Your Land is Their Land

Since the liberals on the Supreme Court destroyed the principle of eminent domain in June, it didn't take one of the most liberal cities in the country long to start confiscating land from the little guys.

A letter on the front of what once was Revelli Tires in Oakland warns: "Eminent domain unfair. To learn all about the abuses of eminent domain, please go to http://www.castlecoalition.org/. Educate yourself. Pay attention. You could be next." John Revelli wrote the note after the city of Oakland evicted him July 1 from his own property -- and a business run by his family since 1949 -- so a private developer could build apartments on his land. It especially galls him, Mr. Revelli told me over the phone Tuesday, that while he has been forced from his livelihood for weeks, Oakland has done nothing with his property. Go look at the building, he said, and the sign will still be there because the city hasn't touched anything. Sure enough, the sign was up Tuesday night. Oakland also evicted Tony Fung, Mr. Revelli's next-door neighbor and the owner-operator of Autohouse on 20th Street. "I am a first-generation immigrant," Mr. Fung told me. "This is my American dream." To hell with Mr. Fung's dream -- the city of Oakland seized it, so someone else can build on it. And without offering enough money for Mr. Fung to relocate his business, he says. The city has legions of lawyers to press its case, while Mr. Fung says he has to scrape together pennies to hire an attorney.

So where are the liberals defending the little guys? In the Bay Area, one of the most liberal regions in the country, where are the armies of protesters? Where is the outrage? Where are the naked hippies who are willing to drop their pants at the drop of a hat? Where is that liberal icon Mayor Downtown Jerry Brown? Nowhere. They're nowhere to be found. This is the type of Stalinist abuse that always takes place when leftists have the power. This is why it is so important to eliminate liberals from the Supreme Court. This is why it is so important to eliminate liberals from Congress. Maybe you don't care whether liberals destroy the right to keep and bear arms because you don't like guns. Maybe you don't care about liberals putting more and more restrictions on free speech because you don't use "hate speech." Maybe you don't care if liberals marginalize religion because you don't go to church. But can you honestly say that you don't want to someday own a home, a business, rental properties? You don't care if someone seizes that retirement property you dream about, to build a fishing resort or a golf course? Liberals have absolutely no understanding of freedom. They just don't get it. If you just don't get it by the 21st century, you need to just go away. Reject liberalism at every turn.