Posted on 01/29/2006 7:19:46 AM PST by MrEdd
The city of St. Pete Beach, Fla., has filed suit against five residents who say they are opposed to a redevelopment plan officials claim will increase population and tax bases.
In what appears to be another case of eminent domain, with the city claiming an unchallengeable right to redevelop the quiet beachfront community, officials say they retained legal services after the rebellious residents collected signatures on a petition demanding the issue be put to a vote, WTSP-TV in Tampa-St. Petersburg reported yesterday.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Looks like the arrogance of these city pols will be met with a well deserved thunderous backlash.
The solution to these types of problems needs a peaceful but forceful solution.
City Hall needs new staff, I be thinkin...
You are correct.
Seems that the leaders of St. Petersburg are trying to emulate the Russian tsars. They forget WHICH St. Petersburg they live in and which form of government they lead with.
Do you foresee there being any tar and feathers in this recipe?
Things are only "peaceful" when the government is the only one with the guns.
On a serious note, this is what the recall process is designed for. It's time for folks to let their local, recallable, officials understand that such "takings" are not going to be tolerated. A few recalls of entire city councils or county boards will soon put an end to such crap.
We the people have the power. It's just a matter of using it.
No law...and therefore no law suit...can be brought or filed against them for simply exercising that right. If there is not more to this, then what these city officials are doing is blatantly unconstitional and tyranical.
The ADF is LAWYERS what did you think I was talking about???
Lawyers are not what I was talking about. A few thousand gun owners showing up armed at the county courthouse is more to my liking. The rats need to be reminded where they stand. There are more of us than them.
they as well need to counter sue.
If doose Mouth-Pieces can win against dat udder bunch of legal shills ya know dey ar good and must be frightening.
Unfortunately, there are a heck of a lot more government agents who are willing to use guns on citizens, than there are citizens who are willing to use guns on government agents. We have a tremendous numerical advantage in one sense, but not in another.
Yeah. What gets me is that it seems to be an exercise in futility. It’s like dealing with the devil and expecting him not to lie. The bureaucrats that are trying to do these things are thinking about one thing their power base. They need a little old fashioned pressure. They and the businesses involved should be treated like child molesters. They should be spit on in public. The one thing that we can be certain of is that our founders would've did much worse.
This issue is going to explode of the next decade. The difference will be between those who believe in property rights and those who believe the government can do what it wants provided they have an "economic plan". I personally believe we need a constitution ammendment to further limit
imminent domain. I believe that the onus of responsibility should always fall on the powerful whether it be the government or corporate to place the rights of the individual above their collective need for growth and power.
My big question when these government folks present one of these "goddamn brillent" economic development plans is why they didn't plan it so it accommodated the private property owners or avoided them altogether? Also there is the great option of including them and offerring them real market prices based upon the projected value of the property once the development is complete. What they do is they spend several thousand dollars on the plan before they even consult with the home owners then they offer ultimatums and threats and pitiful offers for their homes. This usually effects the poor that have little money to fight so they take what they can get while the government officals and the corporations rake in the cash and power. Its no different in some cases than what happens in ethnic cleansing senarios.
How wonderfully Christian to kick people out of their houses and cheat them out of benefiting fully from the value of their now indemand property. It is bad regardless but to do it to people who have few options is more than a crime it is evil.
I'm not suggesting a battle. What I'm suggesting is a show of force in protection of our freedom. Let them shoot private citizens in a peaceful public rally and this issue will be decided. These control freaks need to be taught a lesson they should've learned long ago. People need to feel in their hearts the freedom that is theirs and being stripped away. The powerful are pushing society towards absolute dependence and we need to take ownership in our hearts before our country falls from within rather than without. They do not know what is better for us than we and even in the rare occasion when they do, it doesn't not give them the right to take away our freedom to exercise our rights the way we see fit.
The place where I was raised it would be ruby ridge before someone would take our land. People need to exercise their personal sovereignty and feel it in their heart like a furnace fueled by a thousand suns. Today too many hearts are like a swamps in fools ready only to fight for "rights" to smoke pot and purchase porn. So sad. Where are the leaders?
Reading the article, it sounds more like the city is trying to get a court to rule that, despite the petition, the city council's decision is not subject to being overturned by ballot vote -- as distinct from suing the petitioners for monetary damages for the offense of doing a petition
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