
“Government officials like to use eminent domain for the convenience of their preferred policies and/or the enrichment of themselves and their buddies. Usually, they get away with it, because the folks on the receiving end are too few and powerless to hold their tormentors to account. In Hackensack, New Jersey, however, the officials who targeted Michael Monaghan’s property for seizure as part of an ‘area in need of redevelopment,’ even while denying him the right to develop it himself, pushed too many people around, too often. Last month, voters booted out the entire city council.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/13/attempted-land-grab-ends-with-voters-boo
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