Repelling invaders – 2
You may recall that Tennessee and Georgia are having a bit of a border dispute. You see, Georgia thinks some surveyor screwed up about 190 years ago. So, they passed some legislation to lay claim to parts of Tennessee. In typical political stupidity fashion, Tennessee’s legislature is actually wasting the time to draft a response that consists of more than the words fuck off. I’m honestly amazed. Such stupidity doesn’t even deserve a response.
Update: Chuck says not to take Georgia lightly. Well, we’d share water with them but they’re not getting our property.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
This could actually turn into something. GA has other water problems with Florida, too.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Yup i think GA actually has a good case and congressional intent on their side.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Had the same crap happen on the CA-OR border.
The 9th eventually decided that the boundary monuments that were in use for the last 100+ years carry more weight than a GPS reading.
If you look at that border at topozone.com with low scale topo maps, you can see the border snaking back and forth on eother side of the parallel it was supposed to follow.
The court stuck with the monuments because of precedent … move the border to the actual latitude line would screw up over 100 years of surveying, property contracts, and interstate agreements.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
No response was more eloquent and well-deserved than Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
Perhaps Tennesee should use it for a template.
Regards,
Rabbit.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
East Tennessee was pro-Union during the Civil War, right? Then I think they would be fully justified in performing a “March to the Sea”.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
“Tennessee’s legislature is actually wasting the time to draft a response that consists of more than the words fuck off. I’m honestly amazed.”
Lol! That would be priceless! And it could’nt possibly be mis-interpreted.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
“Nuts!”
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 am
Too damn late now. In any real property dispute there is a possibility of a thing called “rights of adverse possession”. Basically it means if some entity has occupied and used real property openly and in conflict with the deeds or abstracts of the property, after a certain period of time that property becomes legally the property of the possessor, despite the claims of others who may have purchased or previously owned such property.
The statute varies from state to state on the period of time necessary to establish the right of adverse possession, the longest period I am aware of being 15 years. Ergo, I am sure Tennessee has more than satisfied that requirement in the 200 (+or-) hundred years she has possessed and administered the real property in question. Georgia is just SOL.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Anyone up for some subterfuge?
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Back in the 1830’s, it was discovered that the surveyors had made about a ten mile error in locating the border between Michigan and Ohio, so Toledo and the land west of it should have been in Michigan. After a whole lot of hot air, the border stayed right where it was. However, Congress sawed off an unsettled and barely inhabitable chunk of the territory that would become Wisconsin and gave it to Michigan in compensation.
The Georgia/Tennessee border is at least as old as that one, and it’s been another 170 years now. “Adverse possession” is the rule for such cases.