I think Thomas Jefferson, in the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, brilliantly laid out the reasons why we [thus far] tolerated such horrible behavior by our government.
This was a bad one, though. As far as I am concerned, Kelo is the single most egregious violation of the rights of The People by our highest court in at least the last 150 years. Every single justice who suppported it should have been impeached, or otherwise removed from office.
The Congress, had it any round objects should have intervened immediately. They out rank the Judicial Branch.