The left’s fear of losing its hold on the 3rd branch of government shows in today’s Boston Globe.

I urge everyone to WRITE / email their Congress person to urge a Congressional response to this travesty to our American Constitutional rights.

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You might think it foolish -
but I think we should ALL say something !

This is SO wrong !

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I’m not “with” a political party.
Just saying -
PEOPLE
stand up !
Hey -
do something
SAY Something
Tell your Congress person
that they are the reason it is called
Checks and Balances.

I am commanded to respond to your concerns by- avert your eyes, lest her deadly gaze fall upon your countenance- by my Overlord, who I may not name, but whose small, weakened, harmless frame trembles with the insane power of the 7th Realm of the Hide…

In the recent Kelo decision, Justice David H. Souter voted to expand the powers of governments that seek to transfer the private property of one private citizen or group of citizens to another. Radley has listed the avalanche of eminent

Own collectable fashion clothes? The govenment could confiscate your clothing and give it to a clothes rental store. Have a car? The government could take your car and sell it to a revenue producing taxi company. Own a painting? The govenment could take your painting and sell it to a Casino for display in its tax producing art gallery. Own some sort of intellectual property? The govenment could confiscate your property and sell it to Microsoft, Viacom, Disney or Time-Warner.

Think of it. Imagine you are Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. You created these characters and you own the rights to them. But you prefer not to commercialize them, i.e. you prefer not to turn them into a giant tax revenue stream for the city of Anaheim, the state of California or the U.S. government. But imagine the tax gold which Calvin and Hobbes could generate for these governments in the hands of the Disney corporation? Under Kelo v. New London each of these govenments would have very right to trump the private purposes of Bill Waterson to advance the “broader” purpose of the govenment to increase tax revenues, the new “public purpose” standard of the Supreme Court for the use of eminant domain condemnation proceedings.

Or imagine you are the owner of shareware or freeware software like the Firefox browser. Your software isn’t producing any tax revenue for any local, state or national govenments. But it very well could — if the govenment trumped your private property right for the “common purpose” of increasing tax revenue .. and handed over the rights to your software to the Microsoft corporation. Under Kelo v. New London this is an acceptable “public purpose” perfectly legal under the 5th amendment as re-written by the judges of the Supreme Court.

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Kelo vs. New London that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses for private development, declaring that it was a “public use” within the scope of the 5th Amendment of the…

It’s a sad day for America. The US Supreme Court severely restricted the property rights of ordinary citizens in its decision in the Kelo v. New London case:

A political party can now pinpoint precincts that oppose the ruling party, comdemn whole neighborhoods, and put up a parking lot; as long as the lot has meters.

Fascinating.

The expansion of federal power through the expansion of the commerce clause, and this new decision that any use that contributes to the public good constitutes public use, are profoundly troubling developments. Unless these untrumpeted decisions are ov…