The Supreme State of Amerika

Marxists, socialists, communists and other liberal Democrats are reveling in the state of the federal courts these days. Sleep-walking Republicans evidently are, too.

How else can you explain the current state of non-reaction to the Supreme Court's majority decision in Kelo v. New London. This is the case that has now ceded the right to any local government to take over a private citizen's property if it is financially enticing to do so from a tax-revenue potential.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has been in the process of applying a great big roundhouse to the chin of most Americans, but with this move they have landed the punch.

As I said on my radio show this week, I probably went into the wrong line or work. How long will it take for me to get my credentials in real estate development up to speed?

If you missed it here's how it works. Citizen A bought the property and home X number of years ago. Citizen B has development lust over piece of land and runs down to the local civic governing body and explains his plan. By developing and the property commercially, Citizen B can deliver a property that will have increased the taxable value of the property by Y number of dollars annually.

The court said that in doing so, the municipality receives public "benefit" from the increase in taxable revenue. Formerly, eminent domain could only be declared for public "use" – like roads, dams, bridges, sewer, etc. But the weight of the decision always had to be community-wide development and benefit. The court decided in this case that increased tax dollars coming to the municipality is all the benefit necessary for people to be publicly displaced and for the estates they wish to pass on to the next generation be stolen from them.

Now Supreme Court Justice David Souter is getting a taste of this neo-Stalinist decision he penned in favor of the majority of the court.

In Justice Souter's hometown of Weare, N.H., a letter has been received by the code enforcement officer, Chip Meany. The letter announces the intent of a developer from California to specifically request the governing board in Weare to approve eminent domain on Souter's home. The developer, in exchange, is promising to build a hotel, museum and gift shop on the property. At present, Souter pays only $2,895 annually in property tax. It wouldn't take a genius to note that a hotel and cafe on the premises immediately make it a more attractive tax revenue generator than Souter's old farmhouse.

Meany appeared on my show yesterday to confirm that he will see to it that the developer and the application are given their due process before the village board.

I asked Meany if he thought the application withstood much of a chance to pass the board. It needs only three votes to be approved. His answer was "no."

When pressed as to why, his answer was like a dagger to my heart:

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Most people in Weare are good and decent people. You could wave a whole bag of money in front of them and they are liable to turn and walk away from it simply on the implication that it might not be a just thing to do.

Why a dagger? Because what Souter's town-folk would most likely be unwilling to do to him, Souter was all too eager to do to the poor people in the Kelo v. New London case in Connecticut.

On my show, we have a term for those who sit in powerful positions like Justice Souter. And this week we inducted him into it. It's called the Diabolical Dagger Society. Diabolical because those involved carry out acts that extend the influence of evil and corruption. Dagger because it is a weapon of deception, and you must get close enough to your intended target before you stab them in the back. And Society because they are the elites in our nation who have the power to insulate their own experiences from undergoing the same excruciating pain that you and I share.

Justice Souter's majority opinion is just the capstone on a recent run of horrible decisions that have stolen our rights to life, liberty, religious expression, and now ownership of property.

And while we're on the topic, how long do you think it will take the gaggle of high-court gurus to figure out that most churches in America could be demolished in place of shopping malls and the tax revenue gains would be huge?

I am proud to be an American. I'm just deeply disturbed about what the Supreme Court is changing America into.

And I'm even more disturbed that the Democrats and Republicans in Washington, D.C., seem unable to even recognize how it's changing!