Posted on 06/24/2005 5:59:15 AM PDT by conservativecorner
This ruling is much worse than you think. It has the of cascaded effect. In other words:
A widow has an undeveloped property as an investment from her late husband. A judge rules that a developer can develop houses on it to increase property taxes to support the local schools. The widow is given the minimum amount for the land and the developer puts a house on the land.
A year later, the city fathers decide that they want a huge mall to get revenue for their local sales tax. The Widows home and all the other homes in that area are given to the Project Managers of the Mall. The homeowners are given the minimum values of their homes.
A year later, the State decides that the mall is environmentally unsafe and writes a bill to have it turned into a environmentally wetland. The mall is razed and the roads around it. The businesses in the mall are given the minimum value for their property and the employees are fired.
Brave new world huh?
I think it is time. We do need to make our 'elected leaders' know who the BOSS is, and it is not them.
They are out of control. Answering to everyone but the very people who elect them into office. The question, Do we have the backbone today to do this?
Yup, I'm waiting for the "ownership society" and the "people vs the powerful" speeches. So far the closest thing I've seen is this: Statement of Ralph Nader on Supreme Court Eminent Domain.
Pathetic..
I still just cannot believe this ruling. Are the 5 justices totally senile now? I am so mad about this. Has Bush said anything yet? Has anyone in Congress?
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The right against unreasonable search and seizure is gone too. Think of it, a state agency will be able to come onto their (no longer your) property to make assessments on the disposition of the state's property. Anything illegal they see will be fair game.
I have got to tell ya folks, this SCOTUS ruling is buzzing all over the Internet. Liberal web sites are decrying it, (One Quote: "I never thought I'd see the day I agree with Thomas and Scalia"), my local news website can talk of nothing else, and even non political sites like a woodworking site my husband visits are raving about this. If George wants to get nominees to the Supreme Court voted in, all he has to do is ask their opinion on eminent domain. Heck, make it clear any court nominee now held up is against indiscriminate taking and they are a shoe in.
America's robed mullahs have spoken.
Sorry, I meant, "shoo in".
New "local Government" Happy Dance Song
This land was your land
But now it's my land!
From California
To the New York islands
From the redwood forests
To the gulf stream waters...
Your land may now be seized by me!
Woody Guthrie's song was actually about communism principles.. the land belongs to all of us.. not one person... In fact a verse exists, though it is rarely sung where he bashes private property rights completely...
A copy recorded with the anti-private property rights, sung by the man himself is believed to be one of the most priceless items in the national archives.
I know it comes as a shock, but that song was a protest song against capitalism, written during the depression era.
Great song. Can somebody put together a video?
How about a "Don't Touch My Property!" march on the Supreme Court when it reconvenes in Oct. (Notice these gutless, chinless wonders waited till the end of this session to release this stink-bomb of a ruling.) A million people brandishing pitchforks would make a great picture on TV and perhaps impress upon these tyrants that the people are not asleep....or are they?
Will we as sovereign citizens, with GOD GIVEN rights, allow our liberty to be usurped by the oligarchy? I am willing to bet we will. Those that try and defend the constitution against this abomination, one of many by the way, will be picked off one by one, and portrayed as right wing kooks.
Where is the leader of the country, the Republican party and the defender of the constitution? Paging wimp boy George Bush, the country needs a leader. If you are unwilling to step forward, resign and lets try a President Cheney for a while.
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