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.

Another form of indirect seizure is when the
government restricts development on a parcel
of land but does not actually seize it.

I heard of a case at Lake Tahoe where this happened.
People had bought lots to build a house when they
retired and then out of the clear blue were told they
could not build. Now they are stuck with the land
they can't use or sell.


Terry