I just figured out why the liberal SCOTUS voted in favor of Eminent Domain

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This thing has been dogging me for months now and it finally occurred to me why we would actually want government to seize private property! It's because someone thought ahead, maybe twenty maybe forty years ahead to what a United States of America would look like after Bush's cronies and after the Republican's self-serving turn-of-the-century legislation savaged this country.

Eminent Domain would give us the power to retake back the private lands that Bush's cronies are now seizing from us!

What a heroic move by our Liberals on the Supreme Court Justice!

Okay, maybe it's time to eat lunch and stabilize my sugar.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Okay now explain

why so many Dems voted for the new bankruptcy rules.

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2. Were they conservative Dems?

If not, you'll have to wait until I get a pre-dawn elucidation.

[daninthemoon]

3. Didn't * say something about putting federal NO property up for

lottery bid? I hadn't quite grasped what property he was refering to. This may be the first exercise. Grab stuff up as eminant domain in NO, and auction off to Halliburton.

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5. I think he's putting up a house for lottery for the NOLA survivors.

Which gives you a working illustration of the principle behind his faith based program. There's not enough for everyone, so he gives the money to a private organization to figure out how they're going to allot it. If there's graft and corruption and the money just goes to a few connected souls, so be it.

[JDPriestly]

4. Did you notice Bush's insertion of selling public lands

into his NO rebuilding plan. Wouldn't it be best to spend money rebuilding the land that was flooded, the properties that were destroyed? Why start building up new land? Should we build on every single square inch of federal lands? Where are the federal lands in that area? Are they national forests? Are they contaminated military bases? Are they wetlands? What was Bush suggesting? Seems to me that the northeastern, western and midwestern taxpayers who are going to be footing the bill to rebuild Miss. Ala. and La. will want the government to focus on repairing what was destroyed by the hurricane. Does Bush really think taxpayers from California and New York want to pay to develop federal lands in those gulf states? We want to help the hurricane victims, not the big developers.

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6. You don't expect Republicans to come up with new ideas even

in the face of a disaster, do you?

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Eminent Domaine has already been threatened here in a nearby town

one business wanting the property of another. We have a HUGE antique mall in downtown Kankakee. A very wealthy, well known businessman wanted the building and land the antique mall is in. He wants to use the land for a parking lot! The owners of the mall were offered $330,000 for the building and land and they said NO. Then, Mr. wealthy buisnessman told the antique store owners that if they didn't settle for the $330,000 he would use Eminent Domaine. :( They sold to him because they were blackmailed, basically. Threatened. They were NOT happy about it either. The sign across the front of their building says, "FORCED TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!" In HUGE letters so everyone can see it.

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8. This is the reason why I hate the ACLU, half the time.

This is precisely the kind of situation they should be defending, but don't because they're too busy defending the rights of pornographers. Imagine the improvement to their image if they stepped in and helped the little guys against the big shots in the city that have taken over local government.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. Unfortunatley, some do not believe the right to own property is important

A government powerful enough to take away property is likely to have enough power to silence its political opponents.

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10. The problem is in the definition of "government."

The Liberal Supreme court judges must think we still have dedicated public servants running the government. They've all been eliminated by the current scourge of Republicans who have set up a crony style government. You're more likely to have a greedy Rotary club member with ties to the real estate industry on the commission, than you have a true public servant that understands the delicate balance between public and private.