Has the Supreme Court Shown the Hand of Authoritarian Free Enterprise?

JimSinclair ^

[Happy2BMe]

Has the Supreme Court Shown the Hand of Authoritarian Free Enterprise?

     Author: Kenny Adams and Jim Sinclair

Dear CIGA:

Re: KELO et al v. CITY of NEW LONDON, 04-108

The US Supreme Court may well have shown the hand and intentions of Authoritarian Free Enterprise too early for the US public to accept.

Home ownership (land and its accouterments) has become the primary thrust of working Americans, each of whom looks forward to that joyful day. Because of that desire to own a home, their right of ownership is largely dependent upon local governments - ones who are generally under the control of special interests or even worse - total stupidity.

As Brussels exposed its lack of intellectual mastery and timing with the Euroland referendum, the US Supreme Court may just have made the same mistake - whether by accident or intent.

If the US Supreme Court had rendered this decision in a period of extreme economic pressure, the general public might well have accepted this monumental ruling as being in their best interests. However, making this decision now may scuttle efforts to prevent the economic meltdown that over-the-counter derivatives guarantee at some point in the future.

The US Supreme Court has now sanctioned local government's confiscation of privately owned property for business concerns without the owner's consent and its subsequent transfer to any other private entity that might "promise" a greater financial reward to "the public good" as per Kelo et al v. City of New London, 04-108.

Historically, the compensation given under the title of eminent domain has been less than acceptable to the previous owner of the property.

Here we have the US Supreme Court deconstructing the 5th amendment of the Constitution, legalizing authoritarian plunder and thereby emulating the spirit of the Communist Manifesto which has in certain characteristics been a model from which Authoritarian Free Enterprises has sprung. This is an example of the authoritarian character of the new economic system being pursued in the USA, Great Britain and Russia. 

The Supreme Court ruling that specifically removes private property rights exists and parallels what is enumerated in the 1st and 4th planks of the Communist Manifesto.  

Five justices have in pursuit of the thesis of Authoritarian Free Enterprise embraced principles far more in harmony with the work of a "foreign" concept of jurisprudence that has repeatedly generated immeasurable suffering, poverty and tyranny. At the same time, they have rendered a decision that simultaneously denies the primary thesis of the American Constitution that they swore to uphold as a condition of assuming office - and, as always, for the "greater good."

The sitting Supreme Court of the USA has made alterations of basic tenets that are always inherent in the right of private property. This blatant perversion of the foundational concept of a free society is supposedly intended to be made acceptable to the populace by its legalization.

The Supreme Court's blessing for a local government's confiscation of wealth and property from its rightful owners and its redistribution to economic entities to which the property does not belong, constitutes, we believe, an act of legalized confiscation by the authorities of Authoritarian Free Enterprise. Plunder it is - and nothing less!

And how might any citizen identify an official act of legalized plunder?  Easily: With the simple observation of any authority taking without consent what rightfully belongs to one private entity for the sole purpose of allowing its ownership to be taken over by another private entity. This is something that no ordinary individual could do without being charged with a crime.  

Legalizing the concept of eminent domain for the purpose of the businesses of Authoritarian Free Enterprise only requires that the party in power extend its control to the local levels as has been accomplished by Putin in Russia. When this is accomplished, as it has been by Putin, his office controls the basis of that society. This exists in Russia and the old KGB takeover now is for profit not ideology or territorial imperative.

This decision is without question a perversion of the law because it allows the authority of a city, county, state, or nation to be a willing participant in an action of plunder wherein its basis is "might" against "right" - and the victim who resists must always be cast as the criminal.

This ruling supports an ongoing process that has weakened already and could totally alter the US Bill of Rights and particularly the 5th Amendment.

Voting for the legalization of plunder were the following members of the Supreme Court: Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Kennedy. Those against: O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas, and Rehnquist.

Authoritarian Free Enterprise won 5 - 4, resulting in the establishment within US law of the intent contained within planks 1 and 4  of the Communist Manifesto.

The US public and many other western democracies have lost their core principles, those that so many brave souls have died for. They are now totally dedicated to the accumulation of wealth and the expansion of their personal egos at any price. This fault may turn out to be it's savior - maybe.

