Court takes land for NBA arena

Everything within corporations; nothing outside them.

The state of New York's highest court ruled today that a state economic development agency may seize private homes and other land to be turned over to build a new arena for the proposed relocation of the New Jersey Nets.

What anus did the court pull this from?

The Constitution says eminent domain may be used only for public projects - not private entities like professional sports teams.

This follows the U.S. Supreme Court's highly questionable 2005 ruling in the case of Kelo v. New London. This decision let a Connecticut city take private homes and turn the land over to right-wing pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

After demolishing the neighborhood, Pfizer recently abandoned this project altogether - leaving just an empty building.

This also follows repeated fleecings of taxpayers to fund professional sports venues.

Team owners can't stand having to use any facility that's more than 10 years old, so they cry and stamp their feet until either the taxpayers buy them a new facility or the government seizes land to build a new one.

(Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125907445356162357.html)