Bush Issues Executive Order Safeguarding Rights

[RakuraiTenjin]

BUSH ISSUES 'PRIVATE PROPERTY' EXECUTIVE ORDER

Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.


YES. FINALLY.

 

[kirovman]

lol China got that 3 years ago.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

I know it was a dark spot on the way our nation functions. Now it's patched up

 

[gick]

Hurrah. Now all he needs to do is give you back your right to privacy and habeas corpus, and all will be well.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Very nice, but...well, what gick said.

 

[Solaris]

Yar, your president can't break the law and tap your phone, you can be tried without jury and indefinately held. But hey! At least they have to compensate you if they take your land.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Talking of which, has there actually been any danger of their taking people's land? :O

 

[Reaktor4]

smells like a red herring

 

[bliink]

BUSH ISSUES 'PRIVATE PROPERTY' EXECUTIVE ORDER

Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.


YES. FINALLY.

You mean, they had to write a formal order for that? Isn't this supposed to be a presupposition of liberty?

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Talking of which, has there actually been any danger of their taking people's land? :O

Yes it's called Eminent Domain there was recently a huge case that made it to the supreme court and they ruled in favor of the corporation. It was an outrage.

'But owners of 15 homes on 1.54 acres of the proposed site had refused to go. One of them, Susette Kelo, had extensively remodeled her home and wanted to stay for its view of the water. Another, Wilhelmina Dery, was born in her house in 1918 and has lived there her entire life.

The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the city's plan, so the homeowners, represented by lawyers from the libertarian Institute for Justice, appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html

You mean, they had to write a formal order for that? Isn't this supposed to be a presupposition of liberty?

Counties/states would say that they were taking the land for the benefit of the area economically to give it to a company to open something.

Eminent Domain is really MEANT for cases where a new road NEEDS to be built but an old shack is blocking it, etc. They usually pay out far over what the house is worth too. But cases where its a private party wanting the land and the state taking it is outrageous. That's just thievery. Forced sale at the barrel of a gun, literally sorta (I suppose if you wouldnt leave the cops would come force you out) Just like the mafia!

 

[Maxi]

Talking of which, has there actually been any danger of their taking people's land? :O

Didn't they take a bunch of indians land?

Oh wait..

 

[15357]

When I saw Bush Issues Executive Ord...., I thought that bush had declared martial law or made every muslim go into internment camps.