Posted on 06/29/2005 8:00:47 AM PDT by Aunt Polgara
Furious over the recent Supreme Court ruling that lets local governments grab private property for new development, a gadfly yesterday asked a New Hampshire town to seize the home of Justice David Souter. Logan Darrow Clements sent a letter to the town of Weare, N.H., proposing to build "The Lost Liberty Hotel" and "Just Desserts Cafe" on Souter's property. "The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will better serve the public interest as it will bring in economic development," he wrote. Clements, who runs a California media company, added, "This is not a prank." His crusade was not on the agenda of the town's selectmen last night, but "they've gotten hundreds and hundreds of faxes and E-mails about this," said Republican state Rep. Neal Kurk. Souter was one of the five justices who ruled it was legal for New London, Conn., to raze a working class neighborhood to make way for upscale development. Corky Siemaszko
Originally published on June 29, 2005
And the news continues to spread like wildfire.
That would be just too perfect.
After Souter, I'd like to suggest Teddy Kennedy's ocean-front property at Martha's Vineyard...One of the few places where no oil rigs can be seen towering over the waves...Great place for a convention center...on the other hand...Political Correctness also compels me to suggest that Teddy's property could also be used to construct Section 8 Public Housing Projects on the site so that the less affluent can enjoy some of the same scenic benefits as the well-to-do....
Yeah, Teddy's house would be a great spot for a bowling alley.
Alas, the distinction is that you have to have a local government unfriendly to you --- like the 58% of the populace that went for Bush in this NH area.
Mass. is solidly behind Swimmer.
or rape victims recovery house....or a 12 step house
This is a riot; it would be wonderful; please, let it happen.
Or an underwater vintage auto display museum.
I believe the "Kennedy Compound" is "owned" by some fantastically complex legal entity that minimizes taxes for the Kennedys. It would be humorous to see who has standing to object to a taking of that property.
The tax minimization thing also makes the "public use" (in the way the Supremes just redefined it) case much easier to make.
A unsubstantiated slur from the start.
And the Free Republic Internet Lounge...
So he's a 'gadfly', eh? Please.
41st vacation home in Maine would be an ideal place for a hotel...why not...41st picked Souter...
I'd prefer a memorial to those who died at the hands of drunk drivers. The public good would be enormous in raising awareness.
The developer could "poll" Americans to see if they would be likely to make the new Lost Liberty Hotel a vacation destination. I'd bet a lot of Americans would put the new hotel at the top of their vacation preference list, and thus bolster the argument that much more tax revenue would come in from the Hotel, then revenue from Souter's residence. This is so crazy, it just might work!
I think there was a proposal recently to provide an alternative energy source to the people of Massachusetts.
It involved a wind farm -- a group of large wind mills -- in an area known for good winds -- somewhere just off of Natucket and Martha's Vineyard.
I think Ted Kennedy (and John Kerry, too) opposed the creation of a large group of windmills in that area.
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