:: Thursday, June 30, 2005 ::
"Black by popular demand"
Walter E. Williams on the Kelo decision:
"The Court's decision helps explain the vicious attacks on any judicial nominees who might use framer-intent to interpret the U.S. Constitution. America's socialists want more control over our lives, property and our pocketbooks. They cannot always get their way in the legislature, and the courts represent their only chance. There is nothing complex about those 12 words the framers wrote to protect us from governmental property confiscation. You need a magician to reach the conclusion reached by the Court's majority. I think the socialist attack on judicial nominees who'd use framer-intent in their interpretation of the Constitution might also explain their attack on our Second Amendment "right of the people to keep and bear Arms." Why? Because when they come to take our property, they don't want to risk buckshot in their butts."
The wealthy and influential have little to fear from imminent domain while those with few resources risk losing everything just trying to defend themselves from condemnation. This is the very definition of tyranny. The Supreme Court has just given your local municipality a power never intended by - explicitly forbidden by - the founders; don't look for them to relinquish it anytime soon.
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