President Bush issued an executive order stating in Section I that the Federal Government must limit its use of taking private property for "public use" with "just compensation", which is also stated in the constitution, for the "purpose of benefiting the general public."

This ring Of "for the greater good"...sounds awfuly Commie!!