Kelo v New London

The Supreme Court has ruled (Kelo v New London) that the government can seize your property by law, and sell it to another private party, for no better reason than wanting more tax revenue ("promoting economic development... persuant to a development plan") from that property than you are currently paying them. This is clearly contrary to the Constitutional langauge regarding the eminent domain power in the 5th Amendment: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

As Scalia put it, we are "free at last, free at last..." from the Constitutional chains that bound our government, that is.

And didn't someone else try that "centrally planned economy" idea recently? And fail miserably? I'm seeing red...

SaysUncle
No Quarters
Smallest Minority
SCOTUS Blog
Libertarian Party statement
Clayton Cramer
Countertop Chronicles (and more)
Washington Post
Ravenwood (No permalink, scroll down)
FreedomSight has quotes from the dissent

UPDATE: I will make the following prediction: there will be people who simply refuse to surrender their property. They will make their stand and force the police to kill them or remove them by force. Are these people criminals? Insane? Or are they just the latest canary to die?

Posted on 2005-06-23 13:17:47.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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