Posted on 06/25/2005 12:23:13 AM PDT by freespirited
well said.
I called both of my NC senators, took only 2 minutes and told them I was outraged and they said they had received many calls about it. I hope all our senators receive a lot of calls. I don't understand the seeming 'apathy' over this decision. Especially from the White House and Republicans.
I mean, they have to see the politics in this too, I thought they were professional politicians?
DUers are just as outraged as we are. (well, not quite)
Too little, too late. The Supremes would simply rule that such protection interferes with interstate commerce and it would be ruled "unconstitutional". The Supremes have tasted absolute power and there will be no turning them back.
I don't know who the hell these people think they are, but I was told that I would have to hire a lobbyist to get my point across.
In this pissant little legislature with a bunch of liberal RINO idiots, I'm going to flush money down the toilet and hire a LOBBYIST?
Funny...all of their fund raising letters always manage to get to me.
Congress will do nothing.
I'm listening to Chris Markowski's "Watchdog on Wallstreet" radio show this morning. He's conservative, but not an extremist by any means. This morning he said that this ruling should remind us why we have the 2nd Amendment. He suggested that the people of Connecticut take up arms to prevent any further property seizures. He also stated that if anyone tried to take his property under these circumstances, he would shoot them.
I agree. And if the state does manage to seize the property, all steps should be taken--while avoiding threats to human life--to sabotage any construction activity.
This is clearly the time for such action because, as I said, Congress will do nothing.
There, much better.
The only thing that went too far in Blumenthal's mind was his little victory dance on Thursday. I guess a few people let him know they didn't appreciate his public screeching in triumph over the thought of their homes being crushed under bulldozers and let him know it. That's the only reason he "tempered his remarks."
That's probably only a temporary thing, sadly. It takes some time for the implications of stuff like this to penetrate the fog of drug use and arrested emotional development. Once some local politician figures out that he can quickly gain a LOT of support for this use of eminent domain by taking a couple of churches to erect gay bath houses or maybe "cultural centers", the DUmmies will very quickly realize just what they can do with this new ruling and then they'll enthusiastically embrace it.
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Monsieur A. Coray, Oct 31, 1823
Justice Thomas alluded to such in his masterful dissent.
(with all deference, guys) Idiotic.
You want your kids to be another Weaver? You wanna be a krispy fried Waco critter?!?!
WISE UP. JANET RENO WON.
You aren't going to take the 2nd amendment against Caterpillar and the Fedgov! STOP DREAMING.
Do something smart. Fight them on their level. Plant a Golden Cheeked Warbler or Gnat catching Salamander or whatever the hell on your land to gum up their re-development.
What you're talking about is Suicide by BATF.
Then they'd just throw you in prison for a couple of centuries for threatening the habitat of an endangered species and then take your land with no compensation. Maybe they wouldn't be able to build their CostCo, but that would be cold comfort from behind your gray metal bars.
Uh. Thanks for simultaneously getting and missing my point.
You're better off attacking this at the state and local level. I emailed Ferlo, and he actually wrote me back the same day to confirm that he will be introducing a bill in the PA state senate limiting eminent domain. I also wrote to my state senator, state representatives and city councilperson. I am also going to write to Bob O'Connor (Pgh's next mayor, no doubt) to let him know what I think of this. Finally, I emailed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter who wrote this week's story on the local effects of the ruling, urging him to continue with follow up stories to keep the heat on.
Please see #35.
Blumenthal's nickname here is Bloomin' Idiot
His forst comments that the SCOTUS ruling was good proves it, especially when he just stuck his finger in the wind and changed his opinion...
Connecticut died long before Committe, it died before they sheep elected a RINO Rowland
I can believe that.
If you ever read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", coincidentally published in 1776, in that time the equivalent of property taxes were called "quitrent". They did operate under a slightly different principle, that all properties rights were ultimately derived as bequests of the state, as personified by its Royal head.
Still, I like the term, it serves in and of itself to remind us that noble words on parchment notwithstanding, the gov't, any gov't, regards everything as "theirs" and your claim as secondary. Aside from the taking allowed by Kelo, you ever quit paying the rent, yo' land ain't yo's no mo'.
By the way, the good lady at the base of this case had been born in and still lived in one of the houses to be taken in 1918.
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