Private Property
John Paul Stevens should not be on the Supreme Court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html
New London officials "were not confronted with the need to remove blight in the Fort Trumbull area, but their determination that the area was sufficiently distressed to justify a program of economic rejuvenation is entitled to our deference," Stevens wrote. "The City has carefully formulated an economic development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including--but by no means limited to--new jobs and increased tax revenue."
According to Mr. Stevens if someone wants to tear down your house so that they can build a business on your property all they have to do is "carefully formulate" a plan that the city council will buy and presto! You have lost your home, so that someone else can make money. Welcome to America!
If some corrupt bureaucrat in your city decides that your neighborhood is "sufficiently distressed" (Please don't try to understand this technical term it is only comprehensible by great legal minds and you peasants might hurt yourselves trying) they can force you to leave.
This means that everything in this country is for sale, even if you don't want to sell it.
This is truly ground breaking. This will not go unopposed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html
New London officials "were not confronted with the need to remove blight in the Fort Trumbull area, but their determination that the area was sufficiently distressed to justify a program of economic rejuvenation is entitled to our deference," Stevens wrote. "The City has carefully formulated an economic development plan that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including--but by no means limited to--new jobs and increased tax revenue."
According to Mr. Stevens if someone wants to tear down your house so that they can build a business on your property all they have to do is "carefully formulate" a plan that the city council will buy and presto! You have lost your home, so that someone else can make money. Welcome to America!
If some corrupt bureaucrat in your city decides that your neighborhood is "sufficiently distressed" (Please don't try to understand this technical term it is only comprehensible by great legal minds and you peasants might hurt yourselves trying) they can force you to leave.
This means that everything in this country is for sale, even if you don't want to sell it.
This is truly ground breaking. This will not go unopposed.
posted by The petulant ninny at 10:05 AM
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