High Court: Govts Can Take Property for Econ Development

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[Helmholtz]

U.S. Supreme Court says cities have broad powers to take property.

[lastchance]

Greetings to a fellow Floridian.

[Freebird Forever]

I have a better one: any old oak trees on the properties? Rare plant species? Historical landmarks? Spotted owl nests????

Yup.

It's time to play dirty.

[Tatze]

Go read about the IKEA store in New Jersey a few years ago. If I remember correctly, that was a well established residential area. Like I said, I do not believe I am blowing this out of proportion. Not one bit.

[pointsal]

Try Eminent Domain.... certainly it can by imminent, if it is used against you.

[Delphinium]

Most the citizens, and legislators have been brainwashed into this for years. Now they have made official.

This is soooo serious, and makes me so sick.

[glennaro]

You can pick up Savage's live broadcast (3-6 p.m., PDT) on his home station in S.F.: http://www.910knew.com/main.html

[Constitution Day]

Blatantly unconstitutional.
I just HAVE to see the justices' "reasoning" behind this.

[hedgetrimmer]

One word. Impeach.

[AntiGuv]

The only doubt regards the boundaries of the right, which is what I said before. What would you concede as an explicit acknowledgment of private property rights? I imagine it'd be something like this:

"The right to private ownership of property shall not be abridged."

That is exactly what the Framers have stated by their formulation. With other words, they have said the following: 'The right to private property shall not be abridged except...'

There is no other rational way to read the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

[AntiGuv]

The only doubt regards the boundaries of the right, which is what I said before. What would you concede as an explicit acknowledgment of private property rights? I imagine it'd be something like this:

"The right to private ownership of property shall not be abridged."

That is exactly what the Framers have stated by their formulation. With other words, they have said the following: 'The right to private property shall not be abridged except...'

There is no other rational way to read the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

[AmishDude]

You are right in that this will not effect people in many states. But some states, with blighted cities, will not want to tie their own hands so tightly. With any luck, they will prevent local governments from doing so.

[redgolum]

And the Fifth Amendment might as well never have been written

So that just leaves the remnants of the second right?

[MamaTexan]

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,

AMEN!

and

Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in Different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
THE SPIRIT OF LAWS Book VI
By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

(One of the most quoted writings used by the Founders while forming our government.)

[Stultis]

I think we've finally reached the point where even a French "man" has stronger property rights than an American.

[AntiGuv]

PS. Please do me a favor and don't bring up the Terri Schiavo case to me. Most people around here lose all sense of reason and logic when discussing that and I just don't want to go there anymore.

[tutstar]

ping

[JerseyHighlander]

The scariest part if the legalization of socioeconomic cleansing explicit and central to this case. 117 homes have been taken to be replaced with 80 new homes. Because the values of the old homes were less, the government can now declare them derelict, and start eminent domain against them. For the property tax revenue increases for the government. It's the new American racism, and the Supreme Court have "legalized" the bigotry. In decades to come, this ruling will be seen equivalent to Plessy vs. Ferguson, and there's no better time than today to

Start calling it the Plessy vs. Ferguson of 21st century mulitcultural America.

[OB1kNOb]

Much obliged.

[ninenot]

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