Posted on 06/23/2005 7:30:08 AM PDT by Helmholtz
That is very silly. If you buy a house in the middle of a field, sure there is some risk of that. But stay politically connected and you will hear of any plans well in advance. Buying homes in established residential areas carry zero risk. This decision sucks, but please don't scare people into thinking the government is about to seize everyone's homes.
That's pretty much what happend when the railroads were built in the 1800's.
You could wait forever for that to happen if you so choose. It would be easier to amend your own state constitution to clamp down on what is now permissible under the US Constitution. You won't be able to stop the feds from a taking but most actions are local. It does mean that the stakes just got raised in the election of local officials.
No, no...just grease the palms of your local board of alderman, and I'm sure the eminent domain right will be invoked.
We've lost a big chunk of freedom. This is no doubt another world view interpretation.
They should not be immune to recall.
I was watching "Caine Mutiny" last night. I have to say Queeg was not nearly as far off his trolley as some of the Supremes. Too bad we don't have much of a process for taking somebody's gavel away, because at least four of them are rattling like maracas in Junio.
This opens a Pandora's box for confiscatory zoning and other outright takings as well. The dilution of the bundle of property rights is now complete.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
At one point in time, the Founders thought private property ownership so important that only landed men could vote.
Still think they didn't mean exactly what they said? All Rights are "private" property Rights.
I didn't think so. The sheeple have lulled into a coma and nothing will stop the tyrants now.
Coming up, the governments "right" to take away your guns.
But I have to say that the notions of property seem to have gone back to the days of the English monarchy, with the new-old doctrines of property somehow being capable of itself being 'criminal' and thus forfeitable, and now an eminent domain that appears to be capricious in the extreme.
Dead on. Note that they wrote that the government must have this power to "increase tax receipts". IOW, the value of our existence is only measured by how much money we can produce for our Masters, who live their lives in secure jobs with lifetimes of benefits. And if they don't have that, they'll just come and take it from us.
It's non-residential property that is most affected.
And it's not now? Remember 3 of the 5 land grabbers were republican appointees. As an earlier poster stated this cuts across party lines. Hard to blame this one on liberal activist judges. The government won today and the citizens of this country lost. Bush needs to speak on this ruling so we can see where he stands.
Impeach them and try them for treason. At the very least impeach them and convict them of perjuring their Oath as judges.
The Fifth Amendment clearly and explicitly recognizes private property and the boundaries within which government may encroach upon that.
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