Posted on 06/24/2005 10:19:47 AM PDT by dead
You expect restraint from government?
You just aren't enlightend as the Supremes. "Guarantee against taking of private property for private use," now = just the reverse; guarantee that it will happen.
This is what happens when the Supremes apply 'World law' to cases. In this case it was Robert Mugabe's Zimbabian rule of law.
Abortion and corn holin' are too important a right to leave up to them though.
On the other hand, a town (on an island) near me is under attack because the property is a developer's dream. Existing single-family homes are small but going for over $600,000 these days because of location and ocean/bay views. Developer's want to raze the homes and build high-end communities. So far, they've met resistance because the town officials and town people want to maintain their status quo.
However, the developers have been breaking up neighborhood blocks. They have bought at least one home on each street and then let the property sit unused. The plan is to establish presence for when they apply to the courts. I'd say that with this SC ruling, the town is gonna change whether the people want it or not.
As laughable as that is: consider, this may be the day that guy just barely begins to "get it."
I will ask once more. What good is a state law that limits Eminent Domain when we already know how the Supremes will rule if its taken to court?
Yep, that about says it. Should be very interesting here in the coming months.
My exact words when I heard this ruling, "Sweet Jesus, I live in New Jersey."
I think our mutual reaction was something akin to a Floridian reading a prediction that the coming Atlantic hurricane season will be “historically active.”
We have a 100% corrupt Democratic Party. A 98% corrupt Republican Party. Incredibly powerful criminal construction unions. A global mafia stronghold. Thoroughly unscrupulous billionaire developers. A liberal state supreme court. The greatest population density in the nation. Lunatic green environmentalist forces. Urban sprawl. Suburban sprawl. Spiraling property taxes. Bob Torricelli.
We're looking at the perfect storm.
So a poor homeowner whose property is taken by force is guilty of private profit motivations (even if he/she didn't want to sell), but a condo developer is a selfless champion of the city who won't make any money???
I nominate the above quote as the absolute worst we've seen so far coming out of this decision. What crass nerve!
One of the poor saps in New London had a ten-room house on a half-acre of waterfront, and the government offered him $150,000. That was their max offer.
He can't possibly find another similar house for that, let alone one in the same situation. Should he just be happy the government didn't kill him and his family in order to take the house for free?
Never happens.
What about the powerhungry local officials that may have a grudge against a 'landowner'? We have them here where I live... If one person on a council gets a bug up their butt for you, you can lose everything!
Excuse me but the redistribution of wealth started under the "Progressive Tax Rates" (Regressive in reality) in the 1930's!
On top of all your tax "contributions", you might get lucky enough to "contribute" your private property (for the good of the local governement and private investors) too!
Sharpe James could give the Clintons lessons in corruption. He's the Babe Ruth of living large on the public dime.
Damn, you make NJ sound worse than California.
Where's Jesse Jackson & Friends when we really need them? Doesn't the Black Community realize that this ruling will give their homeowners and renters about as many rights to where they live as their ancestors had on the plantations prior to the Civil War? Have all of their leaders been bought off? It's very depressing.
One day it will dawn on the likes of DU and the other Leftist Sheep that the establishment they've been protesting against since the Sixties is the establishment THEY ARE ENABLING!! Dolts!
You need to get the hell out of New Jersey NOW. Come live over here in Pennsylvania, we have non-corrupt Republican borough and township leaders. Our governor needs some work, but we can handle that.
Where's Jesse Jackson & Friends when we really need them?
Jesse is so low rent. It costs about $150,000 to buy his silence.
In a year, Sharpe James spends more than that on his suits.
Mugged by the Supreme Court!
Power corrupts, so with this additional power, local Dems are going to be seeking mega-contributions from rich developers in return for property confiscation of their choice. The mob is probably already thinking about getting out of gambling and into construction . . .
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