Travis Seitler

Justice Souter's home

On June 27, 2005, Logan Darrow Clements requested that the town of Weare, New Hampshire start the process for building a hotel on what is currently Souter's home, noting that after Kelo, the tax revenues from the hotel would make such action legal. Clements indicated that it was necessary to build on that location because "it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans." He plans to fund the hotel using investment capital from wealthy libertarians and hopes that prominent libertarian groups like the Institute For Justice and the Free State Project will be regular customers. Ideas for the hotel include a "Just Desserts Cafe" and provision of copies of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged to visitors. If three of the five members of the town's board vote for the hotel, Souter could lose his home.

Rush Limbaugh, who opposed the decision in Kelo, believes that Clements' action is "a great plan. This is the way you fight this kind of stuff: Make these elites live the life that they impose on everybody else."

EDIT: New link to item at Wikipedia.

I didn't realize this eminent domain abuse was so widespread, or that Wal-Mart has been using such abuses so prolifically.

I wanted to give 'em the benefit of the doubt... but when you start kicking your own customers out of their homes, you go from questionable to despicable.

Goodbye Wal-Mart, and any other company bulldozing over the 5th Amendment.

When the bulldozers come to New London, Connecticut, I intend to be there, standing in their way.

EDIT: I'm on the lookout for other businesses guilty of this sort of thing. So far, Target, Home Depot, and Bed, Bath & Beyond are on the list. You find any more, you tell me... deal?

Now, they will receive ‘just compensation,’ which happens to be the estimated value, a value set by the same municipality that is trying to take their property. They set the price at which they force you to sell. I feel really bad for people with prime real-estate on beaches, lake fronts, and river fronts, but in my opinion nobody is safe now. You may be safe today, but changes over the next decade or so could place your home in the firing line.

This is corporatism, a joining of government and corporate power to oppress people of their rights, in this case one of the most fundamental rights, that of property. At least we still have the 2nd amendment, because we may need it fairly soon.

Perhaps this is why GWB has stated the war on terror could last up to a century, because now someone defending their homestead against an abomination can be classified as such. How many Ruby Ridges and Wacos are in the making now?

The last remnants of the Republic were officially swept away on Thursday, and this nation as it was is gone, replaced by a system of neo-feudalism, a term coined by Alex Jones which I think is very suitable.

When they come to bulldoze your home, what will you do?

Source: American Serf

The Supreme Court has ruled that a local government, under the guise of "eminent domain," can seize private land for private use if that private use will "create more jobs" for the community bring in more tax revenue. This apparently, is now considered "public use."

Read it yourself. Then I suggest you start packing your bags.

"Who among us can say she already makes the most productive or attractive possible use of her property? The specter of condemnation hangs over all property," wrote O'Connor, in an opinion joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. "Nothing is to prevent the state from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory." — Chicago Tribune News