Posted on 03/17/2006 3:25:37 PM PST by Crackingham
In June, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter sided with the 5-4 majority in the pernicious "Kelo" decision, which held that the foundering city of New London, Conn., could seize well-kept-up private homes and turn those properties over to private, third-party developers based on the developers' promises to pay more taxes.
Outraged champions of property rights decided to follow precisely Justice Souter's own logic. They collected the signatures needed to place on the agenda of the March 14 Weare, N.H., town meeting a proposal that the municipality seize and demolish a 200-year-old farmhouse owned by Justice Souter to turn the property into a tax-generating Lost Liberty Hotel.
At the February town meeting, however, the article was amended by residents so that on March 14 Weare residents merely voted to approve an advisory measure condemning the use of eminent domain for private-property transfers.
Following Tuesday's vote, the Union Leader of Manchester, N.H., editorialized: "The good folks in Weare knew better than to right one wrong with another."
"On Tuesday Weare voters ... approved a ballot measure directing the town not to take Souter's home, but to urge lawmakers to bar government from taking private property for the purpose of economic development or for another's private use.
After all, some folks are more equal than others.
Kapisch?
Two sets of rules. One for the ruling class, and a different one for us proles.
Weak Americans, in the late 1700's they probably would have tarred and feathered him, then put him on a ship bound for England.
Capisce -- it's Italian. Capisco: I understand, capisce: thou understands (dost thou understand?, with a '?').
I capeesh.
*snicker*
I usually kinda like the Union Leader's editorial stances..........but this is total horse manure.
Face it; the townfolk of Weare knuckled under; wussed out. This was the ideal opportunity to let public SCHMUCKS directly face the consequences of their idiotic, Constitution-hating stances.
I also readily I admit I'm from the school of "stick it up their a** when they overstep their bounds" (sometimes referred to as "payback's a b**ch"), and this would have been a loud and clear "stick".
Color me severely disappointed.
Too damned bad. We need to keep trying and give this liberal no rest at all. I would like to see this little prick hyperventilating every time this issue comes up.
Funny you say that. A guy I work with said we should start doing that to our politicians, make them think twice about their acinine scheme's to hoard our money.
Yep, see you Monday. ;)
If the Town won't seize it then maybe the state will.
This is no longer William Loeb's Manchester Union-Leader.
No, it seems to have gone liberal.
no. if the abuse of law by one justifies the abuse of law by the other, who wins? it seems that the mechanism of rule of law is misused if used as a literary device or form of civil disobedience.
yeah. they might do something like that to him in Saddam's Iraq, too.
May I suggest some exercises in civility?
Hmmmm, wonder if Souter thinks this decision by his fellow townsfolk should be overruled?
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