The site has some disturbing numbers regarding eminent domain for private use. Posted the direct li
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nk:This report documents the widespread abuse of eminent domain, not for anything resembling a “public use,” but for private benefit and private profit. Eminent domain takes a terrible toll on its victims. It should be used only in the direst of public necessities and never for private ends.http://www.castlecoalition.org/report/reportStates/ExecutiveSummary.shtml
Sorry I can't figure how to make the link active.
Thanks for the IJ.org link. Very cool. Hadn't heard of them.
Crying shame: another example of how the buck(tends) to stop with the average citizen.
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
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nk:This report documents the widespread abuse of eminent domain, not for anything resembling a “public use,” but for private benefit and private profit. Eminent domain takes a terrible toll on its victims. It should be used only in the direst of public necessities and never for private ends.http://www.castlecoalition.org/report/reportStates/ExecutiveSummary.shtml
Sorry I can't figure how to make the link active.
Thanks for the IJ.org link. Very cool. Hadn't heard of them.
Crying shame: another example of how the buck(tends) to stop with the average citizen.
–--
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
