Posted on 06/23/2005 7:30:08 AM PDT by Helmholtz
U.S. Supreme Court says cities have broad powers to take property.
If there ever was a doubt that Kennedy is a RINO, here it is. Today the libs reap the benefit of Borking Judge Bork, who never would have took the position that Kennedy did today.
Love Sandy O's dissent, though.
The Conservables (and their allies, the Liberatives) have been against this amendment from the start. Required to give one's name to LEO even though not charged with crime; property seized if it might be valuable enough to be result of drug deal; torture of terrorist suspects or those who checked out the wrong book; seizure of property if the renter used it improperly, etc.
No surprise here; just a small change in the term "public benefit."
That is the post of the week.
brilliant. I would have just bulldozed them....
The 5 morons on the Supreme Court made it okay for a city, village, county to go & seize our land/property/houses because some a$$ developer wants to build a mall. The bottom line is tax dollars.
As someone mentioned earlier. Churches are now fair game.
Seriously, I was making a little joke there. I live in the desert. We've got mice, turtles, and "rare" joshua trees that are protected. I read where they were going to shoot and poison the ravens to protect the turtles. My first thought was how to make turtle soup.
I was just thinking it would be funny to turn the environazi crap on the government for once. :-)
I'm convinced that this is nothing less than a full-fledged communist power grab in the heart of America by five Liberal judges. I can't believe the American people are for this, has there been even one poll on this issue? I doubt even Howard Dean would be for this, if the media has any balls or sense of justice left to speak of they'll conduct one.
James Madison was right, there is growing potential for tyranny in this country and it's coming from the judiciary. I've thought this through and I know I'm not overreacting. There will not be a civil war in this country, if there's to be a war it will be the people against the government.
"We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang seperately." -Ben Franklin.
So what's the difference between us and Zimbabwe again, other than the amount of food (currently) available?
"It's a little shocking to believe you can lose your home in this country," said resident Bill Von Winkle, who said he would refuse to leave his home, even if bulldozers showed up. "I won't be going anywhere. Not my house. This is definitely not the last word."
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I say we find out when this guy's home is scheduled to be torn down and stand there with him.
The 14th Amend was added to prevent the States from trampling on the rights of it's citizens. In particular, citizens with a minority status. In these eminent domain takeover cases, there is little, or no motivation for others to side with the pillaged.
Thanks!
It's time to impeach these 5 idiots for incompetence.
From tyhe syllabus:
"The city’s determination that the area at issue was sufficiently distressed to justify a program of economic rejuvenation is entitled to deference. The city has carefully formulated a development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including, but not limited to, new jobs and increased tax revenue. As with other exercises in urban planning and development, the city is trying to coordinate a variety of commercial, residential, and recreational land uses, with the hope that they will form a whole greater than the sum of its parts. To effectuate this plan, the city has invoked a state statute that specifically authorizes the use of eminent domain to promote economic development."
More from the syllabus:
"Because that plan unquestionably serves a public purpose, the takings challenged here satisfy the Fifth Amendment. P. 13."
Along those lines can we make our neighborhoods that we do NOT want destroyed into our own little government entities? With charters & all? Can we just break down/change the definition of where the government lines are?
Kneecapping property rights and promoting rampant graft and corruption all in one ruling ... thanks Supreme Court.
This is absolutely terrible. I loathe this decision with every cell of my body.
What the he!! is wrong with the Nazgul?
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