Has the liberal bloc of the supreme court inflicted it's final blow?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

What are your words/thoughts on the loss of your private property rights?

I haven't had this feeling since 9/11, and right now the thought of leaving the country seriously sounds like a good idea.

How........ is there possibly a fix for this?

[Leatherneck_MT]

"The good old second amendment. I hope it won't come to that. But I'm just the one who in a situation like this would use it."

You have allies

Semper Fi and to hell with the SCOTUS and it's corrupt judges.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

They are. I know I'm not the only one, but in other messageboards the libs are already blaming republicans for this.

This has less to do with party line and more with ideology. All 5 were liberals.

[ellery]

I agree -- but my point is, this wouldn't be an issue if our elected officials didn't feel the freedom to steal our property without feeling the consequences at the ballot box.

The Supreme Court did not mandate that elected officials take the land. The elected officials fought for their theivery and won. The low-hanging apples here are the people who need our permission in the next two years to keep their jobs. This applies at the local, state and federal level. Fix that, and the judge situation will begin to fix itself.

[thoughtomator]

Do you really expect that a President whose first priority on day one was to foist a trillion-dollar entitlement upon the country?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

^^^^^^^^^^You have allies^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But is that enough? Can votes and supreme court nominations change this damage?

AFAIK(and hopefully I'm wrong) SCOTUS rulings are largely unreversable or unchallengable.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^The low-hanging apples here are the people who need our permission in the next two years to keep their jobs.^^^^^^^^^^^

Hopefully it reverberates as the villains in this are the SCOTUS justices, not necessarily their cronies in low places.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Yes.

Bush is by no means the perfect president but he's still one of us.

You have to remember, the environment up there in washington is tainted. For some odd reason, when we elect officials they change once they reach washington.

Evil is in the air, and so is fear. Witness the recent action from conservatives after durbin's words.

Washington changes them big time. Our only hope is that if we keep putting conservatives in washington, that we can lift the fog.

[zot]

While the court majority defenders will declare that the court sided with "Big Business" it has actaully sided with the goals of a communist state where there are no individual property rights.

Thanks for the ping. You got that right.

I hope this will awaken more people to the communist agenda disguised as liberalism, but I'm not sure it will.

[Altair333]

"right now the thought of leaving the country seriously sounds like a good idea."

And go where? Any country worth going to (e.g. Australia) has really tough immigration requirements.

[MJY1288]

In the majority opinion they did suggest that States could adopt their own laws to restrict how Eminent Domain is used.

We must call and write our local officials and demand that they make sure this abuse not be permitted in our states

[kittymyrib]

CNN's poll on the Lou Dobbs Show was 99% AGAINST this ruling. At last we've found something that everyone in the country agrees on. Bring out the tar and feathers!

[MJY1288]

This ruling might just be the awakening for the fence sitters on the dangers of Liberalism and its natural attraction to Marxism. This might be just the thing to bring about the long over due condemnation of Liberalism and everything it doesn't stand for

[Sam Cree]

I've always figured other countries, at least the ones I like, are to the left of the US, so why move to them? Suddenly, between this ruling and that interstate commerce one a couple weeks ago, I don't know how long they will stay to the left of us. If I understand correctly, the Supreme Court justified the ruling on the basis of the state having acted for the common good, more or less. Straight socialism. Allied with the business world. For the first time in a while, I'm truly shocked.

[Dog Gone]

I hate to point this out, but Zimbabwe is being criticized for leveling all kinds of housing because of the law there.

They've made hundreds of thousands homeless.

There is no difference between our court ruling today and what they're doing in principle.

I don't expect to see bulldozers in American cities tomorrow mowing down houses, but this ruling certainly encourages it.

[CGVet58]

I am terribly shocked by this brazen act of tyranny... like a poster before me, I fear we have crossed a line of no return.

What to do? I do not know, save for telling you that some thoughts I best keep to myself.

For dog gone; please reconsider your retirement plans, frater... though we fear the darkness this oligarchic court brings upon us, remember those who have come before us... it is upon their shoulders which we stand. They have faced death in their time... the torch is now passed to us.

Evil flourishes when good men stand by and do nothing (Edmund Burke) - our Crisis is upon us... now is the time to decide what sort of men we will be, and what sort of legacy we will leave to our progeny

With trepidation and prayers, and above all else, with thanks to God for our blessings and even the challenges that await us...

CGVet58

[Jubal Harshaw]

I was with you in terms of thinking of leaving the country. However, on further reflection, I believe that this decision will have no (yes, I said "no") significant effect on large parts of the country. In particular, I am thinking of those states with an initiative process.

I predict that, in those states with an initiative process (including the most populous state in the USA, California), there will be an amendment to the state constitution drafted, circulated, voted in, and in place within the next election cycle. I further predict that such an amendment will make it even harder for state and local governments to excersise eminent domain than it was before today.

In California, Tom McClintock has already said that he's going to introduce such an amendment, and my guess it that such an amendment will likely win handily. Since I live in CA, and am pretty much committed to staying in states with an initiative process, I am not as upset about this ruling as I was this afternoon.

[Sam Cree]

Well, we still have an attitude of freedom here, and that counts for a lot. Only thing is, we're losing the legality of freedom more quickly than I would have thought possible, and that counts for a lot too, maybe even more. I am truly stunned.

I'm so upset, I couldn't make myself type stuned.

I wonder what Bush is gonna have to say.

[ellery]

I don't understand how you do not define the elected officials who are actually stealing the land as villians.

Think of it this way -- if a thug holds you up and gunpoint and steals your property, and then a judge lets him off, who's the primary villian? I say the thug, with the judge as secondary villian through collusion and failure to do his/her job properly.

[firequarrel]

My thoughts? I think if the GOP hadn't embraced the religious right we wouldn't have had any problem getting conservative judges on the bench. But since the GOP has much of the country afraid they'll make abortion illegal this is what we get. Incidentally, the conservative Pat Robertson has jumped on the bandwagon to Make Poverty History. The only problem, the proposals will ensure its permanence. Aren't these moral pseudo-conservatives special? Click on Cameron Diaz's picture to see the video with Pat Robertson.

[blueberry12]

I say America is still the best country in the world. And even if they changed all the laws and brought in communism, America would still be the best country in the world, because of the people. The American people (most of them) have a different way of thinking than the rest of the world, and that's what sets America apart from the world. Go to any country in the world and you will not meet anyone who thinks like Americans do. Americans are the most courteous and generous people on the face of this planet. They have more common sense than the rest of the world combined.