He Really Isn't Smart Enough To Sit On A Zoning Board
A Justice Kennedy quote regarding rights for enemy combatants who choose not to put on a uniform when they kill people in their personal or religious “war” against America:
“The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force in extraordinary times,”
Lofty words indeed. (Gee, I wonder if they pertain to the Second Amendment as well according to Anthony?)
But where was Justice Kennedy’s adherence to the US Constitution during the Kelo Decision? Remember when he was all for taking private property to supposedly advance the economic condition of New London, Ct.?
How did that moonbat liberal interpretation of the US Constitution pan out?
Here is what was planned according to, Corcoran-Jennison, the developer who with Justice Kennedy’s help took private homes from US citizens on behalf of the New London Development Corp. Check this out:
“The Inn at Trumbull Cove in New London, CT, will feature 109 guest rooms and a 12,000 square foot executive conference facility. The Inn at Trumbull Cove will be part of a larger master plan that includes 300,000 square feet of office and commercial space, and a waterfront park. Trumbull Cove is the new headquarters of Pfizer's Global Research and Development Center.”
Well, this month Corcoran-Jennison has failed to get financing for its venture and the project sits in mud.
Tomorrow, June 23, is the anniversary of the 2005 Supreme Court Decision.
I have no doubt that just as has happened with Kelo, some 40 states stiffened eminent domain laws to protect private property from developers and the US Supreme Court, the backlash to the US Supreme Court giving terrorist enemies of the United States US Constitutional rights will splash back in the five stupid faces we have on the court. And hopefully not too many people will lose their lives in the process.
Ed Naile
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I have friends in the New London area who are truly ripped about the scam that was run there. Although in fairness, I think the Supremes said that the decision to seize property was a state's rights issue and that CT (and other states) were free to change the laws. It was just that the CT law allowed it. Not sure I agree, but I'm always in favor of letting a State decide.
Obviously what happened in New London was terrible, but as for "enemy combatants," I gotta disagree. Habeas corpus, freedom of speech, assembly, press, self-defense, etc. are not rights our Constitution _gives_ us; they're rights all human beings are _born_ with. We are fortunate to have a Constitution which recognizes those rights, but we tarnish it every time we pretend people in other countries don't have the same natural rights we do.
If there were foreign soldiers tramping around New Hampshire, you and I would most likely be taking up arms against them. I suppose that would make us enemy combatants, wouldn't it?
Matt
Here is the preamble to the US Constitution:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
I must have missed the part about utopian Libertarianism and one world government under our Founding Father's efforts to free us from the English Empire. My things have changed since I read the document last.
Did you know Kennedy has for 19 years taught law in Austria?
Wanna bet this decison gets him brownie points with the avante guard over there.
I think that is what his "opinion" is really about.
Sorry.
Some moron named Logan Darrow Knothead screwed up the Souter gig. The press used him like the fool he is.
Missed by some 35 votes.
The message was sent in any case. I heard Dennis Miller mention it on his show last week after this became public.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence considered it a "self-evident truth" that "all men are created equal... endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights."
Where did you get one-world government out of my comment? I'm just saying there's a natural law higher than any government -- just as murder and rape are always wrong, it's always a violation of inalienable rights for any government to, for example, suspend habeas corpus.
Again, the Constitution doesn't _give_ us rights; it nobly spells some of them out in an attempt to protect them.
There is nothing libertopian in saying that non-Americans are born with the same natural rights as Americans. It's just an observation -- as John Prine sang it, "your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore."
Matt
"Do ordain and establish this Constitution for these United Sates of America."
What part did I get wrong?
As I said, Kennedy is gaming our system for one he would like to see.