The Associated Press reports that -
Susette Kelo and several other homeowners in a working-class neighborhood in New London, Conn., filed suit after city officials announced plans to raze their homes for a riverfront hotel, health club and offices.". The result? A Supreme Court ruling that states "that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development.
Ladies and gentlemen, this news is absolutely stunning. Essentially this means that anyone could petition any city for any reason and offer to buy your property. If you refuse, the city could confiscate it, justifying it for the benefit of all by increasing the tax base.
The Real Effect
Make no mistake, if this ruling is allowed to stand, "officials" all over the country will continue to confiscate property in an attempt to improve our supposedly miserable lives at the cost of individual liberty. Have a newspaper that the people disagree with? We'll we just remove that urban blight by seizing your property and decreasing the urban "blight".
My friends, this ruling is insulting. It's very argument makes judgment on many, if not all the blood shed throughout the years and wars to secure the right to manage your affairs as you see fit. It smacks of judicial tyranny reminiscent of the tyranny fought against in the days of the founding fathers.
We as a people need to find our collective voice and express our outrage at the continued attempt of a select few in our midst attempting to rule us as though they are our nobility. In a republic, we elect them, and we must remind them of this fact.
Does anyone here remember the Soviet Union and the great lengths that we went to to ensure it's demise? Well that Union may be dead, but its spirit is alive and well in the new American Union.
Disgusting.
Note: Edited for appearance and spelling only on 2/25/06, 3/1/2010, 12/8/2010.
3 comments:
I have had my home in the middle of a road constrduction project before, it was not fun.
I found out 5 years in advance f the project after just having carpeted the whole place with a quality 20 year expensive carpet, woops.
So there you sit, no point in doing improvements, you can not sell the thing, who is going to buy it with that kind of disclosure.
In the end the price we got was fair from a market perspective. However, it was not adequate considering all the angst we went through.
Hey I'm hurt... Where the heck is my link?
Working on it, I need to add a bunch mroe.
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