sombrio beach

Has anyone watched the Sombrio beach documentary.  Basically about 20 squatters living a subsistence lifestyle while surfing and raising children at sombrio beach, until the Canadian government wanted to turn the beach into a park. One family raised 10 kids there.  The community was there over 30 years 1960 to 1997!  Just Google [sombrio trailer] to get a glimpse.

Excellent documentary. I believe it was privately owned land, possibly bought by the government to make a park?

Yes, the government purchased the property and then removed the homesteaders using fear and with force.    They also burned their belongings and didn't give many of them time to remove their stuff.    The idea of providing for ones self is so foreign to most people that you get looked at like an alien or outcast.  #0 years is a long time for a community to last perhaps their model of sharing with each other can be used on a purchased piece of land.

trailer:


The full documentary appears to be on youtube now as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c0j4pbW7-w

To me, among other things, this documentary gets the fundamental idea of land ownership.

One person buys it from another, who bought it from somebody else, and so on. Go back far enough, and practically all worthwhile land was taken by conquest in some way.

In the 15th century, the Pope gave Spain the right to claim any land - that was not already inhabited by a civilization - for Spain. What gave him that right?

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoon, once said that land belongs to whoever can acquire it, and keep it. I pay taxes to the government which protects my right to inhabit my tiny bit of land. Might makes right. I am part of that armed tyrannical force who decides who gets what. If the government fell, my right to my land would be gone along with it. I would like to think humans were beyond that, but I guess we are not.