It's one thing to buy a property and have someone say "guess what, we're building a road in your backyard lol!!" and an entirely different scenario to buy a property that already has a road going through and force the locals off a piece of land they've used for decades, bypassing the local laws to do so.
It's not a case of personal liberty, it's a case of someone with a lot of money overstepping their bounds because they think nobody will do anything about it.