Mr. Roper's Revenge
Proving the old adage, "He who laughs last, laughs best," Mr. Roper finally has the ability to evict those crazy kids. Black Jack, Missouri plans to evict these types of low-life vagrants from their homes. Not because these families are "dangerous," or because they don't pay rent/mortgages, or for any other reason...well, besides this, apparantly the town has an ordinace that "prohibits more than three people from living together unless they are related by "blood, marriage or adoption." It's some kind of anti-hospitality law I guess, or a "do not help others" law. The net effect is that this family in the town is denied an occupancy permit, and many others will be evicted. So if you and your wife, or you and your son are thinking about letting a buddy crash at your house for awhile, you could be facing eviction in America's most unfriendly town. I'm sure this is somehow good for society, and evicting these families is a wise use of public funds, but as far as I can tell, this is another example of abuse of power in the name of some sort of value system that has nothing to do with "family" or "values." Rather than just leaving honest people alone, the tenor of the country at the present seems to be more coersive and punishment based, especially if people don't conform to some random vision of an "ideal" society.
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Obviously this is indicative of a major trend in America. Perhaps a "silent crisis". Where are the hard hats, Chicken Little?
Oddly, I'm not surprised by your attitude here. I did, briefly, think with our agreement that Kelo was a bad outcome that you might see that here, a local government is telling a private citizen in a private transaction that they can't live in a house they bought, and agree that this is troubling. At least with Kelo, there was some pretense of more revenue for the locals via higher taxes, and the displaced were given some sort of economic recovery through eminent domain. But here, its just a raw eviction of a private citizen from their home, no real justification or compensation. Talk about a motivated seller. However, as I know that you're a fan of a government's attempt at social engineering when you favor the outcome, I did figure that you would down-play this government's action.
I see this as an extension of the Kelo ruling, one that has potential to continue to grow. I doubt you would mock Kelo a "silent crisis" so why aren't you at all concerned with the broadening of that ruling?
I disagree. This action has not been upheld by the Supreme Court and therefore is nothing but an anomaly. I see no commonality with the impact of Kelo. That's like comparing the results of a preseason game with the results of the Super Bowl.
I don't think the government should be able to kick people out a house without criminal cause unless they own the property. Then it should be the will of the people as to who should live in the property. A landlord should be able to kick people out of their property without restriction.
I don't think the implication that this is an example of a trend makes much sense.
I don't understand your post. Unless I just misunderstood your position on both Kelo and the rights of private citizens. This case is not at all about a landlord kicking out a tenent. This family purchased the home. They own it, they have the deed. The local goverment won't give them an occupancy certificate so they can't move in. Furthermore, the local government has said they may evict other homeowners from their homes, without even the pretense of compensation.
To hit your three points, the local government does not own this property. I have no idea what your second point means, I assume it has to do with government owned property, but it could also relate to private property as well-please elaborate. And there is no landlord here.
And maybe this is personal. I've had to rely on the good will of people in the past and live with them. It bugs me to no end that in Black Jack, MO that this is an illegal activity that could cost kind people their homes. I don't think this law will survive legal scruitiny, but I was sure that Kelo would get rejected 9-0.
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