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The politics of government usurpation, post-Kelo

The politics of government usurpation, post-Kelo
N&V Staff
November 16, 2009

The politics of government usurpation, post-Kelo

(Paul Jacob) – Strong-arm, power politics — how long does it take self-proclaimed “caring” folks to learn that such tactics cannot lead to their promised peaceful, loving utopia?

New London, Connecticut, was ruled by a cadre of allegedly well-intentioned movers and shakers, the kind of people who believe that politics is a way to “get things done.” This group of Democratic Party loyalists concocted a scheme to take a “blighted” neighborhood, the Fort Trumbull area, and turn it into a clean, bright, shiny complex of businesses, featuring biotech firms and the might Pfizer.

But to do this they needed first to “take,” quite literally, the several property of the community’s owners. And, so, under a strained (but sanctified-by-recent-tradition) reading of the Takings Clause, the politicians condemned the property.

The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, the majority of which abandoned any common sense in interpreting “public use.” Infamously, the court decided Kelo v. New London in favor of New London, giving the city the go-ahead on the project.

So the property was condemned. Ms. Suzette Kelo and her neighbors were forced out. And the developers went to work.

And then stopped . . .

(Mr. Jacob is president of the Citizens in Charge Foundation)

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