Posted by
Terry Gray on Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:43:30
An article in the April 25, 2009 Louisville Courier Journal is about the Mayor of Jeffersonville Indiana, Tom Galligan, and his attempt to take a local water company via eminent domain.
"If someone is making a profit from water utility, I don't know why a municipality can't take it and invest those profits in its own community," the mayor said. Legislators "want us to provide all the services but they want to restrict how we can get revenue."
Can you believe this?
On the first anniversary of Kelo, President Bush issued an executive order that strengthened property rights and protections against eminent domain. Section I states that the federal government must limit its use of taking private property for "public use" with "just compensation", which is also stated in the constitution, for the "purpose of benefiting the general public." He limits this use by stating that it may not be used "for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken". Shouldn't this also apply to local governments?
This got me thinking about the Obama regime and its propensity of seizing businesses like banks and auto makers, effectively nationalizing those industries and opening the door to further seizure and nationalization. What if they decided to use simpleton-socialist Mayor Galligan's mentality and seized gun manufacturers? At the point they could simply shut the down and stop the manufacture of guns and ammo, side stepping the 2nd amendment - own guns if you can find them.
Look out folks, it's coming. And for those of you who are proponents of socialism, remember, Hitler was a socialist.