"Unless we DO something, they are just going to trample over all our rights!"
We're not going to do anything, and they know it. We're just going to bend over and Baaa! Baaa! like the good little sheeple that we are.
"We're not going to do anything, and they know it. We're just going to bend over and Baaa! Baaa! like the good little sheeple that we are."
And the reason Americans will do that is because they do not want to fundamentally realign their constitutional structure.
To stop these things from happening, they need to do that. It's the only way.
But the "US Constitution" has become practically an idol to so many Americans, that any fundamental change in it is assailed as "un-American".
Caught in the cognitive dissonance of the need to change something sacred, most Americans will default to apathy.
Of course, most land will not be seized. Only that which is necessary for the development projects of my clients.
America just made itself a much more attractive target for high-end European real estate investment. It is hard to assemble land anywhere. America just made it a lot easier.
That means more foreign investment...all those Euros that can't be effectively invested in Paris or Bordeaux because the land cannot be gotten so easily.
The Supreme Court certainly struck a blow for free market capitalism in land transactions. Land is, after all, just another commodity. Those with the greatest means who can negotiate the best deals should, in a free market, be able to oust those who make less economically efficient uses of it. The US Supreme Court would seem to agree. Certainly my industry approves!