Posted on 04/26/2018 5:56:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
This is a film I really want to see.
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That case really got to me. I’ll never forget it.
There's a bit more to the story than this.
Pfizer was already in New London. The eminent domain case involved a redevelopment plan that would have them relocate and expand to a new building.
Shortly after the case was decided in the U.S. Supreme Court, Pfizer merged with Wyeth and the merged company consolidated its Connecticut operations. So Pfizer not only never moved into its proposed new location ... they left the city entirely.
Without Pfizer signed to a lease, the developer couldn't get financing for the project. The whole redevelopment site is vacant to this day.
It's probably a good idea to consider the site cursed ground. I'll buy a grain farm in Zimbabwe before I buy so much as a cup of coffee in New London.
I always think about where the right to bear arms figures in cases like this, though, I’m sure anyone trying to use fighting tyranny as a legal defense will lose off the bat.
It got to me, too. The U.S. Supreme Court decision was a disgrace.
It led to a constitutional amendment being adopted in Virginia to prevent such an injustice from occurring here. It is the only time I cast a ballot FOR a proposed constitutional amendment in my 36 year history of voting in Virginia.
How do we, as a Nation, allow a Judge to change the wording of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution, from “public use” to public benefit”?
I don’t suppose she could get the house back, could she???
The house has been demolished.
OOps! I thought the house was moved to somewhere else.........
Corporate welfare in all of its ugliness.
The use of arms to secure you’re rights implicitly means the law has failed and its judgments no longer carry any moral authority.
I think Thomas Jefferson, in the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, brilliantly laid out the reasons why we [thus far] tolerated such horrible behavior by our government.
This was a bad one, though. As far as I am concerned, Kelo is the single most egregious violation of the rights of The People by our highest court in at least the last 150 years. Every single justice who suppported it should have been impeached, or otherwise removed from office.
I had a yellow lab, white German Shepherd mix dog years ago and he cornered a little lizard on the back patio. My dog was a loving dog and was more scared of the lizard than the other way around. The lizard was probably a thousand or more times smaller than Yeller but he opened his mouth and made a little hiss and Yeller backed off. I grabbed the lizard and set him or her free. What I learned was that no matter the odds it’s better to go down swingin. Now my cat, she’s a cold blooded killer.
And the moral of that story is that it’s time to quit trying to be liked like a Lab, and start being feared like a cats.
Trump understood that. While the other Republicans were busy trying to be liked by everyone, we voted for Trump because he was willing to be the baddest tomcat in the alley.
I love Trump but unfortunately he has used imminent domain to his advantage if my memory serves me well.
It is a favorite club of mine to counter assertions that Progressives are more compassionate than Conservatives. The Court's Conservative wing stood up for the little people--the Liberal wing of the court sided with the corporation--in the name of tax revenue for the false idol of Government.
Sorry, it’s emminent domain and this was a travesty.
Scalia was ballistic as I recall.
Take the ferry from New London two Orient Point , L.I.
Beautiful Landscape with empt Pfizer Buildings and ...Why?
Because Democrats run CT (In to the Ground)
Everyone is leaving. Highest taxed next to CA and NY.
Buh Bye
The Congress, had it any round objects should have intervened immediately. They out rank the Judicial Branch.
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