Posted on 07/19/2006 2:14:54 PM PDT by gentlestrength
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Political Party Fundraiser David D'Amiano Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658708/posts
July 8-10, 2006 Camp-Out at the Halper Farm to Stop Eminent Domain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665464/posts
Eminent domain foes to protest eviction, Halpers must quit farm by Monday (FRee Republic Mentioned)
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/NEWS0102/607190386/1005
07/19/06
"My understanding is the writ of possession will be served (today); whether they'll evict (today) I don't know," Edward D. McKirdy said late yesterday afternoon.
Not 10 Acres. 75 acres.
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He said 10, 75 changes things a bit. Still a fat pile of money to leave on the table.
Not everything has a price tag.
No, everything has a price tag, the only question is how big.
Though the 5th allows taking with just compensation for 'public use', the USSC in Kelo changed that to 'public purpose'. That's the significant issue in all this. The USSC amended the United States Constitution without having to get a 2/3 vote in the Senate or approval by 3/4 of the States.
Not everything has a price tag to all people.
People who don't think everything has a price tag just haven't been made the right offer yet. Since the first time one hominid traded another hominid for something or some activity EVERYTHING has been for sale. Goods, land, services, souls, it's all for sale; and it always will be.
Nope
It's going to be happening to me in the next few years, thanks to my bwitch step monster selling my dad's land to the city. They bought 180 acres from him and now they own the land on both sides of me, and my ex husband is a city councilman. My days are numbered. With me gone, they can build a big facility of some kind. With me here, it divides up their land. Last year the mayor was fighting with a local businessman and he said if the man didn't do what he wanted he'd take his property by eminent domain, so I know they'll do it to me too. In a heart beat.
Sorry but thousands of years of recorded human history shows I'm right. There's a set of circumstances that could arise in your life where you'd do anything for a ham sandwich, there's also a fat enough pile of money out there that would entice you to do just about anything. That's the simple reality, and people who don't believe it just haven't spent enough time in the dank icky corners of their brain.
>>>>there's also a fat enough pile of money out there that would entice you to do just about anything.
Nope. Not everyone thinks like you.
It's not a matter of thinking like me. It's a matter of reality. It's the first rule of the spy world: everybody has a price you just have to figure out what it is and if they're worth it. It's easy to claim you don't have a price when there's no substantive offer on the table, reality is different.
It's not cocky, just aknowledging the proven history of mankind. Actually I do know you've never had a proper price on the table, I know this because you insist that you can't be bought. Only people who've never had to make the tough version of that call have the luxury to insist there are things they would never sell.
Actually you've got it exactly backwards. We need those laws to protect people from the morally corrupt BECAUSE everybody is for sale. Attacking moments of weakness is how the morally corrupt make those really nasty buys that we have made against the law. If it were not possible for circumstances to arrive where anybody would make that sale it would be unnecessary to have those laws.
>>>We need those laws to protect people from the morally corrupt BECAUSE everybody is for sale.
Nope
Yes. If people didn't make destructive trades we wouldn't need laws to govern and occassionally eradictate those trades.
If you want to generalize fine. But generalizations do not include everyone. Not everyone is morally bankrupt. No matter how you try to justify that in your head.
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