Posted on 04/22/2014 10:52:36 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
What stops the federal government from merely deeding private lands to foreign governments “because we can?” Actually nothing stops the government from doing anything, certainly not the Kelo Decision.
Without a doubt the Supreme Court’s Kelo Decision is one of the most potentially destructive weapons a tyrant like Barack Obama has at his disposal.
We’ve heard that Dirty Harry Reid, Nevada’s real life Senator Geary, was possibly preparing to steal some of the Bundy ranch land to give it to a Chinese company to run another fake “green scam.”
This begs the question: Why couldn’t the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) merely re-deed the land in question and cite the Kelo Decision as its legal grounds?
The Kelo Decision was a 2005 case in which the Supreme Court overturned the honest use of...
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I’m thinking that Kelo can be used by the States to strip land from the Feds.
Nope.
BTTT!
How? By what process?
Higher economic use by commercial operations for the benefit of tax revenues - just like Kelo.
Eminent Domain
I've always considered Breitbart.com to be a pretty reliable source for accurate news, and they shot down that story ten days ago. Link
A state can no more use eminent domain to take federal land than the federal government can use it to take state land. However, if the state of Nevada wants to buy the land the all they need to do is get Congress to agree to sell it to them.
Sounds unreasonable.
I guess that would depend on the Constitution of NV. IIRC, Kelo was found the way it was because that state did not have a provision in the Constitution expressly forbidding the action. AZ, for example, has such a provision and a similar taking was stopped in the State SC because of it (Baily's Brake Shop v. City of Mesa).
Now, the decision was supposed to be narrowly tailored, and we've seen narrow decisions ripped wide open many times, so who knows?
Well if Nevada could use eminent domain to take control of the land from the federal government the Constitution still requires they pay for it. So just get Congress to sell it to them. Same end results.
MUST SEE VIDEO: BLM Whistleblower — Reid Bunkerville LLC. Owns Land Around the Bundy Ranch
How's that?
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With all due respect to Mr. Collins, he is wrong about the Supreme Court's decision with Kelo imo.
More specifically, as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers and the Constitution's history, people overook the following about Kelo.
The writings of constitutional experts like James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Justice John Marshall and John Bingham, Bingham the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendments, all clearly indicate that Founding States had decided not to make the prohibitions of government power in the Bill of Rights applicable to the states. In other words, although the feds have to pay private land owners to take land and use that land for public purposes, the states have never needed an excuse for seizing private land, although they now have to pay for the land under the 14th Amendment.
Sadly, as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are taught about 10th Amendment-protected state powers versus the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, citizens have seemingly never wised up to the fact that they have to deal with their state lawmakers to make state laws which go beyond the simple protections of the 5th Amendment to protect private property owners from the state.
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