Every so often there’s something that Freerepublic types and I can agree on…

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that local governments may take people’s homes and businesses against their will to make room for private developments such as shopping malls and hotels.

The ruling squeaked past on Thursday by a vote of 5-4, with one dissenting judge warning that it would give “disproportionate influence and power” to the rich.

A group of Connecticut residents had been fighting to stop the city of New London from destroying their homes so that a private company could build an office complex.

This is the sort of thing that everyone in the United States should be a little bit worried about; Republicans or Democrats. The state can be approached by a business that’s having a tough time gaining control over enough land to build that new condo or mall. No longer can that one holdout family that refuses to sell keep business from operating as usual; now you can be kicked out of your family home…

It’s like the US has finally really become what its founders had originally fled from in Europe; they are the tyranny of rich oppressors… Maybe all the libertarians will take up those arms they so dearly love in order to save themselves from a hostile government. Maybe not, though, since then they’d be deemed terrorists; damned if you do…

Repeat after me, my fellow Canadians…. “Paul Martin isn’t that bad, after all…”