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The aftermath of the Kelo – New London, CT Supreme Court decision
Tom Blumer at the Bizzy Blog has been all over the stories of what has been happening in New London, CT since the much-criticized decision on the Kelo v. City of New London was handed down by the US Supreme Court last June.
George Will’s criticism last year of the decision is worth noting again:
Can government profit by seizing the property of people of modest means and giving it to wealthy people who can pay more taxes than can be extracted from the original owners? The court answered yes.
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Those on the receiving end of the life-shattering power that the court has validated will almost always be individuals of modest means. So this liberal decision — it augments government power to aggrandize itself by bulldozing individuals’ interests — favors muscular economic battalions at the expense of society’s little platoons, such as homeowners and the neighborhoods they comprise.
Find out what’s been going on in New London – since the decision was handed down – via Tom’s blog.
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truly this is one of the saddest moments we have had in seeing greed outweigh liberty.
Truly the power to determine what is a public purpose belongs to the courts, and not to our elected representatives.
Kelo has already been stretched to include taking private business property – like in the case of Hercules, Ca vs Walmart, being used to remove Walmart from their community, because it will obstruct their VIEW of the bay. Which if it goes through will give precedent for many other communities to use against Walmart or any other business they don not like in their community.
Wrote about it Here.
Read the rest of it Here.
Let’s not forget about the case in Cincinnati, Ohio either:
More on it here:
Click here for full story.
Andrew,
You have spoken truly as a person and a Democrat who doesn’t believe in Democracy or the Representative Republic we have, but in appointed for life judges who act like kings, not judges. You sir, do not deserve freedom.
Truly the power to determine what is a public purpose belongs to the courts, and not to our elected representatives.
Andrew it was left up to the courts, the Supreme Court to be exact and 5 of 4 pulled their ruling from somewhere but it sure wasn’t from the 5th amendment of our Constitution. Let me put it up for you “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation”. Now since these liberal judges saw fit to trample the Constitution it is up to our legislators to pass specific laws to prevent eminent injustice.
“You have spoken truly as a person and a Democrat who doesn’t believe in Democracy or the Representative Republic we have, but in appointed for life judges who act like kings, not judges.”
The Kelo court handed over the decision to elected representatives. And everyone got mad. Looks teh world isn’t as simple as you imagine it to be.
“Now since these liberal judges saw fit to trample the Constitution it is up to our legislators to pass specific laws to prevent eminent injustice.”
The Court said its up to the elected representatives to decide, not the court.
So Andrew…. I take it from your contrarian position that you’d welcome the idea that something you worked half you life for can be just taken away arbitrarily, so some contracter can build a new mall. Is that what we hear you saying?
- Bang
Andrew, the court DECIDED that property could be taken from one private owner and “given” to another private owner, overturning 2 centuries of precident on Eminent Domain by LIBERAL Justices and that dunce O’Connor.
Andrew, they did more then that, they validated the land grabbing practices. it used to be that only land for public use was fair game. This was to be given to a private developer for profit based development.
They not only told the legislature to make it law, they gave them permission to make the law such that personal property is meaningless.
I suspect that Kelo v. City of New London will become the new Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act – a way for government to do what it wants without having to follow the Constitution.
People are protesting against abortion? RICO them!
Want a gun to protect yourself? Better get a good lawyer instead!
I think New London should be ashamed. They are typical politicians and do not care about peoples feelings. They are only in office to see what they can get. We went through a state buy out. The only way you get treated fairly is to have a high price attorney. Even then you still get treated very poorly and they try to cheat you every chance they get. Every one should boycott New London and the new hotel or try to get someone in office that has a heart. If they say she owes them back rent I would think that they owe her interest on the money they would have paid her for the home.