Nine Years after Kelo, the Seized Land Is Empty

National Review ^ | 2/5/2014 | Alec Torres

[Daffynition]

Justice O'Connor:

Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

This is what the peice of land that Kelo's house occupied now looks like:

After the houses were destroyed, nothing happened. No R&D complex, no gentrified condos, no influx of high-net-worth PhDs. Nothing. Shortly after this photo, news came from Pfizer, they were leaving the city.

[Daffynition]

*sigh* I wish you knew more facts about the Kelo case....or what it is like to be *FORCED* off your land for an ill conceived government whim.

My grandparents who were dirt poor farmers had it happen to them....the upheaval to their pastoral life left them both dead within 2 years of the ED act.

It isn’t *always* about the money, FRiend .

[MrB]

Sounds like Providential justice rendered on those that forced the sale.

[rottndog]

The Kelo decision is the worst SCOTUS decision since Dred Scott.

There is no way to misinterpret the plain language of Constitution as it applies to eminent domain...this was a deliberate act by five tyrants in black robes to eviscerate the concept and importance of private property rights.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

And it was the court’s conservatives that made this decision, seeing it as a state’s rights matter.

[rktman]

LOL! On the contrary, we done been schooled that there are plenty of ways to misinterpret the plain language in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights. Per the “lyin’ king”, “Constitution, Bill of Rights? We don’t need no steenkin Constitution or Bill of whatever. I gots me a ball point and I ain’t afraid to use it.”