Supreme Court Justice's House to be Taken for Hotel

[Crazed Rabbit]

Ah, the Poetic Justice. I just hope this goes though.

http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

Now we just have to start throwing out abortion clinics.

Crazed Rabbit

[Proletariat]

I wish they would seize it and turn it into a crack den.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Yeah heard this guy on the Mark Levine show last night. Mark gave him an ides to provide all the guests with black bath robes. They may make it a chain and call it Motel 5.

[Don Corleone]

You guys do realize that this isn't going anywhere. SCOTUS would just issue another 5-4 ruling saying "Except when the land to be seized is owned by a member of SCOTUS, their family or friends".

All kidding aside, this guy better be careful. He doesn't know who he's f$^king with. SCOTUS themselves might not come after him, but their lackeys, a horde of trial attorneys, are about to bombard him a plague of frivalous lawsuits that he will bankrupt himself in an effort his efforts to defend.

[Proletariat]

This is why the "public use" clause is so important. It is reasonable to allow the city to place what is in effect a ceiling on the amount they pay to acquire property, because holdouts would essentially be extracting rents from other taxpayers.

However, a private developer has no such claim. The phrase "Everybody has a price," is very true. If a private developer can truely enhance the value of a piece of private property, that developer should be willing to meet the prices the owners ask. And if the developer choses not to meet those prices, well then I guess the development was not all that much more valuable anyway.

The Kelo decision, in addition to being anti-freedom also preempts a perfectly well functioning market mechanism available to the private developers. Just pay the price required to get the homeowner to sell. Period.

But no, the liberal judges feel that markets are bad things, and as such they must be squashed. Government is all knowing and all powerful.

The end result of the recent liberal wing wins in Supreme Court cases: The town's police have no right to regulate what you do inside your bedroom, but the town's council can most certainly drive a bulldozer through it.


Thanks for ruining my 'just got off of work' feeling. I had almost forgotten about this tyrannical stupidity.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

You guys do realize that this isn't going anywhere. SCOTUS would just issue another 5-4 ruling saying "Except when the land to be seized is owned by a member of SCOTUS, their family or friends".

And you do realize that both cases about the ten comandments were also 5-4 desicions that came to opposite conclusions These guys are clueless.

[Don Corleone]

Thanks for ruining my 'just got off of work' feeling. I had almost forgotten about this tyrannical stupidity.

Moi? Sorry, guess I'll buy you a beer. SCOTUS hasn't outlawed that yet, have they?

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Moi? Sorry, guess I'll buy you a beer. SCOTUS hasn't outlawed that yet, have they?

Only in public places while smoking. You cant drink in a bar and smoke because the smoke is dangerous to others while you driving home after belting down a few is............................. Why not just outlaw bars and booze and ciggarettes. Wait a minute I may be giving them ideas.

[Proletariat]

For example, my house cost $222,000 three years ago. A comparable house sold for $750,000 recently. If a private developer offered $750,000 today as part of an eminent domain case, would I take it? Nope. Why should I? I could get $750,000 from anyone ... and if I wait another year, I might get $875,000.

The value in my condo is not in today's price, it's in its future price. Hell, if I stay here for ten more years it may be worth half a million.

And if the developer were able to acquire my unit through eminent domain along with all of the other units here, he would control one extremely valuable piece of property in the Northern Virginia area. Large pieces of property are practically priceless in this part of the booming state. So if he was able to convince the state or local government to force twenty owners to sell at $750,000, his investment would be 15.6 million, which he could parlay into a thirty-five million dollar property with the proper development. So who besides the developer benefits? Only the town, with a higher tax base.

On the other hand, if said developer were unable to convince the town to force me out, would I sell to him at for $1.2 mil right now? Yup, in a heartbeat because my gamble on whether the price would increase going forward will have been mitigated.

[Don Corleone]

Naaah.... if there's a way to subjugate the people further, they've already had the idea. They're sitting back saying "I can't believe we've made it this far. They should have started rioting years ago. What should we try next?"

[Proletariat]

Moi? Sorry, guess I'll buy you a beer. SCOTUS hasn't outlawed that yet, have they?

