[Halfmanhalfamazing]

This is a long read, but apparently Jefferson was right.

=======The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.================

Also of note are these.......

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/domain.html Look for the ACLU on the ruling against GM, yet they are silent now that the SCOTUS is ruled by libs.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/bush/timeline.html This liberal fascist in favor of her corporate cronies had a stadium built in April 1991.(reference ASFDA)

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment05/14.html#3

Keep pushing for originalist judges so we don't lose our land. Without ownership of your property, the american dream is dead.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

PING

[fish hawk]

I thought Americans loved Eminent Domain. After all they used it to acquire most if not all lands taken from the American Indians. Of course later in California, they paid us for it at 25 cents an acre. Seems the shoe is on the other foot now. How ironic.

[visualops]

Without ownership of your property, the american dream is dead


Very true, and you need the RKBA to protect it.

[FReethesheeples]

Bump. Thanks for this post. For those of us who are deeply concerned with protection of Private Property from improper application of Eminent Domain in contravention of the Original Intent of the Founders in the 5th Amendment's Takings Clause, I am registering a warning or a concern:

I think AG (& potential USSC Nominee) Alberto Gonzales is very weak on Private Property Rights and lacks an understanding of orignainl intent of the 5th Amendment's Takings Clause (Eminent Domain) based both upon some cases when he ws at the texas Supreme Ct. (e.g., FM Properties Operating Co. v. City of Austin, 22 S.W.3d 868 (Tex. 2000))

and, more recently and significantly, upon his NOT having joined in the Kelo case on the side of property owner. My understanding ws that he had sided with the League of Cities against Kelo while WH Counsel.

As some have frequently observed, he certainly believes in a "Living Consitution" and is NOT a strict constructionist or an Originalist, but rather tends toward the Activist side, per National Review Online and others.

He has been sharply ciritcal of Priscilla Owen in some Texas Supreme ct. decisons when they were both on that ct. and he has been quoted as being sharply crticial fo Janice Rogers Brown, inclduing being qu0oted by People for the American Way in their ultra-leftist propaganda.

[TheOtherOne]

Ah, history.

This government must be preserved in spite of the acts of any man or set of men. Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest among us are held the highest privileges and positions. What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not the frowning battlements, or bristling seacoast, our army and navy- These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere- Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves, must be its author and its finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all time . . . or die by suicide. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day. No . . . No . . . Man was made for immortality.