I agree with you in one sense, but it's hardly "confiscation" when she's getting paid nearly 400% of the appraised value of her property.
What if you drive a $30,000 car and I decide that I'd like to buy it from you. I appraise the car at $2500 but to show what a nice guy I am I'll pay you $8000 for it. If you aren't willing to take the $8000, should the government be able to force you to sell it to me for that price? After all, it's over three times the appraised value of the car.
It is all about property rights and choice, Alberta's Child.
Everything else is irrelevant.
It would have been one thing if they needed it to build something that is related to a public safety issue.
But to have a private company come in and take what is yours away against your choice (even if they attempt to compensate you for it) just so they can increase the tax base of the locality is just, plain wrong.
If people in other countries want to do that, power to them and sympathies to the people who live there. But this is against everything America stands for.
The Kelo Decision is a crime. An absolute crime.
What part of her property don't you understand?
She is entitled to make her own decisions about selling her land. Forced sales no matter the price is taking something from her she does not wish to sell. What the courts have done is wrong.