If you haven't heard about the Supreme Courts decision that allows cities to seize private property and turn it over to other private citizens then you must be living under a rock. The Big Sky Blog has a review of Montana laws on the subject and Dave Budge (among many) has numerous comments on the issue and vents his outrage on the whole issue.
I agree that in my opinion this is a flawed decision from the Supreme Court but I would really like to know why everyone is so surprised at it. I don't care what level of government you are speaking of, Federal, State, or local the trend in all is to remove a persons individual freedoms for the perceived good of all according to the good those in power imagine. So this just really fits right in. If Joe Shit the mayor decides that it is in the public good if his cousin Ernie opens a car dealer, guess what, he can now seize the land from private owners, turn it over to Ernie and do just that. Since Jes Shit feels its in the public good, it's legal. What it is, is BULLSHIT!!! One more of our freedoms enshrined by the paper shell we call a Constitution, down the drain. How unfortunate for us all.
I read somewhere along the way in my readings of this issue that people were talking about a constitutional amendment to prevent this. The Constitution is just a paper shell that's ignored at will so it would mean nothing, it is extremely hard to amend the Constitution, and most people don't really care about this issue. As long as it's not their private property that Joe Shit wants to seize for his cousin Ernie, and Joe spoon feeds them that it's a good thing they will believe it, hide their head in the sand, and go on and not worry about the right and wrong of it.
Enough on this issue, you know how I feel and on to other news yesterday that caught my eye. The short lived strike was settled which was sure good news to me.
Friday, June 24. 2005
Yesterdays News
Beach volleyballers' strike ends in deal at world championshipsNow this is something of importance, such a beautiful sport (or is it just the beautiful bodies) marred by such a dispute.
Beach volleyball players at the world championships went on strike for nearly two hours on Thursday, but finally concluded a deal with the sport's governing body after days of dispute.
The players were unhappy at being banned from forming a union and had met the sport's governing body, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) late on Wednesday for crisis talks.
After a boycott lasting one hour and 45 minutes from noon on Thursday, the FIVB agreed the players be allowed to form a commission that could send a representative to the governing body's council.
I was just worried to death over this issue.
automatically, worn out by the gloomy day and by the perspective of a sad tomorrow, I put in my mouth a spoonful of tea in which I had softened a piece of the madeleine.... A delicious pleasure overtook me, isolated, disconnected from any idea about its cause. It immediately made life's vicissitudes indifferent to me, life's disasters became innocuous, its brevity illusory, in the same way that love operates, filling me with a precious essence: or, rather, this essence was not in me, it was me. Marcel Proust
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Well, thank goodness this important issue is settled and you can get back to making hay, etc. Hailed here yesterday. Temp dropped 40 degrees in 15 minutes. It will take a few days before we can really assess the damage.
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bonnie
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2005-06-24 06:59
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Cities being able to seize property legally ticked me off too. Although it has gone on for a long time whenever a railroad, interstate is built. Homes and land are divided up by our sprawl, our desire for the shortest route from point A to point B. It would take an awful lot of convincing to get me to vote for something like that locally.
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Linn
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2005-06-24 12:08
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Again, welcome to our world. While others might call the Dallas Cowboys 'America's Team' I call them something less polite, especially since Jerry By-God Jones took over [this from a kid that grew up living and dying on every play my heroes made in the 60's and 70's]. Living in the city they are leaving I say 'good riddance’. For the citizens that live where their new stadium is going up: you have my sympathies and prayers that Arlington doesn't screw you too bad.
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beast1624
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2005-06-25 00:52
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