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Nathaniel Firethorn

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Supremes: Govt can take your home for a Walmart
« on: June 23, 2005, 11:43:50 AM »
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/index.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private economic development.
Some of that's happening near where I live. A church, believe it or not, wants to condemn a perfectly good neighborhood to put up a Pathmark supermarket:

This strikes me as one of the more un-American things the Supremes have done recently. angry

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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2005, 12:21:21 PM »
5-4 vote, I hope this can be overturned when some of these "Justices" retire or are replaced.
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2005, 12:26:08 PM »
Under discussion on THR and TFL.  

SCOTUS' decision may well be the best thing to happen to constitutional government in a long time.  Everyone knows what it would be like to lhaving your home confiscated.  Legal BS aside, SCOTUS is wrong and all but the most brain damaged can understand the concept of right and wrong.
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« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2005, 12:43:09 PM »
Even at all the 'liberal' news sites, polls show about 1-3% support for confiscation for private use.  No support anywhere except the SC, as far as I can see.
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« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2005, 02:15:21 PM »
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Even at all the 'liberal' news sites, polls show about 1-3% support for confiscation for private use.  No support anywhere except the SC, as far as I can see.
Those guys just can't get their act together it seems. Wasn't there a recent decision where they said they took into account the will of the people and international law (death penalty for kids I think). This decision surely isn't consistent with that one. Is it?Huh???
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« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2005, 03:22:11 PM »
Why am I not surprised?  Good grief...
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« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2005, 03:48:58 PM »
I'd call this one of the primary keystones of our nation being knocked out of place.
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« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2005, 04:06:33 PM »
Watch Bush nominate a wimpy Republican. Watch the representatives of the Democratic (sic) party have a hissing fit to end all hissing fits.

Watch Mrs. Snopes Clinton win in 2008 because the Republicans didn't do anything more strenuous than talk for eight years.
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« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2005, 11:31:12 AM »
Mebbe all those dirty hippies protesting the WTO and globalist agendas are on to something.
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« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2005, 09:23:14 PM »
Blackburn, the difference, this time, is that this can actually impact joe sixpack.  Even the most lazy and drunken American will take notice when it's HIS home being bulldozed to make way for a strip mall.
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« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2005, 08:27:51 AM »
So... anyone know the going price for a Supreme Court Justice? That's the ONLY way this makes any sense...
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« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2005, 09:14:47 AM »
Anyone know where a Supreme Court  justice lives?  

Would it be a good location for a Wal-Mart?  How about a Starbucks?  Shooting range?

Let's pool our money (by all I mean everyone in the US who thinks that decision is a travesty) and develope the property of a SC justice.  After all, it's for the good of the government.
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« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2005, 04:54:37 PM »
Fly... that would be PERFECT!
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« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2005, 05:55:36 PM »
Someone on THR said something about us all getting together and forming a corporation, and then siezing a SCOTUS justice's home to build a firing range....
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