[bad company]

Unintended consequences.

[Tennessee_Bob]

I can't say what I'm thinking. Not on here, at least.

[cambridge]

WTF.
And they didn't even need any black helicopters.

[Smokin' Joe]

This grows more obscene daily.

[bikepacker67]

I'm surprised that some "city employees" haven't been found murdered.

[DefiantZERO]

I thought government antics couldn't surprise me anymore. I was wrong.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...Justice Breyer: 'Not all our decisions are right'...

Can't think of the last time he was right.

[OldFriend]

If the powers that be deemed that the value of the properties was frozen at the time of the filings, then the rent ought to have stopped then as well.

The city won't let the homeowners take advantage of the increase in their property values so why should they profit by collecting rent.

[Rifleman]

I wonder if the city thugs have ever heard of Carl Drega?

[RexFamilia]

On the southwest, a judge takes the farm of a taxpayer and transfers the deed to illigal immigrants ( sorry... undocumented workers);
On the east coast, the supreme court take the house of a taxpayer and gives it to a developer.

This used to happen only in third worls countries.

[Caipirabob]

This does not call for legal action.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This is just petty and vindictive, and the city officials who are trying to do this need to be taken out horse whipped!

[Gardener]

Were the homeowners responsible for keeping up their mortgage payments for the 5 years of trials? If so, they should bill the city for the full amount of mortgage paid and see how they like it. If they were paying for city property then the city should have to reimburse them!

[combat_boots]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467141/posts

Link to article on land confiscated by Cuba posted just today.

I am surprised this situation didn't happen on the side opposite of the Old North Church on the James River.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Um,what are they thinking?

First they take their homes and then they want rent for something the people owned until the court decided they had to give up their homes.

How are those people supposed to live?

[ikka]

I don't get it, if they paid property taxes during that period, either the rent or the property taxes are fraudulent charges.

[hombre_sincero]

NO LONGER A JOKE .....

One man says to a second man: "Do you believe in the First Amendment freedom of speech?"

The second man says: "Of course I do."

The first man then asks: "Do you believe in the Second Amendment freedom to bear arms?"

The second man replies: "No, I don't."

The first man insists: "Then shut up!"

The moral of the story is: you can have your rights, but you have to protect and defend them, too.

[MinuteGal]

When the city magnanimously forgives or abates the past rent, the fact that they stole the property from the owners in the first place will pale.

This is a maneuver by the thieves and their crafty lawyers.

Leni

[Popman]

If the people don't throw these plunderers out in the next election, they deserve this

They still have elections there don't they???

[montag813]

The riot scenes from "Gangs of New York" come to mind when I read this.

[varon]

The city now says that since it won the case, the homeowners actually have been living on city property since 2000 when it first began condemnation procedures against them, so they must pay back rent – to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Just waiting for the headlines about a lynching party...............