If doose Mouth-Pieces can win against dat udder bunch of legal shills ya know dey ar good and must be frightening.
Yeah. What gets me is that it seems to be an exercise in futility. It’s like dealing with the devil and expecting him not to lie. The bureaucrats that are trying to do these things are thinking about one thing their power base. They need a little old fashioned pressure. They and the businesses involved should be treated like child molesters. They should be spit on in public. The one thing that we can be certain of is that our founders would've did much worse.
This issue is going to explode of the next decade. The difference will be between those who believe in property rights and those who believe the government can do what it wants provided they have an "economic plan". I personally believe we need a constitution ammendment to further limit
imminent domain. I believe that the onus of responsibility should always fall on the powerful whether it be the government or corporate to place the rights of the individual above their collective need for growth and power.
My big question when these government folks present one of these "goddamn brillent" economic development plans is why they didn't plan it so it accommodated the private property owners or avoided them altogether? Also there is the great option of including them and offerring them real market prices based upon the projected value of the property once the development is complete. What they do is they spend several thousand dollars on the plan before they even consult with the home owners then they offer ultimatums and threats and pitiful offers for their homes. This usually effects the poor that have little money to fight so they take what they can get while the government officals and the corporations rake in the cash and power. Its no different in some cases than what happens in ethnic cleansing senarios.
How wonderfully Christian to kick people out of their houses and cheat them out of benefiting fully from the value of their now indemand property. It is bad regardless but to do it to people who have few options is more than a crime it is evil.