Eminent Communism

Imagine your dream home, taken from you by a communist government.

The irony is that there may be a scenario where this is the end result in some eminent domain cases.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain (KELO et al. v. CITY OF NEW LONDON et al.) increased government's power to take private property by expanding the definition of “public use”.

Once your land has been taken and redeveloped, you will never get it back. But government property comes and goes, and can eventually be sold off. Developers and investment groups trade land constantly.

Imagine that your property has been taken for public use. The property at some point gets turned over to a developer. Maybe even passed from one developer to another. What if a developer is a foreign investment group? Perhaps even an investment group that is a front for the Communist Chinese government.

The end result: your private property has been taken, and placed into the hands of a communist government. Is this scenario impossible, or probable?

It would be an ironic turn of events, considering the original goal of communism is the “abolition of private property”. Could it be that some members of the Supreme Court really don’t agree with the idea of private property?