[1rudeboy]

Neat trick. Governments have been seizing private land to build stadiums for decades, and when some points that out to you, you argue they are in favor of private developers seizing private land, in the fashion of Kelo.

[Protagoras]

Neat trick. Governments have been seizing private land to build stadiums for decades, and when some points that out to you, you argue they are in favor of private developers seizing private land, in the fashion of Kelo.

Neat trick. You pretend that seizing private property for the purpose of transferring ownership to a different private party is not the same as Kelo just because they have been committing that crime for decades.

Seizing private property for a private real estate development and seizing it for a private business of a different kind are not different in any meaningful way.

Develop it for homes, or develop it for a baseball park. Same thing.

You might be confusing government seizing the property so that they (the government) can build a stadium with seizing it so someone else (a private business) can build a stadium. If so, I can see why yo think it's a trick.

I can assure you, the only people who have been tricked are those who think it's OK for the government to suspend property rights when it suits their purposes.