Posted on 06/23/2005 8:07:27 AM PDT by Stew Padasso
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
"Folks, make sure you know who your city council, mayor's, township supervisors, township boards, and planning commission's buddies are. Your home may depend on it."
I'm doomed, then.
After I moved here a couple of years ago, my local government (by orders of the school district) decided they would double the taxes of anyone who's moved in during the past couple of years. I appealed this as completely unfair (if they're going to re-assess people, re-assess EVERYONE equally). They just shrugged, said: "we have the right to do whatever we want" and that was that.
I'd bet Hollywood's wealthy and powerful have little to worry about. No one will take their homes. Yep, they'll just keep going on and on criticizing the rest of us while they sit comfortably in their mansions. :-(
Out manned and outgunned. The People can't revolt!! Not if they want to live. Our Founding Father's never forsaw the technology the government would have today. Nor did they see a day when our founding principles would not be taught to our children....
BTW, New London, Connecticut, is a tiny coastal city of historical significance and substantial poverty. The movie Mystic River gives you a good grasp. Nonetheless, it is the site of the US Submarine Base and has many conservative, Southern, promilitary veterans who stayed when they mustered out of the Navy. This means that the Connecticut left will want to ruin that community lest it ever return to prior voting patterns.
The left in Connecticut has already exterminated the once formidable political clout of mill town, blue collar Democrats who were furious social and military conservatives. You have to understand that, however silly it may sound elsewhere, Lieberman is a conservative officeholder in the context of Connecticut even though he started as a candidate of the New eft in 1970. Now his former honor guard aspires to be his firing squad as Boris Pasternak wrote in Dr. Zhivago.
Wanna bet?
"So, where do we all start?"
You're a well-spoken guy. You start with your neighbors. You start an organization. You write. You speak. You get elected to something.
You start the same way everything in this country starts.
I started writing to legislators years ago regarding eminent domain issues. Locally. Regionally. Statewide. Nobody else seemed interested.
I'll give you the best example I know of grassroots activism. That was California's Proposition 13. Who'd have thought a rollback of assessed valuations on property could ever succeed? Who'd have thought that limits to increases in property taxes could ever succeed? Yet it did.
I know one thing. It isn't going to happen in threads on Free Republic. It's going to take a lot of work, organization, and sheer plodding to do something like this.
Those who are babbling about revolution aren't the ones who get changes made. That much I know for certain.
And you posted this how? Through your aluminum foil cap maybe?
BTW, look through my posts. I haven't mentioned doing anything. You should take up reading. It's quite pleasurable at times.
Reeeeeeelooooooading......
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Did someone say "check and balance?" Where are the people's representatives? Where is the people's Commander in Chief? Hello? Hello? ... Is there anybody there? Hello?
Sorry, that was a general use of "you."
Because federal law (the 5th Amend.) `trumps' state law ("WeSaySo") and if the federal government is prohibited under the Fifth Amendment from taking private property unless it is for a public purpose, then so are state and local governments.
But wait, the last sentence in the 5th Amendment of the Bill of Rights is just---obiter dictum after today!
Further, SCOTUS can open their session with a prayer as well as display the 10 Commandments, but we plebes in the provinces may not.
I suppose you think that the one third of the Colonists that supported the War of Independence had the British Navy and Army out manned and outgunned with superior technology. You betcha!
Actually, I'm a woman. And my neighbors don't care. I'm also un-electable. But your point is well-taken. It must be a grass-roots effort.
"This SCOTUS ruling may have just been the pin to pop the bubble of the runaway real estate markets?
Comments welcome"
BINGO!!!! Are you now willing to go spend even more money on a house that is now just as equally in jeopardy as your existing?
At a minimum this can now be used as a local government's strongarm to wrest more tax $$ outta your wallet.
"Pay this new, much higher property tax, or we'll just let Walmart plop one of those supercenters in your vegetable garden"
Ridiculous! This must not be able to stand!
R3
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