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Donald Trump’s eminent-domain empire
Michell Malkin's Notes (Facebook) ^ | 4/22/2011 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 04/23/2011 6:30:27 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer

Don’t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I’m a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump’s towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and made dazzling promises of urban renewal. Then we wised up to the eminent-domain thievery championed by our hometown faux free-marketeers.

America, it’s time you wised up to Donald Trump’s property redistribution racket, too.

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KEYWORDS: birther; eminent; president; trump
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To: Springfield Reformer; LucyT
Look, you can’t pick and choose which part of the Constitution you will support and which you will not.

Wow, are you telling me that the p-Resident meets every corner of the Constitution's requirements to steal that building?

That's the reason of my comment as shown here:

"I don't care a whit what Donald Trump's "conservatism" is, but if he is able to throw the criminal off his "perch," then I will use Boehner's phrase: "Then he's good enough for ME,"!!"

Keep this in mind. If you and your Trumpoids make that bed, you’ll have to sleep in it, and all of us who didn’t waste our vote on Trump will be in that bed with you, and we won’t be happy. Don’t be dragging me and my family into a future none of us will like, just because you’re afraid no one but another socialist can win this election.

Typically from that vocation is putting words in my mouth, and how do you know who I'm going to vote for. Show one person from the Rino farm's candidate I should vote for??

And don't give me your claptrap that you guys are more Conservative than some of us are. If you are so concerned about our nation's future which I do share with you, maybe it would be wise for you to look at a larger picture of the future which which is way that both DNC and RNC are taking us down the rat-hole!!!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/imf-bombshell-age-of-america-about-to-end-2011-04-25?link=MW_home_latest_news

21 posted on 04/25/2011 7:11:58 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco; Springfield Reformer

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/imf-bombshell-age-of-america-about-to-end-2011-04-25?link=MW_home_latest_news


22 posted on 04/25/2011 7:13:41 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Springfield Reformer

Why do we need to wait until 2012 to meet the Constitution’s NBC’s requirements???

That was violated long before the 2008 election, and you know it, and Congress know it including the RNC, and SCOTUS know it, and the Whit-Hut know it ALSO!!!


23 posted on 04/25/2011 7:23:08 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

The process is what it is. Reminds me of the scene from Lord of the Rings, where Samwise says, “By all rights, we shouldn’t even be here. But we are here.” I don’t like this bizarro world we’re in any better than you do, but we’ve all got work together to overturn this coup.

But we have to do what will work in the real world, and in that real world, Obama and his Marxist “transformation” will continue to operate out of our White House until and unless we put up a winning conservative ticket for the 2012 election. If tomorrow something turns up that absolutely convinces even Chris Matthews that the whole 2008 election was a massive fraud and that Obama should be removed at once, it still wouldn’t happen by ordinary legal means. I’m an attorney, and I work with the legal system and with law enforcement and I’m telling you, if you think the Republicans in Congress lack nerve and the spirit to fight, they’re ten times better than the supporting cast in the judiciary.

This hacked state we’re in is a pervasive corruption of the system. There are many players, positioned effectively to block most ordinary efforts at correction. This is the reality. You can deny it if it makes you feel better, but it will not solve the problem at all. Denial never cures. Smoking gun or no, there will be no successful impeachment. The numbers and the spirit simply are not there.

So, although it’s right and beneficial to keep up the attack on his eligibility, and we should keep doing that, we need to stop dreaming and wishing for immediate satisfaction and focus our strength on what might actually make a difference, to unify strongly behind our best conservative candidate and get them to the White House all in one piece, and win back the Senate as well. We can still do that. But that’s the nearest window of opportunity we have, and getting distracted from it by impossible quests, however justified, will only lessen our chances of success in accomplishing either objective.


