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

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

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 Keynote: Claire Gaudiani - New London Development Corporation (Landgrab!!)

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 Property-gobbling cities -- There's a petition at the bottom of this thread calling for the impeachment of justices.

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1429877/posts?page=1

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Supreme Court Fails to Protect Property Rights!

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Of all who compile FR links, you're the Master, backhoe. Thanks!

RSmithOpt, check this one out.

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Thanks for looking, and I appreciate the kind words.

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Justice Kennedy: Lawyers Must Defend Judiciary From Attacks

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 Rell Seeks Legislative Review of Ruling on Eminent Domain -- To REALLY get the attention of SCOTUS, sign our impeachment petition.  click here

 

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 Eminent domain: A big-box bonanza? -- It threatens the right to ownership, a corners

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Are The Courts Good For Anything Anymore, Other Than Destroying Our Rights?

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"Liberal" Justices Turn Back Clock...To the Year 1215

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 RESHAPING THE SUPREME COURT (2nd Amendment)

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 High Court to End Term With Big Decisions

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 The little folks lost a big one -- Sir, would you please sponsor an amendment to the constitution to give us back our property rights that those activist idiots in the black robes stole from us yesterday?

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 Never Mind the Kelo, Here's Scott Bullock - (plaintiffs' lawyer on SCOTUS "Kelo" case! This is HOT!) -- He makes some excellent points, especially where he says that Americans are really furious over this bone headed (and very dangerous) decision.

 

 

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 When Leninists rule the nation - (SCOTUS decision bodes ill for American liberties) -- I've seen property as discussed in this thread and others include intellectual property, i.e. copyrights and patents. Wouldn't another form of property be my bank account? After all, it's just a place I store my "property" in a form that's easily accessible and transferrable.

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 LIBERAL LAND GRAB (Kelo et al. v. City of New London et al.) -- Kelo is the logical end product of a political philosophy that seeks generally to expand government power.  It did so this time, in spades.  And it is only the beginning, Freeport TX is trying to take a shrimp processing business from a company that has been at that spot since 1948 to make a marina for yachts and trendy restaurants.

 Eminent injustice in New London

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 District moves to seize Palmdale hospital location -- The ink was hardly dry on Wednesday's 5-4 Supreme Court decision widening community powers of eminent domain when Mayor Jim Ledford and the City Council found themselves confronted over the site...

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 Error In Judgment -- A beachfront developer's dream - take out 4 or 5 beachfront homes and put up your hotel. Tax revenue from such a project would tower over the property tax payments by the poor homeowners. "Poor" because they thought they owned their property, that their kids could inherit their home, that family traditions would remain traditions. Very sad.

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 Ruling on land is vital locally (Miami, FLA) -- Your home is your castle until the king needs it for something else. Time for another Magna Carta.

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 Render unto Caesar [churches as a victim of eminent domain] -- How about the city’s argument that giving the land to Costco would provide better-funded public services? Judge Carter wrote, “If revenue generation were a compelling state interest, municipalities could exclude all religious institutions from their cities.”

And that's exactly the green light that the Kelo decision has lit. Increasing tax revenue generation is now a legitimate reason to exercise eminent domain.