Comments on: Taking the fight to the enemy

By: Kim du Toit

Kim du Toit — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:29:00 +0000

Perry, don’t use “political classes” and “targeted” in the same sentence. You know how that gets my old heart pumping harder.

By: Mary Contrary

Mary Contrary — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:58:52 +0000

True enough insofar as your worthy aspirations go Perry. However in practical terms the resources and organisational skills of pro-property rights people are meagre. Nothing, not a thousand, not even ten thousand attempts to use Eminent Domain against politicians will strike fear into their hearts like a single success.

What’s more, a success would lead the whole noxious “eminent domain consultancy industry” to see that they could gain cheap (low bribe) exercise of such powers by targetting those most politically unsympathetic owners, politicians. And so the dragon would eat its tail.

So I hope you get what you want, ultimately, but I hope that anyone feeling motivated enough to actually act will weigh in behind the Lost Liberty Hotel project, at least until they pull down Justice Souter’s house.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:55:24 +0000

“There is no mechanism in law to ever force ED to be used. And local government exists to screw people who are not insiders while protecting all who are.”

Sadly true. But only because the indifference of the public has allowed this state of affairs to evolve. Kelo seems clearly to strike at the heart of private ownership, and people have noticed. Local governments ignore this at their peril.

By: K

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:14:34 +0000

Using ED against a judge or pol would be sweet. But the chances that a local government would to it are essentially zero.

There is no mechanism in law to ever force ED to be used. And local government exists to screw people who are not insiders while protecting all who are.

By: toolkien

toolkien — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:41:43 +0000

A good start, but when fuzzy accounting lands businessmen in jail, so it should for government officials. It is clear that lies and defalcations will not be tolerated in the private sector, it should not be in the public sector.

By: James

James — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:50:25 +0000

Y’know, somewhere in all this is perhaps a new kind of system of political accountability, if not a new kind of political system in itself.

I’ve come to believe that politicians should be faced with jail just like anyone else who breaks the law or tries to redefine it at the expense of others.

In the meantime, this’ll do.

By: B's Freak

B's Freak — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:06:40 +0000

Maybe we should force the Kennedy’s to give up their property to finally build that wind farm the elites on Cape Cod killed.

By: Matt McIntosh

Matt McIntosh — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:32:50 +0000

*cackles*

Holding them to their own premises. Ayn Rand would be proud, I think.

By: Old Jack Tar

Old Jack Tar — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:39:49 +0000

Uh, Eric, you don't say...

By: Eric Anondson

Eric Anondson — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:32:06 +0000

With the V for Vendetta trailers being released lately a thought springs to mind of the tagline for the movie, as best I can remember it… “People should not be afraid of their government. The government should be afraid of their people.”