Posted on 06/24/2005 8:16:19 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
If this were my property the project would suffer a number of not-so-mysterious fires and equipment sabotage.
It's more than slightly ironic, and really strange, that the same court that virtually eliminated the concept of federalism/states' rights with their decisions in the 2000 election and the medical marijuana cases (as well as a couple of others), now finds that states and local governments are better at determining the definition of a public pupose than the common sense of everyone else.
HA! That's rich. Link bookmarked for plenty of future reference, the way things are going! Thanks, Blackbird.
That is REALLY depressing.
Cultural Jihad: Sure, if anyone is interested in Nazi-like intimidation tactics.
Dirty tricks preceded Nazi Germany by hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
"The public good is always being served when jobs and industry are created."
Put on your thinking cap and see if you can discern the difference between "public use" (our Constitution) and "public good" (the Hillary Klinton Manifesto). It isn't difficult but you must make an effort.
I think it's past time worrying about the
next S. Ct. nominations; that won't help
soon enough.
Haven't you heard? Hildabeast gets to pick the next 3 or 4 SCOTUS justices.
President Bush will be unable to confirm any of his nominations past the U.S. Senate. So he will have recess appointments.
Then the Hildabeast gets elected and the Tyranny of Judiciary emerges into a new level that we cannot possibly imagine at this point.
And yes, Big Brother is watching us.
I'll be sure to break out the Crayolas.
A marina is about as elite as you can get!
CJ, it's more like What goes around comes around. Another one, Fight fire with fire! Another one, Screw me, Screw you! See the big picture yet? Blackbird.
BTW CJ, where do you live? I know a couple of Property Developer's that might want what you have, you know, for the Public Good and all! Don't be coy, I just want to give back what you seem so interested in foisting on the rest of US. Blackbird.
"any hints?"
If and when this situation arises in your town, stand in solidarity with the folks who are getting thrown out. Make them haul not just Granny in her rocking chair out of the house, but 1000 other folks too. Do that each and every time, everywhere in the country.
But let's be clear. You yourself would never run out to an elected official's home and smear it with fish entrails. That job of bravely acting upon your own deeply-held convictions invariably belongs to someone else. The Salon Bolsheviki are more than happy to advocate that others act with threats of violence and intimidation.
bttt
how odd that someone with a handle of Cultural Jihad doesn't understand "civil disobedience".
But let's be clear. You yourself would never run out to an elected official's home and smear it with fish entrails. That job of bravely acting upon your own deeply-held convictions invariably belongs to someone else. The Salon Bolsheviki are more than happy to advocate that others act with threats of violence and intimidation.
No bub, I don't send anyone out to do my dirty work, rather presumptious of you. I just want to see you'll put your mouth where your property is. You're happy to have it befall on others, just not yourself. What City Council do you sit on? Long live the State. See I've been converted! Blackbird.
Greetings, all! Have you noticed how few to NO community, or more importantly, national leaders, Republican/Democrat, liberal/conservative have come to the defense or condemnation of the Supreme Court's erosion of our 5th Amendment rights last week?
Thomas Jefferson had THIS to say --
"To consider the judges (the legal industry) as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges (the legal industry) are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."
—Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277
Then --
"In denying the right [the Supreme Court usurps] of exclusively explaining the Constitution, I go further than [others] do, if I understand rightly [this] quotation from the Federalist of an opinion that 'the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government, but not in relation to the rights of the parties to the compact under which the judiciary is derived.' If this opinion be sound, then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo de se [act of suicide]. For intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independent, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others, and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. For experience has already shown that the impeachment it has provided is not even a scare-crow . . . The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."
—Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819. ME 15:212
Catch that last line again: "The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."
As I've been saying for so long, "It's the legal industry, stupid." They've been playing us against each other while they've quietly been taking control.
Regrettably, it appears that except for local and national "conservative" talk-show hosts, the nation has been lulled back to sleep.
Nevertheless, we've still got our flag upside down for the fourth. Take care, all!
HDRabon
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