[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Jun 25 09:44:55 PDT 2005



>[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?
>Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
>Sat Jun 25 09:15:28 PDT 2005
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>>If you are going to see this situation as simply a case of some
>>liberal versus conservative position, then the right wing is
>>going to hand you your head on a plate.
>
>I wasn't seeing things in terms of a "liberal" vs. "conservative"
>duality. There's a third option, socialism, and there may be more.

There is no socialist on the Supreme Court, so the division was basically liberals vs. conservatives at the court. Justice John Paul Stevens, the most liberal justice of the current Court, delivered the majority opinion, joined by Justices David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Anthony M. Kennedy. The dissenting opinion of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Is it any wonder American liberalism today, an ideology of technocrats, is not popular among Americans?


>what if eminent domain is employed by a democratically-controlled state?

Kelo v. City of New London is an antithesis of eminent domain as it might be employed by a democratic state. It will regrettably make eminent domain used in the United States more of a tool of technocrats than it already has been. -- Yoshie

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