The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113008   Message #2397969
Posted By: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
25-Jul-08 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tasteless and offensive?
Subject: RE: BS: Tasteless and offensive?
>>The Kelo Decision, done by Ruth Baader-Meinhoff Ginsburg and the other Lefties on the Supreme Court, was the greatest assault on our Constitional rights in history.<<

Note the part I have bolded. That is hyperbole. Perhaps you didn't recognize it because it is the way that your sources of information always talk? I don't think I was too far off base in equating hyperbole with outrage. If it was not outrage then please pardon me. I will say that your complaint is highly selective.

But lets put that aside for the moment.
According to you.

Taking for roads, is OK.
Taking tax money to favor big industry is OK
Taking water, appropriating land, flooding land for private power companies and for farmers, hundreds of miles of miles away. OK OK OK OK.

That's what makes America great!

Taking some tenements from some slumlords and paying them market value rather than hitting the lotto on someone else's plan to revitalize downtown was the greatest assault on our Constitional rights in history.

Not Dredd Scott, Not Guantanamo, Not "separate but equal", not lynching, none of that. Its a decision not to reward slumlords and speculators for someone else's work.

By the way, in Kelo, the land was not taken by private developers, it was taken by the New London Development Corporation, a private entity under the control of the city government. It was the city taking the land for the good of the city.

You are drawing a very fine line to say that BUYING land for economic development is moral different than buying it and flooding it for hydro power.