The Supreme Court today decided that the word “private” in the 5th Amendment’s Private Property edict doesn’t mean “private” like you and I understand it. It appears “private” means “whatever your rulers decide it means”. In what should have been no surprise, the Supreme Court decided that corrupt local officials and mayors, who can be bought and sold for enticements from companies promising larger tax receipts and political contributions, can take your “private” property and give it to another person at substantially less than it’s worth and then allow them to utilize your former property to make lots of money. So it would appear that any time a big company wants to develop somewhere they just make a few political contributions, promise some bigger tax receipts and magically local officials will consider the private property owner’s land “blighted” and condemn it.
In Northwest Indiana, where I presently live, Cabela’s (the Sport Outfitter) has been trying to purchase a golf course in Hammond, IN. so it can develop the property and make a large distribution center. There is little doubt that it would benefit the area by providing jobs and services as well as generate significant tax revenue that the private golf course does not. Cabela’s, the Mayor of Hammond and the Golf Course have been in contention regarding this. Today (the day following this ruling by the stup-remes) the Mayor of Hammond wasted no time in saying, in print, that this court ruling will allow them to condemn the golf course to make way for this development.
This ruling is as highly significant as 9/11. The damage this will do to the character of America cannot be underestimated. It is a ruling that Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, would enjoy as he recently undertook a similar policy in having his government decide that all the white farmers didn’t need their land anymore and that the government could decide whose private property it got to be.
Banana Republic, here we come.
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