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Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
Semi-OT: The End Of Private Property
Welcome to the end of private property. An unutterably sad day for the little guy. Only semi-offtopic because of the fact that so many ballclubs use eminent domain to "acquire" the property they want for their own uses.
More on this at Reason. Money quote:
You do wonder: Now that the "liberal" justices on the court have sided with the drug warriors against cancer patients, and with a plan to rob people of their homes for the benefit of wealthy developers, will some court-watchers on the left begin to question the wisdom of having let economic freedom become the red-headed stepchild of modern jurisprudence?Renquist, Scalia, O'Connor, and Thomas all voted against this garbage.
Some time ago, the mayor of my city -- Bruce Broadwater -- decided he wanted to hand over 269 homes to his developer buddies to build new hotels in town. The people living in these houses were found to be in a "blighted" area, with the usual handovers to campaign contributors about to happen. But then something miraculous occurred: 800 affected residents stormed a city council meeting. Bruce "Bulldozer" Broadwater, in his Tammany-lite style, found himself a group whose property he didn't dare hand off to his buds.
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