[lbo-talk] When is private property NOT?

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No. I'm saying in practice most eminent domain is
pretty neutral stuff, it's not destroying whole
neighborhoods for factory construction (we should be
so lucky), highways or Wal-Marts. It's running
pipelines through remote farmland, getting easements,
and the like. You don't really want to block all use
of ED as  practical matter. Nathan may be talking
democratic theory. I'm talking practical economics
mainly (as well). jks

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> joanna wrote:
> 
> >Nathan Newman wrote:
> >
> >>But THIS DECISION was about the rights of property
> versus 
> >>democratic control.  Period.
> >>
> >>And democracy won.  Hurray.
> >
> >So, to repeat my earlier query, if  abunch of
> citizens decide that a 
> >car dealership would be more productive than Bill
> Gates' mansion, 
> >then we get to raze the mansion? You think this
> decision will 
> >support that move?
> 
> It occured to me last night that we're talking past
> each other (we're 
> suffering from discursive incommensurability!).
> Lawyers like Nathan & 
> Justin are talking about points of law, and the rest
> of us are 
> talking about how eminent domain typically works in
> practice. Seems 
> to me that the lawyers are operating in a
> depoliticized realm of 
> language, precedent, and abstract possibilities, but
> I'm not a lawyer.
> 
> Doug
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