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December 21, 2006
Eminent domain plaintiff sends angry holiday message
AP, via "The Boston Herald*
Bah, humbug. The woman at the center of the national battle over property rights has some less-than-joyous tidings for the people involved in using eminent domain to take her house to make way for private development.
However, at least one recipient of Susette Kelo’s unmerry greeting has put it on his mantel with his other cards.
Kelo’s cards feature a snowy image of her pink house and a message that reads, in part: “Your houses, your homes, your family, your friends. May they live in misery that never ends. I curse you all. May you rot in hell. To each of you I send this spell.”
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New London Development Corp. member Reid Burdick said he put the card on his mantel with his other Christmas greetings.“I still feel bad for Susette,” Burdick said. “The sorry part of this is that the things she’s angry about were not done to be mean-spirited toward her personally.”
NoLandGrab: The taking of Kelo's home was "not done to be mean-spirited toward her personally?" Burdick illustrates Susette Kelo's point exactly — this would never have happened to someone with a seven-acre estate in Greenwich.
If Ft. Trumbull hadn't been populated by working-class nobodies, would the City of New London have even dared?
Posted by lumi at December 21, 2006 9:45 AM