anyone remember the Local Hero who fought Trump

Trump offers the kilted curmudgeon standing in the way of his golf resort £1million - and is turned down

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Michael Forbes, hero of Balmedie
Donald Trump wants to build a billion-dollar resort on a rural Scottish shore. But he’ll have to do battle with this man first —
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2961400.ece

Donald Trump jets in and fires off 'slum and pigsty' slur
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Donald-Trump-jets-in-and.6322621.jp

Michael Forbes, who is refusing to sell his Aberdeenshire home to US developer Donald Trump to make way for a £750m golf resort. Photograph: David Moir/REUTERS
Their mothers are both Scots but that's where any similarities end.

Donald Trump wants to rename the stretch of Aberdeenshire coastline where he's planning to build "the best golf course in the world" in honour of his mother. Local salmon fisherman Michael Forbes is refusing to sell his home to Trump to make way for the £750m golf resort, partly because his 84-year-old mother Molly resides in a caravan in his garden.

This week Trump jetted into Scotland to ramp-up the pressure.

But Forbes revealed he had sold one of his 23 acres to Tripping Up Trump a protest group selling off parcels to supporters. The resulting multiple ownership would make the compulsory purchase process a bit like doing a round with a hockey stick. Perhaps the 63-year-old magnate is regretting calling Forbes the "village idiot" and his property a "slum" and a "pig sty".

Both sides are lining up celebrity supporters. Trump claimed he was "dreaming" of having Scotland's most eminent tax-exile Sean Connery and its most famous runner-up Colin Montgomerie swinging their drivers when the resort opens. For his part, Forbes revealed that the very producer of Scottish planning dispute movie Local Hero, Lord Puttnam, left, had bought a portion of the land. The Labour peer said: "This saga is the real-life version of a film I made over 25 years ago. Local Hero had a happy ending when the American developer came to his senses and withdrew with dignity. It would be great if Trump would watch it." Sadly, we doubt it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/30/donald-trump-golf-scotland

Thanx for posting it.
I think everybody loves a man stands up to the establishment story, and Trump's arrogance makes it doubly satisfying.

from the third link:

She stood up to Trump and the state of New Jersey when he tried to use eminent domain to take her house for a limo parking lot.


http://www.ij.org/component/content/article/37-privatepropertyrights/1002-casino-reinvestment-development-authority-v-coking-

Vera Coking, an elderly widow from Atlantic City, knows firsthand the power of unaccountable government agencies. The Institute for Justice successfully defended Vera against the condemnation of her home by a State agency that sought to take her property and transfer it—at a bargain-basement price—to another private individual: Donald Trump. Trump convinced the State agency to use its “eminent domain” power to take Vera’s home so he could construct a limousine parking lot for his customers—hardly a public purpose. And unfortunately, cases in which government agencies act not as protectors of constitutionally guaranteed rights, but instead as agents for powerful, private interests, have become all too common.