Posted on 06/24/2005 2:23:15 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
Had he picked someone more conservative we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Reagan did pick someone more conservative for that seat, but he was voted down by the Senate in 1987.
It can't be plainer -- according to the Supreme Court, a citizen has no property rights which the government needs to respect. A foreign terrorist has more rights than a property-owning citizen. The left is determined to turn this country into a third-world hellhole where a few rich, politically-connected elites own everything and the peasants are slaves. Probably what will happen next is a lot of "red" states will pass laws protecting property rights while a lot of "blue" states will cheerfully confiscate private property and give it to members of the political class and their wealthy donors. In ten years some states will be unlivable and there will be no middle class.
Meanwhile, the property values in states with sensible protections will be far above the others. HAHA!! The market always wins.
The destruction of private property rights is Communism, pure and simple.
Marx and Lenin must gleefully be doing the Gulag Tango in Hell right now.
Leni
I am more than pissed.
The 5th Amendment has been trashed, but there is still the 2nd Amendment.
If spineless Republicans realize we have the power to throw them out of office, maybe they will begin to really listen.
We survived Bill, and the backlash produced GWB for two terms; couldn't we servive Hillary? What would that backlash produce?
Thank you for seeing some bright side to this awful
mess. I'm glad I'm as old as I am...not a good thing
for the young people.
It is more likely that your home will be razed so Jackson can build anothe Neverland.
1 And it came to pass after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2So Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near, next to my house; and for it I will give you a vineyard better than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money."
3But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!"
4So Ahab went into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food. 5But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so sullen that you eat no food?"
6He said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, "Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.' And he answered, "I will not give you my vineyard."'
7Then Jezebel his wife said to him, "You now exercise authority over Israel! Arise, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
8And she wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling in the city with Naboth. 9She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth with high honor among the people; 10and seat two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You have blasphemed God and the king. Then take him out, and stone him, that he may die. <>
11So the men of his city, the elders and nobles who were inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 12They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth with high honor among the people. 13And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him; and the scoundrels witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth has blasphemed God and the king!" Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died. 14Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned and is dead."
15And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead." 16So it was, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Free market privatisation of the Public Use. Isn't the private corporate use superior to the private one?
Eminent domain can help free market! The land should belong to those who can squeeze more profit/productivity out of it. After all this was the actual justification for taking the land from Indian tribes.
Oligarchies rule Latin America. Oligarchs try to take over Russia.
You mean someone like Robert Bork?
I am in wholehearted agreement on that one. Wakeup call!
Seems to me that the US Supreme Court building would generate more tax revenue if it were turned into a mall or a parking garage. Some developer could make a lot of money.........
Let see how many conservative Senators and Congresspersons rise to pass and amendment overturning this recent decision.
I bet very few!!! why becasue they want the government to have the power. Let's spend our time on that flag burning amendment.
I think that Bork would have ruled the same way as Kennedy. He has a statist streak in him.
I wonder how a Libertarian canidate would side on this issue?
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