Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm also writing to complain to my
Congresspeople, and to the Justices themselves.
On the cheerful side, I heard on the radio today that someone has
proposed to the mayor of Weare, New Hampshire that he Eminently Domain
away Judge Souter's house to make way for a nice, tax-producing hotel
to be dubbed the Lost Liberty Hotel and which will feature the Just
Desserts Cafe.
http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html
--G.H.
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
<jmmccann_at_s...> wrote:
> Okay. One more resource for you: Reason has the ultimate set of
> articles and links for understanding and fighting eminent domain.
>
> http://www.rppi.org/emdomain/index.shtml
>
> I'll stop now. Maybe.
>
> BTW, would someone e-mail Margaret? I'm sure she'd want to know about
> this. (Joking. JOKING.)
>
> --J
>
>
> On Jun 24, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Joy McCann wrote:
>
> > The differences in this decision are:
> >
> > 1) there is no instance of urban blight identified whatsoever in the
> > Connecticut case, and, more importantly,
> >
> > 2) in this instance the public good is not a school, road, park,
or any
> > such thing. The public good is simply higher taxes from ANOTHER
PRIVATE
> > BUSINESS. In other words, if someone else could make more money doing
> > something else with your land, the city can take it away.
> >
> > Under the old system, even Donald Trump lost property (the old
> > Ambassador Hotel in L.A.). This way, anyone can.
> >
> > --J
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:33 PM, David Coons wrote:
> >
> >> This reminds me of a small predominantly black
> >> neighborhood in Manhattan Beach many years ago
> >> that was bulldozed to make a public park,
> >> as it remains today. Excuses were made, health
> >> hazards were identified. They were just trying to
> >> clean up their white bread community.
> >>
> >> dc
> >>
> >> Susan Oudiz wrote:
> >>> Eminent domain is scary. I never quite understood how
> >>> this could be justified.
> >>>
> >>> Not to mention the outrage of people being kicked out
> >>> of mobile homes because the landowner wants to develop
> >>> the area for something more lucrative. In addition,we
> >>> need rent control. My mom's rent went up by 25% here
> >>> in the South Bay a couple of years ago so that the
> >>> landlord could "renovate", so everyone had to move
> >>> out.
> >>>
> >>> Susan
Received on 2005-06-28 23:46:15