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I hardly doubt there'd be any mention from lawmakers had a certain Washington Elitist's property not been proposed for eminent domain confiscation.
No. I take the sudden legislative concern as no more than protectionist action in favor of their own as nothing they now do will right the wrong inflicted by that eminemt tribunal upon the folks of New London, Connecticut.
It did not however destroy the right to own property which is a key to all our inalienable rights. The property owners are compensated and can freely purchase other property. The key is however a "just compensation."
I cannot help thinking, the outrage ignores what is loudly proclaimed when jobs are transferred offshore. To wit, it's the economy that benefits, therefore it is good. The Americans can just get other jobs somewhere. Who cares.
There is no right to a job, of course; though, losing a job for any reason can lead to losing property. That's life. Nothing more needs to be said, IMO.
If the benefit to corporations and the economy is everything when it comes to transferring hundreds of thousands of jobs to developing nations why do corporations and the economy take second place to a single piece of property? Assuming "just compensation" for the property owner.
Kelo is a radical revision of common understanding of the individual rights bundled in private property. It strips away lawful individual rights in favor of the government common good.
It attempts to push us and our property into a socialist scheme where the interest of the group trumps the right of the individual. In a collective socialist society, individuals are expected to bow to government and contribute their money, their property and their labor for the goals of the imperial state. Kelo does this.
This, of course, is in direct opposition to American individual freedoms as stated in the Bill of Rights. The founding documents are a written contract to assure that the bundled individual freedoms owned by the citizen are not trampled by any group favored by government. The law is meant to protect people from unjust encroachment by others.
In Kelo, that contract was destroyed when the court held an illegal constitutional convention and rewrote the plain words of the 5th amendment: “...nor shall private property be taken for public use...”
The court deleted the phrase public use and scribbled in “public benefit.” Public benefit can mean anything, to anyone, at any time. Public benefit is simply the American version of the Marxist “common good.” Nothing more.
Public use is building roads and post offices and schools for the public to use. The government taking one’s home or business for a condominium complex, an office building or a factory isn’t public use. The public can’t use a condo or office or factory.
To purposely misread the plain words “public use” shows that these “justices” have pledged allegiance to a foreign and alien political philosophy that demands state control and de facto ownership of private property.
South Carolina, showing the other states how to do it!
I don't know if I want a guy redefining things if he is going to use words like "succinct".