Private property rights no `jump ball' in Michigan

MLive.com ^ | June 29, 2005 | Rick Haglund

[CSM]

"Economic developers say eminent domain often is necessary to acquire the final pieces of property for large developments from owners who refuse to sell or make unreasonable price demands."

Can someone please explain to me what an unreasonable price demand is?

I'm actually quit shocked at this article and shocked that MI has any respect at all for private property. I'd bet that Wayne Co. officials hate this law.

[SierraWasp]

Communism has morphed into Communitarianism and GovernMental EnvironMentalism combined! Isn't that right sergeantdave?

We're all in the same boat (ship of fools) and it's all for the Community (pronounced Comyoooooooooonutty)(/dripping sarcasm)

[sergeantdave]

You got it, SierraWasp -

The USSC has again illegally rewritten the US constitution. The supreme fascists are having a ball holding a constitutional convention, and the people are not invited.

The court has changed "public use" to "public benefit." Public benefit is nothing more than the American version of the Marxist "common good." Public benefit is ever changing and can mean anything, to anyone, anywhere. The rights of the individual have been trumped in favor of the collective group - government.

The supremes have dumped tons of fascist garbage on every blade of privately owned grass in America.

You may carry a title on the land, you may pour your life savings into the land, and you may pay taxes on it, but in the end the government controls it and can take it any time.

Hitler stated in a speech in 1929 that people may own private property, but the state will always control that property to be certain that the will of the state is carried out. That, my friend, is fascism.

This decision is not just dangerous, it has the potential to become deadly.

[headsonpikes]

To paraphrase Mao:

"We are creating Communism with American characteristics."

[sergeantdave]

Well, I need to head out and pull a stump for der Fatherland.

Ein Reich! Ein Volk! Seig Heil!

[SierraWasp]

That's quite a suggestive tagline... but quite true!!!

[blackie]

Private property rights ~ Bump!

[zip]

Teddy's property could also be used to construct Section 8 Public Housing Projects on the site so that the less affluent can enjoy some of the same scenic benefits as the Well-to-do....

Great vision.

[sistergoldenhair]

Thanks for the ping.

[commonerX]

Good for MI

Politicians on both sides love this eminent domain.

Just think of all the creative ways it can be used.

If say your are a Democratic Mayor in a particular city and you know of certain areas of the community that are largely republican. All you need to do is use eminent domain to get the property find a developer to build housing that will suit your Democrat voters. A politician can now change the political make up of his city. They will not say that is what they are doing, it will of course be for the "public good."

[editor-surveyor]

Wash your mouth out with lye soap!!

Don't give those bass turds any big ideas.

[commonerX]

I hope I am not the first to come up with idea.
On second thought I hope I am and it will not go any farther then that.

I am sure politicians have thought of it and may have already used it for that purpose.