Wicked Spawn of Eminent Domain and Anti-Trust

In what may be the most fear-inducing amalgamation of powerfully destructive forces to come to my attention since at least November 3, 1979, Skip Oliva at the Voluntary Trade Council serves up this:

A federal judge yesterday dismissed a complaint brought by Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett against the municipal operator of the Harrisburg International Airport (HIA), alleging that the airport's seizure of a local parking facility under state eminent domain law violated federal antitrust law. U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner granted HIA's motion to dismiss the complaint, citing the airport's immunity from antitrust law.

Oliva notes that the court made the right call in dismissing the lawsuit, but for all the wrong reasons.

Tom Corbett was not acting to protect the property rights of the Cramer garage. He was acting to protect 'consumers' from a loss of parking competition. This demonstrates a basic misunderstanding of free market principles. Property rights, not competition, is the only rational basis for a free market. Respect property rights and true competition will follow.

Your challenge: Try to figure out which to hate more:

A) The airport's eminent-domain seizure of a private parking facility.
B) The judge's decision to allow HIA to act with impunity under federal anti-trust law.

I think I hate them equally, but I'm only half-joking when I note that most horrifying is the fact that HIA boasts "nonstop daily service to 13 domestic and 1 international destination" -- the only international destination being Toronto. Toronto! What kind of an international airport serves Toronto and only Toronto? Isn't this a great use of taxpayer money -- an airport that would undoubtedly shut down were it not paid for with tax dollars seizing private property in order to expand and kill competition. Beautiful.

Following the federal judge's decision, I wonder what, if anything, would stop HIA from seizing all of Pennsylvania and turning the state into a 75,000-square-mile airport/parking facility? Sadly, not much. The airport could (like a black hole) theoretically swallow all private property in the state in order to feed its unessential growth. The only thing that would hold HIA back from becoming Pennsylvania is but the fact that the airport would be prohibited from seizing other local-, state- and federal-government property.