Posted on 06/23/2005 8:06:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
not at all, and if you mix that issue with this ruling today, you are going to play right into the hands of the people who support this ruling.
private property rights doesn't mean my neighbor can tear down their single family house and build a 50 story skyscraper there, or a porno movie theatre, or a garbage dump. if that's what you believe "property rights" means, you are way off base. zoning laws are zoning laws, eminent domain is eminent domain.
To Hillarys Gate Cult and to-zion
Thank you for the Info! Saw this first thing this morning but just got home.........Was really worried, will try to find the other links and news!
I know most people I know are still unaware of the ramifications of this, and word is sloooooly getting out. Will people care? Sadly, I doubt it.
Well, it was nice here, while it lasted. The country I was born in no longer exists.
I was planning on buying a home in the next few years, but if this stands, I don't see the point, unless I research it to death and find a patch of land somewhere with 0% commercial value.
Nah, why bother. The state and Feds will just tax me to death more.
Yeah; and just try exercising your second amendment rights to defend your property when the greedy bureaucrats want it and see who comes out on top in that fight. Hint: it will be under color of law enforcement.
Well I'm a real estate agent I could help you out! Buttttttt now that I think about it what if somewhere in the future there is a commercial possibility what are my ramifications???? Never mind I can't help you!
Don't wait around for those who would take your property from you. Hunt down the ones who sent them. That's precisely what I will do.
Any New Zealand Freepers out there that can recommend it? Would you mind a bunch of hard-working conservative people moving there? Are you still overrun by orcs?
*Sigh*. It's a nice idea, and if I were older, I'd consider it. Unfortunately, I'll probably feel the need to stay and fight for freedon (wherever there's trouble).
Thank you! Thank you! I have been trying to remember this one all day. You forgot one little detail, though. This was a drug raid. Remember, if they want your land, all they have to do is accuse you of selling or using dope.
There are MANY cases here in CA where this has happened. I just wonder what takes them so long to go after run down crack houses? /sarcasm
hillary will probably use this against the republicans in '08.
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no they are not. how about building codes, are they unconstitutiuonal too?
you are nuts, with all due respect. there is no constitutional right for my neighbor turning their house into a garbage dump or porno theater, and I don't want them to be able to conduct construction that causes their home to blow up or catch on fire. however, that does not mean I think the government can exercise eminent domain against my neighbor home just because they want to. these are two totally different issues.
The thread is now almost 1700 replies.
We have only one recourse. Use every legal means to remove every public official from office who participates in one of these land grab deals. Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.
"I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else." -John Locke
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can." -Sam Adams
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can" -Sam Adams
"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty." -John Adams
"Property is more than the thing which a person owns. It is elementary that it includes the right to acquire, use, and dispose of it. The Constitution protects these essential attributes of property .... There can be conception of property aside from its control and use, and upon its use depends its value." -Supreme Court decision, 1917
"They have erected a system of national land-use regulation that brings minimal ecological benefits and substantial harm to the liberties of Americans." -Richard Miniter
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." -Thomas Jefferson
agree! where is the other thread?
bttt
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can." -Sam Adams
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can" -Sam Adams
IT WAS WORTH REPEATING TWICE!
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