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[wispfox]

Via joedecker, The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses -- even against their will -- for private economic development.

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[melanie.livejournal.com]

makes you all warm and tingly, doesn't it. :(

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

This has made me realize that there should be a hierarchy of rights:

rights of the individual > rights of the local area > rights of the state > rights of the federal government

You might notice that corporations are not mentioned anywhere in there. Because they don't have any rights. Well, they shouldn't have any rights, but then, I also feel that we should go back to the times when corporations we created for a single specific endeavor and then disbanded.

Although, this isn't about state's rights. This is about voting people off their land. Which, I'll grant you, has a long-standing tradition in this country (especially if said people were there before we showed up), but I don't like it one bloody bit. This isn't an episode of Survivor, we're not allowed to vote people off the island!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

And the bizzare thing was that the good guys on the SCOTUS voted the bad way, and vice versa.