Fort Trumbull Just Beginning The Fight

Letters To The Editor: I am writing about the editorial titled “It's time to move ahead,” published June 26.

You have got to be kidding if you think for one minute your words of nonsense could change the way we feel about our homes.

Do you think because you can choose to stop printing the opinions of the people from all over this country that the Fort Trumbull residents are going to go away?

Do you think because you write words about compensation that that is supposed to make us feel better when we have told you repeatedly that this not about money?

Do you think that you can continue to talk about your development that we, the residents of Fort Trumbull, were never against where there is more than enough land to build whatever you want to build and at the same time let us keep our homes?

Do you think you can continue to talk about the Coast Guard Museum and how it will come to build in Fort Trumbull? I will chase them from my property.

I will go on every radio talk show, every television show and tell this horror story about how the New London Development Corp., the city of New London and the United States Supreme Court are kicking seven homeowners out their homes.

I have every name, number, address and e-mail for each person who has contacted The Day and hundreds of others that have contacted us and each I have spoke with has assured me they will stand with us if and when that day comes. I will contact each of them if I need to, to stay in my home.

Susette Kelo, w/attorney & press, at the USSC.

Click here for "The Cottage Coalition", Ms. Kelo's webpage.

Here's the home being stolen from her, courtesy of the thieving Supremes.

Bump. Thanks for this post.

For those of us who are deeply concerned with protection of Private Property from improper application of Eminent Domain in contravention of the Original Intent of the Founders in the 5th Amendment's Takings Clause, I am registering a warning or a concern:

I think AG (& potential USSC Nominee) Alberto Gonzales is very weak on Private Property Rights and lacks an understanding of orignainl intent of the 5th Amendment's Takings Clause (Eminent Domain) based both upon some cases when he ws at the texas Supreme Ct. (e.g., FM Properties Operating Co. v. City of Austin, 22 S.W.3d 868 (Tex. 2000))

and, more recently and significantly, upon his NOT having joined in the Kelo case on the side of property owner. My understanding ws that he had sided with the League of Cities against Kelo while WH Counsel.

As some have frequently observed, he certainly believes in a "Living Constitution" and is NOT a strict constructionist or an Originalist, but rather tends toward the Activist side, per National Review Online and others.

He has been sharply critical of Priscilla Owen in some Texas Supreme Ct. decisons when they were both on that Ct. as Justices, and he has been quoted as being sharply criticial fo Janice Rogers Brown, including being quoted by People for the American Way in their ultra-leftist propaganda.

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