Breaking news:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private economic development.
This is the most amazingly bad, outrageous thing I have heard of. Hasn't the principle of private property been a cornerstone of law for, oh, the last several thousand years? Isn't private property a cornerstone of capitalism, supposedly? Isn't this a rank and gross violation of the Constitution, to wit the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
...?
Folks, "private economic development" means Wal-Mart. It means the new mall. It means the big fish, who has the ear of the city council, gets to eat up your small business that you slaved for the last 10 years to build, just because he wants the property you are sitting on. It means he gets to take your family home and kick you out of the house you raised your kids in and planned to retire in.
It means the corporations can take anything, anytime.
Who would have ever thought the Supreme Court would go this far? This is way worse than the bankruptcy bill. It opens up Pandora's Warehouse. It turns the foundations of our nation upside-down. It is the most vicious "judicial activism" imaginable, and it is titanically, venomously, utterly un-American.