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once again, i doubt seriously that the folk whose knickers are all in a twist about this ruling gave a damn about the exercize of this same eminent domain question when it was used over and over during the past 50 years or so by cities around the country to herd poorer folk around like cattle so that vital urban developments like convention centers could be built where once homes were. why? because the class position of most of the folk who are o so outraged by this ruling would enable them to imagine themselves being serviced by these convention centers, they think of them as a place they would like to go to, and do not think about the fact that many of them going to were built ontop of razed lower-income neighborhoods--classical case in point--yerba buena in san fransisco--
so one can only conclude that the destrcution of THOSE residences via eminent domain was and would now be just fine--but once it appears that the middle class itself can be effected by laws that previously had functioned to further its political and economic interests--o the horror.
on the argument that private property is sacrosanct is simple nonsense---what you are really saying is that YOUR proterty is sacrosanct--the property of folk LIKE YOU socially, economically--THAT is sacrosanct.
what's good for the goose is good for the gander indeed.
btw i think the action in weare is quite funny.
in that kind of har-de-har way that most such actions are.
but i dont think anything about it speaks to or legitimate the sanctimonious "outrage" above.
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