Court rules against homeowners in eminent domain case

WFSB ^ | 3/5/2004 | Associated Press

[Beck_isright]

"Does anyone believe that there is a federal court anywhere that believes "The Government" can be wrong when confiscating property?"

I do hope that the elderly get massive media coverage (unlikely) when they are evicted from their homes on the Florida coastline. With this decision, the potential for a division in this nation, unseen since 1860, is quite probable.

[freeeee]

No one owns property in the US but the government.

Every defining characteristic of a landlord-tenant relationship is present in the relationship between a "property owner" and the government.

The purchase price of your house is your security deposit.
Property taxes are the rent you pay. If you don't pay you are evicted.
Zoning laws, building codes, and additional regulations are conditions of your lease.
If the government can make more rent money off a new tenent, it will evict you (through eminent domain).

Free country, my arse.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[AAABEST]

Nothing less than an outrageous theft by criminals of the court.

Shifting property ownership from one private entity to another on dubious reasoning such as increasing tax revenue is not only un-American it's bald faced robbery.

Eminent domain was designed as a vehicle for the government to aquire land for important reasons (such as military buildings etc.), not to give property to corporations or put more spending money into the hands of socialist politicians.

These despicible "justices" ought to be stripped and dragged through the streets. This is outrageous.

[Delphinium]

Thats what you get when you let elitists control.

Its Connecticut, but I could actually see it happening here.

[Delphinium]

No one owns property in the US but the government.

Can you imagine what our founding fathers would have done?

[BJClinton]

People are being thrown off property their family has "owned" for generations because Walmart...

I haven't heard of any cases where eminent domain was used to evict a homeowner for Wal-Mart, do you have any links?

[nygoose]

Thank you Justice O'Connor for your "compelling public interest" argument. Of course, there is also a compelling public interest that the U.S. Government pay off the national debt. What then?

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[Indrid Cold]

"He cited recent action by the Arvada City Council, which according to the Denver Post, condemned a community lake and nearby property to make way for a Super Wal-Mart - and its fatter property tax revenue."

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/2004/articles2/council_spars_over_eminent_domai.htm

Do a Google search for "Wal-Mart Eminent Domain" and you'll find a pile of links.

[Delphinium]

Wow! I did the google search, there is alot. I wasn't aware of that?

[B4Ranch]

"The court concluded redevelopment plans would increase tax revenue and create jobs, which amount to a public benefit that eminent domain powers were designed to aid."

We should be grateful to actually be alive and able to see socialism moving in and smothering our liberty. /large sarcasm/

[stevio]

Wow.

[sergeantdave]

These fascist pigs in black robes should be publicly whipped.

[Libertina]

Here in Washington the county tried to condemn a piece of LAND that had been purchased by a church for new construction. The county said they had authority to do so because a COSTCO would be more "beneficial" to the area. It doesn't matter that we have a constitution, when the judicial branch is out of control. Communist China's constitution reads a lot like ours... but "interpretation" is the key.

[Libertina]

To continue: these courts are not ruling based upon law, but on "feelings of fairness and diversity." It is a travesty.

[DaiHuy]

Gee what a surprise, the court ruled against the little guys.

[longtermmemmory]

Roy Black once said that unless a constitution has a means to defend and uphold the principles it espouses it is worthless. (words to that effect) He was lecturing about the constitutions of other countries.

The packing of law schools with leftist ideology and now by extension legal minds with that leftist cr*p, there are few lawyers who understand how we got here. There is no sense of history or true principles of private ownership taught in law schools.