Posted on 08/10/2010 7:55:37 AM PDT by grace522
There’s good news and bad news.
First, the bad. As we all know, there just aren’t enough places to play skee-ball in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
Which just ain’t right.
But fear not. The good news rights that wrong.
I have found the perfect location for skee ball this side of Steel Pier.
Unfortunately for Mount Holly mayor Tom Gibson, that location happens to be where his house now sits.
Hey, stuff happens.
All that remains to be done is grease the political skids and file the paperwork required to seize Gibby’s house through eminent domain.
Isn’t it great when the government can take private property in order to….develop more profitable private property? What a country!
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In 2003, Mount Holly Township unveiled its plan to take — or “purchase,” as it is known in eminent domain parlance — the 350 homes in the Mount Holly Gardens housing complex so that 25 acres of land could be turned into a housing and commercial complex.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.phillymag.com ...
Is that a trick question?
No, they get their Gestapo to do it for them...............
Its not just the pols to blame here...lets not forget the Stupid 9 of DC. They made it far easier for the corrupt pols to have their way w/ you & your property.
In my Grandfather’s day, stealing a man’s land would get you shot, no matter what you called it....
The whole justification for the case fell apart when Phizer (sp?) announced a while back that they weren't going to do any new development in New London.
I wish the case could be reopened with everyone who voted for the private property seizure paying their court costs out of their private bank accounts.
As numerous recent judicial activism cases have demonstrated, judges will continue to misbehave, making new laws and rights from invisible micro dots embedded in 18th century documents as they were written, if they have no direct interest in the out come. Ask anyone who has first rented and then owned, without the use of sub-prime loans, their home the changes that quickly take place after they move in.
Does a former Drill Sargent make a lousy therapist?
Is Ed "too tall" Jones, really "Too Tall"?
If you don't pay your property tax, no matter how outrageous, you lose your house. Simple.
Next case.
Another way, force the guy to lose his job or relocate him where he gets foreclosed or has to sell. Saves all the formality and cost of legal proceedings of eminent domain !
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