[Sam Cree]

I personally am just completely amazed, not only that the court decided what it did, but that they used classic socialism as justification to justify it. Justice Stevens actually wrote that the city could confiscate homes because it was in the "public interest" and because they were using "careful planning." In other words, the common good, implemented through central planning. It couldn't be more obvious and it couldn't be more shocking.

To me, this means that the court has decided that working toward the common good, the means to be decided by higher authority, is now the guiding principle of the USA. Farewell to individual rights, personal liberty and all that. Farewell to the USA, as we once knew her.

I have never in my life suffered a greater loss of faith in our government.

[The Red Zone]

And there is nothing to indicate this applies to just land. They could take a dog, a cat, or a Picasso painting ("we do need items for our nice museum").