Respectfully submitted,

Kenny Adams & Jim Sinclair 

[Happy2BMe]

The U.S.S.C. Oligarchy may have just cut off it's entire leg.

[poobear]

Powerful! Thanks for posting.

[Happy2BMe]

[thoughtomator]

Forgive me for using such an overused term, but doesn't "authoritarian free enterprise" mean the same thing as "corporatist fascism"?

[Happy2BMe]

This ruling is a show stopper. All bets are off.

Once people completely understand their Fifth Amendment rights have just been gutted and the sanctity of their home is up for grabs to the highest bidder, what reason do they have to continue paying property taxes?

[Cicero]

Free enterprise has nothing to do with it. Sure, there are corrupt businessmen ready to profit, but few people would venture to claim that Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Kennedy are spokesmen for free enterprise.

It's an alliance of corrupt politicians and corrupt businessmen. It's more in the line of Stalin or Hitler than Adam Smith.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is my hope that this ruling will FINALLY cause the Democratic moderates and conservatives to wake up to the tyranny of the men and women in black.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You are right. The entire basis for this ruling has it's roots in the Communist Manifesto and the elimination of private property.

[jwalsh07]

July 5th Protest Rally in New London,CT to support Kelo plaintiffs

[poobear]

I never thought in my lifetime... This is a HUGE show stopper.

[longtermmemmory]

Lawyers see this AS THE HARD TIME discussed in the article!! This is an elites for elietes decision.


The time the public would accept this the author suggests is ALREADY HERE in the eyes of the left wingers who dominate the legal profession.


I just came from a Bar Conference and the vast majority of laywers and lawyers who are judges are very very very ANGRY that republicans are in charge.

[firewalk]

bttt

[Happy2BMe]

While the elitists rule from their private chambers from on high - America is being unraveled from the highest court in the land and being economically and socially crippled by an illegal alien invasion.

If our borders are not sovereign, why should our homes be either?

Terms, labels, and innuendos.

These are the important one . .

ol•i•gar•chy
Pronunciation: 'ä-l&-"gär-kE, 'O-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -chies
Date: 1542
1 : government by the few
2 : a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also : a group exercising such control
3 : an organization under oligarchic control

sov•er•eign•ty
Variant(s): also sov•ran•ty /-tE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English soverainte, from Middle French soveraineté, from Old French, from soverain
Date: 14th century
1 obsolete : supreme excellence or an example of it
2 a : supreme power especially over a body politic b : freedom from external control : AUTONOMY c : controlling influence
3 : one that is SOVEREIGN; especially : an autonomous state

[Fred Hayek]

This ruling is not consistent with any concept of free enterprise. Under free enterprise, the developer should have negotiated directly with the owners instead of running to the government "oh please nanny government throw out those pesky little people so we can build on it."

Intersesting this all occurs close to the 4th of July.

[Dat Mon]

Great article and post!

This decision is a watershed in American politics. It is one of those defining moments whereby people reveal their true allegiances and motivations....the masks (and gloves) will come off.

IMO, it falls into a special class of political issues which are coming to the forefront of awareness. Illegal immigration is such an issue, as is Christian religious expression. They are unique in that they cut across traditional political lines. Many folks over at DU were just as upset at this ruling as we were.

I don't have general catchall names to describe these new categories. On one side...you have a populist, traditional, individual oriented American culture...on the other a corporatist, elitist, progressive culture...but its a bit more complicated than that in my view.

It is both a cultural as well as a psychological distinction.

[Gritty]

Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

[Happy2BMe]

You've got the picture.

[expatpat]

Socialism allied with Big Business. Isn't that the definition of Fascism, per Mussolini, who invented it?

[Happy2BMe]

As word of this ruling trickles down into the deepest fiber of the American culture - there can be no doubt it will cause major unrest.

Think about the literally millions of homeowners throughout America who will now fall prey to greed.

All a city has to do is ANNEX A DESIRED PROPERTY INTO THE CITY LIMITS to confiscate it.

[expatpat]

If you quit paying your property taxes, you'll lose your property a lot faster than by Eminent Domain.