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Hoboken residents question eminent domain for private gain
- 3-21-2006
- Categorized in: Eminent Domain
Updated: March 16, 2005 3:30PM
Hoboken residents question eminent domain for private gain
In case you missed it, the hot topic of discussion at the March 15, 2006 Hoboken City Council meeting was the City
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Bogota's ordinance passed last year does not prevent eminent domain -- only eminent domain for non-public use, a loophole Steve Lonegan can fit through.
First of all bills, amendments, and resolutions restricting takings were being passed in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Alabama, New York, Texas, Tennessee, Iowa, and other states all earlier than August of last year. Each law is different: different rules concerning the distinction between public and private use, different notions of what constitutes just compensation, and a variety of rules about the process. Steve Lonegan got in the game LATE at the behest of a political consultant.
If we are to have a serious debate about eminent domain, we need to get beyond this ridiculous distinction between public and private use. Government is a racket that rewards itself through plunder and ALWAYS in the name of PUBLIC purpose. The truth is that there is no coherent way to separate public and private purpose when it comes to government. Its roads benefit private contractors and serve private interests. Its true they are "free," but so are the streets in shopping malls, which are private. As for public schools, the teachers unions and hordes of bureaucrats are private interests too. Indeed, there is no such thing as the "public," there are only individuals.
If Hoboken wants to ruin themselves with eminent domain it is up to them. It is not ironic that micromanagers from Bogota want Trenton to tell Hoboken natives how to run Hoboken.
Just this week Little Ferry enacted an eminent domain ordinance.
Also this past week Cliffside Park bonded 15,000,000 and according to their attorney the municipal government was going to negotiate with the land owners for their property and not take it by eminent domain.
Yes Lonegan pushed the eminent domain ordinance but the voters overwhelmingly demanded it and I was one of thoes voters.
Eminent Domaine for Pricvate development breeds corruption.So Top3 what is your problem do you just hate Lonegan