Typically we would not cover anything political in our blog, but please.. Our government now has the right to take your land due to some developers plan for 'economic development'. For some time, it has appeared that Americans were asleep. Now we should question, if they have been drugged. Our supreme court basically has taken this part of 5th amendment and thrown it in the trash. Case Law Rules!!

In the midst of argument in Kelo v. New London—a critically important case about the government's right to condemn private land and give it to private developers—the lawyer for the city of New London, Conn., pulls out an actual prop. In response to a query from Sandra Day O'Connor as to whether there's a concrete development plan for what would replace the handful of homes being condemned, Wesley W. Horton hauls out a big poster board with the whole proposed community laid out. Condos here, marina here, yank out this crappy little Victorian house and the health club will go there, he enthuses.

At the losing end of these forced transactions are homeowners who don't want to sell. Justice Clarence Thomas, another dissenter, said these are disproportionately likely to be African Americans, who are more likely to own properties the government wants cleared away. But their rights to their homes are supposed to be the same as anyone else's.

This sort of "economic development" is generally banned in Washington. Our 1889 constitution says, with a short list of exceptions: "Private property shall not be taken for private use."

Your house cannot be condemned for a Costco, a Nordstrom or a Sheraton Hotel. Under the rules of Connecticut, it could.

The town of New London claimed that its seizure of property was necessary for economic development. The ruling now puts every church, small business, or home at risk of condemnation. This land is your land! Doubt it....