24 posted on 04/25/2011 10:23:15 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: danamco

Hey, you want to follow the left’s latest pied piper in Trump, it’s a free country. Do what you want. Knock yourself out. But don’t try and convince me you’re interested in restoration of conservative, principled leadership, because it’s clear you are not. You can call it claptrap (nice anticipation of my objection, BTW), but words have meaning, and if you can stuff a man like Trump into your definition of “conservative,” I just don’t see how it can work to have someone who routinely abuses individual property rights and the Constitution, someone who is a friend of and does business with the paragon of anti-freedom activism, George Soros, championing the cause of freedom and the conservative principles upon which freedom rests. You’re on your own there. Good luck with that.


25 posted on 04/25/2011 10:34:18 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer
But we have to do what will work in the real world, and in that real world, Obama and his Marxist “transformation” will continue to operate out of our White House until and unless we put up a winning conservative ticket for the 2012 election. If tomorrow something turns up that absolutely convinces even Chris Matthews that the whole 2008 election was a massive fraud and that Obama should be removed at once, it still wouldn’t happen by ordinary legal means. I’m an attorney, and I work with the legal system and with law enforcement and I’m telling you, if you think the Republicans in Congress lack nerve and the spirit to fight, they’re ten times better than the supporting cast in the judiciary.

You see, attorneys and the rest of us have different views of the REAL "world," ethically. If you took a poll from the American people about attorneys, you would be very sad and depressed. We are NOT trained to game the system likewise leaches as Jesse Jackson and the trial lawyers in general. So as that astute attorney you here are bragging about that you are, please name one, JUST one of those Republicans in Congress, or Conservatives there, who have had the nerve and spirit to fight for the Constitution's NBC's issue, JUST ONE!

At first Bachmann had that nerve, but when facing ABC's Stephie, (who BTW never saw or knew the illegal alien while he was at Columbia the same time,) Michelle also then backed off when she was questioned in the same manner Charles Gibson did Sarah Palin!!

Also please tell us your knowledge and experiences of how businesses in the REAL world operates. Take a good look again at post #22 an outcome as the result of the "old" beltway "philosophy"!!!

26 posted on 04/25/2011 11:17:21 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Springfield Reformer

“The process is what it is. Reminds me of the scene from Lord of the Rings, where Samwise says, “By all rights, we shouldn’t even be here. But we are here.” I don’t like this bizarro world we’re in any better than you do, but we’ve all got work together to overturn this coup.”


LOL!!!

http://www.usofearth.com/2011-obamas-coup-fails.php


27 posted on 04/25/2011 11:26:09 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Springfield Reformer
You can call it claptrap (nice anticipation of my objection, BTW), but words have meaning, and if you can stuff a man like Trump into your definition of “conservative,”

Exactly what you did here as an "attorney"(?), CLAP-TRAPPING with words, and keeping blind-folders on!!!

You haven't seen me here or some other places saying Trump is a Conservative, have you???

28 posted on 04/25/2011 11:34:03 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Springfield Reformer
As one who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, I am willing to take on both fronts. Why aren’t you? Because you’ve been cowed by Rove and the leftists into believing that a real conservative can’t win this election? So it’s OK to trash the part of the Constitution that doesn’t concern you?

When I became a U.S. citizen, I had to learn the basic of the Constitution before I could take an Oath to uphold it, and I'm very much in doubt that the criminal or the p-Resident has ever done the same, before he botched it on January 20 & 21, 2009!!!

Here's my reason that I agree with Donald Trump who is doing a job (could be perceived as an illegal alien(?) LOL) that "other" American s have refused to take on???

7. Taitz has presented evidence and court documents to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX-21), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA-49), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-46), and Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA-4), among others who have thus far failed to hold hearings, subpoena Obama's long-form birth certificate, subpoena documents regarding his links to 39 social security numbers, subpoena his college records which Taitz has asserted contain fraudulent information, and subpoena documents related to whether he is a natural born citizen. The congressional cover-up and failure to investigate Dr. Taitz's meritorious evidence raises serious questions as to whether members of congress may have been threatened or even blackmailed by the White House.

