07/01/05

When I was a young girl growing up in Columbia, MS, I remember my daddy, a civil engineer, mentioning how loath he was to have to take someone's land by eminent domain. He said it just wasn't right. ... Even though the Constitution did allow that to happen ... my father always wanted to design his roads to go around people's property and not go through the middle of their land. ... [I]t was the 'right thing to do' for what might have been a farmer, whose land was his livelihood. ... Recently, the town of New London, CT used eminent domain to take over property for use by a private developer ... [and] the seizure of property was approved by the Supreme Court. As a Libertarian, I am particularly distressed by this action. However, be you Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Independent, [you] should be concerned about this matter. ... But hey, turnabout is fair play...

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_68968.asp

from Chattanoogan, by Cheree Dumas


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp