State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli is tossing in his US$0.02 on the Supreme Court decision against property rights
Perhaps even more troubling, it reflects the majority’s assumption that private property rights do not really exist. Rather, individuals are simply “trustees” of the land, until the government decides that its transfer to another “trustee” would better serve its version of the “public good.” This ruling shifts a massive amount of power from citizens to the government and opens the door wide to increasing abuse of that power.
The Justices are charged with the interpretation of the Constitution. In this case, they were confronted with a prohibition: “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation,” and they have effectively re-written it as a grant of authority for local governments to redistribute private property according to any plan that any local government authorities believe to be economically beneficial. You read that right, the Supreme Court of the United States has sanctioned the redistribution of property. Who usually sanctions the redistribution of property? Well, let’s see, there’s the FMLN in Nicaragua, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Karl Marx was a big fan… what’s wrong with this picture?
Trustees is too mild a word. Serfs would be a better description.