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anon e mouse,

They have been trying to pay off Horowitz for the land, who initially seemed receptive, but is now refusing to sell, apparently out of spite at the protestors.

(Of course, if the lot belonged to him he’d have a perfect right to refuse to sell to anyone he didn’t care to sell to, for any reason that he pleased. But I don’t think that the lot does belong to him, and so any money paid to him would morally count only as a ransom, not as a purchase. In which case he not only tried to ransom property that didn’t belong to him, but also decided to be petulant about it, too.)