| In my previous article describing how | | | | Council incumbents their walking papers in 1999, |
| governments are using the doctrine of eminent | | | | largely because of their stand on eminent |
| domain the steal private property from legal | | | | domain.Even worse is the State of Michigan |
| owners, I related the tale of the Gateway Motor | | | | where eminent domain has been used to take |
| Speedway and its' shennanigans in concert with | | | | private property from its rightful owners to build |
| the Southwestern Illinois Development Authority | | | | casinos and even private housing. In Detroit, a |
| (SWIDA) to seize property for a parking lot. Well, | | | | new GM plant sits where hundreds of small |
| it seems that the organizations that run race | | | | businesses and private homes once stood. And it |
| tracks find the government a wonderful conduit | | | | isn't just the actual seizure of property that |
| for predatory land acquisition.The State of Kansas | | | | causes harm to a community, it is the collateral |
| has has become one of the most egregious | | | | damage caused as nearby owners bail out for |
| offenders as they have allowed the Kansas Motor | | | | fear that they too are on the list.It should surprise |
| Speedway to shanghai private property it wanted, | | | | nobody that the State of California, that bastion |
| among many others. Topeka, a contractor lost his | | | | of neo-socialism, also likes the idea of using the |
| business to clear the way for a Target distribution | | | | guns of government to take land for what they |
| center. There may be some resistance forming in | | | | perceive, in their infinite wisdom, to be the public |
| Kansas though, in Merriam, voters gave four City | | | | interest. |