The NY Times and Property Seizures

LRC Blog reports:

In building its shiny new headquarters in Manhattan, the New York Times had the city engage in property theft, better known as "eminent domain." Thus, we should not be surprised when the "Newspaper of Record" demands that the property of others be seized, too.

In an unsigned editorial today, it attacks the former Bush administration for not sooner turning to coercion and theft in order to secure the land for the Flight 93 memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

You see, according to the editors, actually buying the land was "unseemly," as that meant negotiations for the price. When one is promoting the Total State, as the Times has done since the era of Walter Duranty, then any tactic will do, just as long as state power is increased.