23 June, 2005

The Supreme Court

pissed all over the Constitution today. For those of you who haven't heard yet, the court ruled today that local governments can take private property and turn it over to other private parties through eminent domain. Now every city in America has a profit motive to use eminent domain. Whoever can bring in the most tax money gets the property. And you THOUGHT that you owned your house! Turns out, you don't.

(cross-posted on Framptonia)

1 comment:

The Last American said...

One of the few options we have left now is to hit companies that engage in private-party-to-private-party eminent domain abuse in the pocketbook by exposing who they are and refusing to do business with them.

To that end, I have created this little tool to help in the matter--

http://landthieves.wikispaces.org/

Feel free to add your own.