Posted on 10/18/2005 4:25:57 AM PDT by FortRumbull
Connecticut legislators will soon have an opportunity to end eminent domain abuse in their state. With Connecticut being the home of perhaps the most universally despised decision in recent U.S. Supreme Court history - Kelo vs. City of New London - the nation will be watching to see if Connecticut stops the abuse of eminent domain for private business development.
Unfortunately for Connecticut people, most of the legislative proposals under consideration fall very far short of the mark in protecting property owners.
Connecticut has perhaps the most sweeping law in the country authorizing the use of eminent domain for private development. . . . Supporters of eminent domain, such as the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, have adopted a tactic of pushing for meaningless changes to the law so they can claim that home and small-business owners are now protected. People should not fall for these ploys. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
You must have missed the tag line about the author:
Scott Bullock is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, the Washington-based public interest law firm that represented the property owners in Kelo vs. New London.
The Courant wouldn't write anything like this themselves.
Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.
I cannot understand why the entire country isn't in a furor over this. Both liberals and conservatives hate this law.
I guess there must be a few communist types who want no private ownership, but I didn't think that there were that many.
IMO, the second ammendment was written specifically to combat government tyranny like the Kelo decision.
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