Where’s the fun in that? What’s the point of accruing power if you then can’t use it to personally enrich yourself? You mean actually work for and earn wealth instead of having it handed to me in an envelope inside a magazine or having info whispered while standing at adjacent urinals?

Which is why so much of local politics has come to look not much different from a crime syndicate. (Maybe it’s always been that way, especially in dense east coast cities, but only recently have we been treated to it in such open forms and obviousness.)

But what disappointed me most was the reaction of the Left. I know, liberals feel that government does no wrong, unless a Republican is in charge, but here you have poor people being stripped of their homes to benefit private business, and from the Left came the sound…..of crickets. The ACLU declined to get involved, no doubt preoccupied with their eternal battle against Christianity and anyone to the right of Lenin politically. Here was a chance to work for ’social justice’ in its true form, and the Left didn’t just swing and miss, they refused to even go to the plate. The only conclusion I can reach is that liberals are comfortable with governmental tyranny.

Perhaps liberals ARE fascists after all.

Is the Kelo’s home still standing? Do they get it back? Can Pfizer be sued for all this wasted legal money?

If I remember it correctly, McCarran Airport said they needed to expand and was going to take some property and forcibly remove people from their houses via imminent domain….just north of the established property lines. Okay, fine whatever.

but what ultimately happened was that airport decided to go another route, sold the property, and, magically it was JUST THE RIGHT amount of land for a Wal-Mart SuperCenter which was promptly erected on that site. not sure if any of the residents of those houses ever saw a penny from that deal.

imminent domain is an inherently dirty business. Personally, I can no longer see a valid reason to uproot someone, especially for a private business. I mean really….there is ALWAYS a rare species of bird or fish that can be trampled upon first.