Actor Daryl Hannah and Eleanor Fairchild have been arrested for “criminal tresspass” and “obstructing a passageway” during a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Quoth a spokesman for TransCanada, the corporation building the pipeline: “It is unfortunate Ms Hannah and other out-of-state activists have chosen to break the law by illegally trespassing on private property.”
TransCanada claims to “own” the land because they got the state of Texas to forge a fraudulent new title to it using the pernicious doctrine of “eminent domain.”
The real owner/occupant of the land? Eleanor Fairchild.
Yeah, there’s some trespassing going on all right.
Don't forget that back in the 1500s there were some Natives who wished the Spanish had done a title search before building on the property.
If you take them back far enough, there isn't a title search in North America which wouldn't reveal stolen land at the end of the chain.