[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[yawningotter]

Kelo used Wickard v. Filburn as precedent. Wickard v. Filburn turned the Constitution upside down by allowing the government to use the commerce clause to restrict the liberty of an individual farmer, essentially saying that he violated the Constitution. Any case law based on Wickard v. Filburn is inherently bad law.

[Haiku Guy]

The Kelo House’s neighborhood is now blighted empty lot. This is the Public Use for which it was condemned.

[GBA]

Voting for Kelo should be grounds for automatic dismissal from the Supreme Court, just as being a marxist should be.

Marxism is a violation of the Bill of Rights, incompatible with liberty and freedom. It's rise is the end of a free society.

Vote the marxists and their evil out of power while that is still possible, before their inevitable bloodbath.