On the Keystone XL pipeline, eminent domain and a foreign corporation

Red'Arc Farm in Direct, Texas Photo courtesy of Julia Trigg Crawford

A farmer, a Texan, an American doesn't want to sell her land to a foreign, Canadian corporation for an oil pipeline. The corporation says if she, and lots of others, in several states, don't sell to them, they will take it by eminent domain. Not only is that not right, but their governments--their State and Federal governments should support her. This is reprehensible. It is unconscionable. "Small government," indeed. Not one government legislator in this entire nation should allow this. I would think it would fly directly in the face of anything and everything the Republican political party and all its adherents stand for. From what I understand, the Tea Party and environmentalists in Texas are on the same side of this issue, fortunately. As famously said in a movie, paraphrased, this should not stand. Link to original story: http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/02/texas-farmer-takes-transcanada