June 23, 2005
Not satisfied with having seriously abridged our First Amendment protected right to free speech by sanctifying the speech restrictions of Campaign Finance Reform the Supreme Court in a split decision has targeted the Fifth Amendment. Specifically the language that reads “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
You and I no longer own homes. We occupy them. We pay the bank every month for the privilege of living there as long as the government wants to let us.
In the ruling handed down today, the court ruled that the town of New London, CT could exercise eminent domain and take homes and business from citizens and turn the land over to private developers to build a river-front hotel, a health club and offices.
The Court has ruled that “economic development” qualifies as a public use. Economic development for who? For the homeowner who has worked and paid the mortgage month after month? Or for the developer who gets property he couldn't get on the open market because the owners didn't want to sell their homes?
What is to stop a developer from telling the city that if they take your home and give it to them, they can increase its economic value to the city. Not your right to your property. You no longer have that.
As the Supreme Court continues to render the words of the Constitution meaningless, perhaps it getting to be time to take these words to heart again.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 09:10 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
In the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary war, the American people were given their lands in "Allodial Title". What this means is that we then owned all the property in this country free and clear.
Allodial - "Free; not holden of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal."
What these means to the average American is that, at some point, our government has returned us to the feudal system of land ownership. Now we "owe" an obligation to our government to pay taxes on the property that we "should" own in allodial title. Not only is this land, but also every possession we have including our houses, our cars and everything else we think we own.
With all of the talk of "reducing the deficit", why don't we consider doing what our forefathers once proposed?
Hence, if you pay taxes on something, you really don't own it. The taxes paid are for the privilege of occupying or using it.
When the masses wake up to this, the Banksters and their Congress Critters had better run for the hills.
Posted by: Wally Q at June 23, 2005 09:45 AM (D7DRM)
Posted by: Tuning Spork at June 23, 2005 05:13 PM (eEGUY)
"Excuse me, Mister Macklin. Leonardo DiCaprio wants to move to town, but he'll only do it if he can live in your house. Y'see, he loves what you've done with the new additions and we'd really really like to say that we're the hometown of Leonardo DiCaprio -- it could be an economic boon. Be out by the 31st, 'kay?"
Posted by: Tuning Spork at June 23, 2005 05:22 PM (eEGUY)
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at June 23, 2005 05:27 PM (ics4u)
And congrats on being blogrolled by the Emperor!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at June 23, 2005 06:20 PM (eEGUY)
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at June 23, 2005 06:44 PM (ics4u)
Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate.
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Just how much danger we are in is illustrated by an article I wrote a year ago:
Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones In Texas
The Girl Scouts of America meet up with a shadowy quasi-governmental organization....
If the html doesn't work the url is:
http://www.houblog.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21
Posted by: ubu at June 23, 2005 07:14 PM (makk8)
Posted by: j. blair at June 23, 2005 07:15 PM (B54dL)
I couldn't have said it better myself.
BTW, thanks for the link.
Posted by: Russell Newquist at June 24, 2005 07:45 AM (lUNFP)
No, you pay the bank every month under a contract that says the bank won't evict you if you keep paying on the loan until it is paid off. You pay property taxes every six months for the privilege of living there.
And now the government can throw you off even if you've payed on the legal contract terms of the bank, and the theft-at-gunpoint terms of your property taxation, as long as someone can convince your local government that they can put something on your property that will provide more tax income than your property taxes do.
You don't own your property, and never have. But the terms of the rental contract just changed, and you had no say in it.
Posted by: Kevin Baker at June 27, 2005 09:34 AM (BiMLC)
The Supreme Court has no right to change the law. Their job is to interpret the law, not change it. I just looked up Public in the dictionary.
Public(of,belonging to,or concerning the people as a whole.)
Private (not for the public.)
I also feel that as long as I have to pay real estate taxes on my property, that it is not public property.What has just happened in the United States of America, to a persons home is their Castle?
Posted by: Robert Ziak at June 28, 2005 11:30 AM (ZCnB7)
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