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This is amazing on so many levels, the notion that a bunch of politicians can throw people out of their homes, is like giving an arsonist matches. They want to pay off their real estate buddies, boom, condemn a neighborhood. You want to punish enemies, use eminent domain and make them move. So, when the facists want to get rid of a particular group, say muslims in Bosnia, Tutsi in Rwanda, etc., they go condemn entire neighborhoods? or just the individual houses that they want to punish.
as much as I hate to point this out, the right wingers, were in the minority on this one.
It really is Orwellian. I never thought we would see this happen in our United States. Without an unbiased media we are sunk, the fascists wrestled control of that and are getting away with murder scott free.
Our founding fathers must be turning over in their graves.
Pretty sad stuff. I might expect something like this to happen in a third-world country, but even in Thailand the government must buy back the land and get the owner’s consent.
Strangely enough, though, we have a similar issue going on right now. At least one homeowner is standing up to the government – but she is under intense pressure to give it up.
Me? I back the homeowners, no doubt about it. I would be the first to tell them where to stick their eminent domain
I saw a 60 Minutes piece of this a couple years ago. They tried to throw a retired coupe out of their home claiming it was “blighted”. It really was exceptionally nice. The reason they said it was blighted was because it didn’t have a two car garage – leaving out the fact that all homes built around the 1930’s don’t have two car gargages!
AmCan wrote:as much as I hate to point this out, the right wingers, were in the minority on this one.Exactly. Liberal majority made this one happen.I didn’t think there were liberals on the Supreme Court. Haven’t most of them been nominated by Republicans?
Yeah Prof, you need to correct the title of this thread to “Far Left”. Surprisingly O’Conner actually thought this one threw and voted right.
Left:
Stevens
Kennedy
Souter
Ginsberg
BreyerRight:
Renquist
Scalia
ThomasSwing Voter (usually Left):
O’Conner
Who is known for supporting big business and special interests, IE developers, over the rights of individual americans? The right or the left?
Who would you imagine more likely to throw people out into the street and build a new mall or oil refinery on their property, Dick Cheney or John Edwards?
Who has been known to safeguard the individual freedom and rights of Americans? The radical right wing brings us the patriot act, the moderates brought us equal rights and have consistently fought to provide an even playing field for all citizens and not just a playground for the ultra rich special interests.
Guys I am moving this one to Free for all area so we can debate the issues without violating CAP policy. In retrospect it didnt belong in the Industry News area.
calling the majority on this court far left is like calling barry goldwater a moderate.
eminant domain has always been legal, but it was supposed to be for community things that couldn’t go elsewhere, like hospitals, highways. Now a hotel is as important, even though 86 adjacent acres are free to develop.
