Posted on 06/23/2005 12:12:48 PM PDT by truth49
Wondering what the local government must pay for your home, once it decides to condemn. Anyone know the particulars on the New London case?
But government just gained the right to make sweetheart deals with developers, by depriving the people of another right, this time a shockingly important one.
IMO, it's a good example of money and government getting in bed together, and a good reason why big government isn't conservative. Republican Party, take note.
Having said that, my understanding of how the Supreme Court could make such a tragic ruling is that a majority of the justices are not big money, but socialist in outlook.
In any case, between the recent Interstate Commerce Clause ruling and this one, it has really been brought home to me how fragile our freedom is. Or was. I guess the years of moving left during the 20th century have truly come home to roost.
Boycott Connecticut
Where do you think?
I bought mine on the free market.
The origin was when the State created the right to bequest against the clan and in favor of the family. That is when the modern State itself began.
What a joke this country is becoming.
Phewwwwww! I've already given up.
This country is a rotting shell of what it was a mere 30 years ago.
I guess I'm just waiting around for someone to organize the pitchfork brigade...
Agreed Rightwhale, but I was just reading Justice Thomas' dissent, in which he explained that the framers considered property ownership a natural right. So, like all natural rights that we have (had), although the state was put in place to guarantee them, it did not provide them.
I have a feeling that the Magna Carta has a place in this discussion, perhaps you know where, if that is so?
Can there be any doubt, to useful idiots like Bob Barr, what the ACLU really stands for? Their former top lawyer today joined the ruling to give the government the right to take your property away from you. Hey Bob Barr, why don't you STFU about how great these Communists scumbags are?
Here's your campaign...
Send a copy of this decision in INSTEAD OF your Property Tax Payment!
Make it Nation-wide...tell them "Hell, if I don't OWN it, YOU pay the taxes!"
Then get the guns ready for what comes nexty...if THIS decision ISN'T overturned VERY soon, there will be Blood in the streets!
Guaranteed!
Unlike England, we do not have the natural three estates. We have one estate and the necessary checks and balances have had to be built into the procedures and methods of election and appointment. Justice Thomas may be correct in his interpretation as far as that goes, but he must also be aware that natural property ownership is a far less powerful entity than is state-recognized property with deeds and titles. The first is mere ownership by possession and is subject to the next person who comes along with a stronger arm and a covetous eye. The second is true property
With the stroke of a pen, SCOTUS may very well have destroyed our Republic.
This is the reason we HAVE to have Originalist judges and not Activists. What this decision will do, if Scotus does not eventually overturn its decision, is lead to the end of the country; probably faster than al-Qaeda can destroy it.
Property owners can have their property seized/stolen at any time. What’s the point in buying a home, if there’s a chance someone with more money than you have will want your property?
The cities have been given an “at will” ruling. With the middle-class worrying about losing their homes and/or businesses, they will rent. Only the VERY wealthy will own and they will rent to the middle class. The middle-class’ rent will go up (at will for the property owners) and soon there will be no more middle-class. We will then be a country of the “haves” and the “have-nots”…end of the Republic and end of the country.
EFF raises the Gadsden flag in protest of Supreme Court property rights decision
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429265/posts
this is abomination, anathema to the Constitution and everything in which the Founders believed.
Rule 308. That's in the Consitution too.
Some are, some aren't but they're still blaming Bush.
Some are saying today that they'd never do such a thing, but governments always push the envelope. And it's at no cost to them.
Let's demolish all the homes in an eight block area and put in strip malls. We'll tax the remaining homes to pay for the condemnation. The politician has nothing to lose and everything to gain. The developer will write him a fat check.
But they damn well know how to fix it. They fought against Thomas and they will fight against any nominees remotely like him.
Even though Thomas is one of the best supreme court justices we've had in generations.
Being a leftist is all about sacrificing your own personal freedoms for the chance that you'll get to screw someone else out of their's. Someone will come by and whip the moonbats back into lockstep in no time.
Heck, I live in Montgomery County, MD. Even the Republicans are sleazy out here. This is just sickening.
No! Thomas did as well as a few others.
Read Thomas's excellent and clear reasoning here:
Clarence Thomas dissent in property rights ruling
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