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Justice Souter gets to keep his house

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006, by Fred (, No Comments »
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Voters in Weare, NH rejected the symbolic attempt to seize Justice Souter’s house in retribution for Souter’s vote last year in Kelo.

Originally, the ballot measure called for the seizure of Souter’s home so that it could be turned into an inn called the Lost Liberty Hotel. But at a town meeting in February, residents of this town of 8,500 watered down the language.Voters decided 1,167 to 493 in favor of the reworded measure that asked the Board of Selectmen not to use their power of eminent domain to take the farmhouse, and instead urged New Hampshire to adopt a law that forbids seizures of the sort sanctioned by the Supreme Court.

Of course, not even the most rabid libertarian ever thought that Souter’s farmhouse would become the Lost Liberty Hotel. But there’s real merit in symbolism sometimes, and the publicity stunt galvanized opposition to eminent domain abuse. States are finally acting to keep developer-beholden local governments from handing private property to other private parties. The issue wasn’t ever whether Weare would take Souter’s house, but whether Weare could be stopped from taking Souter’s house if a developer came in and made large campaign contributions to Weare’s Selectmen. That effort seems to be working, although many of the “solutions” still have too many loopholes.

Chief Wana Dubie follow up

Monday, March 13th, 2006, by Fred (, No Comments »
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Now I know I’m cool. Chief Wana Dubie left a comment to this post linking to his website. I don’t know if either the commenter or the website are legit, but the IP for the comment resolves to a Salem, MO ISP. The contacts for the domain name are private.

Here’s what the Chief has to say:

It has become painfully obvious to me that the War On Drugs is becoming another holocaust. In the interests of the preservation of Freedom and Family, I have decided to run for State Representative of the 150th District of the State of Missouri, as a Libertarian candidate. “Liberty and justice for all” means “tolerance of all.” If it’s not JUST, it’s not JUSTICE. The policies of zero-tolerance are comparable to Hitler’s tolerance of the Jews. The time to take back our government at the grassroots level has come. “United we stand, divided we fall.” So help “put a hippie to work.” For interviews, public speaking engagements, or to contact me you can e-mail me here. If you would like to donate to my campaign click here.