Thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling, eminent domain has become the gun which cities can hold to the heads of property owners who don’t want to sell their property for enhanced economic growth of the city. In the wisdom of the liberal contingent on the Supreme Court, the word public in The Bill of Rights, Fifth Amendment, no longer means public in the sense of for the benefit of everyone in society for a legitimate government function which requires the purchase of private property.

No, public now means for the benefit of government economically by taking the property so it can be given to private developers to improve the economy of the area since the private developers will pay more taxes on malls etc, than would be paid on individually owned properties. The change in the meaning of public was done so that local governments could declare an area blighted, condemn the properties, and then sell them to the highest bidder, all in the name of improving the local economies. Could it be that the greed of the local politicians for tax money which causes them tax everything in sight is the causation of the blight? And could it be that the draconian regulations dumped on businesses also contribute to the decline?  "Surely not," they answer. "We don’t think that they would so therefore it doesn’t."

The Supreme Court left an opening in their convoluted unconstitutional ruling. The court said that states could pass laws that would stop local governments from exercising what they had ruled proper to do. (More than a few states are doing so.) Why didn’t they rule to begin with that such conduct was impermissible no matter how great or noble the idea seemed to be? That apparently was too much for the socialist minded cretins on the court who couldn’t overcome their favoritism for government control. It also seems to be an indication that they had mixed emotions about it too.  

When judges fail to support the Constitution and the laws that are created according to its standard for limited government, then those types of rulings are the result. The domain ruling is a good example of the idea that the Constitution is a living document that can be twisted to conform to the needs of modern society. Unfortunately it is such people and judges in government service who have created the need to violate the rights of the people in order to promote their agendas.

How many times does it have to be said and written that such actions as the domain ruling and some of the laws that Congress creates are pure Karl Marx in concept. He said, “From those with the most ability to those with the greatest need.” But there is an ironic twist when applied to the property issue. The property is taken from those with the greatest need for relief from government and given to those with the least need, developers who will enrich (with a greater tax contribution) the coffers of the government, the pseudo-needy better known as money grubbing politicians.

When will it end? When the people of this nation become so fed up with partisan party politics that they will throw the varmints out of Congress who have created this mess, then and only then will the problem be on the road to a solution. |

There is one more step that is connected with the cleaning out of Congress. In Sorting It Out, those so elected to Congress must bring impeachment proceedings against the justices who violate their oath, the ones who have made possible the Eminent Grab of property with their ruling.

© 03-14-2006 DEC