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October 15, 2007
EMINENT DOMAINIA
Duffield St. Underground, Ripple effect of NY Times Underground Railroad article
Published two days ago, the story by the New York Times became one of the most emailed articles for a moment.
Duffield St. Underground also has a blogroll of coverage of the article and YouTube footage of the Times reporter climbing into one of the vestiges of the tunnel that ran between homes on Duffield St., homes that are under threat of eminent domain.
The NY Times, THE CITY: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Once again, The Times suffers from ED (editorial dysfunction) when it comes to ED (eminent domain). The latest oversight was pointed out by civil-rights attorney Norman Seigel and Nick Sprayregen, a West Harlem property owner:
To the Editor:
The most contentious issue facing the Columbia University expansion plan is eminent domain. Yet your Sept. 23 editorial ''Helping Columbia, and West Harlem'' does not even mention it.
Reality Times, Principal Of Eminent Domain Trumps Individual Rights
Columnist George W. Mantor suggests that the expansion of the government's Fifth Amendment right to take your property for "public use" necessitates a rewriting of the Fourth Amendment:
The fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution should also be rewritten to read, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, except for the house itself, which can be seized at any time in the name of public good."
Posted by lumi at October 15, 2007 8:17 AM