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An Example of Government Fed Too Much of Our Money and Out of Control
wingwiper,
your quote: "I have never heard of a Mall claiming Eminent domain."
You must have not been paying too much attention to eminent domain issues in the last several years. I can list 3 instances of the top of my head in the area where I live, where eminent domain laws were used to rob people of their property to give it to private developers under the guise of "increasing revenue base". Just go to castlecoalition.org to see for yourself.
Like I said before, the most important role of government is to protect peoples lives and property. When the government ceases to perform this function, or worse yet, to take peoples lives and property unjustly (Ruby Ridge comes to mind), such government looses it's justification for existence, and it's only a matter of time when people come up with a different form of government.
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back to eminent domain..
wingwiper, you asked for specific cases:
1) Montgomery County, PA, old farmer and his children lost their farm to make way for a new golf course to be developled by a private developer.
2) Homes are being taken away from Philadelphia residents to build casinos, of all things. Now granted, that's not the cleanest area around. But, in my judgement, if it's good enough to build casino in, it should be good enough to give people their just compensation.
3) Long Branch, NJ. A World War II vet is in the process of loosing his beach front home for private condo development. The town offered the vet $300K for a house that's worth over $1Million. If that's not theft I don't know what is.
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you're right, participation is the key. but how do you deal with a certain portion of the electorate that has never heard of, let along care about the eminent domain issues? those are the folks who keep re-electing the thiefs into office on bogus promises of better government services. But, like you said, making some noise about the issue is what is needed to bring it to politician's attention. Here's hoping they'll do something about it.
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I love the three-box system.
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