MA couple almost loses property to theft .. by the FEDS

This is a pretty clear indicator that we're on a downward spiral as a nation. At least they won thanks to the Institute for Justice.

http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/01/fed ... ture-case/

Your right Smitty, at least now we have someone that will take up the cases for the little people & businesses, this crap has been going on too long.

Socialism means no private property. It's all theirs.

Yep - that seems to be the way things are headed.

Not to long ago there was a big case that made the national news from CT - an eminent domain case where the people lost. They basically bulldozed an entire neighborhood for a pharmaceutical company. Then a while later the company pulls out of the area ...


http://www.governing.com/columns/eco-en ... ge-in.html

http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/20 ... ivided/all

Mario Como first got attention as the lawyer for the fighting 69 as the group were called that objected to their homes being seized to build a school. They lost and the homes were destroyed but Mario won big and went on to a political career.

The school was never built.

I am in favor of bulldozing property for the greater good in fact I have offered my time to bulldoze Albany many times it would give my Cat. a good work out.

coalnewbie wrote:I am in favor of bulldozing property for the greater good in fact I have offered my time to bulldoze Albany many times it would give my Cat. a good work out.

Don't dozers get bogged down if the horse manure is too deep?

Damn Simon, I'd be up there helping you with a shovel should that dream ever come true. Don't be pickin in the horses Chris They had nothin to do with that mess.

coalnewbie wrote:I am in favor of bulldozing property for the greater good in fact I have offered my time to bulldoze Albany many times it would give my Cat. a good work out.

I was born and raised in Albany. Corner of Western Av and Partridge Street. 57-69. There was an old brick building there that was a dry cleaners; it was one of the oldest train stations in the area at one time.

First time I ever saw a bike stolen; a you know what came up from the downtown area, and conned Charlie Canning out of his bike. We must have been 7 or 8. The kid goes; "Hey, man. Please help me! Somebody just stole my bike, please let me borrow your bike, I think I can catch him! Please!" He rode off on Charlie's stingray....

They put in the college dorms across the street. In the summer, they would set up a trampoline in the grassy courtyard, and let the neighborhood kids take a turn. I remember "Light My Fire" by the doors playing. First time I ever saw somebody smoking a number. '67 riots, they came up in gangs, walking up hudson Av; and everybody stayed in their apartments. The whole area was our playground. We were probably 7 or 8, and allowed to take the city bus out to McKeown's Grove by ourselves. That was a little lake area you could swim at.

Sorry for the nostalgia. My nephew's wife worked at the hospital a couple years ago, he told me she said, "Can't they wait to start shooting until the nighttime?"