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Our unrelenting mission is to expose the corruption and abuses of the state both foreign and domestic. We stand for Liberty! Session ID: Libertarian. Scott Horton, Sheldon Richman, Keith Knight, Kyle Anzalone, Hunter DeRenis, Conner Freeman, Will Porter, Laurie Calhoun, Tom Woods, Jim Bovard, in coordination with Simplified Privacy
By Ron Paul: Mitch McConnell Cannot Stop the Non-Interventionist Tide Today, April 09, 2024, Even Republican stalwarts like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are starting to notice that something is shifting in the party...
It’s Time to End Squatter’s Rights by Ryan McMaken Last month, New York City homeowner Adele Andaloro was arrested after changing the locks on a house that had been seized by squatters. According to The New York Post: “Andaloro was charged with unlawful eviction because she had changed the locks and hadn’t provided a new key to the residents. The residents, however, are squatters. Fortunately, Andaloro’s arrest was filmed and went viral, reviving an ongoing debate over squatters “rights,” under which trespassers can take over an unoccupied house or piece of land and attempt to establish legal ownership. Not long after the Andaloro video surfaced, an immigrant TikToker with 500,000 followers posted a video encouraging other migrants to squat in private residences in the United States. The immigrant, Leonel Moreno, explained to potential squatters that under US law, “if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.” These videos have fueled increasing concern among property owners who have witnessed the explosion in the numbers of aggressive homeless residents in both central cities and suburbs. This, coupled with millions of new foreign nationals flooding into US cities in recent years, has further increased concerns about a sizable, rootless and impoverished population searching for opportunities to seize unoccupied homes. These recent examples have prompted many Americans to wonder why squatter’s rights exist at all. Historically, there have been some arguably reasonable justifications for the practice, such as in times past when real estate records were far less precise and well preserved. In modern times, however, squatter’s rights have little purpose beyond redistributing property to favored interest groups. Moreover, squatter’s rights in modern settings bear less and less resemblance to the squatter’s rights of history. Thanks to all this, it is becoming increasingly clear that squatter’s rights have outlived whatever usefulness they may once have had. The time has come to end squatter’s rights altogether. Source: