Posted on 06/23/2005 7:30:08 AM PDT by Helmholtz
Time for what?
This ballot box vs. ammo box choice is no choice at all.
Best to do things quietly. If your property becomes a target, find a key target and take them down. Smear them. Cause their marriage to fail. Get their relatives fired. Get dirty.
LOL
It is not the American Way. Power resides in the People. We still control which representatives sit in office. It should not be so dificult to find representatives more to our liking.
While, I like the idea that there is no judicial review in your constitution, France has something far worse---Brussels review.
And remember ANgela Merkleberger will elected soon in Deutschland- a euro conservative.
That is stage 2. The SCOTUS ruling will be held to be more restrictive.
UASS ~ Union of American Socialist States
The most salient point about O'Connor's dissent is that the people who will be harmed will be the one's without resources: i.e., the poor and the middle class. It will be a lot easier and attractive for a local government to "take" marginal properties when McMansion Developers, Inc. comes in with a blueprint to cram 50 new, higher-tax generating homes where 15 now sit. This is a no-brainer. We have to especially defend the poor on this. If people get comfortable thinking "my property's not at risk because it's worth too much", then this will never be reversed, and shame on us as a people if that happens.
Not a shooting war.
It will be a war of attrition against the agents of tyrrany. If they pay with their lives they become martyrs. If they pay with their marriages, their sanity, their chlderen's ability to make friends, their family's career prospects, they will become demorlaized and ineffective.
Buying homes in established residential areas carry zero risk. This decision sucks, but please don't scare people into thinking the government is about to seize everyone's homes.
This was a residential zone, and with the stroke of a pen, the local politico's turned it into mixed use.
/jasper
Be effective. That is all. That is the only thing.
The frog is dead and ready to be served.
What really ticks me off about this is that Foxnews is not even covering this. I guess a rich teenager on summer vacation is more important.
Good. I try as well.
"Buying homes in established residential areas carry zero risk."
Wrong. Many areas desire Wal-Marts and strip-malls right smack in the middle of residential areas. To date, most cities have been afraid of the court challenges to such actions, but now they have a Supreme King ruling to do so.
The national money is controlled by a private bank. Even the Post Office is a quasi-private corporation. Many public utilities have been sold and are now corporations. This is done to reduce the size of gov't, yet the services are still required and continue to be expanded [by citizen request, BTW].
These are a species of public use, but outside the operation of the gov't itself. The State itself is far more than the gov't, and always has been, it is just that we see a few things from time to time that cause alarm because we have allowed these services to move outside direct control of the republic.
One caution I would recommend is that you should not extrapolate opinions expressed on Free Republic to represent the United States as a whole. This is not a slam at Free Republic, but rather at the complacency of the electorate as a whole. Specifically, nationwide approval of the Supreme Court still hovers above the 60th percentile. If overall disapproval of the courts were as rampant as you incorrectly perceive, then things would be changed by the legislatures - which are the ultimate arbiters - via Constitutional amendment.
This is not a statement on the merit of any court decision, but on your assessment of the US Constitutional system.
"Best to do things quietly. If your property becomes a target, find a key target and take them down. Smear them. Cause their marriage to fail. Get their relatives fired. Get dirty.
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I like the tar and feather idea of our founding fathers!
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