Politicians today act with impunity, enslaving the very people who elected them.
There’s a book by John Ross called ‘Unintended Consequences’ in which he proposes a solution for nonsense like this.
The word “Kelo” does not appear in any of the three items above — perhaps to assist in avoiding search engine attention (I became aware of this because of an alert I have set up for “Fort Trumbull”).
Note that the neighborhood homes taken as a result of the Kelo ruling are being replaced by ..... apartments and townhouses.
***Thanks for posting this disturbing follow up.
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo
When private property rights are ignored in favor of what is good for the state (more tax revenue) individual freedom is being ignored. This country was founded on, and prospered on, the idea of the individual as opposed to the collective. The left, Communism/Socialism is based on the collective.
If we want the few, our elected representatives, to control the many (us) then we are getting just that. We must make our voices heard and correct this situation. We know it can be done because we stopped amnesty.
In this case, Kelo, it looks as if the promise of more taxes is in jeopardy but the individuals have lost their property nonetheless. We must remind them that WE run this country, not them, and that our collective votes will tell them so.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
from “How to Identify Legal Plunder” here...
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1425
Thanks to FReeper raygun for the link.
Reminder bump for all! ;-)