Men(ace) in Black? SCOTUS goes Rogue...

various FR links & stories | 03-03-05 | the heavy equipment guy

[backhoe]

 Taking your home for corporate profits:

 

 Hail seizers! The New York Times cheers on the land grabbers - (appropriately derogatory!)

 (You can make a difference)

(Lost Liberty Hotel Pledge)

 Impeachment proceedings should have begun on the gang of five within an hour of this decision being announced.

[lentulusgracchus]

IIRC, Lincoln carried an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Roger Tanney in his pocket for about six months, "just in case."

No, he gave it to his errand boy, political factotum, and personal security agent, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon, as recounted in Lamon's postwar memoir.

Lamon kept the warrant for a while, and then, when Lincoln did not follow through, apparently disposed of it on his own as stale-dated.

[metesky]

Thanks for the history lesson, sir. At least I was on the right track there, knowing that at least two presidents had defied the court.

I'll have to find Lamon's memoirs and read a little more on an era of our history that continues to fascinate me. Seems Lamon was sort of Lincoln's Col. House, eh?

[lentulusgracchus]

No, he had Lamon and a couple of other people like Frank Blair as political errand-men. Thurlow Weed was another. These people tended to be entrusted with sensitive, deniable tasks -- like lying to the South Carolina governor, through the intermediation of a retired Supreme Court Associate Justice, on the eve of Fort Sumter.

People whose reputations would never stand up in a swearing contest with his own were the sort of people Lincoln preferred for the most delicate tasks. Ben Butler was another man he occasionally used, but more gingerly, since Butler had a political following back home in Massachusetts.

[backhoe]

 House Votes To Undercut 5-4 Ruling On Property (Eminent Domain Takes Hit) -- I've been talking with some of my friends who I would consider apolitical, who have never expressed an opinion on any political topic through three Presidents, four wars, and the reign of Clintigula I. But they have all had opinions on Kelo. They are homeowners, and they see this law as an attack on their very way of life. People really care about this one.

[backhoe]

 Rush: Breathless Hysteria over O'Connor Retirement Illustrates We've Ceded Authority to 9 Lawyers

[backhoe]

... a collection of articles on the kelo scotus ruling:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/scotuspropertythieving.htm

" Supreme Tyranny "

[backhoe]

 SADDLE UP - THIS IS THE BIG ONE

 

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 New London property values now at issue in eminent domain -- The state is claiming that they owned Kelo's land from the day that they decided to take it.

 Time for weapons.

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 After Action New London - With Pics -- Until this decision I thought illegal immigration would be the big issue next election. But this is bigger, and furthermore it is more local even while nationwide...

 Thieves are thieves. I see no reason not to call a thief a thief, be they dressed in a thousand dollar suit or jeans and sneaks.

 If the houses go down, city hall should go down, along with some of the councilmen's homes and throw a Pfizer facility in with them.

 Effort afoot to revisit eminent domain; protesters rally in New London

[backhoe]

 Fort Trumbull Just Beginning The Fight  

Susette Kelo, w/attorney & press, at the USSC.

Click here for "The Cottage Coalition", Ms. Kelo's webpage.

Here's the home being stolen from her, courtesy of the thieving Supremes.

Susette Kelo, w/attorney & press, at the USSC.

Click here for "The Cottage Coalition", Ms. Kelo's webpage.

Here's the home being stolen from her, courtesy of the thieving Supremes.

[backhoe]

 Protesters Target Eminent Domain-Scores rally against 'injustice' of events in New London case -- The city of New London wants to pay the property owners the value of their homes at the time the city tried to implement eminent domain in 2000 not the current value and the city argues property owners maybe liable for use and occupancy fees as they have been living on eminent domain land as tenants free of charge since 2000. This would further reduce any money the property owners receive from the city. New London property values now at issue in eminent domain

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 Protesters From New Jersey To Maine Voice Displeasure

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 Second Throughts on Kelo

 

 Eminent domain and just desserts -- The proposed "Lost Liberty Hotel" would feature a "Just Desserts Cafe." Perhaps Justice Souter could eat a plate of crow while visiting his old digs. Gideon Bibles would be replaced with Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" to illustrate the loss of our American freedoms.

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 Policy Center Warns: Beware of "Kelo II"  --Unfortunately, the dreadful Kelo v. City of New London ruling isn’t the only nightmare facing property owners this summer, the American Policy Center (APC) reported today. According to draft language obtained by the Center, the "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005" (TESRA 2005) is a major sellout to property rights advocates nationwide. Appropriately, the Center has dubbed the bill "Kelo II."

 

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Video clips of Kelo rally now online

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 Eminent Domain: Churches 'Targeted by the Bulldozers'

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 When Supreme Court Betrays Public Trust It Becomes Just to Punish Supreme Court Justices

[Looking4Truth]

Man, you're screen name sure fits, you've compiled some major information that John Q really needs to see. Believe me I'm going to dig through it and disseminate to others, my (our) rights depend on it.

[backhoe]

Believe me, I'm going to dig through it and disseminate to others, my (our) rights depend on it.

Thank you. People need to see this stuff, and get concerned.