29 posted on 04/25/2011 12:16:40 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Springfield Reformer
Because you’ve been cowed by Rove and the leftists into believing that a real conservative can’t win this election? So it’s OK to trash the part of the Constitution that doesn’t concern you

If you have followed my many posts about Karl, and not been so narrow minded as an attorney, your mother really need to wash your mouth with Lysol and brown soap!!!

30 posted on 04/25/2011 12:22:14 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

Well, look. You’re skeptical of attorneys, and well you should be. They have been trained perversely by our law schools (and I can get specific if you like), with disastrous results for our political system. However, I’m a Christian attorney. I received my legal training at Liberty University, which was strongly grounded in the principles of moral and ethical truth as the foundation for law. I believe in that. But I also know what it takes to win a legal fight. So I fight only for good causes, and will not work for what is wrong.

But neither would I tell a client to fight a battle they had no power to win, even if their cause was just. You have to work with what you have. Orly is doing a good thing, and all the eligibility researchers are doing the right thing by keeping up the attack. Truth is good. But the reality is our system will not eject this man from the White House until we have the numbers and the players to do it. The cancer is too deeply embedded. Obama is acting as a dictator. He will ignore whatever the judiciary does and will claim immunity while in office even against felony charges. Even if the House voted to impeach him, the Senate will never convict him because too many of them have been complicit in the fraud. I believe this was always a part of the strategy. Our opponents are skilled tacticians. Apart from a miracle, it ain’t gonna happen that way, and no amount of good news from Orly or Corsi or Trump’s investigators is going to change that.

We have to win those 2012 elections, with people who will support our cause, or we will never get rid of him and his “transformative” experiment on us. That’s the simple truth. And we will not win anything real if we end up replacing one leftist with another leftist, just because the second leftist is really good at attacking the first leftist. Can you see how that just doesn’t make sense?


31 posted on 04/25/2011 11:24:11 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: danamco

As a rule, I don’t have time to look up people’s posting history. I respond at face value to your obvious support of Trump. My mother has been dead for nearly two decades, and I happen to know enough about her to know she would approve of exposing Trump for the enemy he is to the Constitution, to which you claim allegiance. If you don’t like what I’m saying, fine, but don’t you dare suggest my mother would oppose me keeping my vow to defend the Constitution. You are out of line.


32 posted on 04/25/2011 11:35:39 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: danamco

I’m a lawyer, yes, but I got my law degree when I was in my 50’s. Before that, and even now, I’ve worked as a software engineer, in the REAL business world, making things WORK, mainly in the energy field, natural gas and nuclear. Hard science. You are very concerned I know all about you from your posting history. It would be nice if you would reciprocate by not prejudging the background of a person you do not know at all.


33 posted on 04/25/2011 11:49:44 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

I have all due respect for Liberty University as well as Regent University!

1) You say: “But neither would I tell a client to fight a battle they had no power to win, even if their cause was just.”

What do you think George Washington and a “few” others of his peers would have said to that opinion about 235 yrs ago?

2) You say: “But the reality is our system will not eject this man from the White House until we have the numbers and the players to do it. The cancer is too deeply embedded. Obama is acting as a dictator. He will ignore whatever the judiciary does and will claim immunity while in office even against felony charges.”

You are then contradicting yourself!!
What makes you think then that this dictator will leave the Whit-Hut even if he was to be voted out, hmmm??
And as said before, I don’t see any candidate from the present Rino-farm who are able to unseat him???

3) You say: “And we will not win anything real if we end up replacing one leftist with another leftist, just because the second leftist is really good at attacking the first leftist. Can you see how that just doesn’t make sense?”

No I can’t see that making any sense because of what I mentioned above, the “permanent” dictatorship that you yourself are alluding to and too weak candidates from the Rino-farm. Your thinking that’s there is nothing to be done is a total loosing battle that Churchill during his WWII’s V-sign would have scorn you for. We are NOT talking about an attorney’s client, we are talking about the American People being screwd, ethically and morally. You need to go back to Liberty to brush up on those two issues. And IF it comes to chose between two “leftist” I would chose the least evil of them!!!

