Eminent Domain: Jersey City To Seize Bar

1010 WINS ^ | Oct 28, 2005 11:15 am US/Eastern

[Calpernia]

Eminent Domain

[Sue Bob]

Has this Priest never heard of the commandment: "Thou shalt not covet?"

If there is any Freeping to be done--it should be directed against this Christian. He may have more of a conscience than does a politician.

[Calpernia]

Conscience? This is NJ. We have gone so far past pathetic....I don't even have the capacity for sarcasm to laugh it off.

[Edmund Dante]

"The school built a new field last year ... it is 7 yards smaller than required by sports regulations"

In Shop Class didn't they teach you "Measure twice, cut once"?

[Calpernia]

Shop class doesn't seem to be offered in curriculums now a days. Everything is college prep. Gotta push the university tuition investments.

[sarasmom]

And I am "stupid" for deciding not to "own property" subject to escalating taxes outside of my own controll.
LOL!
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"Save" the Supreme Court..vote R.
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No more RINOs!

[strategofr]

".I don't even have the capacity for sarcasm to laugh it off."

I sympahize with you (PA guy) but this requries no sarcasm. The gov is using the power given by the Supreme Court to steal any desired private property. But what the Liberals are upset with here is---its going to a church!

This is just plain funny on the face of it.

[Coleus]

This is not right and does not serve the greater public good.

[Calpernia]

NJ was no stranger to the power of eminent domain before the supreme court ruling.

The churches in NJ are no stranger to corruption. I did work in a church arm of a nonprofit for orphans. They out and out steal! The children were the publicity.

[strategofr]

"I did work in a church arm of a nonprofit for orphans. They out and out steal!"

OK. not funny.

[Clemenza]

EVIL! My mother's hometown is the heart of darkness, and this is yet another example of a long line of land grabs by the city government in the name of "urban renewal" that has been going on since the 1940s. They tore down most of the shopping district in my mom's old nabe to build an "industrial park" that attracted no industry.

[Clemenza]

The truth hurts, doesn't it?

[Clemenza]

Its just not "cool" to be "blue collar" anymore.

[Ethan_Allen1777]

I cut it twice and it was still too short!

[Calpernia]

And it is not cool to hide behind a white collar either.

[Clemenza]

AMEN!

Reminds me of a joke that would offend the Catholics on this thread.

[Calpernia]

Now don't you go getting my thread thrown in the Smokey Backroom :0

[Iris7]

Under truly ancient precedent, at least to Roman Law, the Sovereign has the right of eminent domain.

Nowadays the government is the agent of the Sovereign, which is, in this country, the people (at least theoretically). Therefore the government exercises the Sovereign will, the will of the people, when it exercises eminent domain.

These laws are deeply fundamental. The Supreme Court said, essentially, that these laws were in effect when the Constitution was written and long before that, and so could not be unconstitutional. BUT the Sovereign people having the right of eminent domain could give it up, abolish the government's right to exercise eminent domain in the name of the Sovereign people.

Clear enough? The people have the right of eminent domain. The people have the right to tell their servant, the government, that the government may not excise eminent domain.