Posted on 07/06/2005 9:15:58 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
Washington, D.C.--Unfortunately, the dreadful Kelo v. City of New London ruling isn’t the only nightmare facing property owners this summer, the American Policy Center (APC) reported today. According to draft language obtained by the Center, the "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005" (TESRA 2005) is a major sellout to property rights advocates nationwide. Appropriately, the Center has dubbed the bill "Kelo II."
"I can’t believe what I’m looking at," said APC president Tom DeWeese referring to the draft language. "Just as the Supreme Court’s decision on Kelo has strengthened local governments’ ability to run roughshod over the Fifth Amendment, TESRA 2005 strengthens the federal government’s ability to steal private property under the Endangered Species Act." According to the documents obtained, the TESRA 2005 language was produced by Congressman Richard Pombo’s House Resources Committee office.
The language states that the federal government can take up to 50 percent of a landowner’s property before it ever has to pay the landowner a dime. "This is a sellout to property rights advocates, plain and simple," said DeWeese. "Stealing 50 percent of a person’s lifeblood is out and out theft,
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Our government is out of control. I hope that the people wake the Hell up before it is too late...otherwise, the only remedy might be the one that the Founding Generation had forced upon it by King George and his minions.
BTTT
This is really depressing. We desperately need SC justices who will flatly state the unconstitutionality of all this.
Oh man, this is going to get bumpy. Of course our media will cover important things like some celebrity wedding instead.
"Our government is out of control. I hope that the people wake the Hell up before it is too late...otherwise, the only remedy might be the one that the Founding Generation had forced upon it by King George and his minions."
Unintended consequences are a bitch.
All things considered, that is probably a good thing.
It's way too late to save the republic within the system.
You'd need four new originalists immediately, and the guts to overturn fifty years of deconstruction.
Do you see that happening in your lifetime?
We've only got three to five years left at the most.
I agree completely. We need more strong constitutionalists in the SC.
You shall not go into the king's forest and poach the king's deer.
Someone's going to find that out one day - the hard way. Then John Ross will look like a prophet.
Regrettably, no. We'll have to shoot or shut up eventually...sooner than later.
Endangered Species? Why would Canada be interested in Kelo? Gray Wolf saved the beaver, that should just about put the issue to bed up there.
Easy there, partner. First of all, don't insult your friends. Secondly, Canada Free Press has a lot of American content and a lot of American readers (which just encourages more American content). Thirdly, Kelo vs. New London disturbs a lot of people, in a bunch of countries, for a variety of reasons.
Sorry, I probably shouldn't have mentioned Gray Wolf.
No problem. ;) Also, for the record, Gray Wolf was English.
No problem. ;) Also, for the record, Gray Wolf was English. And it's Gray Owl.
I find Kelo vs. New London personally terrifying, however. Another whip of tyranny now once again in the hands of government.
Archie Belaney was a fraud, a bigamist, a drunk, a scoundrel and a liar [and a naturalist]. Thanks for reminding me he went by Grey Owl, I keep forgetting. He did save the Canadian beaver from extinction.
Yep, he's quite the scoundrel.
He's very much like Ward Churchill, except that he actually lived up to his lies, and saved the beaver. Ward Churchill never did anything that useful.
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