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"Stinger" wrote in message .. . Different strokes for different folks, Frank. In my view, I didn't give up anything when I built in a neighborhood with restrictive covenants. Instead, I gained the peace-of-mind that the neighborhood wouldn't decay. I gained "rights" as I agreed to covenants that I would have followed anyway, because my neighbors will as well. Your "public sector versus private sector" infringement of rights arguments isn't simply valid in this case because it is voluntary. My rights are just fine, thank you. This probably doesn't have anything to do with anything, but it crossed my mind some weeks ago, with all the controversy over the removal of Judge Moore's monument to the Ten Commandments. After the removal, I pretty much expected Judge Moore would put the monument on his front lawn. It's his property, and he should be free to do so. Well, maybe Judge Moore rents an apartment or lives in a condo and doesn't own a front lawn. But wouldn't be ironic if Judge Moore negligently signed onto a list of restrictions which effectively banned any such monument on his own property? However I do agree that there are plenty of cases where the public sector (government) does infringe on the rights of private property owners. I am vehemently against it. I believe it is unconstitutional for a city government to use eminent domain laws to force an owner of private property to sell it (so the government can grant the land to a developer who will build a shopping center) because the government will make more tax revenue on a new shopping center. Yet this is happening time and again all over the United States. It' just plain wrong. -- Stinger If it's government using eminent domain to effectivly transfer private property from one owner to another private owner, yeah, there's a big problem there. Even if it's not a Constitutional problem, the voters should be deeply skeptical of all the promises the politicians make about these wasteful projects. But we have a long history of being negligent with our votes, as well. Frank Dresser |
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