Real Angry Over Real Estate (Eminent domain reaction 'giant tsunami', developers hurry)

US News ^ | 10/10/05 | Silla Brush

[Libloather]

Laura Ingraham interviewed and debated Riviera Beach Mayor Michael Brown today. The mayor was whinin' and bitchin' about old properties that pay almost no taxes (great reason to take it) and that all poor people would benefit from the new development (another reason to take it). The mayor was promising NEW, BETTER, LARGER houses for those that have their's destroy. Of course, none of that is in writing. It sounded like a total scam. Beware...

Florida city considers eminent domain (Riviera Beach making the latest heist)
The Washington Times
October 3, 2005
By Joyce Howard Price

Florida's Riviera Beach is a poor, predominantly black, coastal community that intends to revitalize its economy by using eminent domain, if necessary, to displace about 6,000 local residents and build a billion-dollar waterfront yachting and housing complex. "This is a community that's in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year," said Riviera Beach Mayor Michael Brown.

[Libloather]

Ping...

[coconutt2000]

We should make a new law that requires governments that condemn land in order to give the land to private developers to pay two to four times the market value of the land to the owner.

The final decision would be subject to a referendum, of course.

(In other words, the development had better be worth the expense, and the tax payers would have to agree.)

[clee1]

Sounds like Mayor Brown is due for replacement.

[EagleUSA]

There are already "uses" of the precedent set by the LIBERAL ACTIVISTS who basically trashed the fifth amendment with the decision in Conn. I hope a huge swell of anger against the liberals who think they can legislate from the bench, their own interpretation of what the Constitution says.

As one of Roberts and Meirs first moves, to rescend the decision which clearly VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Then to be followed by McCain-Feingold into the trash can, which clearly violated the first amendment.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Your suggestion sounds like a good remedy. Any law passed to restore property rights should also carry a provision that specifically forbids Supreme Court review.

[prophetic]

and all this Eminent Domain bullshit make the 2nd Amendment more and more significant every day.

[Shermy]

"But Thomas Merrill, a Columbia University law professor who filed a brief with the Supreme Court supporting New London's use of eminent domain, says reaction earlier wasn't nearly as intense as it is now. "This is like a giant tsunami," he says, "compared to what we've had in the past.""

No surprise. The Supreme Court went out of its way to tell the States and localities that merely the idea tax revenue might be increased was a basis for emninent domain. The minimal protection of that "blight" consideration is gone.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Thanks for the ping!

As I said after the Kelo ruling, if a city must *confiscate* the property of people in order to survive as an entity, the city should cease to exist. Period.

Cities, and all levels of government, are not owed existance by we citizens. They are here to serve us, and minimally at that.

Confiscation of private property, for the purpose of revenue enhancement, is plainly unconstitutional, and is just simply evil. And I use the word evil in a literal sense.

[Noumenon]

This won't stop until it becomes both dangerous and lethal for the property-grabbers. That's the bottom line.

Anyone who wishes to seize my property is welcome to die trying.

[Noumenon]

As I said after the Kelo ruling, if a city must *confiscate* the property of people in order to survive as an entity, the city should cease to exist. Period.

Substitute 'the developer, city council and mayor' for 'city' and you've got it dead bang right.

[RockinRight]

As much as O'Connor infuriates me, her dissent on Kelo was actually quite well-said.

[diogenes ghost]

Roberts has already put the onus on legislators to right the court's wrong. 'Course that wasn't the way he put it.

[ellery]

bump!

[xroadie]

Exactly so: "The court's 5-to-4 decision said the government's constitutional power to seize property for "public use" in return for just compensation may extend to private development projects if the government sees a public benefit to them." Its now up to us to prod our state legislatures to write the laws defining such things as "public good" and "just compensation"

[nutmeg]

Great thread, thanks. I heard Laura Ingraham interview Riviera Beach Mayor Michael Brown this morning. The guy is scary...

[nutmeg]

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[Wolfhound777]

Laura Ingraham interviewed and debated Riviera Beach Mayor Michael Brown today. The mayor was whinin' and bitchin' about old properties that pay almost no taxes (great reason to take it) and that all poor people would benefit from the new development (another reason to take it). The mayor was promising NEW, BETTER, LARGER houses for those that have their's destroy. Of course, none of that is in writing. It sounded like a total scam. Beware...


The taxpayers need to march to the this POS mayor's property carrying pitch forks and fire. This country has degenerated so far so fast it's unbeliebvable.

[otomnav]

Taxpayers will have to subsidize the mistake when the first hurricane hits. How much are insurance rates going up next year? How long do we play this fantasy game? The me generation strikes again.