Tag Archive for "Eminent Domain"
May 26, 2009Ace reports on a particularly egregious eminent domain instance that won Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s stamp of approval.
You know what would be an excellent way to honor the 40 Americans who were killed when Islamic terrorists hijacked Flight 93 and crashed it into a field on 9/11? Swiping the private property of other Americans and then building a memorial that points toward Mecca and is filled with Islamic symbolism on that property.
The National Park Service agrees with me.
“We always prefer to get that land from a willing seller. And sometimes you can just not come to an agreement on certain things,” park service spokesman Phil Sheridan said.
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution allows this kind of thing (although I’m wondering which Federal enumerated power building a memorial would fall under), but it seems entirely distasteful. Of course there should be a Flight 93 memorial, but in a country where ACORN gets $4 Billion in non-stimulative stimulus money there should be an above-board way to do it that actually honors libery rather than trampling it.
What does it take to get a 73-year-old woman to pound the pavement handing out fliers? If that 73-year-old woman is Lower Southampton township resident Dolores Madrigale, it takes the threat of an un-funded proposed Community Center ruining the quiet enjoyment of her property and creating traffic snarls on already crowded township roads. She’s asking area residents to join her in opposing the center at tonight’s Township Supervisors’ meeting.
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Lower Southampton Township’s plans to build a multi-million dollar community center on 9.65 acres of land at Meadowbrook and Bristol Roads Springmeadow Roads have hit a snag. The current land owner is refusing to sign the sale agreement he now says the Township “misrepresented” during negotiations.
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The Lower Southampton Township Board of Supervisors appears to be in a land grabbing frenzy. The Board has been threatening and passing condemnation resolutions on property owners as a strong-arm negotiation tactic. And an added bonus of the tactic is the way they can avoid paying their fair share of transfer taxes to the state.
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