The reason Broadway in NYC is crooked is that while it was still New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant refused to allow the road to go through his farm at any price, so they had to go around it. And THAT's how it SHOULD be.
"Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist." -- John Adams
"Private property is the most important guarantee of freedom." -- F.A. Hayek
"No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure." -- Neal Boortz
"Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it." -- Virgil
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."- J.P.Curran
"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
"PRIVATE property is NOT the public's." -- me
That old lady probably hated that little white house but the thought of moving, now that's an upheaval.
pingable?
There's an upside to all this.
Now that the Supreme Court has opened the gate, dozens, maybe hundreds of towns will start chomping up private property. The nation will FINALLY express proper outrage and state-level legislators will have no choice but to act.
There are casualties in every war. Mrs Kelo and her neighbors have fallen, but I'm betting that their loss will be the catalyst that ends this nonsense once and for all.
I hope so... my house is in a "growth path."