Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Steve Schear wrote: > At 10:19 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote: > >On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jay Listo wrote: > > > > > Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you > > > know you've been Bush-whacked. > > > >Maybe you should take another look at who voted how.

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread A.Melon
> At 10:19 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote: > >On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jay Listo wrote: > > > >> Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you > >> know you've been Bush-whacked. > > > >Maybe you should take another look at who voted how. The Bushies > >dissented on this opinion. G

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, A.Melon wrote: > > >Maybe you should take another look at who voted how. The Bushies > > >dissented on this opinion. Go figure. > > > > Not surprising at all. The Bush camp's court agenda is spearheaded by > > members of the Federalist Society which wants to roll back many

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: > How do you take out a bulldozer? Anti-tank mine?

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, but this steps crosses a line, I think. Before, your home could be taken for a public project. Now, the supreme court has ruled that your home can be taken for a "public project" that consists entirely of private development, in the name of the "public good", which is supposed to equal hi

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
Quoting Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can easily > be replaced.) RPG7 should do it. They're known to be able to take out a Bradley. -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not "It's just this little chromium swi

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jay Listo wrote: > Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you > know you've been Bush-whacked. Maybe you should take another look at who voted how. The Bushies dissented on this opinion. Go figure. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: > What this equates to is, whoever had more money than you can take away your > home. Previously, it was just the occasional men-with-guns that could do > this, but now they effectively have proxies everywhere. It just makes formal (and official) what has

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Gil Hamilton
From: "A.Melon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The principle of using the takings clause to transfer private property to private parties has already been approved by the Supremes. This is but another variation. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=467&invol=229 Interesting that

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Sarad AV
This is very bad news. A lot of people will loose their homes to private 'economic developers'. It certainly means no right to have a permenant home. When suburbs start developing, the people are going to be evicted over and over. How long will this continue? If they cant do any good for individu

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Jay Listo
Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you know you've been Bush-whacked. J.A. Terranson wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: What this equates to is, whoever had more money than you can take away your home. Previously, it was just the occasional me

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Gil Hamilton
From: Jay Listo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you know you've been Bush-whacked. Yes, because so many of the current justices have been appointed by Bush... ..oh, wait (You might want to look at which justices joined this opinion

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread A.Melon
> >From: "A.Melon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >The principle of using the takings clause to transfer private property > >to private parties has already been approved by the Supremes. This is > >but another variation. > >http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=467&invol=229 > >

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread James B. DiGriz
Tyler Durden wrote: Holy crap. Some shitty little township can now bulldoze your house because someone wants to convert the space into a Waffle House. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/ Where's Tim May when you need him? Where's the RAGE? How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldoze

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread A.Melon
> Yeah, but this steps crosses a line, I think. Before, your home could be > taken for a public project. Now, the supreme court has ruled that your home > can be taken for a "public project" that consists entirely of private > development, in the name of the "public good", which is supposed to e

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread A.Melon
> How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can > easily be replaced.) thermite through the engine block, frag bomb in the engine compartment, torch any remaining hoses, slice the tires, puncture the brake lines. you don't need someone to tell you this. takings clause abuse ha

Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy crap. Some shitty little township can now bulldoze your house because someone wants to convert the space into a Waffle House. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/ Where's Tim May when you need him? Where's the RAGE? How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can easil