Eminent Domain Immediately Affects Supreme Court Justice

This is a great piece of satire, though the implications are quite real:

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."

Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.

. And for the record, the legal term used to describe a taking for public purposes is "eminent domain", not "imminent domain." I happened to use Imminent Domain as the title of one of my entries because of the immediacy of the issue involved - that your property could quickly end up in the hands of someone else because tax revenues could be improved through another use for the property.

Technorati: Supreme Court, eminent domain, Kelo, urban policy.

If you've come to this page because I've used the term imminent domain, now you know.

UPDATE:
I got to listen to the guy behind this idea to use eminent domain to take Souter's home and build a hotel. He was on with Mark Levin on 77WABC. I'm still not convinced that this is a legitimate story or satire, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. He didn't sound too convincing that he knew what he was doing, and actually had no idea about the size of the property or if it would meet the needs to build a hotel.

Therefore, might I suggest a B&B. They can be quite profitable and can retain the character of the neighborhood without being too intrusive. And it would still be a bigger revenue producer for the municipality over a residence - and lower initial start-up costs.