A Man's Home Isn't

Why are the Americans not out in the streets protesting over this one? I mean, what more will it take?
THEY CAN TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM.
THEY CAN TAKE AWAY YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS.
NOW THEY CAN TAKE YOUR HOME.

On the upside what could possibly be next?

Take my wife . . .Please? *rimshot*


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

If the people don`t care,they don`t care.You can`t force them to care.The politicians and CEO`s must be having fits of laughter knowing the public has their heads up their ass.NAFTA has succeded where communism and fasiscm failed.

I'm shocked by this, America is becoming more and more like Canada everyday. Next thing you know, we'll be forbidden to seek health care in the private sector, or speak freely about moral issues in our own churches. Where will the insanity end ?!?!?

This gets voted as "good"??

Now maybe some of you can get your head around the concept of rights. Rights are given and what is given can be as the Supreme Court has demonstrated, be taken away.
And on this important issue we have the "Dr" displaying insensitive 'humor'??

Some people appreciate the classics, such as Groucho Marx. So sorry to learn of the death of your funny bone.

And 'rights' that you are 'given' are worth precisely what they cost you. 'Rights' that you 'defend' are worth the price you pay.



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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

I think that Canada has become what the U.S. wanted to be. Somewhere along the line the U.S. has lost it's way. It is so sad really because history is repeating itself read the THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE below....

WHEN in the Course of human Events,
it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of the Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and the Convulsions within.

HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.

HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.

HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us;

FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rules into these Colonies:

FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

HE has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

IN every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

A now our stupid leaders want deeper intagration with the US

Let's not get stuck on perjoratives, there's no point using this as a diving board to spring into that canada vs US debate. Canadians also have no private property rights, in case you doubt that, go and ask anybody whose family used to live where a provincial or national park is now (particularly they who first discovered they had no property rights, namely natives).

Keep in mind that there are few states doing this out of 50 so there's no point in saying 'its an american thing', it isn't, its a Connecticut thing. All laws were made to protect the public, that they can be usurped by the wealthy shouldn't surprise anyone. What I find most interesting is that this is occuring in states where they have no citizen's initiatives, whereas in states like Maine, where the population has a means to put the breaks on travesties like this, you don't.

The answer to the problems of democracy is more democracy.

Whoa first you start off bemoning the conservative us administration and the seamlessly go into the New London decisionas if it were a part of a right wing pustch, LOOK at the decision, it was the so called liberals who voted to restrict property rights Bryer, Ginsberg, Souter stevens and kennedy,

The inference you made that the New London decision was part of the conservative agenda when it was the court liberals is absurd comparing apples and oranges, totally intellectually dishonest.

Hey Doc!

There are essentially two "camps" on the issue of freedom. In one camp we have those who believe that government exists to provide people with freedom, based on the assumption that the ultimate authority lies in an area transcendent from humankind itself. Then, opposite them are those who believe that government grants "rights", which really, by definition are privileges since they are bestowed and revoked by other groups of humans. The latter groups must believe in and practice slavery, although individuals in this group will generally have to convince themselves through some psychological "gymnastics" that they are not perpetrating such a crime.

Rights are bestowed by a creator. This doesn't mean your parents, nor does it mean the state.

Privileges are NOT rights! They are bestowed by other humans - under their rules. What that means is that you grant THEM fealty, the fidelity sworn by a vassal to his feudal lord. I.e., you agree to play by their rules or even on their behalf. In essence, this is an "owner/owned" contract between people. Accepting privilege means you grant ownership of your behavior to another human being. Government grants privileges. Therefore, government can take them away
"Just"* so we're clear

just (adj.)
1382, "righteous in the eyes of God, upright and impartial," from O.Fr. just, from L. justus "upright, equitable," from jus (gen. juris) "right," especially "legal right, law," from O.Latin ious, perhaps lit. "sacred formula," a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from PIE base *yewes- (cf. Avestan yaozda- "make ritually pure;" see jurist). The more mundane L. law-word lex covered specific laws as opposed to the body of laws.

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Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-
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Property rights are not absolute anywhere. That's a fact of life. Property can and should be subject to appropriation by legitimate government in pursuit of a greater good. The question is where you draw the lines and how you compensate people for what has been taken. The litigants raised valid issues for consideration but, as a practical matter, their effort would have been better focussed on the nature of compensation to be provided for the taking. The prior poster is quite right in highlighting the breakdown of the court's opinion. Things are not always quite as simple as some would wish. The reason people are not in the streets throwing fits of idiotic rage is that this sort of appropriation of property is uncommon and generally reflects difficult societal choices that are not deemed to be unreasonable. The net result is deemed necessary for society to improve and is therefore tolerated. Some impositions and losses visited upon a few to benefit society in general occur everyday.