[andie74]

I guess Pfizer is the lucky recipient of this land. I wasn't aware of that until I did a little digging.

This is a fabulous editorial that is well documented.

[bstein80]

This ruling is a travesty. So much for "life, liberty and property." The latter two have just been annihilated.

[Tunehead54]

"nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation"

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Since we "just" dumped "public" from our Constitution we might as well dump "just compensation" as well. It makes things so messy - people insisting their property has value and all ... this AMENDMENT really impedes the GOVERNMENT from helping us. Right? :-(

[4KennewickMan2Invent]

Shall we all chip in, start a development company and use this new ruling to remove the justices's own houses. Poetic Justice?

[jb6]

Now what is to keep leftist town councils from getting rid of all churches? After all, churches provide ZERO tax revenue and anything would provide more. I guess they can now have their dream of killing religion in America.

[bayareablues]

What a great opportunity to get rid of Ginsburg.

[Checkers]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1574059&mesg_id=1574059

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1575546&mesg_id=1575546

DU, of all places, doesn't like the ruling.

[Ken H]

I guess Pfizer is the lucky recipient of this land. I wasn't aware of that until I did a little digging.

Wish I hadn't sold my Pfizer stock last month. It would have given me some small satisfaction to have sold it today.

This is a fabulous editorial that is well documented.

Yes, it is. Nice find.

[Old_Mil]

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

[Joe Brower]

Anyone looking for insight into the bigger picture in what is happening here, this article is a must-read:

When Tyranny Came to America"

Print it. Study it. And pass it along. And pray it's not already to late to turn back the hellish tide of socialism that is sweeping across our nation at an ever-increasing pace.

[RockyMtnMan]

Thie ruling is both frightening and amazing. The government has not only taken away their property rights, they've violated the residents right to negotiate a market value based financial agreement directly with the company(s) involved in the confiscation.

Our tax system can also be blamed for creating this condition. Basically the local government is looking for creative ways to increase revenues in the coming fiscal years just like a private business.

What other rights will be confiscated in this "soviet" style movement of legislating from the bench???

God help us all!

[QuiMundus]

Supreme Court Justice to Open Burger Franchise