Today's post at Bizzyblog is a must-read. Tom Blumer has actually found a couple of real-life commenters who support the SCOTUS decision in the Kelo V New London case.
Of course, any supporter of New London in this case, however well-intentioned, is an authoritarian idiot. Case in point, the New London Day columnist who considers the loss of personal property rights in America an "inconvenience." He says the case:
is also about our moral obligation, whatever our political persuasion, to so seek to better the lives of minorities and working poor in the cities by creating economic opportunities and better conditions.
Oh, those minorities and working poor, if only they'd let us educated whites make all their decisions for them, even about their own property. I'm sure they're glad to know the NLD columnists are looking out for them, by calling their neighborhood "the most malodorous chunk of real estate between New Haven and Providence."
If I were a different kind of blogger, I'd say that Michael Kennedy, the author of the NLD peice Tom links to, is a racist, classist scumbag. But I'm a nice guy, so I'll only refer you on to Bizzyblog to be enlightened and draw your own conclusions about that attempt to defend the indefensible.
The moment that idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the Laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be sacred or liberty cannot exist. - John Adams
Nothing is ours, which another may deprive us of. - Thomas Jefferson
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