Supreme Court Gives Away Our Right
After hearing the Supreme Court decision in the 5-4 ruling that your property may be seized and used for (the good of the community) yeah right. I scanned the other blogs and was surprised not to find anything, as of this writing. Property rights are one of our conservative principles. Now local officals have the power to bulldoze residences and put up shopping malls. Cant happen you think, well you would be wrong. In Nov 1954, the Supreme Court overturned the federal district court in Washington, D.C., land seizure program. The land was seized and the buildings bulldozed. The city's brief to the Supreme Court promised that one-third of the new homes built would be low-cost housing. Instead they built a shopping mall and a complex of high-rent apartments and townhouses. O'Connor in her decent wrote"Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random," and"The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproptionate influence and power in the politcal process, including corporations and development firms.
posted by pappy @ 10:21 AM
4 Comments:
This was a terrible decision. It is something you would see in the USSR, not here.
I posted more on it here
read Freeagencyrules.blogspot.com's contribution. he wrote a good one too.
This is an outrage.
Thanks for the kind words Jen.
Yep, I agree 100%. Ownership and Control of Property is one of the four basic possessions that we need to really be free.
See my post.
In every Bill of Rights (before the Declaration of Independence) the people's inalienable rights included "Life, Liberty & Property"
And the only reason Jefferson used "pursuit of happiness" instead of "property" is because most of those who would fight in the war for independence did not own land.
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