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In article <8u4nb1h1kv6d5c1eqr84ld9vp8v8sj86nu@4ax.com>,
 Lawrence Glickman <Lawrence_Glickman@comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

I was waiting for someone to try and lay this at Bush's doorstep. Before
you go into another orgy of Bush bashing, you might want to stop to
consider a few points:

(1) Not one of the justices currently on the Court was appointed by
Bush.

(2) The justices that voted for this decision are all the liberal wing
of the Court. The conservatives (Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas and
O'Connor-- the ones more closely aligned to Bush's political viewpoint)
all voted *against* this decision.

I know there are some libs who like to reflexively blame everything
negative in the world on Bush (I bet there were even a few who figured
out how to blame that tsunami last Christmas on him) but this particular
atrocity leads squarely back to liberalism run amuck.