[Borges]

The Kelo decision is a wakeup call for the restoration the property rights. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to protect the rights of citizens against abuses by state governments, the U.S. House and Senate could pass new civil rights legislation to protect citizens' Fifth Amendment property rights. Congress could limit the scope of eminent domain to narrow public purposes and bar all takings of property for ultimately private uses.

This is the key. If such legislation were to be passed on it got back to the SC I wonder if they would claim Congress can not Constitutionally deny someon'e s 'eminent domain' to sieze property? It didn't seem to be inffered here.

[SlowBoat407]

We'll see the true spirit of the community when we find out if the offices and shops built on that property get any business. If I lived there, I would be boycotting anyone who tried to profit from the stolen property. If the citizens have any guts about them, they will take a stand economically.

[Ladysmith]

This home in New London, Conn., is one of several at the center of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. Susette Kelo and other homeowners had refused to sell their property for what their city said was a needed private development project.

From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/

Smith Street property owner Bill Von Winkle reacts to the Supreme Court eminent domain ruling that sided with the City of New London.

Susette Kelo, the owner of a house on East Street in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, fights back tears as she speaks on the phone to a supporter from the South, following the Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain that sided with the City of New London.

From here.

[kevkrom]

And for all of those who call conservatives "fascist", note that it was the five liberal judges who sided against private property, not the conservative ones.

[Willie Green]

But unlike under a free market system, they do not own their property by right. They hold it at the discretion of political authorities who can yank it away at a whim. This is the economic principle of the classical corporatist or fascist regime.

So SCOTUS subordinated our individual rights to bring us into compliance with WTO regulations?
So what else is new?
This will only get worse under CAFTA.

[EternalVigilance]

When Terri Schiavo died, the prohibition on government killing of innocent American citizens contained in the Fifth Amendment was ignored.

This decision simply carries that miscarriage of justice forward.

The Fifth is the heart of the Bill of Rights. These actions are a stab at that heart.

It is up to us whether those wounds are fatal to this once-free republic or not.

[nothingnew]

It's a sad sad day in America. The Supreme Court has lost its mind, its honor and its decency.

I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.

I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Travis McGee]

Fortunately, our Founding Fathers included a fascism antidote in the Constitution.

[CzarChasm]

note to the author - don't use the term "corporatist" as a synonym for 'fascist'; they are not synonymous, at least according to dictionary.com, and most casual readers will not understand that "evil corporations" are not the culprits - evil politicians and ignorant judges are.

[Centurion2000]

Here's sopme more political fallout from this.

One) California's proposition 13 has just been effectively gutted to prevent the government from cranking up property taxes.

Two) Liberal states will NEVER enact property protections into their legislatures and state constitutions.

Example: You have a 2.5 million dollar home in San Francisco that you paid 400,000 for in 1990. You now pay say 600,000 in property taxes on it.
Now the city of San Francisco can condemn your house, pay you 120,000 (20% of tax base) and turn around and sell this land to another developer or even a real estate agent who will then sell it to someone that is going to pay 2.5 million in property tax rates.

People are going to get shot over this.

[sergeantdave]

The primary tenet of a fascist government is government control of private property.

In some areas there are zoning restrictions on what bushes can be planted and the color one may paint a house.

Then we have so-called smart growth restrictions on how many homes may be built on a piece of land.

And let's not forget that land can be seized under the Endangered Species Act to create de facto government nature reserves. All without paying a penny of compensation, of course.

Now we have a ruling where property may be seized for the "public interest." Public interest is nothing more than the American version of the Marxist "common good."

Yeh, I'd say we're moving along on the fascist highway.

[lilylangtree]

Just goes to show the liberal leftist judges rule SCOTUS. SCOTUS isn't worth saving. Down with SCOTUS!

[jennyp]

Thanks, Ed, for posting this! Saved me the trouble. :-)

Atlaw, I have no idea who the freeper lawyers are, except yourself. Do you know if there's a ping list for freeper lawyers? What do you think about the viability of this idea:

The Kelo decision is a wakeup call for the restoration the property rights. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to protect the rights of citizens against abuses by state governments, the U.S. House and Senate could pass new civil rights legislation to protect citizens' Fifth Amendment property rights. Congress could limit the scope of eminent domain to narrow public purposes and bar all takings of property for ultimately private uses.

[RAY]

A disgusting ruling by an arrogant court.

Check out this petition site:

http://www.petitiononline.com/5amend/petition-sign.html

An email correspondent's comment:

"FOLKS: This past week, SCOTUS (Supreme Court OF The United States) once again, has attempted to rewrite OUR Constitution to totally change the original intent as written by the Founders.

Eminent Domain was NEVER intended to be used by government EXCEPT to obtain property for roads, public buildings, schools, military bases and other necessary government usage.

This past week, the Supreme Court rewrote the Constitution, stating that it was legal for cities to condemn private property under Eminent Domain, to purchase and then resell to developers and other special interests, supposedly to benefit the community and the city by increasing tax revenues.

THIS IS TOTALLY BOGUS!

Please click on the link below and add your signature to the petition for a Constitutional Amendment to put a stop to this invitation to even more corruption within government and the theft of private homes and property for the financial benefit of a few.

http://www.petitiononline.com/5amend/petition-sign.html"