Kelo Day

[Kat Kanning]

From Castle Coalition:

Monday, June 23, marks the third anniversary of the Kelo decision.  Help us send a message to tax-hungry governments and their developer friends that eminent domain abuse must stop!  Here's how you can help:

Write a Letter to the Editor of your local paper.  This is a fantastic opportunity to shed a national spotlight on your local battle against eminent domain for private gain.  Be sure to mention Kelo Day!

Place Kelo Day banners and buttons on your site, blog or profile.  They are available here: http://www.ij.org/keloday/.

Help raise awareness by distributing posters, stickers and brochures in your neighborhood this week.  Respond to this e-mail if you're interested and we will send you materials.

Forward this e-mail to your friends!  The bigger the Castle Coalition grows, the louder all of our voices grow as we tell those in power to stop taking our homes and businesses for private development!

Together, we can stop eminent domain abuse and ensure that once again, every person's home or business is his castle.

Best,

Christina Walsh
Castle Coalition Coordinator
Institute for Justice
901 N. Glebe Road, Suite 900
Arlington, VA  22203
(703) 682-9320
www.ij.org
www.castlecoalition.org

P.S. HELP THE CASTLE COALITION GROW!  Forward this message to your friends.  They can sign-up here: http://www.castlecoalition.org/join/index.html.

[Jim Johnson]

Maybe we could get billboard at Exit 1, on I91 north....

          Fuck You, New London, Connecticut.

You house stealing Sons and Daughters of Connecticut Whores.

           It's Kelo Day and someday you'll pay

         For the wrong that you've done to us all

[doobie]

Someone told me that the developer that stole the land from her, knocked down the house and has since filed for bankruptcy...and hasn't done anything with the land but knock down the house.... can anyone provide links/confirmation?

[Pat K]

Maybe we could get billboard at Exit 1, on I91 north....

          Fuck You, New London, Connecticut.

You house stealing Sons and Daughters of Connecticut Whores.

           It's Kelo Day and someday you'll pay

         For the wrong that you've done to us all

I would chip in for this one.

[Kat Kanning]

The Kelo house was not knocked down.  They've moved it and are having a ribbon-cutting ceremony on it soon.

Facilitator should write greeting cards...that one's so sentimental, I'm all choked up.

[Otosan]

On talk radio yesterday (monday), the talking head said the land was not being used or developed?  Is this true?

[Lloyd Danforth]

Yes, they can't get players

[Vitruvian]

I wish this phrase would go away:

eminent domain abuse

In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with the Abuse. The Thing! the Thing itself is the Abuse!     --Edmund Burke

[error]

Someone told me that the developer that stole the land from her, knocked down the house and has since filed for bankruptcy...and hasn't done anything with the land but knock down the house.... can anyone provide links/confirmation?

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/07/fort-trumbull-circa-2008-waist-deep-in-the-big-muddy/

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/06/08/hillarys-white-wedding-mortgage-fraud-rescue-wrap-why-are-we-in-iraq/

[KBCraig]

Funny, government interference in the free market fails yet again. Maybe someday they'll get it right, if only their hearts are pure! Oh, wait, that's socialized education/retirement/welfare/healthcare....