🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:18:34 -0700, Tim May
<timcmay@removethis.got.net> wrote:

>In article <btr1702-4E4D2C.22111223062005@news.giganews.com>, BTR1701
><btr1702@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> True but it they ignored the 5th by saying that the somewhat vague term 
>> "public purpose" includes things like economic benefits and that the 
>> condemned land doesn't have to remain held in the public trust.
>> 
>> If the new amendment said that land taken by eminent domain could not be 
>> turned over/sold to private parties, it would be rather difficult for 
>> even this Court to define that phrase as allowing the exact opposite.
>> 
>> But even so, I do agree with you in principle that our Constitution is 
>> meaningless now. It's whatever the Court says it is, and if that means 
>> making up things that aren't even there (right to privacy) or ignoring 
>> things that clearly are (the 10th Amendment) in order to achieve the 
>> desired result, then the judiciary seems more than willing to do it.
>
>Local government are celebrating...freaking out. Every hotel complex
>they were contemplating, with lucrative kickbacks through obscure
>channels to themselves, is now back "in play." 
>
>Every shopping center, every coastal convention center, every "seniors
>housing," every "low income Section 14 Setaside complex" that was ever
>hindered by inability to acquire land is now "back in play." With
>lucrative kickbacks to those who steal the land.
>
>Hundreds of thousands of politicians are tonight plotting the acts that
>will earn them a sentence of death by people's justice. 
>
>--Tim May

If you ever put away your rubber toy soldier collection and begin
=doing= something about all of this, it will be time to worry.  But I
don't see what you _can_ do about it, as it is a SCOTUS decision, and
I don't think either of us are going to live long enough to see it
reversed.

I said it before and it bears repeating...the GWB administration is
doing everything within its power to disassemble the USA, the America
we once loved.  THAT America is -gone-, probably forever.

Lg