Re: Constitution Schmonstitution

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:17:05 -0500, WaIIy <WaIIy@(nft).invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:29:30 -0700, °cg° <cgrams7@{removethis}yahoo.com>
wrote:

The "Common Good" has already resulted in a municipality being enabled
to condemn private property, Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469
(2005), and then turn that property over to private developers in the
name of increased tax revenue being in the "Common Good".

Heads should have rolled after that one.

That decision was a landmark denial of the Magna Carta.

But we have been bought off with the latest toys, or gadgets.
From computers to cell phones, to MP3 players, etc, etc. On top of
that, we stay divided like who ever is in power wants it.
--
We're in a war dammit. We're going to have
to offend somebody. - John Adams
.

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