Freeport moves to seize 3 properties-Court's decision empowers the city to acquire the site...

www.chron.com/ ^ | June 23, 2005, 11:35PM | THAYER EVANS

[InvisibleChurch]

kind of makes you wanna puke, don't it?

[Ladysmith]

Sure does.

[muawiyah]

This whole business can be undone with jury nullification.

[brushcop]

Instead of puking, how 'bout fighting! Don't you think it's time yet or shall we wait until we are all in some stockade.

[InvisibleChurch]

any hints?

[technomage]

Instead of puking, how 'bout fighting!

I sure will if they ever try doing something like this on one of my properties!!

Lock and Load!!

[Mears]

And so it begins!

Frightening.

[Eastbound]

If this continues un-abated and un-challenged, the War on Terror is going to be just a distant blip on the radar.

[PioneerDrive]

Private property rights- a worthy hill to die on.

[calenel]

Anybody out there still think the next few SCOTUS nominations aren't important?

[conservative cat]

It makes me ill. Just who will be using these private marinas?

[GloriaJane]

Is there any way that a class action suite could be brought against this court desision on behalf of every property owner, including all future property owners?

[RightWhale]

Now we get to find out whose city offficials are enlightened and which skipped ethics class.

[photodawg]

The trend on much of the private development projects are for malls, restaurants, hotels, and other retail like , consumer oriented business. The wishful thinking is that this retail trade will somehow revitalize a depressed area. Yeah right! Just like the next shot of Heroin revitalizes the drug addict. come back a few years later and many of the developments are doing poorly. To revitalize, you need real industry, production, and entrepreneurship. The retail developers make their quick profit, and the town is left holding the empty dime bag when the still depressed economy can't support all this extra retail business. Town officials are not businessmen, they are usually public employees or town politicos, the developers steal their shirts then get outta dodge. This is not worth giving up our liberty for.

[ALPAPilot]

Is there any way that a class action suite could be brought against this court desision on behalf of every property owner, including all future property owners?

Justice Stevens needs to be removed from office. In Gonzales v. Raich Justice Stevens effectivelly deleted the words" with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;" from section 8 of article 1. In Kelo v. New London the words "for public use" have been deleted from amendment 5. It is simply UNACCEPTABLE for sections of the Constitution to be nullified. If the Justices are incapable of sticking to the text, the congress should refuse to allow them to continue on the bench. It's that simple. Either we have a Constitution or we do not. If they cannot abide their oath to "support and defend" they should not be allowed to serve.

Call your congressman today.

[txeagle]

We'll let's see...the current Mayor of Freeport, while serving previously as a County Judge, once declared that Commissioner's Court meetings were not forums for public discussion.

Prior to that, he was a career educator and principal whose lived his whole life with his head in the public trough. Your won't find a darker stripe of liberal anywhere else in this community.

While in office as Judge, I seem to remember him sending campaign literature out on county letterhead. All in all, nothing different than the normal liberal tripe we're accustomed to seeing.

It's odd that property bounding the proposed marina has been declared "blighted", yet property tax valuations are duly ratcheted up 10 percent annually.

With government like this, Durbin, Hagel et al, we're long past the time to lock and load. Until some of these bozos are found swinging from a lamp post in town squares across the country, I doubt things will get better.

That said, I'm a really nice guy, but don't let that out.

[pepsionice]

I think the key here...is that if were for a university or for a new city hall...we might be able to understand and approve of this more. But if its for private club members or rich Americans who want to live along the sandy beachside...then we don't really believe in this. The only weapon left to fight with in a episode like this is a recall of the county commission members. They are allowing the rezoning and the purchasing of the property...and they should be the immedate target. All you have to do is put a picture of the commissionar involved and letter it "who works for who"...and the dude will look as dumb as a brick.

[CindyDawg]

Schools and city halls don't have to be on other people's property. There is land for sale. It may not be exactly where they would like to be but.... I would like to see ED completely removed from the constitution. Roads aren't straight and can go around properties not for sale.

[Windsong]

Now we get to find out whose city offficials are enlightened and which skipped ethics class.

I majored in Philosophy/English Lit back in the day, and I remember every ethics class being centered around moral relativism and "meta-ethics" (might be different in Christian colleges). Sometimes its just better to stick with the Ten Commandments. That is, let your yes be yes, and your no be no. (i.e. "If thou wilt not follow the ten commandments, then thou wilt be enslaved to the 10,000 commandments")

or something like that.

[Lancey Howard]

The toothpaste is out of the tube. Sooner or later these slick politicians will try to confiscate the wrong guy's property. Sooner or later... sooner or later.

And if that guy gets caught and arrested for defending his property, and I am on that guy's jury? There will not be any conviction, period. I don't care what he did.