Monday, January 23, 2006
RE-WILDING GONE WILD
Used to have a country but they
sold it down the river
Like a repossessed farm
auctioned off to the highest bidder - Bruce Cockburn
Epilogue
This analysis is from Cutting Edge Current Newsletter 1/21/2006
In days past -- before the Republican-controlled Supreme Court ruled that city and states could seize private property under certain circumstances -- James Hardy (second link in Cockburn quote) would have won his battle with the State of Florida. However, consistent with the High Court ruling that city and state governments could seize private property if their planned development would produce more taxes than the present, legal ownership is providing, Florida struck at Hardy with their newly-expanded Eminent Domain powers.
Now, James Hardy has been forced out and the State of Florida can proceed with its fancy $8 billion "Everglades restoration plan". Your private property may be next. Are you ready to fight the developers and your local and/or state governments? Private Property Rights have always been the cornerstone upon which our Private Enterprise economy was based. If people can no longer own their property, or if they can be thrown off it, our entire economic system is going to slow, topple, and then fall.
Of course, this is the final part of the Plan.
Steve
This article may be reproduced WITHOUT CHANGE and in its entirety for non-commercial and non-political purposes. ourfutureworld.blogspot.com
Used to have a country but they
sold it down the river
Like a repossessed farm
auctioned off to the highest bidder - Bruce Cockburn
This analysis is from Cutting Edge Current Newsletter 1/21/2006
In days past -- before the Republican-controlled Supreme Court ruled that city and states could seize private property under certain circumstances -- James Hardy (second link in Cockburn quote) would have won his battle with the State of Florida. However, consistent with the High Court ruling that city and state governments could seize private property if their planned development would produce more taxes than the present, legal ownership is providing, Florida struck at Hardy with their newly-expanded Eminent Domain powers.
"Using its eminent domain authority, the state ultimately forced Hardy to sell. But Hardy's fight lasted three years before his attorneys advised him to go ahead and settle. There was no way he could win ... this life, Jesse always said, was all he wanted. He didn't want the money, never wanted to take it he said because now, at 70 years old, he doesn't know what he'll do with it."
Now, James Hardy has been forced out and the State of Florida can proceed with its fancy $8 billion "Everglades restoration plan". Your private property may be next. Are you ready to fight the developers and your local and/or state governments? Private Property Rights have always been the cornerstone upon which our Private Enterprise economy was based. If people can no longer own their property, or if they can be thrown off it, our entire economic system is going to slow, topple, and then fall.
Of course, this is the final part of the Plan.
Steve
This article may be reproduced WITHOUT CHANGE and in its entirety for non-commercial and non-political purposes. ourfutureworld.blogspot.com
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