Not you, but I'll have a Duvel, thanks.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Naaah.... if there's a way to subjugate the people further, they've already had the idea. They're sitting back saying "I can't believe we've made it this far. They should have started rioting years ago. What should we try next?"

Thats what Rush wa saying the other day. Their doing things slowly so you wont realize youve lost your liberty until its to late.

I believe the call setting precident.

[Proletariat]

I keep hoping they'll strip us of a more fundamental freedom so that way people actually do something about it, but this is really the most fundamental.

Forget God, free speech, privacy and all of that stuff. If there's any principle that this country was built on, it's the Common Law concept of property rights.

Maybe if they outlaw Oprah and NASCAR this stupid country will get off their couches.

[sharrukin]

I keep hoping they'll strip us of a more fundamental freedom so that way people actually do something about it, but this is really the most fundamental.

Forget God, free speech, privacy and all of that stuff. If there's any principle that this country was built on, it's the Common Law concept of property rights.

Maybe if they outlaw Oprah and NASCAR this stupid country will get off their couches.

We in Canada are somewhat new to constitutions. Ours dates from around 1981 and I haven't really noticed any great upsurge of freedom and liberty since then. I personally think it would have been better if we didn't have a constitution as they seem to be more trouble than they are worth. Be that as it may, what do you see as an alternative? Someone must play Solomon. Do you think it should be the Senate, house of Representatives or the combined Congress? Or should the SCOTUS judges be directly elected?

[Steppe Merc]

But no, the liberal judges feel that markets are bad things, and as such they must be squashed. Government is all knowing and all powerful.

Well, this is one liberal that is strongly against giving away land to companies, mainly because I don't trust companies...
But it would be hilarous if this guy did lose his land. He would deserve it.

Only in public places while smoking. You cant drink in a bar and smoke because the smoke is dangerous to others while you driving home after belting down a few is............................. Why not just outlaw bars and booze and ciggarettes. Wait a minute I may be giving them ideas.

Gah, wait at least until I'm old enough to go to a bar and buy cigarrettes before you outlaw it!
Yeah, as much as I hate cigarrette smoke (not other kinds ) I think it's a stupid law. I found it quite funny when I went to see the Allman Brothers at the Beacon. Smoking in all public places is outlawed in New York (or something to that effect), but there was certaintly a lot of non cigarrette smoke there...

[Papewaio]

Since when did the USA definition of liberal mean that companies have more rights then citizens?

To me that sounds far more on the right then the left.

Now if it was governments can buy the land for community benefits like cheap accommodation for slackers then you could call it a leftist utopia...

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Since when did the USA definition of liberal mean that companies have more rights then citizens?

Check the recent SCROTUS decision on property rights and who voted for what and tell me that. Its the liberal judges who backed this decision not the conservatives. As long as the government gets more money the democrats are in favor of it unles its for defense. Nowdays the same can pretty much be said for republicans also.

[Proletariat]

Since when did the USA definition of liberal mean that companies have more rights then citizens?

To me that sounds far more on the right then the left.

The left has a higher priority for lining their own insidious corporation's (the Fed) pockets than for keeping the other insidious private sector corporations in check.

[GodsPetMonkey]

Since when did the USA definition of liberal mean that companies have more rights then citizens?

To me that sounds far more on the right then the left.

Now if it was governments can buy the land for community benefits like cheap accommodation for slackers then you could call it a leftist utopia...

tsk tsk!

Don't you realise, the American right likes it when the government limits peoples rights, but not when the courts do, and the American left likes it when the courts limit peoples rights, but not when the government does.

Same stink, different crap.

[Kanamori]

Ah, the Poetic Justice. I just hope this goes though.

If he were truly a tyrannical Court Justice, he would let the case come all the way to his court, and then rule that they could do it, furthering "big brother". The poetic irony would ultimately be his

[Beirut]

I hope they make the old fart homeless. Let him sleep on the street in his bathrobes.

The most insane court judgement I have ever heard of. Second really, there was a Montreal women judge who gave two Haitian immigrants light sentences for rape because she said it was part of their culture.