Reply #168: with respect

[TexasUnderground]

"People need to realize that we are only the drop of a feather away from the day when the federal courts will construe the constitution in such a way as to prevent, or at least severely impede, almost all governmental action designed to promote the public good (as opposed to the corporate good). Whatever one thinks of the merits of this particular issue, every bump in the road of the growing “property rights” movement is a good thing."

This decision doesn't do much to help the public good, but I guarantee you it will be exploited to support the corporate good. The small property owner isn't who stands to benefit from this. When they decide to seize land and raze a poor neighborhood, it's going to be the poor home owners and the renters that suffer, not the corporation that builds the shiny new tax-subsidized sports stadium.