The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that municipalities could seize land from one private landowner and give it to another private landowner under the Constitution’s eminent domain provision. The reasoning behind the ruling is that a shopping mall, for example, would be in the communities greater interest than a private house. In other words, it means more tax dollars for the city.
This is total none sense because as any student of the Constitution knows, the Founder’s intention was that eminent domain should only be exercised if the land is to be used for a public works project like a highway or a bridge, not to build a Wal-Mart SuperCenter.
Justice David Souter, who ruled with the majority, may soon learn that Karma is a bitch. See, Souter owns land in Weare, New Hampshire and Logan Darrow Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax
revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land and Clements has applied to do just that.
Clements wants to build “The Lost Liberty Hotel” which will feature the “Just Desserts Café” and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon’s Bible, each room will have copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
I think this would be a most fitting tribute to the Supremes’ sell out ruling.
