[Enterprise]

"Hillary Clinton: "We're Going to Take Things Away From You on Behalf of the Common Good""

Boy, that Hillary sure was psychic on this wasn't she?

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[Liberty Valance]

I thought they were already doing this with the confiscatory property tax rates that magically go up 10% every year. Note to self: Collect more ammo...

[indthkr]

What's really new about this? Didn't the US gov
basically do this during the 1800's to build the railroads?

[drt1]

"For the Public Good". How many times have we seen this as the pretext for Gov't tyranny and the impoverishment of the many for the enrichment of the few?

Property rights are the foundation of a Free Society and this is yet another step by the courts to increase Gov't involvement in and control over virtually every facet of our lives.

[TXBSAFH]

It is now official we do not own property, we rent it from the government.

[montag813]

Well states Do have to pay you. Are there any guidelines regarding this? State or 3rd party appraiser?

[OXENinFLA]

Oh F&$%..............

[Vicomte13]

Article XVII of the Declaration of Rights of Man and of Citizens (France):
"Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity."

Today's ruling is one more example of the terrible paradox that America is a great country with terrible laws and a terrible legal system. US Americans would be better off with French law than with their own random and reckless judicial regime.

[Leo Carpathian]

I propose Kennedy Kompaund will be taken and turned into publik shopping mall to serve the people! People power! Long live People's United States of Amerika!

Vote the bastRATs out!!

[Itzlzha]

Welcome to the REAL Gulag, Senator Turd-bin Laden!

We are having our CONSTITUTION RIPPED AWAY daily...

We are ALL now no more than serfs!

Fine! If the G-D Gub'Mint OWNS my land, and can take it away from me on a whim...then THEY pay the taxes and servicing of it!

Why the HELL should I do ANYTHING anymore!

Constitutional Rights do NOT apply when the 9 ROBED NAZGUL roam the land at will, let alone all the MINOR NAZGUL in Courts across the land!

Revolution is a' brewin'...and this one will make the Civil War look like Compton on a Saturday Night!

They may have surrenderd my rights...but I HAVE NOT surrendered my G_D GIVEN Rights under the Constitution!

I say we begin by IMPEACHING SOUTER AND Ruth (Bader-Meinhoff)GINSBURG!

Seems like the summer's gonna get a LOT hotter!

[jpsb]

Well this one does it for me, I now consider the SC an enemy of the US Constitution, the US Constitution is the law of the land, the oligarchy under which we find ourself is not a legitimate government.

[mysterio]

Proving once again that the supreme court justices do not understand the Constitution, or they feel it is "elastic."

And yet, we still keep voting for the same two parties that appoint these justices.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Why is this so shocking? We really don't own property anyway...we lease it from the county governments in the form of property taxes. We pay a real estate transfer tax when we lease it and terminate the lease. Yeah...this stinks...its stunk for the last few decades...glad some have taken notice.

[truthluva]

Sounds like the liberal judges have found their response to Bush's desire for an "ownership society". Whatever we own is now subject to whim of local governments and the private investors who feed them.

[unixfox]

Can you spell R E V O L U T I O N !

I didn't think so. The sheeple have lulled into a coma and nothing will stop the tyrants now.

Coming up, the governments "right" to take away your guns.

[snowsislander]

Without having read the opinion (I don't see it on the Court's slip system), it appears that the definition of "public use" in the 5th Amendment has shifted from the direct use of the public at large ("...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation") to a more derivative "public good" derived from "more taxes collected are more 'public good' created". But let's see what the opinion actually says, and maybe there is a further legal basis for this appalling decision.

But I have to say that the notions of property seem to have gone back to the days of the English monarchy, with the new-old doctrines of property somehow being capable of itself being 'criminal' and thus forfeitable, and now an eminent domain that appears to be capricious in the extreme.

[Constitution Day]

WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!?!?

Totally f'ing unacceptable.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If that's the case, then they should pay the fair market value for that property. Right now, govts. condemn the property and then buy it from you at pennies on the dollar. You either have to accept or have the cops seize it and throw you off of it (and probably into jail).

Welcome to the former USSR/Nazi Germany, where the govt. can just snap their fingers, take away your personal property, and pay you next to nothing. Very nice.

[Fury]

I'm very interested to read the opinion. It's not yet available...

[tomahawk]

I believe that China now has more respect for private property than this country.

The descent into rot continues.