Saturday, September 17, 2005

KATRINA PLUS KELO - equals katastrophy!

Michael Maiello at Thosethingswesay asks rhetorically, "Remember Kelo?"
will Kelo have repercussions [in] New Orleans and [on] The Gulf Coast? The whole project will focus on economic development, after all. When the government seizes private property, it pays the owner a going market rate. But after Katrina, rates in the region can't exactly be at their high. Certainly, after we see results from rebuilding, the rates will be higher than they are now. So I'm wondering, if property is seized now, will those who lose it have enough money to buy new property when people start to return to the region? It seems like a potential forced "sell low - buy high" scenario to me.
What got me thinking on this was a reader-friend-neighbor, David Rowcliff, left a comment on another post ...
Well this all started me wondering a few days ago about KELO and how all that devastation could be reapportioned through eminent domain. What's to stop anyone from doing this to all the best land and locations in the whole area???
I was instantly struck with the implications of KELO on the Gulfcoast. Another friend and serious thinker at Lobster Stuffed with Tacos agreed and left this ...
Dave, excellent point! If the reconstruction effort is going to be as pervasive as Bush characterized on TV -- he went further than mere "rebuilding" and spoke to "rectifying past inequality" -- then my guess is they're going to have some grand city plan, and that's going to mean that some neighborhoods will look completely different afterwards. In a society where you can sue for just about anything, the only way they could even think about pulling that off would be to invoke Kelo.

Scary, huh? [See LSWT's late post kelo, meet katrina]
No kidding it's scary; I'd rather do battle with tongue eating crabs from under the sea than life sucking bureaucrats from under KELO.

AAXA at The Anti Akademie in his post entitled Power Grab in New Orleans says ...
Private parties already are doing so. The New Orleans power elite sees in the recent US Supreme Court Kelo decision, which permits the use of eminent domain to serve private interests, a chance to rebuild New Orleans in their own image.

In the September 8 Wall Street Journal, Christopher Cooper ("Old Line Families Plot the Future") quotes members of the power elite, who admit they are mapping out a new city that will not restore the old order: "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically," says James Reiss. "I'm not just speaking for myself here. The way we've been living is not going to happen again."

The Journal's report brings to light that the "teeming (black) underclass," which guarantees Democratic control of New Orleans, is one part of the old order that is not slated for renewal. In other words, federal failure in New Orleans plus Kelo equals ethnic cleansing of a large historic American city.
These are very serious conjectures and require a large segment of the conservative community to monitor what happens. We don't want this kind of excess to happen on our watch; if it does, the left will be jusified in saying, "See, we told you so."
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