And I knew you guys would be a little shocked to learn that it was the
liberal Supreme Court justices who supported it!


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How many of the mega-huge private development corporations that will
*benefit* from the ruling
are likely run by "liberals"?

The issue isn't whether the ruling was voted for by liberal or
conservative justices, the issue is that the government now says its OK
for a private developer to pressure local politicians to boot you out
of your home or business, and that doing so is OK if the politician can
make a case that the private developer's use of your land would be
better for the "public good."

This is consistent with the erosion of rights in all areas of society
during the last several years.

Condeming private property for the purpose of awarding it to another
private owner is pure BS regardless of the political bent of he
justices that supported it. Carried to extremes, every time the Repubs
lose power, some Democratic developer can roll into Naples and get the
government to condemn properties belonging to local Republicans,
(thereby weakening the opposition's political base). You'd have to wait
until the R's got back in power again before you could pressure the new
government to yank property back from the usurping D's. Very, very bad
system.

Eisenhower looks smarter all the time- "Beware the military/industrial
complex." I think of those words every time I read something more about
Haliburton and Iraq. He should also have said, "Beware the rapacious
government, private developer complex."

FUBAR government is FUBAR government, regardless of the party at fault.