Thread: Tyranny running wild

I can not believe this is being allowed to happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson is very prophetic when he said, Democracies are bullies tempered by editors.

THIS LAND WAS YOUR LAND
School board green lights eminent domain
Opponent: 'You will resemble a bully on a playground'

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Posted: December 17, 2008
11:20 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily


Duluth, Minn.


Despite emotional and sometimes teary-eyed objections from homeowners, a school board has approved using eminent domain to take privately owned land and develop new schools as part of its "Red Plan."

About 40 community members voiced their objections at a Duluth, Minn., school board meeting last night, the Duluth News Tribune reported.

Residents pleaded with officials for more than an hour, asking them not to seize their homes.

Then the board voted 6-1 for the plan.

Member Gary Glass was the only person to vote against it.

Homeowner Tina Legarde told officials, "If the board approves a resolution to use eminent domain now or in the future … you will resemble a bully on a playground who takes by force that which he wants."

While the resolution allows the school board to begin talks with real estate firm F.I. Salter to consider forcing homeowners to sell, one official claims the district's decision does not mean it will exercise eminent domain to acquire the properties.

"This gives us the ability to use eminent domain as part of the process … if it becomes necessary," said Bill Hanson, business director for the Duluth school district. "That would not be the district's preference."

According to the News Tribune report, nine homeowners in the Ordean neighborhood have refused to leave their homes, while 30 residents signed agreements to sell their houses to the district for expansion of a middle school.

The meeting was heated at times. Emotional residents shouted at board members and criticized schematic designs for the middle school.

Teary-eyed homeowner Robert Arch told the board, "I love Duluth and I love my neighborhood and this plan will destroy our neighborhood."

Superintendent Keith Dixon told the News Tribune the district will not consider exercising eminent domain until designs are approved for the school locations – as early as this spring.


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I like the way the slimeball business director says, only to be used if necessary. So are we the people going to be put on reservations?

Looks to me like another step in the direction of dictatorial tyranny.

One need not look further to Capital Hell and the Defacto Mexican Presidential Palace (Formerly the White House) for an appropriate example of what happens to a democracy high jacked by Corporate America, The Chamber Of Commerce, LaRaza, The Mexican Government, Drug Cartels and the UN for cheap illegal labor and illegal votes without as much as one iota of care and concern for the American people.......

Originally Posted by retiredairforce

One need not look further to Capital Hell and the Defacto Mexican Presidential Palace (Formerly the White House) for an appropriate example of what happens to a democracy high jacked by Corporate America, The Chamber Of Commerce, LaRaza, The Mexican Government, Drug Cartels and the UN for cheap illegal labor and illegal votes without as much as one iota of care and concern for the American people.......

Ditto....

30 plus homes to be torn down for an elementary school?? That sounds like quite a large expansion!

Have they been overrun with IA's and thier kids? This is usually the reason why schools need expanding.

Originally Posted by retiredairforce

One need not look further to Capital Hell and the Defacto Mexican Presidential Palace (Formerly the White House) for an appropriate example of what happens to a democracy high jacked by Corporate America, The Chamber Of Commerce, LaRaza, The Mexican Government, Drug Cartels and the UN for cheap illegal labor and illegal votes without as much as one iota of care and concern for the American people.......

Actually, this what happens when a Constitutional Republic is highjacked by a Corporate Democracy.

"Have they been overrun with IA's and thier kids? This is usually the reason why schools need expanding."

Bingo......Duluth is infested with Illegal aliens

1. it's time for the states to break away from this corrupt country

2. find out what the Illegal Alien Population and how many children they have in school or the TRUE reason for expansion

3. Your Tax dollars used to rip you from your own homes... no thank you

Originally Posted by Reciprocity

"Have they been overrun with IA's and thier kids? This is usually the reason why schools need expanding."

Bingo......Duluth is infested with Illegal aliens

Thanks. I didn't know, but figured as much...