Posted on 06/24/2005 7:42:35 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
We'll see the true spirit of the community when we find out if the offices and shops built on that property get any business. If I lived there, I would be boycotting anyone who tried to profit from the stolen property. If the citizens have any guts about them, they will take a stand economically.
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/
Smith Street property owner Bill Von Winkle reacts to the Supreme Court eminent domain ruling that sided with the City of New London.
Susette Kelo, the owner of a house on East Street in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, fights back tears as she speaks on the phone to a supporter from the South, following the Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain that sided with the City of New London.
From here.
So SCOTUS subordinated our individual rights to bring us into compliance with WTO regulations?
So what else is new?
This will only get worse under CAFTA.
When Terri Schiavo died, the prohibition on government killing of innocent American citizens contained in the Fifth Amendment was ignored.
This decision simply carries that miscarriage of justice forward.
The Fifth is the heart of the Bill of Rights. These actions are a stab at that heart.
It is up to us whether those wounds are fatal to this once-free republic or not.
I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.
I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.
FMCDH(BITS)
Too bad we cannot seem to get the word out on which justices voted against this travesty.
One) California's proposition 13 has just been effectively gutted to prevent the government from cranking up property taxes.
Two) Liberal states will NEVER enact property protections into their legislatures and state constitutions.
Example: You have a 2.5 million dollar home in San Francisco that you paid 400,000 for in 1990. You now pay say 600,000 in property taxes on it.
Now the city of San Francisco can condemn your house, pay you 120,000 (20% of tax base) and turn around and sell this land to another developer or even a real estate agent who will then sell it to someone that is going to pay 2.5 million in property tax rates.
People are going to get shot over this.
The primary tenet of a fascist government is government control of private property.
In some areas there are zoning restrictions on what bushes can be planted and the color one may paint a house.
Then we have so-called smart growth restrictions on how many homes may be built on a piece of land.
And let's not forget that land can be seized under the Endangered Species Act to create de facto government nature reserves. All without paying a penny of compensation, of course.
Now we have a ruling where property may be seized for the "public interest." Public interest is nothing more than the American version of the Marxist "common good."
Yeh, I'd say we're moving along on the fascist highway.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." ---- Abraham Lincoln
Just goes to show the liberal leftist judges rule SCOTUS. SCOTUS isn't worth saving. Down with SCOTUS!
This is wildly inaccurate. The tax basis in this example is about 1% of $400,000 plus fifteen years of incremental adjustments, ad volerum, and parcel taxes. That total is nowhere near the 600K figure you imagine it is.
Now the city of San Francisco can condemn your house, pay you 120,000 (20% of tax base) and turn around and sell this land to another developer or even a real estate agent who will then sell it to someone that is going to pay 2.5 million in property tax rates.
Nonsense. You don't seem to have even the slightest grasp on how Prop 13, or eminant domain regulations operate in the state of California.
So, every LEO has to make a decision as to where they will stand. Are they going to stop the thieves, or continue to work for them?
Justice Stevens argument does amount to a declaration that the seizure was justified because the city had a plan to implement the common good. As opposed to individual rights, which are now secondary in the USA apparently.
In any case, you are right, government is making a top down decision on the common good of the community, and implementing it with central planning. It's pure socialism. And since the beneficiary and partner in crime is business development, it's also socialism's first cousin, fascism.
Time will tell.
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