This land was your land [It's time for a new tea party]

World Net Daily ^ | June 24, 2005 | Josepph Farah

[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.

[lizma]

Heard the lawyer of some of these Connecticut people this a.m. Some of these guys say they will NOT leave. Should get interesting.

The bad guys behind this is the drug company Pfizer, 235 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017. They need to hear from us.

They don't even need the land that these houses are on. They just feel that the complex they are plannig on building will look "nicer" without them. Amazing, sadly amazing.

[Buffalo Bob]

The question, Do we have the backbone today to do this?

The short answer is No we do not.

The soccer Moms are far too busy watching Oprah, and stretching their necks to gather any intel about what Tom Cruise or other worthless celebrity-types are doing today.

The viagra Dads are too busy trying to get it up and keep it up, to notice anything else going on in the world.

The snot-nosed Kids are busy chasing after what the kids next door has, to even have a clue.

In short, as a society we are too self-absorbed to care about anything other than when our next instant gratification will arrive. Amerika has become a collective couch potato. The politicians know it, both parties by the way. The tyrants on the Bench know it full well too. That is why they can make these sort of rulings. They know there is no-one to stop them.

[Jenya]

Stupid question alert: Are the judges who voted for this commie deal all liberals and the ones who dissented conservative?

I don't know much about this stuff, but I need to know for another message board where I post. Thanks.

[Roccus]

Start hanging your flag upside down. I reversed mine yesterday afternoon after reading the decission.

[Redbob]

"I know it comes as a shock, but that song was a protest song against capitalism, written during the depression era."

I don't know to whom this would be a shock.
It's pretty common knowledge that Woody Guthrie was a communist, Arlo no doubt still is.

[Roccus]

Understand that private property is not just real estate, it's EVERYTHING you own.

[randog]

Woody Guthrie's song was actually about communism principles...

Exact-a-mundo. The only pro-communism song that rivals it is Lennon's "Imagine".

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A lot of people have given examples of governments seizing land for business interests. I'm more afraid of government seizing land for government purposes. There's a trend in social services to place group homes, rehab centers, welfare flop houses, etc. in private neighborhoods. This ruling gives local municipalities the green light to seize any house in any neighborhood (except theirs, of course) and turn it into one of these s**tholes.

[Redbob]

As long as we have a Second Amendment, we have a chance.

I think I've just come up with the rationale to finally buy myself one of those fine rifles produced by Mr. Barrett in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

[randog]

Stupid question alert: Are the judges who voted for this commie deal all liberals and the ones who dissented conservative?

Yes, the vote was split along ideological lines.

[Former Fetus]

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.

Correction: That home you invested so much of your life in – it belongs to the government. It is only rented to you until the day the government chooses to rent it to someone else.

If you don't think I'm right, just try not paying the property taxes... see what happens to "your" home!

[pepperdog]

Here are their names: John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer

And here is a petition where you can make your feeling known:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/lp001/

[kjenerette]

...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter(1) or to abolish(2) it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

- excerpt from The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

Note1: The 1st Amendment provides the means to ALTER the Government
Note2: The 2nd Amendment provides the means to ABOLISH the Government �

[sageb1]

In compliance with: Public Law 829 (77th Congress) Sec. 4(a) : "The flag should never be displayed with the union down SAVE AS A SIGNAL OF DIRE DISTRESS" & Title 36 U.S. Code §176(a)* (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property. On December 22, 1942, Public Law 829 (77th Congress, 2nd Session) was approved, giving official sanction to most of the provisions of The Flag Code. This Public Law established The Flag Code in Title 36, United States Code, Chapter 10, Sections 173-178. This flag shall remain tattered and upside down as a sign of Constitutional distress!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This land is my land, it is not your land
I have a shotgun and I'll blow your head off
From the New London bypass to California Redwoods
This land was made for me to keep.

[swampfox98]

The Supreme Court is run by an ACLU Communist - Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She is just setting the stage for her next move. She is poised to lead the court to take away every right the American citizens now have, throw out our Constitution and turn us over the the new North American Union.

American citizens will have no more rights left that a prisoner in a communist gulag. I have to say, many of them deserve it for being so stupid and living in denial all these years.

[R.W.Ratikal]

The idea that a local politician now has the power to take your property, decide the proper amount of compensation and kick you out of your home only to give it to another citizen is scary and is the essence of a totalitarian state.

This absurd ruling should be Constitutionally tested without delay.

[R.W.Ratikal]

The idea that a local politician now has the power to take your property, decide the proper amount of compensation and kick you out of your home only to give it to another citizen is scary and is the essence of a totalitarian state.

This absurd ruling should be Constitutionally tested without delay.

[esquirette]

We need to stop using the words 'theft' and 'facist' in connection with this case and provide an educated response. As long as we marginalize and only tell half the truth, we will lose even more because it is a terrible display of ignorance.

First, just as in eminent domain cases, the parties are PAID for the property. So implying that someone who has worked and slaved for a home is just forced to hand it over wihtout compensation is untrue.

Again, I do not say that this type of taking is right or just. BUT, we all pay property taxes, so who owns your property now? IF you do not pay your property taxes, your land is taken by a private investor at auction.

We have always been subject to a possible eminent domain, so who owns your property?

We have all been renting from the government for a long time. It is a shame we have not raised a hue and cry at that with a united front.

What we need to do is stop reacting to the incidentals and start educating. The first function of government ought to be addressed again and again. It is to protect private property rights.

We need an educated populace (and it can start here) that understands government and its function. Otherwise, as long as we engage in the same half truth arguments and name calling that the other side does, we will lose it all.

[esquirette]

We need to stop using the words 'theft' and 'facist' in connection with this case and provide an educated response. As long as we marginalize and only tell half the truth, we will lose even more because it is a terrible display of ignorance.

First, just as in eminent domain cases, the parties are PAID for the property. So implying that someone who has worked and slaved for a home is just forced to hand it over wihtout compensation is untrue.

Again, I do not say that this type of taking is right or just. BUT, we all pay property taxes, so who owns your property now? IF you do not pay your property taxes, your land is taken by a private investor at auction.

We have always been subject to a possible eminent domain, so who owns your property?

We have all been renting from the government for a long time. It is a shame we have not raised a hue and cry at that with a united front.

What we need to do is stop reacting to the incidentals and start educating. The first function of government ought to be addressed again and again. It is to protect private property rights.

We need an educated populace (and it can start here) that understands government and its function. Otherwise, as long as we engage in the same half truth arguments and name calling that the other side does, we will lose it all.

[Alberta's Child]

President Bush can't possibly speak out against this travesty of justice and keep a straight face -- because there's a baseball stadium down in Texas that was built under this same stupid "eminent domain" process.