Denis left a comment to my Kelo Grab post that I wish he would have put on a post.
So I’ll do it for him:
Pete, hopefully this will wake Americans up…but I have my doubts. It appears that Americans are too willing to give up their rights and freedoms. Recent history is proving this.
As you know, emminent domain means the government can take property, but is required to compensate the fair value of property seize, and use it for public use only….highways….public streets, and so on. It took a couple hundred years for ‘Justices’ to claim there exists a right per Kelo vs. New London.
In a similar way that previous case law decisions led to the
so-called privacy right to abortion….the same pattern will probably emerge to claim a right to same-sex marriage. That isn’t here yet but decisions about cases in Texas and Michigan are setting up that prospect. In both cases activist Supreme Court judges are making up law and creating what does not exist in the Constitution.
Same-sex marriage is being pushed through to legitimize homosexuals as a protected class deserving special rights, protections, and preferences. This will take more liberty (what remains) from everyone else (in the same way the liberty of men was taken away by women over the past 40 years).
Kelo vs. New London is different in that many Americans are vulnerable. Maybe this will wake people up.
In California, a recent court decision now allows employees to sue for sexual harassment when another employee, a co-worker, has a relationship with a manager. Sexual harassment was meant to rectify true harassment but has morphed from that into a windfall for lawyers and greedy women to sue based on their own interpretation of what harassment is—allowing the ‘victim’ to define harassment—and has morphed again into allowing those who are actually not direct victims of any harassment at all to sue. How crazy is that? We Americans give up our rights too easily. (Maybe Kelo vs. New London won’t wake people up.) Employees in California are going to get even more paranoid about being accused of something unfairly (particularly the men)from other employees (particularly the women)than they have been over the past 20 years. California I believe, was a member of the former Soviet Union. It sure seems that way anyways.
I listened to one home owner (radio)in New London who is fighting to keep is home. The home is waterfront property. Granted, New London is not La Jolla, but the fair market value according to him is somewhere between $300K and $400K. NLDC has offered him $60K.
We Americans had better wake up. The government, the elitists, and the powerful corporations are making the rest of us serfs. And it’s happening so fast I’m not sure the serfs have much of a chance anymore.
I hope I’m wrong.
Wow, usually when I get verbose in the comments I stop and make it a postâ€â€Âbut that’s just me.
Anyway, Denis’ mention of Al Q’alifornia reminded me of a story of a friend of mine who once inserted his foot into his mouth, and subsequently had to quit his job or be fired. He was responding to a gal that complemented him on his tieâ€â€Âan eco-friendly type that had gorillas patterned upon it. He said, “It’s my Negroes in the mist tie.†Yes, very non-PC and all that. The interesting part was that it wasn’t the gal that was offended, she just laughed, it was some guy sitting two desks away that overheard the conversation. He reported the incident to his supervisor and my friend was asked to leave, one way or another the following day. My friend considers himself lucky that he wasn’t blackballed from the industry. I think he was right.
Update: Polish Knight plays devil’s advocate in the comments to my original post, to which I respond with my usual eloquence… or lack thereof; so go there now you must.
