This Property Sold/Taken by the Supreme Court
Michael C. Morris
December 26, 2005
I cannot believe that I am even writing this story, as this should only be told to children around a campfire before bedtime to scare them.
Under a practice known as eminent domain, contained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person's property may be condemned and the land converted for a greater "public use." It has traditionally been employed to eliminate slums, or to build highways, schools or other public works.
The Supreme Court’s split ruling yesterday now allows local governments the broad criteria of “Best Interest of the Community” to exercise eminent domain. The “Best Interest” criterion has already been used to destroy American Families in the Family court system and will now be used to drive you out of your home.
I would have thought Sandra Day O’Connor would have come down on the side of the ruling, but she dissented. "Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random," O'Connor wrote. "The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms." What in layman’s terms does this mean?
It means that for anyone who has the money, power and influence can force homeowners out, even if that property has been in your family for generations. Just because they want to increase the tax base in the area, build a mall or stamp out cookie cutter homes they can evict you. It also means you do not truly own your home. You now only have the elusion that you own your home, because if a developer wants the land you “own” he can now have it in the “Best Interest of the Community”. And how will they be able to make this happen?
Anyone who has ever built a house or added an addition here in the Philadelphia area knows that if you don’t pay, you don’t build! A local Representative made a company pay $17 million to the local community in order to build. If you are from the Philadelphia area you know the story and where the money truly went.
This decision, in my opinion, is a treasonous act by the Supreme Court because it violates one of the most fundamental rights that our founding fathers incorporated into the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
This decision spits in the face of the millions of Americans who have died protecting THIER property, THIER country and are presently dying in Iraq and around the world. This decision thumbs a nose at the 3000 people who died in 911, and in my opinion justifies the Second Amendment of the Constitution and why our founding fathers put it there. Do our schools still teach the revolutionary war and WHY we went to war against the British? Remember the kicking of doors down, seizure of property and No Taxation without Representation?
If the President of the United States does not exercise Executive Authority and block this decision, the United States needs to be dissolved and reformed. If America does not stand up and stop this injustice, your home and community might be next!
Under a practice known as eminent domain, contained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person's property may be condemned and the land converted for a greater "public use." It has traditionally been employed to eliminate slums, or to build highways, schools or other public works.
The Supreme Court’s split ruling yesterday now allows local governments the broad criteria of “Best Interest of the Community” to exercise eminent domain. The “Best Interest” criterion has already been used to destroy American Families in the Family court system and will now be used to drive you out of your home.
I would have thought Sandra Day O’Connor would have come down on the side of the ruling, but she dissented. "Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random," O'Connor wrote. "The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms." What in layman’s terms does this mean?
It means that for anyone who has the money, power and influence can force homeowners out, even if that property has been in your family for generations. Just because they want to increase the tax base in the area, build a mall or stamp out cookie cutter homes they can evict you. It also means you do not truly own your home. You now only have the elusion that you own your home, because if a developer wants the land you “own” he can now have it in the “Best Interest of the Community”. And how will they be able to make this happen?
Anyone who has ever built a house or added an addition here in the Philadelphia area knows that if you don’t pay, you don’t build! A local Representative made a company pay $17 million to the local community in order to build. If you are from the Philadelphia area you know the story and where the money truly went.
This decision, in my opinion, is a treasonous act by the Supreme Court because it violates one of the most fundamental rights that our founding fathers incorporated into the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
This decision spits in the face of the millions of Americans who have died protecting THIER property, THIER country and are presently dying in Iraq and around the world. This decision thumbs a nose at the 3000 people who died in 911, and in my opinion justifies the Second Amendment of the Constitution and why our founding fathers put it there. Do our schools still teach the revolutionary war and WHY we went to war against the British? Remember the kicking of doors down, seizure of property and No Taxation without Representation?
If the President of the United States does not exercise Executive Authority and block this decision, the United States needs to be dissolved and reformed. If America does not stand up and stop this injustice, your home and community might be next!
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