The long Island city of North Hills wants seize a golf course to use as a… golf course… This is eminent domain gone haywire. The Kelo Decision is the abomination that causes actions such as this.
More on the situation at Newsmax:
John Wilson, a 20-year member of Long Island’s 175-acre Deepdale Golf Club, established in 1955, is mad as hell that the nearby exclusive village of North Hills, N.Y., wants to seize the venerable club through eminent domain -– not for a road or a public hospital, but to use as its own community golf course.
Wilson is just one of many Americans who have discovered that the traditional concept of eminent domain -– which allows government to appropriate property for public use -– has been turned upside down by recent court rulings and greedy government officials.
"(T)hat is absurd: to steal somebody else’s golf course, to give it to somebody else as a golf course so that their home values increase," Wilson recently told Fox News.
Furthermore, the angry citizen points out, the town of North Hempstead, of which North Hills is a part, already has eight municipal golf courses.
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There are many more eminent domain issues across the United States that have gone crazy because of the Supreme Court ruling.
Previous Posts on the Kelo Decision here.
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Stumble It!
March 31st, 2006 at 3:10 am
I had read this before, but it pisses me off every time that I think about it. Thanks for ruining my mood!