 Aruta says the bid will give New Bedford's top landowners a more direct way of controlling what goes on in downtown New Bedford. She thinks they'll use that power to hire private security to patrol the district and pressure people they consider undesirable to leave. Basically, I like to say it's a hostile takeover of a shadow government. And we need to stop that because these people signed a lease saying they lived in New Bedford, not that they lived in Lomandri land.