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To: MineralMan
The SCOTUS has NOT said that such eminent domain MUST be done. It has only said that it CAN be done.

That's the problem. It ruled that it CAN be done. The states are already seizing property, and now the federal gov't just said it's OK for them to do so.

But your idea of backing state constitutional amendments against eminent domain would be one way to fight this ruling. OK, so, that's one viable solution.

So, where do we all start?

234 posted on 06/23/2005 9:32:32 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (News junkie here)
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To: Tired of Taxes

"So, where do we all start?"

You're a well-spoken guy. You start with your neighbors. You start an organization. You write. You speak. You get elected to something.

You start the same way everything in this country starts.

I started writing to legislators years ago regarding eminent domain issues. Locally. Regionally. Statewide. Nobody else seemed interested.

I'll give you the best example I know of grassroots activism. That was California's Proposition 13. Who'd have thought a rollback of assessed valuations on property could ever succeed? Who'd have thought that limits to increases in property taxes could ever succeed? Yet it did.

I know one thing. It isn't going to happen in threads on Free Republic. It's going to take a lot of work, organization, and sheer plodding to do something like this.

Those who are babbling about revolution aren't the ones who get changes made. That much I know for certain.


248 posted on 06/23/2005 9:39:35 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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