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Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes
My Way ^ | 6/23/05 | Hope Yen

Posted on 06/23/2005 12:19:13 PM PDT by Kimmers

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Durbin should like this along with the rest of the communists....we are losing America
1 posted on 06/23/2005 12:19:14 PM PDT by Kimmers
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liberals don't believe in private property....no communist believes in private property...Thats why the dems need libs on the courts..they could never do this and survive an election..so,the liberal courts will do it for them.....


2 posted on 06/23/2005 12:23:16 PM PDT by fishbabe
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communists don't believe in private property...the dems know they could never do this and survive an election...So, they put libs on the court who do the dirty work for them......Watch all the hand wringing in congress and they won't put through any bills to protect the rights of property owners...They will just keep wringing their hands and say poor poor homeowners


3 posted on 06/23/2005 12:26:20 PM PDT by fishbabe
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To: Kimmers

dup thread


4 posted on 06/23/2005 12:27:23 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: sauropod

Third thread.


5 posted on 06/23/2005 12:28:03 PM PDT by sauropod (De gustibus non est disputandum)
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To: Kimmers

The search bar is your friend. This has been posted at least a half dozen times today.


6 posted on 06/23/2005 12:28:31 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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Another atrocious decision from the left side of SCOTUS. I've done some trolling and it looks like most lefties are angry about this too. It's good to see some common sense on both sides of the aisle; at least on this issue.

Now eminent domain can be employed for any reason whatsoever. Level a cluster of low-cost homes for a shopping mall? Well, it increases the city's tax base so it can be defined as "the public good."

I used to work for a city government -- they are drooling over the revenue potential. The city (Mesa, AZ) was hammered by the courts a couple of years ago for just this type of set-up. Sickening.

7 posted on 06/23/2005 12:31:05 PM PDT by inkling
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"The 5-4 ruling - assailed by dissenting Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as handing "disproportionate influence and power" to the well-heeled in America"

This opens up the door for horrendous abuses to powerless citizens. Books and movies have been made in the past about these types of themes.

Simon Legree is a developer and he basically owns the city council, or board of supervisors. He sees a chance to make a ton of money but a key piece of land he wants belongs to the widow Brown, who has two young children. No problem. He gets his buddies to seize the property and he pays very little for it. The widow Brown is left without her house and land, and Simon Legree and his bought-and-paid-for politicians get wealthier.

8 posted on 06/23/2005 12:33:11 PM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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Ok Ok sorry this has been re-posted....is it anything like Seinfeld and regifted....if you have already have seen than ignore it...geez


9 posted on 06/23/2005 12:34:13 PM PDT by Kimmers
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Supremes rule that that private property does not exists. Home owners are merely renting the ground from the state. Think about it when you get ready to sign on the bottom line.


10 posted on 06/23/2005 12:40:46 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ( We need a few more Marines like Lt. Gen. James Mattis)
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I can't believe it. This is outrageous, this ruling open the door for the full scale confiscation of anyone property for any reason. Do we live in a democratic society or a communist state? Un-freaking believable!
11 posted on 06/23/2005 12:41:30 PM PDT by 2001convSVT
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I say don't just complain here but email your house rep and senators and demand a new constitutional amendment so that the 5 idiots on the SC will now know what "Public Use" means in the 5th amendment. Here is the text I used, use or abuse as you see fit




As a Republican who very much believes in the power of individual freedom and the right to own property which has been a Constitutional guarantee and a bedrock of our American society. I am appalled by today's Supreme Court decision - "Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes" that allows a private developer to seize a persons land/home via a city's (or States) eminent domain power just so they can put a office building or shopping mall on it.

By the logic used, anybody with the help of the City Council or County Board could grab any other person's home & land if they are just willing to build a more expensive home on it or apartment units or a store etc. that makes the property more valuable, and thereby increase city/county tax revenues.

Please consider sponsoring a new Constitutional amendment better defining what is meant in the 5th amendment the term “Public use” as only property fully owned by a State or Local Government entity and not otherwise leased, rented or transferred in anyway to a private company or person.


12 posted on 06/23/2005 12:42:16 PM PDT by LM_Guy
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To: Enterprise

How does this compare to what the English did to the early American colonists?


13 posted on 06/23/2005 12:44:19 PM PDT by ardara
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To: Kimmers

A sad day in American History.


14 posted on 06/23/2005 12:45:53 PM PDT by mict42
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>....we are losing America<

What do you mean "are losing"? We lost it a long time ago when we erroneously assumed that we defeated communism. All it did was to go underground, change its name to liberalism, and now it raises its ugly head in the house, senate and supreme court. Krushev was wrong when he predicted that communism would bury us. We buried ourselves.


15 posted on 06/23/2005 12:49:36 PM PDT by auburntiger (Liberalism is Evil disguised as Virtue.)
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I'm not complaining about re-posting -- the more people that see this, the better!


16 posted on 06/23/2005 12:52:45 PM PDT by inkling
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you are right, we lost America....liberalism the great destroyer...I just sent this article to a liberal friend of mine who is active in preserving green space in the New Jersey area and she is also a lobbyistin DC....I am interested to see what she says about this


17 posted on 06/23/2005 12:53:52 PM PDT by Kimmers
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To: mict42

Boycott Connecticut


18 posted on 06/23/2005 1:09:42 PM PDT by TheFrog
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To: fishbabe

I wonder how they are responding to this over in DU. I know they are no bastion of private property lovers, but they are always saying how the conservatives are corporate nazis that steal from the little people.

This is a nasty kick in the reality. They'll have to spin it in order to make it palatable for themselves, but then again, they are good at that.


19 posted on 06/23/2005 1:14:05 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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It's just not the Libs. It's all a these evil governmental crooks. Every last one of these corrupt pieces of garbage should be tossed out. "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it" It's time to listen to Mr. Jefferson. I better not get going anymore. The evil government critters may use the Patriot act and come take me away!


20 posted on 06/23/2005 1:14:56 PM PDT by RIGHTWING WACKO FROM MASS. (NUGENT and me IN '08)
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