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Technology Liberation Front: Supreme Court Strikes Major Blow to Property Rights

  • trumpit · 4 years ago
    The majority apparently was concerned with a bunch of stick-in-the-mud old fogey homeowners holding up COMMUNITY development/improvements. I say chase them out of their cruddy abodes with a blowtorch if necessary. How can someone with blog named 'Technology Liberation Front' be so in favor of blocking progress. Or are your views so narrow that only private interests can promote "progress" and government never should? But then you argue that special interests will rule the roost by exerting control over government to do its bidding. Since when don't you like that? In another comment you argue in favor of a monopolistic company like Microsoft over free and fair competitions. Your arguments are so full of paradoxes and contradictions and personal attacks on the jurists involved in the decisions that you make little sense. I don't blame you for quoting Justice O'Connor; I doubt you've ever had an original thought in your entire life.
  • Walter_E_Wallis · 4 years ago
    Pay them off at the new value that justified taking their property, not the old value if they were let alone.
  • Sam Rose · 4 years ago
    Aw, come on, trumpit. You must to be smarter than that. This isn't about blocking "COMMUNITY progress". It is about making it easier for people with huge amounts of money to do whatver they want.

    The constitution was made by people trying to escape the hegemony of others with more power and money than themselves. They set up property rights so that people could not be slowly backed into surfdom due to human greed. Property rights of individuals is "COMMUNITY progress" over tyranny. The supreme court ruling opens the door to destroy progress that was made over 200 years ago. The supreme court ruling is regression, NOT progress. End of story.

    Thankfully, in my own state of Michigan, our constitution specifically bans what the supreme court just ruled if allowed. And, the supreme court ruling says that State laws still trump their ruling. Other states and city governments would do well to totally ban the practive of allowing state and municipal governments to seize property on behalf of commercial developers.
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