My piddling contribution to this homeowner revolution is this: We don't need a hanging, nor a revolution. What we need is a simple constitutional amendment to reverse the "Boss Hogg Decision" as someone nicknamed it over on Free Republic.
"Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."
Our governments, state, federal, and local, have shown that they cannot be trusted with the power of eminent domain. It's time to take it away from them.
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If we can get that into the Constitution that would be a good start. However, the SCOTUS has ignored the Constitution recently, so I do not have much hope that an amendment will do the trick.
However, stringing a few of them up for the rest to get the message that our Freedoms and our Rights will NOT be trifled with might.
What a perfect description of it!
<>b"Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."
Our governments, state, federal, and local, have shown that they cannot be trusted with the power of eminent domain. It's time to take it away from them.
Bears repeating! We need to get started!
I wouldn't want that amendment. Sometimes "takings" are necessary. For example sometimes roads need to be built or widened and almost every time that happens the government is going to have to take some property from people. The Constitution says they have to provide just compensation when they do that. That seems reasonable to me provided that's what is happening. Taking people's property so a developer can build a resort does not.