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What an awful article if one wants any honesty in the press..

where is the part where bob guccione of penthouse offered her 1 million (worth 5 million today)... and then when she tried to hold out for more, tried to build a garage around the property... ie. a la bugs bunny... that caused the project to fail and so she had no light, no view but a wall, and the only outlet to the property was the street...

over a decade later, trump again offers her a million... but she turns it down, and the democrats of atlantic city wanted the blacks out of the area, and decided to do eminant domain.. Trump is not a politician and the politicians were selling her house to someone, but for 250k not a million... she fought it and got to stay

then over 10 years later the supreme court, of which trump has no ability to buy off, rules in kelo (which has NOTHING to do with this story). but by that time, Carl Ichon bought the trump property (which trump has to sue to get his name off of so that when Carl acts, trump dont get blamed).

she turns it all down, goes into an institution as a poor ederly woman, her family then decides to sell and no one wanted the property..

eventually they sold for the million

trump has no bearing on who was serving the blacks of atlantic city at the time, he was a ny real estate man. he has no ability to call for eminant domain, 15 years before kelo, and even in kelo, if the democrats of that area were not selling peoples homes to close them down, who would be able to buy?

ie. its not the big real estate man who is offered a deal for your home by your politiican who wants him to spend and they to have lots of tax money for their socialist projects... its the politicians who have decided to sell your home and push that kelo thing.

the author is very ingenous... not smart and clever, but dishonest as a rule. and is playing the people here reading for fools...

The crux of the problem:
Until 2005, eminent domain was usually invoked only for government projects such as highways and railroads. But in that year, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed, in Kelo v. New London, that eminent domain can be enforced for private development projects. So long as local authorities believe that the project will benefit the wider community, there is no problem.

key words: “local authorities”, “believe”, “wider community”

This gives local power brokers carte blanche to ram through virtually anything they can dream up.

It wil ALWAYS benefit the “wider community in their eyes if land is taken from a citizen and used to build something more expensive. Because the taxes on the more expensive building will be higher, thus allowing the politicians to distribute it to their preferred “wider community.”

It’s a hoot watching the scumbag Lott complaining about emminent domain, when Lott did nothing to curb the outrageous property theft committed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA.

Only the execrable USSC stopped these bureaucrat fascists in SWAANC v US and Rapanos v US.

The plaintiffs in these cases uncovered enough evidence to affect the arrest of both agency heads for sedition, followed by shutting down both unconstitutional agencies. The scumball Lott did nothing to punish these out-of-control fascist bureaucracies.