Posted on 06/24/2005 5:59:15 AM PDT by conservativecorner
I wrote a book a few years ago about property rights.
It was called, "This Land Is Our Land."
I didn't think of it as an optimistic book at the time.
But after yesterday's chilling U.S. Supreme Court ruling that government can seize our property against our will for no other reason than it capriciously chooses to do so, the title is certainly no longer accurate.
We do not own our property any more in America.
Imagine the home you own – the one you scrimped and saved your entire life to purchase, the one you planned on living in for the rest of your life, the one you planned to pass on to your heirs – was taken from you, capriciously by a small group of local officials in conspiracy with wealthy developers who want to level it and build office buildings.
You may not have to imagine it. It could happen to you any time. It has already happened to a group of Connecticut homeowners – salt-of-the-earth, working Americans whose modest homes represent their life savings, their estates, their life's work.
That was the finding of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. Your property is not your property.
That home you invested so much of your life in – it belongs to the government. It is only on loan to you until the day the government chooses to loan it to someone else. That is the message of the black-robed tyrants. Listen to it well.
This is the most basic freedom – upon which all the other liberties we hold dear are built.
That's what the founding fathers explained. Freedom of speech? It descends, they said, from the right to property. Your thoughts, your beliefs, your opinions were equated with your personal property and possessions. That's why you had the right to express them according to your conscience.
Notice I said "had."
Five fascists on the U.S. Supreme Court undercut every freedom we know in America.
I do not exaggerate when I say they have done more damage to the Constitution than any five people in history.
Stop worrying about Osama bin Laden and nuclear-armed terrorists. All they can do is kill you. Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stephens and Stephen G. Breyer have done something worse. They would have you live in servitude to the state. They would reduce all free Americans to serfs. They would make government your master.
The Congress better stop worrying about trivial issues like flag desecration. The Constitution has just been trampled, spit upon and torched. In doing so, these judicial terrorists have done more harm to the American way of life than weapons of mass destruction ever could.
If this ruling is permitted to stand by the U.S. Congress, it's simply time to start shopping for a new country or start planning the revolution. I don't know what else to say about it.
President Bush needs to speak out against this travesty of justice. The Congress needs to be heard from. Yes, the Congress has the power, should it ever have the courage to use it, to set aside a ruling like this and permanently enjoin the court from ever ruling in the future against the well-enshrined, inalienable, well-documented, constitutionally protected right to own and enjoy property.
This country was birthed in a war of independence fought against an unaccountable empire that failed to acknowledge and respect the rights of colonists in America. But the grievances of those heroic patriots that created the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known were trivial compared to the grievances 21st-century Americans have against the empire in Washington.
The only question is whether or not we have the courage of our forefathers. Are we willing to sacrifice our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to reclaim our American birthright of freedom?
It's time for a new tea party. It's time for a new Lexington and Concord. It's time for a new Declaration of Independence. It's time for civil disobedience and throwing off the shackles of rule by men. It's time to begin plotting how to re-establish the rule of law under a sovereign God.
I live on roughly an acre, sort of a last outpost in a larger community of newer townhouses and postage stamp lots with mc mansions. I love my land with it's stream, one that Washington himself crossed on the way to fight the Indians and French, old trees, woodpeckers, foxes, deer and turkeys. It's not much but it's perfect for me and my family.
Now I know the government could get much more taxes if they tear down my house and plant 15 townhouse on it. Seems that now they have the justifcation and case law. Will it happen? perhaps.
In my state both partys have lied and said they would get rid of the personal property tax on vehicles, they haven't. In fact they keep raising my personal property tax on my house and land. I don't trust them at all. But this snowball has been rolling down hill for a long time.
If you all are ready for a tea party count me in.
I agree and am willing to do the same. Likewise, I do not think a march alone would be sufficient. However, I wonder how D.C. would accommodate 4 million pissed Texans!
The myth for many years is that the GOP was the big business party--but it's evident that the liberals have teamed with big corporations.
well, here in california, people are indifferent. Comes from third work influence.
If I say to you I will sell and deliver a car to you for 1500 dollars. You say yes. We agree and have a contract. So I deliver the car and say, "Now you need to pay me 2000 dollars". Do we still have a contract? I don't think so. This is what is happening by judicial tyrrany. And they do not give a tinkers damn about what the people think.
Now, tell me, what prevents them from doing and taking anyting that you own. Stare decisis is the constitution and Harry Blackman, the bastard, was right when he said to Justice White, "There is no limit to which we can rewrite the constitution." A moment of honesty by a despot.
This is what I said yesterday when my husband said that this was a step toward communism. I said, no more exactly, it's a step toward fascism. When you have government joining with private enterprise for the benefit of the state, that is fascism. We need a new McCarthy.
THey did this knowing that their homes will probably never be subject to this assinine rulking. Hubby said their will probably be some killin's over this. I can imagine someone who has inherited their home/land from parents/grandparents and have someone think they can just take it from them (after "compensation", of course) He said it was just in cities, but I pointed out that anyone who has any river front land coudl also be affected. Say in Texas on the Guadalupe River where rafting/canoeing is a biggie. Some "developer" has a mind to acquire your farm/ranch land to put a business in and hire some people to work there. By this crappy ruling, they can. Of course, they can also build themselves a nice little home on the rest of it - to oversee their business doncha know.
"against their will. I guess that doesn't mean so much.
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Exactly. I guess a free people are ones who focus only on the money.
Spot on. Fascists allow private ownership of the means of production; we've passed to pure socialism.
Bush is a RINO. He's happy to help Americans have fewer rights.
This Supreme Court seems to think it is the Supreme Soviet.
That unfortunately appears to be where we are heading.
If it comes to that, I'm ready. I'd rather it could be taken care of by other means. I can't believe that on an issue that Dems and Reps agree on, nothing can be done short of violence. If that is the case however............
I went to see the Ballpark at Arlington a few years ago on a non-game day. There were quite a few parking lots and open space. It didn't seem like a very congested area of town.
On the contrary, when they built the baseball and football stadiums in Pittsburgh, they used "eminent domain" to raze several apartment buildings, houses and businesses that were not vacant. Some of these people had been living there for decades.
This country is headed for a full-blown civil war. Like a gathering thunderstorm, it has been in the distance for over a decade. Decisions like yesterday's ruling by SCOTUS
simply brings it one step closer. The liberal mask slipped during the Clinton years. Now, they've torn it off completely. Since the elction of 2000, the Democrats have pushed and pushed and pushed on any number of agendas. No need for the litany, we all know it.
I've always believed that whatever our differences, Americans could find compromise and settle our disagreements peacefully. No more. The middle ground between Right and Left has all but disappeared. There is a yawning chasm where reason used to be. The Dems have become out-and-out traitors, boldly and proudly proclaiming their opposition to everything traditional Americans hold dear. This can't go on forever.
Unless there is a drastic change, we will be using bullets, not ballots, to settle things one day.
All I get is a kewl red "x". (surfing to http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-6/1035379/colddead.JPG don't help.)
Have we heard from the western water rights people?
This will contuine to happen until government whows up with the bulldozers and finds scores of armed citizens advising that they wil not permit it. it will occur until those who make these decisions suffer the same pain and financial loss their greedy and stupid decisions inflict on others.
Put another way, would the city council of New London have done this if they KNEW their own homes would be burned to the ground? Would the Judges have ruled as they did if their property was suddenly in the spotlight for destruction?
I doubt it.
Until the citizens begin to resist, nothing will change.
When the laws do not work, citizens must act on their own outside of corrupt government.
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