eminent domain.

[rockriver]

let's just say there was this fella
and uh.. let's just say he ate a meal with another fella.
and uh, well, let's just say the other fella was a landowner/businessman.

well respected. well liked. when he talks people listen. quiet natured. doesn't harm others. helps others.
but, by golly he don't like being harmed.
let's just say that gov't is taking some of his land which will be used by a private organization!! eminent domain.
and he tells his lunchmate. "that wasn't right." it ought not to be possible. but it is...
and let's just say the gov't took some of his land for gov't use. a big chunk. the story about how it happened and what he
could do about it, is a real bad story. nothing "fair" about it. eminent domain.

let's just say the landowner is tired of being abused.
maybe he's thinking "when the revolution starts, and he continues..."


if this had been a true story, and obviously it's make believe cause this kind of s doesn't happen in America.
and it ain't me. I have never lost or sold any property to eminent domain. it's always been the other fella. not me.
but to imagine this respected fella thinking. "when the revolution starts ... "

it was a sobering lunch... dream... nah... not real.. but sobering.
in this make believe story, the lunchmate told the landowner, "sir, it appears things are going to get worse."

[qrprat77]

"Private Business" eh? Here's what I think: Once upon a time, the State decided to build a hiway because "Jobs man!" To build this hiway, they had to cut property that had significant agricultural value in half, and also destroy a cemetary for a lil' church where the sons and daughters of freed slaves still worshiped and raised their children right. The Bayou Rats who owned land near the lil' church donated them some space to relocate the graves to before the work began. on the rest of the land Those Bayou Rats owned, was a pecan tree orchard. As FDR's men did their duty and civilized central Louisiana with "New Roads! because Jobs man!", they had to destroy several of those pecan trees. One by one, the rest of the trees in the orchard died until only six on the back acres stood out of around 100. Apparently, the drainage ditch near the home place had stopped the roots from those last trees from growing together with the rest of the orchard, trees do that you know, support one another by growing their roots together. Fungus can take advantage of that, and that's what happened there. So yeah, "Emminent Domain" can be pretty 'awesome' when it's for the public good, and nothing is more sacred than the public good, not even the remains of those who first tasted freedom for their people, or a means of making a living for a family that's been where they've been for a while now... "Needs of the Many" and whatnot...

[Hiram]

Eminent domain for the public good is sometimes necessary, and while I don't like it, I understand the need. The public good is defined as for a school, hospital, road, airport, etc. The public good is not a new private business or for that matter a private anything. Unfortunately, with the Kelo decision private property rights went out the window.

[kappydell]

Eminent domain is one of my hot buttons ever since a homeowner was required to sell his home to a developer for a STRIP MALL. There were other places, but the developer got the city to decide that the taxes from promised jobs (all of which turned out to be part time, minimum wage, and given to out of towners) would make it an eminent domain case. Unfortunately the court sided with the city, not the homeowner. He did not get enough from the sale of his home to relocate with the same quality of life. I did get a good (ironic) chuckle out of the city councils' outrage that the city made nowhere near the 'projected' tax revenue from it. It soured me on that issue forever. Worse yet, nobody else seemed to give a hoot (except the poor guy that got ejected from his home...) It is outrageous what is considered the common good to bring the eminent domain laws into effect.

[610Alpha]

Here is a story of eminent domain for the good!

http://www.landrights.com/eminent_domain.htm

This is the same guy that has the no trespassing sign that i shared earlier.