Thread: Eminent Domain Abuse

"You may think your home is your castle, but the Supreme Court decided it is just on loan from your friendly local government. The government can now bulldoze your home anytime it wants as long as the legally-required number of public hearings are held and politicians have some semblance of a plan for economic development on your land. That's what any reasonable person reviewing the Supreme Court's recent decision in Kelo v. New London might think. Hundreds of local governments already take private property. The Supreme Court's ruling in the Kelo eminent domain case just gave them the rubber stamp they wanted."

This is just a little excerpt I copied, but I am sure you have all heard of all the recent Eminent Domain abuses, and I was just curious to get your opinions. Personally, it makes me sick!!!!!

When it comes right down to it, you really don't own
your land at all. Fail to pay your property taxes and
you will find out real quick who the real owners are.

My house sits on eight acres of land in Logan County
West Virginia. Hope that a coal company doesn't want
it. I'll be gone from my little parcel of land "quicker than
a cat can lick it ass". And that a fact.


Terry

Accept disgrace willingly
Accept misfortune as the human condition

What is meant by accept disgrace willingly?
Accept being unimportant
Do not be concerned with gain or loss
This is accepting disgrace willingly

What is meant by accept misfortune?
Misfortune is the result of being mortal
How can there be misfortune without mortality?

Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

Lao Tsu

A small country has fewer people.
Though there are machines that can work many times faster than a man, they are not needed.
The people take death seriously and do not travel far.
Though they have boats and carriages, no one uses them.
Though they have armor and weapons, no one displays them.
Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing.
Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple, their homes secure;
They are happy in their ways.
Though they live within sight of their neighbors,
And crowing cocks and barking dogs are heard across the way,
Yet they leave each other in peace while they grow old and die.

The Eternal Sage, Lao Tzu

Originally Posted by xman

A small country has fewer people.
Though there are machines that can work many times faster than a man, they are not needed.
The people take death seriously and do not travel far.
Though they have boats and carriages, no one uses them.
Though they have armor and weapons, no one displays them.
Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing.
Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple, their homes secure;
They are happy in their ways.
Though they live within sight of their neighbors,
And crowing cocks and barking dogs are heard across the way,
Yet they leave each other in peace while they grow old and die.

The Eternal Sage, Lao Tzu

Course he also wrote the art of war didnt he...?

No that was Sun Tzu I think. No relation.

This whole eminent domain thing make my blood boil!! My grandparents lost their home (in California) that my grandfather built with his own two hands some 40 years previously. They were in their late 80's at the time and lively, but I swear that between fighting to save their home and having to move, that's when their health started deteriorating. They both died about 3 years later.

At least that was to make way for a high school. What's going on in New London is a travesty! Eminent domain was supposed to be used to build something for public use (non-commercial), such as a school, a public library, or a highway. In New London, they're allowing private investors to take personal real estate and build a commercial complex (I think a hotel/shopping center or something). That's ridiculous!

The thing that annoys me the most, I think, is that they only attack people who can't really fight back; old people and poor people. You never see them taking on the rich, because they can afford great lawyers! (Just my observation).

"Arguing over who owns the land is like two flees arguing over who owns the dog they live on" Crocodile Dundee

Originally Posted by wopmanfixit

"Arguing over who owns the land is like two flees arguing over who owns the dog they live on" Crocodile Dundee

Not when one flee has been forced to pay taxes and homeowners insurance as well as a mortgage for the Dog.

Eminent domain requires the government to pay fair market value for the property they take. The "people" give the government the right to do this, if don't like it they need to reform the laws that allow it. We have had a case here where the county took a 300+ acre ranch to keep it from being developed, a majority of the people in this county were in favor of it. They paid the owner in excess of 40 million for it.