Some Homeowners Vow To Stay Despite Ruling Against Them - But few options seem available

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[TheForceOfOne]

Funny, true, and sad. You can use it if you like.

Now I need to go and write an opus which I will nail it to my front door.

I never wanted to leave but due to constant harassment by local officials and the use of the Eminent Domain law I have been compelled to .....

[Tall_Texan]

Two ways to screw up Pfizer's plan:

1) Get two endangered lizards or beetles and put them on your property then call the EPA. You'll never be able to build anything else there but neither will they. (It's one of those evil pharmaceutical firms after all, the environuts will be more than happy to help).

2) Get some highly toxic chemicals and spread them around your yard. Ever heard of Love Canal? Best to wait to do this after the eminent domain check has cleared. You won't be able to live there but neither will they.

[DM1]

hey anybody know who voted which way on this?

[Hard Way]

"Personally, I think you are too optimistic."


Dang, Laz. I lurked for years here, and always appreciated your humor. Had hoped to muster up a smidgen of wit to reply to you on a less serious thread. Nothing seems funny today, bro.

For what it's worth, My wife & I bought 80 acres, fenced it by hand, work a small herd of cattle. Lived in a crappy trailer for 3 years while we built our 3400 sq ft house, with our own two hands. If the trans-Tex corridor comes through here, they better cough up some serious jack, or I'll be playing "cowboys and tyrants".

Top of the world, Ma!

[oceanview]

Bush can use the issue politically in the battle over judges. that's what he should be doing, but they are so feaful of criticizing any court decision.

[oceanview]

not in Connecticut. the best we can hope for is news coverage of them dragging an 80 year old man out of the house at gunpoint.

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

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[Lazamataz]

For what it's worth, My wife & I bought 80 acres, fenced it by hand, work a small herd of cattle. Lived in a crappy trailer for 3 years while we built our 3400 sq ft house, with our own two hands. If the trans-Tex corridor comes through here, they better cough up some serious jack, or I'll be playing "cowboys and tyrants".

When the trans-Tex corridor comes through, not if.

Pity about out country. It didn't make 250 years.

[ampat]

Until we get this unconstitutional problem fixed, those who know, ought to post photographs, business and home addresses and phone numbers of those contractors, realtors, lawyers, judges, city council members,etc., using eminent domain or the threat thereof to obtain private property from others. Just like some cities post sex law offender data in the newspapers

[devane617]

One option is to stay. I will gladly go and sit next to them for as long as it takes.

[af_vet_rr]

Meanwhile, Pfizer funnels 70%+ of its political contributios to Republicans.

That's what a lot of this is going to come down to - you and me, we don't contribute the kinds of money to the GOP or any party for that matter, that large corporations or wealthy individuals do, and this is true of the various politicians at all levels, not just the national. It becomes doubly important at the county/city level - we don't have the leverage that a large developer does.

I'm not trying to imply that the GOP favors the biggest financial contributors...but take note that no major members of the GOP, either in the White House or Congress, are coming out against this.

[murdoog]

Drive by Michael Cristofaro's home at 50 Denison Ave. tomorrow; he promises you'll see this sign: FOR SALE. I saw him on Cavuto yesterday. He said they offered him $60K for his house.

[af_vet_rr]

I think the best would be to mount scopes to canoe paddles! A loud message with no chance of arrest:)

I disagree - if anybody feels threatened by your message, you could easily be labeled a terrorist.

[devolve]

"Take" the 5 SCOTUS radical liberal home(s)

One way or another -

They must have homes in DC, Georgetown, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware

Plus their original home-state residences - and often a vacation home or cabin or seaside weekend or vacation home

"Take" them all......

Their decision opens them up to the will of the 95%-97% of FReepers and non-members plus all our friends at DU who are hopping mad about losing their one family residence -

-- and getting $60,000-$120,000 for a home reasonably valued at $300,000-$400,000

-- and not then being able to afford to buy a new home

-- the mortage, say is for $250,000+ and the City of New London sez first they'll be sports and "give" you $60,000

-- then $120,000 to be big-hearted!

-- now you still owe a ton of bucks for the mortgage - and a "new" (replacement) house will be over twice what you still owe to the bank -

-- in a van - down by the river?

-- can you afford to buy a beatup double-wide and -- whoops - City of New London, CT is upscaling - no trailers or double-wides

-- Mexico?

-- whoops - furriners cannot really "own" any property in Mexico

-- an never anywhere many miles near the ocean!


Well, back to "The Pelican Brief" now......

[af_vet_rr]

It's time for these homeowners to take the money and run. I saw the telecast of the 7 holdouts and the place looks like a ghetto.

Going by your logic, the colonists and even the later settlers should have just folded up and gone back to Europe.

It doesn't matter what they look like - the fact that they wouldn't take the money tells you that their homes are just that - their homes.

Nobody in this country should ever have to give up their home, simply because somebody else wanted.

[Betis70]

>>I saw the telecast of the 7 holdouts and the place looks like a ghetto.

Do a google (http://maps.google.com/) satellite photo of 41 Goshen St New London CT (one of the holdouts) and you will see all the construction/bulldozing. That big complex just to the south is a Pfizer complex.

[Age of Reason]

Yes, it is a travesty. But it doesn't affect me. I live in Utah.

After they pack a quarter-billion more immigrants into America by mid-century

They will come for people like you, to take your land to use for apartment buildings, shopping centers, giant factory-farms, windfarms or solar panel farms, watersheds, "wilderness" museums . . . .

We all will be herded into energy and space efficient apartment houses, and the remaining land used to supply our bloated population.

Wake up everyone!

[JCEccles]

Lack of border controls is a separate issue. I agree with you that it is a serious problem. Unfortunately that problem is expressly reserved to the federal government under the Constitution and there is far less that I, an individual Utah citizen, can do about it. That doesn't mean I'm not trying.

But for now, as for eminent domain actions, the Kelo decision is a non-player in my state.

[Age of Reason]

I am talking about LEGAL immigration.