Eminent Domain is the newer term that means "We need to steal your land , and there's not a damn thing you can do about it ." What most places in the world call deforestation , here in Florida its called development. God Bless America , push 1 for English .
The paradigm forwarded to hillbillies in 1962 as the project gathered steam and attention was "we're not stealing from you to benefit ourselves or the government, just its citizens, like with the flood purchases - but different." Yeah, right. The utility company had run amok with the blessing of the federal government.
The motto of The Commonwealth of Kentucky is "United we stand, divided we fall" When it comes to BTR (LBL) the federal government effectively divided the populace and thereby conquered Kentuckians, those that fell were those that were forced to sell.
Eventually the laurels initially garnered by TVA legitimately (in depression era 30's) for flood control and electrification, faded as astute observers realized TVA was caving under the weight of its own bureaucracy, but while their authority was unfettered (decades earlier) they wrested BTR ("LBL") from its rightful owners. By 1998 TVA was found to be incompetent as stewards for LBL, but notice the video admits the shoreline property was initially 74,000 acres in 1963 (which would have been what was rightfully taken through eminent domain due to flooding in the creation of the lakes). That leaves 96000 acres that the fed did not own yet and in 1969 just 96000 acres of the eventual 170000 acres had been procured. Therefore 6 years of attempted procurement of the desired lands had only netted 22000 acres willfully sold. That meant ANOTHER 74000 acres had to be taken by court action, so when the video says "some" sold willingly and "others were forced to leave" they are deliberately obscuring the true nature of the process to make it appear there was greater acceptance of it, and therefore the "50 years of LBL" is only marginally true as MOST of the areas rightful owners continued to fight the abuse of eminent domain perpetrated by the federal government on this "project" until 1970 or so. . They were fool enough to think the rights of Americans would be upheld in the face of ambitious but illegal federal "development". The fed's plans, coupled with a complicit populace of neighbors, proved otherwise.
TVA handed the ball off to the forestry service in 1998 with a whitewashing approved by Congress. The forestry service is the defacto National U.S. Lumber Company (that's why they don't do "parks") They never had anything like BTR (LBL) to oversee before because there had never before or since been anything like it, and well, they found (find) it AWKWARD to oversee something that should rise to the definition of "park" while simultaneously denying that's what it is, so that they may more easily ignore TVA's promises not to use the land for commercial purposes while they sell lumber off of it.
Notice the term "Park" is totally missing, as this would have made it even more obviously and blatantly illegal (stealing the land of 788 families to build a PARK)
Politicians at the time of LBL's creation effectively pitched the theft of land and property from the rightful Kentucky and Tennessee owners by pointing out the supposed upcoming benefits to LBL creation. Supposedly, shoreline property outside LBL would be greatly enhanced as TVA took 300 miles of shoreline "off the market". Throngs of city dweller tourists would flock to LBL and (more importantly) the surrounding areas and thereby enrich the locals by patronizing local businesses (a marginally realized vision, at best) and, well if it ain't your place they're takin' who are you to object to the mighty Federal Government? "You know cousin Pearl was forced to move when TVA built the dam and flooded her place, so tain't no big deal to make the restuh her people to move" "Besides these folks what's movin' out of BTR needs to buy a place to live and I got this here back 40 that ain't makin nuthin' but hay..."
Commercial activities were something TVA promised to forever prohibit as they stole the hillbillies land, they had "real estate activity" familiarity from purchasing land that would wind up flooded by the two dams in the area.
Innovative Resource Management. What BS! Like if you deliberately killed your dog and then erected a monument to honor it and had it stuffed and put in the living room to remind people of how sublime it was,
An artful attempt to justify the most sordid abuse of eminent domain ever carried out on American soil, seriously. The video only works if you don't know (or care) what really happened.
Eminent Domain is the newer term that means "We need to steal your land , and there's not a damn thing you can do about it ."