Here’s some thoughts from an “American Thinker” and as a business owner, I’m one of those!!!!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_chord_donald_trump_strikes.html


34 posted on 04/26/2011 8:07:34 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

I think you are misunderstanding me. I do not see this situation as hopeless, and that is why, unlike you, I am fighting on both fronts, as I said to you earlier. It is right to keep fighting to get to the bottom of his eligibility and other issues of potential criminal fraud. Absolutely agree with you. I just don’t see a mechanism in place where that will get him out of office.

However, that does not mean I think he is so entrenched he cannot be removed by other legal means. One of the true strokes of genius in the way the Founders set up our system is that the electoral process, once it becomes entrenched, is nearly impossible to stop. It carries enormous power that we are a culture designed for and accustomed to frequent, periodic elections. There are ways for a would-be dictator to try to mess that up (phony crises and martial law come quickly to mind), but if the population is on to the game, those tricks become worthless and the good guys can still win without firing a shot.

Let me tell you a little story. My dad, before he became a Christian, was fascinated with performance magic, you know, pulling rabbits out of hats and all that, and he became skilled at it himself. Then, when he became a Christian, he felt that all such showmanship was intentional falsehood, and he gave it up. But he did more than that. He would also go to magic shows with his friends and during the performance he would loudly describe to them all the misdirection and psychological trickery that the magician was using to create his illusions, telling them exactly where and when to look to see the sleight of hand. This had the effect of destroying the illusion, and it didn’t put the magician in a very good mood either. But my dad and his friends were having a great time.

The left is trying now to pull off the biggest disappearing act since David Copperfield seemed to make the Statue of Liberty vanish. They are trying to disappear our Constitution and the government we have with much blood, sweat and tears built upon it. But they can only do so if we can be tricked into looking in the wrong direction. That’s how the Statue of Liberty trick worked. The audience was on a rotating stage, and they were tricked into looking for Lady Liberty where she was not, even though she was in fact still standing close by, where she had always stood.

Our liberty in this country does not depend on the rise or fall of a single person. That is a misdirection. Our liberty does not depend on the recovery of a single piece of paper, or having to weather a storm of artificially manufactured financial crises, or the skill of used car salesmen like Trump trying selling themselves as people of courage and our only possible salvation. All misdirections. Our freedom depends first and most on our fidelity to truth and the God of truth. If our eyes are open, and looking in the right direction, we will not fall for the magician’s tricks. We will not be capable of being manipulated into giving up the elections or the conservative candidates we need to get back on track. That is what will work. And we can do that. There is still time.

As for Churchill and not giving up, I hope you now understand I am nowhere near giving up. I am merely emulating Churchill in my own little way, by urging that our warfare be directed to those battles most likely to achieve real victory. Churchill was a brilliant student of military history. He understood better than most the strategic value of spending limited resources where they are likely to do the most good. He once noted that Pickett’s Charge was among the most furious fights in military history, and might have ended in success, but for “a lack of further reserves.” See If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg by Winston Churchill.

You see, Churchill understood not only the importance of fighting the critical battles but also the science of how to win them. It was Churchill who dissuaded FDR from his urgent desire to launch a premature invasion of France. Germany might have won had we followed our passions over our reason. Churchill believed in fighting spirit and victory, yes, but he also worked within the real limits of the situation. He did not believe in suicide missions. Neither do I. They are not a path to victory.

You may not want to hear this, but I do know how the legal system works, and it is my sincere belief that neither Orly Taitz nor any other legal effort will unseat Obama, or Barry, or whatever his real name is. The best structure we have in place to get him done and out of there is a good old fashioned election where we don’t let ourselves be tricked out of our conservative vote. That’s all I’m saying.

You can respond if you like. I have work responsibilities I must get to, so I may or may not respond in timely fashion. For my part, I think I have said all I care to say for now.

Peace,

SR


35 posted on 04/26/2011 10:07:43 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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