Your Eminent's Domain

How do you not laugh at this?

It seems a liberty minded real estate developer has made a request of Weare, New Hampshire, Code Enforcement Officer, to start proceedings to seize some land from a private citizen in order to build a hotel facility on the land. In accordance with the recent US Supreme Court decision, the developer points out that the town will surely reap greater tax and other economic benefits than from its present use.

"This is not a prank" said the developer, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land ... we can begin our hotel development."

Who owns the land that he wants to seize? None other than Justice David Souter, the author of the Kelo v. City of New London decision, the very decision that allows a city to seize private land to give it to other private developers.