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Site Cleared Of Homes By Eminent Domain Remains Empty Eight Years Later (part II)
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/socie...ht-years-laterIt has been a little over eight years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that homeowners in New London, Conn., had no property rights. In 2005, residents in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London were told they had to abandon their homes so the city’s government could demolish them and hand the property over to developers to build hotels, health clubs and new condominiums.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling, with a 5-4 decision, that the Fifth Amendment’s “taking clause” could extend to city governments that wanted to remove old structures and build something for the betterment of the community. Traditionally, such seizure of personal property, known as “eminent domain," had been limited to a government’s need to build facilities like schools or police stations, according to a recent story in the Boston Globe.
Today, the land that was cleared remains a 90-acre barren field with waist-high weeds.
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Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople
Annie (03-23-2014), Cancel 2016.2 (03-24-2014), Minister of Truth (03-20-2014), Peridot (03-20-2014)
Meme master
Eminent domain is the worst precedent set of this century.
/MSG/ (03-21-2014), BRUTALITOPS (03-20-2014)
Mjölner
It was worth it to get Souter off the bench. Major class A scumbag.
The ruling was so shocking that most states in the Union took up legislative cures.
Obviously the property is still vacant due to the economy.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
Practically Perfect
I guess if you're corrupt enough to actually do it, then it stands to reason you are incompetent enough to let the land sit there undeveloped. It all goes to character.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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Damocles (03-22-2014)
rebel
all the more reason that people should accept the fact that this is why we have guns. to kill gov members attempting to abuse their power like this.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Thrillhouse
Bats.
Mott the Hoople (03-22-2014)
rebel
no, guns.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Insane Level of Addiction
This was an outrage, still is an outrage and always will be an outrage.
Can you imagine the screeching by the leftstream media if one attempted this in a minority neighborhood?
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
BRUTALITOPS (03-21-2014)
Mjölner
It was a minority neighborhood, retard. That's why the city did it in the first place. Furthermopre, a conservative; Souter wrote the opinion.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
fully immersed in faith..
uh, no.......it was not....it was a 90 acre tract made up of property owned by eight or nine families....I don't know if any of them were minorities, but here's the lead plaintiff in the case, standing in front of her house.....
you really need to stop making shit up and pretending you know what you're talking about.......
Callinectes (03-22-2014), Mott the Hoople (03-22-2014), NOVA (03-22-2014), Truth Detector (03-22-2014)
Practically Perfect
Fags.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
911 EVERY DAY
That's referred to as "clearing blight".
911 EVERY DAY
The response by democratic legislatures all over the country proves the self-correcting nature of democracy and that there was no need of the supreme court to intervene and make some misguided effort to place clear limits on the eminent domain power when the constitution doesn't specify any.
Rune (03-22-2014)
911 EVERY DAY
Yes, we know SMY, armed mobs of zealots are the best and only solution to every problem. This has been your only contribution to every thread for the past few years.
Mott the Hoople (03-22-2014)
Mjölner
You don't realize woman are considered minorities?uh, no.......it was not....it was a 90 acre tract made up of property owned by eight or nine families....I don't know if any of them were minorities, but here's the lead plaintiff in the case, standing in front of her house.....
you really need to stop making shit up and pretending you know what you're talking about.......
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
NOVA (03-22-2014)
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