Supreme Court proves socialism is alive and well in U.S.
Monday, 27 June 2005 | 297 readers so far
Thursday’s decision by the Supreme Court that any government body can take your home and give it to a developer is disgraceful and an embarassment to anyone who has ever claimed that Americans are a free people.
When I got to work this morning, I asked Fred—the 61-year old retired Marine Master Sergeant that I share an office with—what he thought about the decision. ‘Someone’s going to get shot’, was Fred’s straight answer.”
–Urban Grounds
Property taxes are bad enough, forcing you to rent your land from local government, and allowing them to take the land anytime you fail to pay. So you were already renting from the government. But until now, if you paid those taxes, in most cases, you couldn’t be driven out. Not so anymore. Now any developer and city council that decide they want your most valuable possession, your home and property, can take it by force. I’m enraged and disgusted by this decision.
It was a close call, with 5 traitorous justices making a decision that robs millions of Americans of the dearly held principle that a man’s home is his castle. I don’t use the term traitor lightly, but it is the only one that fits here. These five human beings are saying it’s OK for government to seize private property merely because it wants too. I thought theft was illegal. These traitors say otherwise.
I might as well make a list:
Traitor #1 - John Paul Stevens
Traitor #2 - Anthony Kennedy
Traitor #3 - Stephen G. Breyer
Traitor #4 - David A. Souter
Traitor #5 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Read the bios of your non-elected overlords, these five betrayers of the American ideal that any American property owner, no matter how weak or poor, is secure in his or her property. They’re nothing but enablers for greed and theft. If it were up to me, they would be replaced immediately and barred from further “public service.”
IO Error’s take on the decision.
Liberty for Sale speaks out.
Urban Grounds thinks someone’s going to get shot.
Join the Castle Coalition now and fight the government robbers who want to invade your domain.
If some things are worth dying for, and I think they are, property rights are on the list of those things. SCOTUS, you are being warned by many voices, and should listen carefully before you write a check you cannot cash. Why, oh why, are fools lining up in droves to help break down freedoms that made America a beacon for the rest of humanity? Something’s gonna give, and soon. A nation divided cannot stand, and we’re setting ourselves up for a nasty fall.
1 June 27th, 2005 at 1:15 am
IO ERROR says:
It’s this sort of thing that makes me afraid to buy a house or other real property. In Coralville, Iowa, where I am now, the city threw out a few dozen people who lived along the riverfront in order to build a hotel and convention center that nobody seems to want. They also managed to get rid of the area’s only topless bar in the process, so people didn’t complain much, and those who did complain were largely ignored.
2 June 27th, 2005 at 2:18 am
Trevor says:
You should be afraid. We’re in a national crisis brought on by ignorance, laziness and our horrible education system. Government is growing like a fungus.
3 June 28th, 2005 at 8:14 am
Mustang says:
Tevor’s absolutely right. The crisis isn’t that government officials are out of control, the crisis is that the voters are letting them get away with it. This ruling is seriously flawed because it allows Bubba politicians to conspire with Bubba venture capitalists to take away personal property. This really makes me sick to my stomach.
Semper Fi . . .
4 June 28th, 2005 at 8:43 am
Tim says:
The problem is that the government isn’t afraid of the governed. If the government actually feared a violent revolution, then idiot lawmakers and activist judges would think a little harder before depriving us of our rights or spitting on the Constitution. If enough people will rise up in opposition of such government abuse of power, whether local, state or federal, then the government will have to recognize that they are an endangered species.
If people continue to bury their head in the sand and blindly accept that the government is benevolent and let the government tell them what their rights are, then we will continue to leap toward socialism. When people don’t accept their civic responsibilities they will lose their most basic rights
5 June 28th, 2005 at 9:01 am
Trevor says:
Thanks for the comments, gents. Education is the key, Mustang. You’re right there.
I’m not planning on giving up any more rights. The two generations prior to mine did enough of that for me. Time to reverse the process.
Tim, I’m curious, what’s your involvement with Sixpence, None the Richer?
6 July 4th, 2005 at 4:52 am
charles chance says:
1. Red letters on a gray background make for poor visibiity, particularly for the color blind.
2. At least give O’Conner a kudo for her strong dissent re: Eminent Domain.
And “Socialism: a system used by an upperclass to rule the middle class in the name of the lower class”
Dad C.
7 July 4th, 2005 at 7:32 pm
Trevor says:
Justice O’Connor did strongly dissent on eminent domain, and she should get credit for that. So I cede that point.
I’ll work on the red letters on gray background. They should be orange letters on a light blue background. What browser were you using?
Can’t disagree with your definition of socialism.
8 January 12th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Who Hijacked Our Country: YOU are EVICTED!! says:
[...] Last week the Supreme Court made its most insane, twisted, stupid decision ever. Sometimes too many law degrees and court case histories can cloud the vision and make it hard to see something that a 6-year-old could easily grasp.The property rights case (which had been pending for several months) finally got decided last week. And five out of the nine justices decided that you can be evicted from your own home.If a developer wants to build a hotel or office building or a house that’s bigger than yours — Goodbye. It’s been nice having you here; run along now. If a wealthier person is able to do something more lucrative with your property, this constitutes “public use,†same as a freeway or national park.Yes, I’m aware that it was the liberal justices who came up with this “reasoning.†But let’s not turn this bipartisan issue into a pissing contest. Everyone is shocked and revolted by this ruling. Liberals siding up with a wealthy developer against a working-class homeowner? Don’t think so. This is probably the most unanimous issue to come along in decades. It’s time for We The People to do what we have to do.I first read about this New London case a year or two ago. I took it about as seriously as you’d take someone wearing a tinfoil hat and warning about Martians attacking. I just assumed that as soon as this case reached a judge who had two brain cells to rub together the case would be dismissed and ridiculed and that would be the end of it.Currently eight states have laws forbidding abuse of Eminent Domain (Washington is one of them, thank God). The other 42 states need to see the writing on the wall NOW. We need state laws to protect homeowners against influential developers working hand-in-glove with sleazy government officials. Or, maybe our coin-operated Congress would pass a federal law preventing developers from seizing people’s homes — hahahahahaha! Riiight.State legislatures that don’t pass such a law will be embarrassed and humiliated when an identical iniative goes on the state ballot and gets passed ten to one.Poetic Justice: The town of Weare, New Hampshire, where Justice David Souter lives, might actually seize his house and build a hotel on “his” property. A nice hotel would bring in a lot more tax revenue than David Souter’s house. Certainly that’s what Justice Souter would want; he said so.You can also join the Castle Coalition if you want to fight this trend of government property seizures. Thanks to The Will To Exist for showing this link. [...]
9 June 22nd, 2006 at 10:43 am
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