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Posted on 06/28/2005 3:40:00 AM PDT by Smile-n-Win
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.
"This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development."
Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.
lbuono@weare.nh.gov ; lmethot@weare.nh.gov ; hkurk@weare.nh.gov ; jfiala@weare.nh.gov ; dosborne@weare.nh.gov
send them all an email
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Please add me to your ping list, and if this gets off the ground (and I'm hoping it does) I'll gladly put 500 bucks towards it. Be that in investment or other means.
BTTT
What has been going on is wrong. What the justices did on the 23rd, is give official sanctions, to what has been going on. Don't tell me that the SCOTUS is so stupid that they really think its ok for local government to ED someone's property and give it to developers.
And this is, short of the second amendments, the most appropriate way to show the SCOTUS how criminal and stupid there decision was.
And if it goes nowhere, well - at the least, it felt good pulling my masters chain for a bit!
"The funny thing about it is, this would be a serious bump to the economy of Weare."
I'll say. Lost Liberty Hotel could easily replace (in 5 minutes or less) the "whopping" $2,895 a year in property taxes that Weare currently gets from souterland.
did some freeper actually go out in NH and take this photo?
Yeah. It could have been a classy brothel...
Logan Darrow Clements (see article above) will be a guest tonight on Hannity & Colmes in a Fox News exclusive.
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Extend the concept to any and all politicians and the
developers involved. Target them at local and national levels.
That could be a powerful weapon.
Logan Darrow Clements (see article above) will be a guest tonight on Hannity & Colmes, in a Fox News exclusive.
I know where he can get a slightly used cardboard box
in the Homeless Gardens of downtown Las Vegas.
In fact, it may be more useful than that.
Admittedly, the five who have the vote on this prospective Eminent Domain action would likely buckle under to ferocious political pressure, and simply deny the action. Should that not happen, by some miracle, then the corporation determined to press this action would have to survive likely years of court action and appeals.
Even with that, they would then have to assemble the talent necessary to not only build the motel/restaurant/museum, but also the requisite talent to successfully run the enterprise. This would take serious dedication, and the many of us who have urged this action forward well understood that.
But we may be missing the big picture a bit. We need to keep our eye on the prize. It would be sweet to litigate the good judge to tears, but what we really need is to replace him and the others with constructionist judges, who realize that the Constitution of the United States was a contract protecting the citizen from the tyranny of ALL THREE branches of government, and that the judiciary has not the moral right to sweep away vast protections deemed inconvenient to the moment.
Even should this counterattack be stopped in it's tracks this time, this exercise has suggested that a considerable amount of investment money, and an even more considerable customer appetite apparently exists for the formation of an investment vehicle dedicated to reversing the severe excesses of the liberal cabal.
I seriously doubt that the ACLU sprang into existence without several false starts and without a number of people deciding that sufficient willpower can exercise political power. They have since been allowed to decompose into a truly despicable, yet powerful force dedicated to attacking the foundations of America.
I can't see the downside in fielding the idea that we can strike back. Understand, I am not convinced that this particular attempt won't work right now, and I have argued here to that effect. But what I am saying is that we aren't defeated simply if one unsuccessful probing attack proves us in need of more preparation. Before every successful attack, the attackers need to psych themselves up to the realization that they can affect the political landscape, and that getting mad as hell, and deciding that they just aren't going to take it anymore...sounds good. But without efforts to translate that anger into a steely determination that brushes aside all of the naysayers, and at least attempts to kick the chair legs out from under 5 monomaniacal justices, we really do no more than just mutter under our breath to no one in particular, as several posters have pointed out.
I posit that even the very attempt to resist these leftist justices will eventually, against even the best designed media embargo, leak out to the American voter and begin to alert them that something is terribly wrong with the Supreme Court. That these arcane sounding arguments like "eminent domain" are damned important to whether their children are eventually assigned housing by government committee, or instead enjoy, as we have, the foundation of freedom that private property is.
Now, more than ever, we need to seize the initiative in the propaganda war over conservative nominees to the Supreme Court, and change the MSM manufactured perception that the extremists are the ones who want to return the country to the protections of the Constitution, and thus induce the average, somnolent voter to take a look at who the real extremists are.
We need to realize that setbacks aren't necessarily a defeat, if they serve the purpose of moving public opinion by turning on the kitchen light to expose the roaches.
I submit that this very act of throwing the tea into the harbor may not repeal the tax, but will surely place the citizenry on notice that all is not well in the Republic.
And that despite the conspicuous lack of polling on the seizure and redistribution of private property... we are not all asleep.
What sweet justice that would be ;-)
Somebody should remind the 5 - they're next!
Logan, I saw you on the H & C show tonight. Good job! Seeing Alan skeletor Colmes so interested was a a good barometer of the broad-based, bipartisan support for your undertaking. I also liked your answer to the question about why you're only pursuing Souter's property, "There is such a thing as hotel chains..." Colmes said they'd be doing follow-ups on the story. Nice.
Concur, pickrell. And I've actually found quite a few people who aren't all that politically active who are aware of this counter-attack on Souter. So word is out there. Playing offense is the only way to go. If this strategy doesn't work, we come back with a new one. But you can bet Souter will know this is going on, and he won't be happy about it. Even if it is rejected, he has to divert some of his energies to it. He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who is happy to have his residence the subject of a news story. Just like those people in New London he ruled against.
Heh, Let's take the clinton's house in Chappaqua and turn it into a whorehouse... Wait.... no, it already is one...
Saw the interview with Clemments, heis dead serious.
http://www.lostlibertyhotel.com
Hw would invite Seuter to eat at the "Just Desserts Cafe.
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