[CHARLITE]

"This is what happens when liberals rule on your constitutional rights. To them, the document has no inherent meaning - it means whatever they want it to mean. When they say, "It is a living, breathing document," that is code for, "It is a meaningless document and five of us can change it whenever and however we want."

[spyone]

Who(names please) voted for this?

[CHARLITE]

FYI ping.

Char :)

[RightWhale]

How many threads is this on this non-happening?

[traviskicks]

Some thoughts on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1429877/posts

Petition to impeach justices
http://www.petitiononline.com/lp001/petition.html

Some more on the Founding of the United states (and the constitutionality of charity)
http://www.neoperspectives.com/foundingoftheunitedstates.htm

[familyop]

The various lobbies for "municipalities" are quite powerful. Most city government interests want centralized, socialist government.

[Ladysmith]

For all those who are concerned about this latest trashing of our Constitution, which apparently doesn't include RightWhale, you might want to listen to Quinn from this morning.

Right click and save this MP3 file or go to http://archives.warroom.com/archives.php.

[Dante3]

BUMP

[goldstategop]

All the more reason to abolish judicial review. In passing the Framers never intended to give the courts the power to pronounce on the validity of the laws. The Supreme Court did that in Marbury and created an entirely new, unchecked power out of whole cloth. No less a figure than President Thomas Jefferson feared the consequences of an imperial judicial magistracy. Which is more or less what we now have in this country. The only way to restore the separation of powers is to take away the power from judges to write their own laws, make policy, and order the elected branches of government around. Otherwise we will end up living in a country the Framers of our Constitution would not recognize if they were alive today. Absolute power corrupts and corrupts absolutely as much in the hands of a judge as in the hands of a politician. That is why is time to get rid of judicial review.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[upchuck]

I, for one, for over a year here on FR, have been saying,

It's all about the judges!

After hundreds of emails, phone calls and faxes and bunches of uncontributed dollars to the Republican cause on my part, comes this latest travesty of justice.

I'm sorry, but it just totally dumbfounds me that people continue to let five idiots in black robes trash our country.

To me, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and property rights are what make America stand head and shoulders above the rest of the world. We've now lost 1/3 of this and the other 2/3 are under continuous vicious attack from the judiciary.

What's it gonna take for people to wake up on this?

I've been stumbling around in the dictionary and thesaurus trying to find a word to sum up this horrible feeling in my stomach. I think heartsick comes the closest.

[bert]

I don't like the ruling and believe it is a bad turn of events for municipal governments to take property for private development, but.....

It has been the way of America for a very long time, at least 150 years.

The railroads aquired all their right ow ways by the eminent domain process and they were very private corporations. The same is true for the electric power companies. The process has great precedent.

[marty60]

Can't you just see all the stories now. Mayor/City Council/City manager ------- you fill in the blank, seizes property of two elderly people as a favor to a wealth political donor. The Donor will build a shopping mall which will help the Mayor solve his budget shortfalls from mismanagement. Oh yes, the two elderly people will be compensated a far amount that will help pay for their nursing home care. The city deemed after gaining access to their private medical records that their life expectancy was well within the settlements parameters.

[clamper1797]

I don't think our founded would be "disheartened"... I think they would be outraged and looking for 5 lengths of rope and the nearest tree

[hermgem]

To ask where is Bush is about as ridiculous as it comes.
Where's everybody when Dems block Bush nominees for up to four years.
Then comes McCain and makes deals to to uphold filibustering.
The same scenario shortly will engulf this country for a Supreme candidate.
Let's look first at who disowned us.
It's the usual suspects:
Stevens wrote the majority opinion, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer voted for it.
Forget blaming Bush, be there when it counts, overcome this MSM, Harry and his troops while attempting to institutionalise secularism, gay marriages, unlimited abortion, rescind your tax cuts.
Stand up, be heard, be counted. Make a contribution to those that represent you.
After the fact blaming is for the birds.
This ruling of disowning property is your wake up call.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Next time some well-healed developer thinks he'd like to build himself a bigger house on your property and you won't sell it to him, he can just ask the city council - with whom he plays golf and to whose campaign he contributes - to force you sell your home to him.

Well-healed? Can't anyone spell anymore?

Homophone difficulties aside, it's a good column.

[Quix]

Founders would be "disheartened?"

I think they would be kicking arse and taking names.

Or

locking up and throwing away the key.

Or something with more punch than whining disheartedly on Oprah.

[Eastbound]

"This is what happens when liberals rule on your constitutional rights. To them, the document has no inherent meaning - it means whatever they want it to mean."

It's called a 'bloodless coup.'

[Texas Federalist]

Does anyone have a link to the opinion?

[Cornpone]

I believe it may be time to reform the militia and minutemen. This is exactly the type of tyranny our founding fathers said we would eventually face in The Federalist Papers.

[SonOfTheRepublic]

The Founders of America, in all their human imperfections, would simply march on Washington DC and arrest those judges who so violently betrayed the Constitution of this nation. This is no joke fellow Freepers, we are at that point in our nation where once again the Brittish have quartered their troops among us. What on earth will it take to reverse this plague of socialism in our nations capitol? What will it take to get people like President Bush to STOP playing politics and start LEADING THIS NATION like a man and our President? Frankly, I don't think Bush has the wabos to do it, he's in bed with the rest of them and he knows it, just like his pappy was and his grandpappy was. And now what are we looking at in the next election, Hillary Clinton? Or dear God above we implore you, deliver this nation from the hands of communism. It's time to start calling it what it is and stop apologising for it, it's flat out communism.

[ZULU]

I don't think they would be disheartened. They would be FURIOUS.

They would be plotting and scheming and planning how to take their country back.

That's the difference between them and today's Americans.