Outrageous!

The ill-motivated decision by five members of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 23 was a major and unconstitutional setback of private property rights for all U.S. citizens. By denigrating and reducing private property from what most U.S. citizens believe to be a God-given, natural right to a cheap political right is beyond comprehension.
Private property is ranked as one of mankind’s most sacred rights. It is next to life itself in the order of natural rights. The natural rights are life, property and liberty.
The right to life is indisputable. Without property life cannot be sustained. Liberty, the next natural right, is necessary for the free use of one’s property provided the rights of others are not infringed upon.
Securing the right of private ownership of property has been a long and tortuous struggle, costing millions of lives, over thousands of years from the time of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle as they labored in ancient Greece to establish the first concepts of a republic that would eventually lead to democracy.
Socrates sacrificed his life for these principles. His would not be the last.
The Romans, some 500 years later, made another important contribution by establishing the rule of law.
It would take another 1,000 years before the concept of liberty under law came into being in England when 25 barons along with the Archbishop of Canterbury forced King John to sign a document known as the Magna Carta on a field called Runnymeade near Windsor Castle on June 15, 1215 A.D.
There would be the lapse of nearly 600 years before the United States Constitution, described as the greatest work of the mind of man, would be ratified with its first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, in March of 1789. It was the first ever federal constitution in the world.
The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, for the first time in history, ascribed universal property rights to every citizen of the land.
Article Five of the Bill of Rights states: “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
This line in Article Five comes almost directly from the Magna Carta. Lines 50-53 of the Magna Carta read, “If anyone has been dispossessed or deprived by us without legal judgment of his peers, of lands, castles, liberties or rights, we will immediately restore them to him.” The saying “A man’s home is his castle” relates as well to these lines.
The United States reached the pinnacle for the protection of individual rights with the U.S. Constitution. Lesser minds have attacked it over the centuries and particularly in recent years with manufactured causes, such as the Endangered Species Act, animal rights and wetland set-asides which have limited the use of property of many Americans.
But nothing to this date equals the raw, brazen, direct attack on the very base of all property rights represented by the 5 to 4 decision of June 23. For the first time, the Supreme Court authorized the confiscation of one person’s property for the financial benefit of another person. This is tantamount to the authorization of theft of another’s property and let’s not hear stories about compensation.
Ask yourself this question: Does a bank robber absolve his crime by returning to the bank with part of the money?
The New London, Conn., case was simply the seizure of one person’s property for the benefit of another using the heavy hand of government itself.
Liberty runs with the land. Without the individual’s right to own private property, someone or some entity in the future will own us all.
This is not an issue for debate among partisan political parties. This is an issue that transcends politics.
If an individual can use your government to take your home and give it to another person for his profit, regardless of due compensation, your liberty, as well as your property rights, are lost.
Think! Two of your natural rights will be gone. What else awaits?