Eminent Domain - Unlawful Confiscation by Government and Corporations of Real PropertyPosted on 05/23/2010
No worse collusion between government and corporations,
eminent domain allows corporations to convince local governments to classify
private property as condemned, evict the tenants, and sell the property to the
corporations for pennies on the dollar of its true value.
“Eminent domain” is a local government’s self-anointed power to declare any private property in a city to be blighted. Once certified as blighted, a legal statutory term based on whatever the local government defines as not meeting certain minimum living standards and other criteria of livability, such as the number of bedrooms and bathrooms in a residential home, the city government can order the coerced sale of the property to the city government or its corporate proxies for the purpose of land redevelopment into business or other residential purposes. Redevelopment raises the value of the property, which permits the city to charge higher property taxes for the same area of land.
Government officials claim that property confiscation is for the public good, offering disputable proof of what constitutes the public good. Officials often berate the property and publicly promote the redevelopment plans, hyping jobs, shopping convenience, or whatever it takes to quell a public uprising about the unjust theft of a private owner’s property without due process of law.
"On the Fifth Anniversary of the Kelo Supreme Court Decision"
Posted on 05/23/2010
Long considered by nearly every Libertarian organization as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the realm of eminent domain rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision had its fifth anniversary June 23, 2010.
Libertarian Party members were reminded by Libertarian Executive Director Wes Benedict in emailings of the court decision's anniversary and encouraged to show support for a case reversal that would vouchsafe an American citizen's individual freedom to hold and use private property.
Read the Libertarian Release Letter
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