Following The Leader …

It was noted some time ago that it is one thing to create law, but quite another to be forced to answer to it. Give that a bit of thought and you’ll wonder what might have happened if those that dreamed up laws that deal with drugs, drunkenness, child support, and of course eminent domain, were forced to answer to those same laws.

I recently stumbled across a small community in Tennessee that is struggling with that very issue in the here and now. I say struggling because it has become quite apparent that the local politicians are attempting some slight of hand in order to get the law through their community and it would appear the old cowboy phrase “them’s fight’en words partner” might just make a popular comeback. The local free press has seized upon this issue and pledges to keep it in the hearts and minds of the community. To them I say bravo!

Despite the rulings of the not necessarily Supreme Court of the land, which nearly cost one of the Justice’s his own home, there was a notable uprising by quite a bit of the congress with many pledges to enact new legislation to prevent such folly. Not surprisingly, the mass of hot air that came from that chamber failed to raise even the first trial balloon and the issues seems to have floated off (without said balloon). But … out in the real America’s, the dispute did not go unnoticed and in one small part of Cincinnati, Ohio a major development of real estate came to a screeching halt with one couple managed to put up quite a fight to save their little old home. In the state of Ohio it appears that quite a few of the elected officials remembered their earlier school lessons that taught us that private ownership of land was one of the primary reasons for the founding of this nation and despite the ruling of a few justices that had overlooked that part of the Jeffersonian Papers, the Ohio crowd was going to have nothing to do with organized theft of property.

In as much as the use of eminent domain is to be used as a tool to promote development, it would appear to me that the current mayor and council’s property would make dandy locations for the upcoming season of lemonade stands that will certainly dot the landscape of those young entrepreneurial spirits of that little town and since those little businesses will certainly benefit by proper re-development by removing those blighted homes and replacement with suitable parking so the young tikes can have a real go of it, I would propose that any young activist legal mind of that community bring forth to the council a rit of eminent domain to remove said blighted structure that the mayor currently resides in so the next lemonade stand can be built and further economic stimulis in the community can be put forth.

After all Mr. Mayor, there is no greater act of leadership than leadership by example and as the leader of the community, you should be the very first! Unless of course you might have a change of heart and mind based upon the first paragraph of this article. After all, we life in a free country where anyone is allowed to admit to their mistakes and put the record straight.