Salt Lake Tribune Op-Ed: Utah’s latest land-grab lawsuit has no legal leg to stand on
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers
|September 08, 2024
"In the 2004 adventure movie “National Treasure,” the Nicolas Cage character tries to convince people at the National Archives that there is a secret message on the back of the original Declaration of Independence. Written in invisible ink.
In the story, it turns out that such a message really exists, and leads to the discovery of a large treasure that has been lost for more than 200 years.
In real life, the claim that a key government document contains invisible, century-old messages that only a few clever people know about is the core of Utah’s latest lawsuit seeking to seize millions of acres of federal land."
Read the rest of the SLT editorial board's opinion on this lawsuit here.
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