The Land Grab Begins
That didn’t take long. The city of Freeport (a most ironic name) has seized the opportunity offered to them by the supreme court to steal three properties from a couple of seafood restaurants to make room for a $8 million dollar private marina.
The rich guy wins. The poor guy gets screwed. Big surprise.
I wonder how many people are going to die as a result of this decision. Once all the legal options are gone to protect your property from theives, what choice do you have but to take up arms and defend it with violence?
Update: I may have been mistaken: The loser wasn’t poor:
Gore said Western Seafood’s 30,000-square-foot processing facility, which sits on the 300-by-60-foot tract, would be forced to close if the land were seized.
That facility earns about $40 million annually, and Western Seafood has been in business in Freeport since 1946, he said.
August 15th, 2005 at 12:56 am
[…] I mentioned the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision a couple months ago; the short version is that, according to the Court, local officials know how to develop your land better than you do. If you happen to be living on some prime real estate that the local government wants, it has the power to throw you off of your land, burn your house, and build a Wal-Mart on the ashes. […]