Local government given permission to seize personal property

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 7/6/2005, 10:07 am

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/

This was ruled a while ago but I'm finally making a topic for it. Thoughts?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 7/6/2005, 10:26 am

Unless the government is going to pay for people's relocation, to a location of equal or greater value, this doesn't make any fucking sense.

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 7/6/2005, 10:41 am

I believe they give you market value, that is all. Big shaft.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 7/6/2005, 11:14 am

Well, we won't a supreme court judge losing their home because their city wants to put up a new mall.

This ruling is ridiculous.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 7/6/2005, 11:21 am

oh irony, sweet irony, how I love thee.

http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

edit: I posted the wrong link! :*)**

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/6/2005, 11:42 am

What is ironic here Johnny?

This is ridiculious. I can't even say how much this pisses me off.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 7/6/2005, 4:43 pm

How dare they say it's OK to take someone's land without the person's ok? I don't care if it's a run-down ghetto that could potentially be a thriving shopping district. To take a person's HOME, a place that MEANS something. I... this... there are no words for the audacity of this.

I freaking hate this country more and more every day.

Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 7/6/2005, 4:47 pm

but it's okay if the government wants to do it!

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/6/2005, 9:49 pm

Yes, today I felt the first loathing for my country that I have in a while. Or rather, what they are doing. If someone tried to take away our land...I just don't know what I would do. There would be no consoling me with assurance that jobs would be created and I would be able to get land elsewhere. I am attached to THAT land. And how long before you come take away the new land?

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 7/6/2005, 10:27 pm

i think the only way government should take land from private owners is when it betters public infrastructure. (roads, water treatment plants, schools) and even then, it should be rural areas of the town, state, country. Walgreens is comming into town and 2 small businesses have to move now. (and i think a few houses) sucks.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/7/2005, 12:46 am

WTF? How is that right?

Reminds me of a country song by Alan Jackson "There Goes The Little Guy".

reza · Post by **reza** » 7/7/2005, 7:27 am

If it serves the greater good, I wouldn't have a problem with it. You have to be given a fair price though.

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 7/7/2005, 10:17 am

I think you should be given a MORE than fair price. Consider a company wants your land to build a mall or whatnot and you hold out. If they wanted it bad enough they would pay you more than what the land is worth. With this ruling, you only get market value. If you wanted market value, you'd be selling your house in the first place!

However, it is important to point out that the government has the final say. Joe Millionaire can't just take your property. A good case has to be made. Even still, this decision sucks.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/7/2005, 12:14 pm

I think the people should be able to decide which is the greater good by companies approaching and making offers. Not the government telling them what is the greater good. That is what made America so great in the first place: land. And now anyone that has some better watch out. They could come take it any moment.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 7/7/2005, 12:24 pm

actually i think they're giving the people in those areas market value + $10,000. it still sucks though. i don't agree with corporations essentially taking land from people through local government. something tells me there was a wal-mart lobby group pushing this agenda.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/7/2005, 11:26 pm

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nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 7/8/2005, 1:33 am

Psst, Matt... your company's evil. Accept it. :lol:

But yeah, like Cass said, land is part of what makes this country what it is. We're not-so-slowly losing our whole "land of the free" thing. It sickens me.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/8/2005, 11:10 am

That's not even half the problem with land and agriculture. But I won't go there again. *sigh*

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 7/8/2005, 12:18 pm

they're building a wal-mart next to Aztec ruins in mexico, how retarded and evil is that? i mean really.