New supreme court ruling regarding your home..

[amber438]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=8873080

unreal, huh?

[Rocco]

ughh, what's happening with our rights???

[Torn Rose]

yeah I was going to post it under the title of "USA USA USA" but I got too sick thinking of the "land of the free"

[guitar riff]

Everyday ya see more of your rights go right down the shitter when will it stop or were will it end .

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by guitar riff

Everyday ya see more of your rights go right down the shitter when will it stop or were will it end .

To quote Suicidal Tendencies, "Give It Revolution"

[Toby]

It's called the Law of Emminent Domain and isn't really anything new. Govt's have been doing this for decades. I've seen this done to clear right of way for widening of freeways. Usually the state, county or city, as the case may be, try to negotiate a buyout with the owner of the property, and only when the owner refuses to negotiate do they resort to this.

[Useless]

Well hell, maybe there's finally some hope that I can make some money off of this house. Now all I have to do is convince the city that they should develop my quater acre for public use. |clown|

[Torn Rose]

Originally Posted by Toby

It's called the Law of Emminent Domain and isn't really anything new. Govt's have been doing this for decades. I've seen this done to clear right of way for widening of freeways. Usually the state, county or city, as the case may be, try to negotiate a buyout with the owner of the property, and only when the owner refuses to negotiate do they resort to this.

Eminent Domain was intended for roads and other things *needed* for public use, not a “want” and a mall and office buildings are not something that needs to force people off their land and a 5-4 ruling shows that.

Right now in Daytona Beach 2 business’s are fighting eminent domain since they have been there for 40 years and a private builder wants to build a condo with a few store fronts and this just gave him the keys to a bulldozer.

No one is safe, your local government can now knock on your door and now say get the fuck out, we want to build a parking lot here.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Toby

It's called the Law of Emminent Domain and isn't really anything new. Govt's have been doing this for decades. I've seen this done to clear right of way for widening of freeways. Usually the state, county or city, as the case may be, try to negotiate a buyout with the owner of the property, and only when the owner refuses to negotiate do they resort to this.

God forbid you don't move out of your house when the government tells you to.

The difference between the historical application of eminent domain and the case here is that it's not for a highway or a city building, it's for private development. So if you don't want to sell your house or business to a developer, this clears the way for the city to just take it from you and pay you whatever THEY determine is a fair price for it.

I've seen this happen for road projects, and the city basically says "we're taking X amount of your property, and this is how much money you're getting for it." If you don't like it you'll spend a shitload of money in court fighting them. This paves the way (sic) for developers to stop having to give you top dollar for your property if they want to build (to use this example) a hotel, health club, and casino. All it will take is a few kickbacks to the city council and you're homeless without even the ability to negotiate the price you'll get paid.

The following has mysteriously been in my cassette player quite a bit lately.

Originally Posted by Suicidal Tendencies, "Give It Revolution"

Throughout all time and history
The world's been mauled tyranny
Now we're refusing to take it
The worst evil the world has saw
Were crimes defended by the "law"
Deny our rights and we'll break it
You got to break the chains that hold you down
Crush the tyrants to the groud
Freedom cannot be legislated
We'll bow down to no other one
The Father and His Son
They can't deny what he's created
Most wars never should have been thought
But this is a war that must be fought
We'll take a wrong and we'll right it
The greatest weapon of the fascist
Is the tolerance of the pacifist
We've got to stand up and fight it
We'll give it

You got to give it revolution, give it revolution
We're gonna give it revolution, give it revolution
You got to give it revolution, give it revolution
We're gonna give it revolution

Well you can put a bullet in my head
But you can't kill a word I've said
You got the disease, I got the solution
No matter how much or more you try,
you can never ever make this martyr die
I give it revolution
Revolution!
You could put a bullet in my head
But you can't kill a word I've said
Give it revolution
No matter how or what you try
You can never ever make a martyr die
Give it revolution
Revolution

[Torn Rose]

http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

Court's ruling OKed land grab for business like Target, Home Depot, CostCo, Bed Bath & Beyond

[mrMagoo]

It's a strange day when I find myself agreeing with and on the side of Justices Scalia and Thomas

[Erick G]

they can take my land I just want 10% profits for life from whatever business will be on my property

[Torn Rose]

Following a Supreme Court ruling last week that gave local governments power to seize private property, someone has suggested taking over Justice David Souter's New Hampshire farmhouse and turning it into a hotel.

"The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will better serve the public interest as it will bring in economic development and higher tax revenue to Weare," Logan Darrow Clements of California wrote in a letter faxed to town officials in Weare on Tuesday.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4665121/detail.html

[binxgook]

Originally Posted by Torn

Following a Supreme Court ruling last week that gave local governments power to seize private property, someone has suggested taking over Justice David Souter's New Hampshire farmhouse and turning it into a hotel.

"The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will better serve the public interest as it will bring in economic development and higher tax revenue to Weare," Logan Darrow Clements of California wrote in a letter faxed to town officials in Weare on Tuesday.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4665121/detail.html

Right On!

[juggernaut]

We had two old ladies here who both owned farms side by side. Each about 200 acres. The town they lived in was once considered out in no mans land. Nothing there. After a few years things built up very fast. Well the current school became way to small for the amount of people moving here after 911 from NYC. So the town asks the ladies if they want to sell. They said sure. Prices for land in NJ are very costly, about 100k per acre. So you do the math of how much these ladies should get. The town sends over a town appraiser to asses the value of the prop. Well guess what. It now becomes valued at 5k an acre. So of course the ladies say no fucking way. Well mayor gets pissed, claims ED and they all go to court. Held in the same town. And guess who wins. The town, thats right. Well the 2nd sister was so scared after that she sold the property for the 5K and her an her sister left. So now the town gets not 200 acres but 400 for the value they placed on 1 property. The news did cover it, but like everything else no one gave two shits as they all wanted a place for there little fuckers to go a be baby sat.
If that were me 1 of 2 things would have happend. Either I would have sold it to the biggest contractor I could have found for at least 25K an acre. Give them a deal so sweet they have to take it. Then let the town fight someone with money. Or I would have sold the 1st one and took my money and bought as many junk cars as I could and would have buried them threw out the entire land. Let the town spend more money with the EPA and removing the shit safely.

[juggernaut]

Oh I forgot to mention, when I say old I mean older then 80 and were born on the property.

[koolkat]

I just saw this and thought it was pretty funny! Since the government and Supreme Court seems to believe in taking away peoples rights, why not take away theirs!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=45029

[tootie]

Hehe, great article!

[Jollyperv]

I heard about this yesterday, it's so fucking great

[Torn Rose]

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=21217

[MadMax]

I love that story, I truly love it. If I had enough free cash laying around to invest I'd go in.

[the_dawn]

THis government should know their limits..err, (ok forget what I just said)..