THE END OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS

Nealz Nuze ^ | June 24, 2005 | Neal Boortz

[AirBorn]

Seems the second ammendment is about all we have left.

If you wanna get really steamed, go read Jonathan Adler's ramblings over in the Corrner on NRO. Seems he thinks property owners did pretty well in this case and that we should be pleased we at least got 4 justices on our side.

Please excuse me -- I feel a strange urge clean my gun.

This was from Cosmo...which is funny because in another post on this topic I had commented on one of the MANY reasons people from Europe flocked to America.

Of the reasons to brave treacherous seas and leave behind family ties and other possible monetary futures was to get away from " First Born " son rule in England and Europe!
So that ANYONE regaurdless of FAMILY CONNECTIONS or Leneage could OWN their land! ( and of course freedom OF religion ..)

And that the Founding Fathers added the 2nd Admendment to let the citizens be able to protect itself FROM the Government! from unduly seizing land, property, and housing froeign troops.

Will "rich" developers who happen to be REPUBLICAN go on NOW and call 2nd Amendment supporters " Gun Nuts " like the left does now??

[Bring Back Old Sparky]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3239023

Texas might try to ban this at the state level. Let's hope they and others have the courage to see it through.

[ubu]

My piddling contribution to this homeowner revolution is this: We don't need a hanging, nor a revolution. What we need is a simple constitutional amendment to reverse the "Boss Hogg Decision" as someone nicknamed it over on Free Republic.

"Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."

Our governments, state, federal, and local, have shown that they cannot be trusted with the power of eminent domain. It's time to take it away from them.

http://www.houblog.com

[Centurion2000]

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[kittymyrib]

I'm for starting a movement that for every low-income area of the city or county that gets taken and bulldozed, there should be a wealthy person's home, business or property seized "for the common good"...if nothing else to build a park or nature preserve. Because the law treats everyone equally according to the Constitution, this should be accepted by the courts....and this would end this disasterous plunder of private property. The Bible warns of the harsh punishment God exacts from those that take widows' houses. And He is the real Supreme Court.

[Hostage]

We can debate what it means to 'own' but your point is better put in the context of how people in government agencies view property 'owners'.

I know for a fact as I have heard them whisper that property 'owners' are viewed as 'tenants' because tenants come and go whereas government goes on forever.

[sgtbono2002]

What gives you the idea that only Republicans are rich and that only Republicans benefit from this stupid decision.

This decision screws Americans both Dems and Pubbies and believe me Democrats, although they lie like hell, are the richest politicians in the Congress.

[Leatherneck_MT]

If we can get that into the Constitution that would be a good start. However, the SCOTUS has ignored the Constitution recently, so I do not have much hope that an amendment will do the trick.

However, stringing a few of them up for the rest to get the message that our Freedoms and our Rights will NOT be trifled with might.

[yoe]

How do you go about having this ruling overturned? Is that possible?

There are two organizations that we should ALL contact them to see if a civil suit can be brought against the SCOTUS:

CITIZENS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

American Center for Law and Justice

[RogueIsland]

the "Boss Hogg Decision"

What a perfect description of it!

[Leatherneck_MT]

I don't know how you would go about having rules overturned, but there needs to be an impeachment of Judges sitting on THIS SCOTUS at the very least.

Unfortunately the silence coming from our Elected Representatives in Washington is defeaning!

[SoCal Pubbie]

In the case in Michigan back in the sixties, where property was seized to build a plant for GM, churches were among the lots taken, according to what I read here on FR.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

My piddling contribution to this homeowner revolution is this: We don't need a hanging, nor a revolution. What we need is a simple constitutional amendment to reverse the "Boss Hogg Decision" as someone nicknamed it over on Free Republic.

<>b"Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."

Our governments, state, federal, and local, have shown that they cannot be trusted with the power of eminent domain. It's time to take it away from them.

Bears repeating! We need to get started!

[Strutt9]

Hear Hear!... Yup, its' time to stand up for ourselves.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

In Southern California property owned by a church was siezed to make way for a Costco. That's why I will NEVER be a member of Costco.

[musanon]

" --- Now ... is there a bright side? Is there anything good in the ruling?
Yes, there is, and this is where you come in. Even though the Supremes approved these government confiscations of private property, the five justices who voted with the majority did say that they didn't like it.
They encouraged local jurisdictions to pass laws severely restricting these seizures. -- "

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Even Neal doesn't quite 'get' the courts point. The USSC's main point is that majority decision rules.
- That it rules despite what the 5th Amendment clearly says. -- And they insist that the only way their own majority decision can be overruled is by forming other majorities to dictate yet more new laws. [laws that could then be reversed, ad infinitum]

We don't need more new laws enacted by 'democratic majorities'. We need our supreme law, the Constitution, restored & protected by our Republican form of government.

[USMC79to83]

I agree, very disturbing.

We need to get together on this one. I called my so called "representatives" yesterday. My wife is calling them all today. I plan on calling local and national "party" headquarters today - I simply want to know what the heck they plan to do to protect my rights. On Monday, I'll repeat.

We must turn the heat up, NOW.

If this is not the "line in the sand" I fear for what will be.

"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both the Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
- Abraham Lincoln

[azhenfud]

United Socialist States of America.

[azhenfud]

"We, the people, are the rightful masters of both the Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln

Unfortunately, Abe St. Lincoln himself, aided the cessation of that right at a cost of nearly a million Americans.

[ubu]

I can't take credit for it, I found it here.

FYI for Houston Freepers, I just took a satirical potshot at Mayor White's "respect" for property rights on Houblog.