Supreme Court ok's Property Seizures

[jahcs]

And the Supreme Court did not say anyone with a lawyer or cash could do this.  They said that, absent any equal rights concern, they would defer to local governments to determine when the common good outweighed property rights, a balancing act approved by the constitution.  The only news here is that they are allowed to use jobs and revenue in that balancing equasion.
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For me Common Good does not necessarily equate to some corporation lining it's pockets.

Sure I like to see new business, job creation, and tourism generated. But when should we step back and take a look at the needs of the common citizen.


EDIT: Someone on another forum just posted this quote from James Madison:

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much to forget it." - James Madison

I am not advocating armed rebellion but we do need to take action on this issue. Write the politicians serving your districts.