Posted on 10/18/2005 6:20:04 AM PDT by WmCraven_Wk
I believe it is an historical truism that governments can be generally stable despite a wide variety of errors. BUT when the government starts taking the land that people own, then the government sows seeds of destruction.
And this is exactly why eminant domain is not protected by letting "elected officials" decide if it is for a "public purpose" instead of being held to the higher standard of "public use".
Segal needs to maintain a lawsuit all the way to what hopefully will be a new Supreme Court eminant domain case.
Was that the NewsMax version labeling all the corrupt politicians Democrats? I can't believe the (Red)Star Ledger would do that!
That is exactly why NJ is the home state of the Sopranos.
"Was that the NewsMax version labeling all the corrupt politicians Democrats? I can't believe the (Red)Star Ledger would do that!"
I haven't been able to trace a Star Ledger article on this yet. However, NewsMax appears to quote mostly Star Ledger references.
This sounds more like an episode of "The Sopranos" and not a real case. Ah, life imitates art...
Curious.
Welcome to FR by the way. You should join the NJ State bulletin board here by clicking on your name and choosing your locality. You can edit you about page too.
The 'peasents with pitchforks' should show up on the doorsteps of the Supreme Court someday and drag the these clowns out so they can be beaten repeatedly and vigorously about the head and shoulders with blunt objects for the this ruling.
The ink isn't even dry on the Kelo decision and the abuse of power has begun.
This is even a worse case of eminent domain abuse. Both the municipality and the owner of the land want the proerty developed in the exact same manner. The only difference is that the municipality wants a local, politically connected firm to do the work instead of letting the local owner control the development. This is local politics at its worst. I just don't see how there can be a public use excuse, even for additional taxes, being an issue since the net benefit to the municipality is the same. Unless they want to press the issue that it is of greater economic impact if the local company does the development. If that is the case, the SCOTUS ruling has now dictated that municipalities can decide WHO develops the land and can use eminent domain, not just to take property for the purpose of enhancing tax revenues, but to take property strictly for the financial benefit of the developer of their choosing. No one will ever have control of development unless they have the local governments in their back pockets. Otherwise, they lose their land.
Other references to pieces of this story.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1128229442104780.xml&coll=1
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003670.htm
http://www.rightwingnews.com/category.php?ent=4543
http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/2005/10/kelo-and-corruption.html
he said he may have but doesn't recall.
Shades of the beast.
OK. So it's from Oct 2nd! I didn't go back that far!
Yes, because the hue and cry from the Republicans has been so strong. They have been right out front in fighting this. Oh,,,,never mind.
>>>The 'peasents with pitchforks' should show up on the doorsteps of the Supreme Court someday and drag the these clowns out so they can be beaten repeatedly and vigorously about the head and shoulders with blunt objects for the this ruling.<<<
Long overdue.
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