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