The End of the World...
The world is offically coming to an end - I agree with Antonin Scalia. The Supreme Court today legalized government seizure of your real property for PRIVATE, not public, but PRIVATE gain. The court legalized a Connecticut town's condemnation of a middle class residential neighborhood for private development into an office complex. Its Robin Hood in reverse once again, and now its sanctioned by the federal government. The true travesty is that the permission for this larceny was granted by the Liberal members of the court. What the hell were they thinking? This idea is so bad that even Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia disagree even though its an incredible boon to their base of support - the rich.
I certainly can understand the principle of eminent domain for the public good. Highways need to be straight and safe, expansion of passenger rail could lower pollution and reliance on foreign oil, and we all benefit from preserved greenspace and park land. I could also agree that the removal of a blighted area within an urban confine could have a positive return for the remainder of the city and private development could be necessary to fully remove the blight. But in this case, the area is a stable middle class neighborhood with no blight. It just happens to be a great location for an office complex too. But why should anyone be kicked out of their home just so someone else can make a profit? That isn't America - and even the diehard Conservatives on the court can see it.
I certainly can understand the principle of eminent domain for the public good. Highways need to be straight and safe, expansion of passenger rail could lower pollution and reliance on foreign oil, and we all benefit from preserved greenspace and park land. I could also agree that the removal of a blighted area within an urban confine could have a positive return for the remainder of the city and private development could be necessary to fully remove the blight. But in this case, the area is a stable middle class neighborhood with no blight. It just happens to be a great location for an office complex too. But why should anyone be kicked out of their home just so someone else can make a profit? That isn't America - and even the diehard Conservatives on the court can see it.
posted by Axis of Evil @ 2:01 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:49 AM,
ROMA said…
This is very scary. When a businessman gives lots of money to political campaigns and then turns around and tells the politicians that he helped get elected that the government needs to give him peoples land for the good of the community, how will they be able to say no. In todays America, money talks and real Americans walk.
At 8:03 PM,
ROMA said…
Now the real end of the world starts. Sandra is gone and with at least 1 more to follow, Bush gets to put his imprint on our country for the next 2 decades at least. Knowing him, he will put someone in there that is 40 years old so he can influence America for 4 decades, not that his running this country into the ground would not take at least 4 decades to fix.
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