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Eminent Domain Bites Back!

June 28, 2005 |

Maybe this is something freedom-minded folks in Pittsburgh should look into. After all, the bigwigs of downtowm politics have virtually frozen development and investment from getting close to some areas for fear that the politically connected will confiscate their property for their own business objectives, likely using the victims own tax dollars to pay for enacting the crime. 5th and Forbes is just such an example, as it remains blighted largely because nobody in their right mind would invest a private business plan into the area. Already we’ve seen the boondoggles that were Lord and Taylor and Lazarus.

Anyway, it seems that a few folks up in NH in the neighborhood where Supreme Court Justice Souter has a home are going to work with the local city council in order to build a hotel on the spot where Souter owns a home. The name of the hotel? Hotel Lost Liberty! (and Museum), of course. There is nothing like a little justice to make a fine point. So, Justice Souter has opened a can of worms with his majority opinion for allowing the government to confiscate people’s homes and land under the flimsiest of economic excuses: Centrally planned economic development. (a.k.a. if you confiscate and build it, nothing’s changed: they still may not come).

I love payback. Let’s hope this is as big a pain in Souter’s rear-end as it has been for all the central planning abuse victims across the country. Too bad Pittsburgh city council is full of central planners, otherwise we might build a hotel on Mayor Murphy’s house!


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