Too good to be true!

For those who follow The Supreme Court, here is a good one.

As you may or may not know, the Supremes recently ruled in favor of devlopers in an "Eminent Domain" case. What this means is that the government can take YOUR PROPERTY, and give it to businesses who will pay more taxes.

But the likes of Bill Gates will not have to worry - people who can afford to buy high value real estate already pay a lot in property tax. So whose house will get taken away under this Eminent Domain crap? You got it - poor people's homes.

Speaking just for me I think this SUCKS. If the government wants to build a highway where my home stands, then they can negotiate a selling price to me WITHOUT using terrorist tactics. If a business wants my property, same deal. Negotiate a price! I am a reasonable person. I will not ask for more than a few million dollars. And if you do not want to pay me, fine! Build your highway, or your Wal-Mart, somewhere else. No big deal.

This is a dark day for homeowners. It is now more easy for the government to take private property away from someone, and give it to someone else. And like I said before, it is the poor that will be on the short end of this stick.

Or will they?

Here is where it gets good. On Monday, June 27 2005, Private developer, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany, the code enforcement officer of the town of Weare, New Hampshire, seeking to start the application process to build a hotel to be named "The Lost Liberty Hotel" on 34 Cilley Hill Road, the present location of Supreme Court Justice David Souter's home. Souter voted in favor of the controversial Eminent Domain decision allowing a city to take residents' homes for private development - or to be seized to make room for a new hotel.

The best part of the proposal is that there will also be a cafe called "Just Desserts". I love it.

How perfect is this? I hope this is not just a joke. Right now, all the devloper's website is doing is asking for people to buy advertisement - supposedly to go to some pro-homeowners group.

Seriously, I would invest in this project. I could not afford to give too much, but if everyone in America who thinks that Eminent Domain sucks gives just $100 they can build a pretty nice hotel on Souter's property. And why stop with Souter? I say build a hotel on ALL THE LAND owned by any Supreme Court Justice who voted in favor of this crap. Hand it over to any private devloper - it really does not matter. Just so long as Eminent Domain is used, and the owner only gets a fraction of the actual value of the land. See how the Supreme Clowns feel about Eminent Domain then.

Really. I hope the Lost Liberty Hotel project is not a joke.