What most places in the world call deforestation , here in Florida its called development.
God Bless America , push 1 for English .
You can't call this a free country when the gov can force you from your property to build a gd park.
The paradigm forwarded to hillbillies in 1962 as the project gathered steam and attention was "we're not stealing from you to benefit ourselves or the government, just its citizens, like with the flood purchases - but different." Yeah, right. The utility company had run amok with the blessing of the federal government.
First thing that comes to my mind when I think of LBL, is Dogman attacks.
What's a dogman ?
The motto of The Commonwealth of Kentucky is "United we stand, divided we fall" When it comes to BTR (LBL) the federal government effectively divided the populace and thereby conquered Kentuckians, those that fell were those that were forced to sell.
Eventually the laurels initially garnered by TVA legitimately (in depression era 30's) for flood control and electrification, faded as astute observers realized TVA was caving under the weight of its own bureaucracy, but while their authority was unfettered (decades earlier) they wrested BTR ("LBL") from its rightful owners. By 1998 TVA was found to be incompetent as stewards for LBL, but notice the video admits the shoreline property was initially 74,000 acres in 1963 (which would have been what was rightfully taken through eminent domain due to flooding in the creation of the lakes). That leaves 96000 acres that the fed did not own yet and in 1969 just 96000 acres of the eventual 170000 acres had been procured. Therefore 6 years of attempted procurement of the desired lands had only netted 22000 acres willfully sold. That meant ANOTHER 74000 acres had to be taken by court action, so when the video says "some" sold willingly and "others were forced to leave" they are deliberately obscuring the true nature of the process to make it appear there was greater acceptance of it, and therefore the "50 years of LBL" is only marginally true as MOST of the areas rightful owners continued to fight the abuse of eminent domain perpetrated by the federal government on this "project" until 1970 or so.
. They were fool enough to think the rights of Americans would be upheld in the face of ambitious but illegal federal "development". The fed's plans, coupled with a complicit populace of neighbors, proved otherwise.
talk about all the dead people killed by the dog man
What's a dogman man man ?
TVA handed the ball off to the forestry service in 1998 with a whitewashing approved by Congress. The forestry service is the defacto National U.S. Lumber Company (that's why they don't do "parks") They never had anything like BTR (LBL) to oversee before because there had never before or since been anything like it, and well, they found (find) it AWKWARD to oversee something that should rise to the definition of "park" while simultaneously denying that's what it is, so that they may more easily ignore TVA's promises not to use the land for commercial purposes while they sell lumber off of it.
Notice the term "Park" is totally missing, as this would have made it even more obviously and blatantly illegal (stealing the land of 788 families to build a PARK)
Politicians at the time of LBL's creation effectively pitched the theft of land and property from the rightful Kentucky and Tennessee owners by pointing out the supposed upcoming benefits to LBL creation. Supposedly, shoreline property outside LBL would be greatly enhanced as TVA took 300 miles of shoreline "off the market". Throngs of city dweller tourists would flock to LBL and (more importantly) the surrounding areas and thereby enrich the locals by patronizing local businesses (a marginally realized vision, at best) and, well if it ain't your place they're takin' who are you to object to the mighty Federal Government? "You know cousin Pearl was forced to move when TVA built the dam and flooded her place, so tain't no big deal to make the restuh her people to move" "Besides these folks what's movin' out of BTR needs to buy a place to live and I got this here back 40 that ain't makin nuthin' but hay..."
Commercial activities were something TVA promised to forever prohibit as they stole the hillbillies land, they had "real estate activity" familiarity from purchasing land that would wind up flooded by the two dams in the area.
Innovative Resource Management. What BS! Like if you deliberately killed your dog and then erected a monument to honor it and had it stuffed and put in the living room to remind people of how sublime it was,
An artful attempt to justify the most sordid abuse of eminent domain ever carried out on American soil, seriously. The video only works if you don't know (or care) what really happened.
"Celebrating"?