[Cboldt]

If government can take property from some people and give it to others, those with the best lobbyists will win, and property rights will be subject to the whims of politicians and the bidding of interest groups.

It can, it did, and did so with the blessings of the Michigan Supreme Court. See aforementioned Poletown case.

AFAIK, the promised GM factory never approached its promised size or employment levels. The Poletown decision stunk then, and it stinks now. But there it is, out in the open for all to see for themselves.

[Modernman]

This is why Pacific Legal Foundation and the ACLU of Michigan are urging Michigan's high court to reconsider Poletown.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[Jacquerie]

The ACLU is fighting eminent domain abuse? I'm skeptical. Any links?

[Cicero]

It was ethnic cleansing. Beginning during the Second World War, the federal government began experimenting with "urban renewal," which continued in the following decades. This was used, in large part, to clean out the Catholic ethnic ghettos in the inner cities: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and hundreds of others. It appears to have been a successful effort to break up a socially conservative voting block, so the liberals could move ahead with the sexual revolution and similar initiatives.

E. Michael Jones has written convincingly about this process in "Culture Wars."