Am I becoming a rightie?

Or has the left completely disassociated itself from reality? I am no libertarian, and I am certainly for the government taking whatever land it needs to complete necessary development (highways, railroads and hospitals come to mind) to better the community. Eminent domain, as detailed in the fifth ammendment, certainly allows for the confiscation of land for public use. However, the court's recent decision, penned by Stevens, allowing for a local government to take over private land and then mete it out to private development for the betterment of the community reeks of two things. First, people will be losing their homes while some corporation or rich bastard makes money (presumably hand over fist with new beach front property in this case). This hurts, but does not seem to be a solid legal avenue to persue. After all, the aforementioned highways and railroads certainly help to line the pockets of somebody. It is the second thing, unmentioned in the several reviews of this decision I have looked at, that scares me the most. Can we spell graft? Citycouncilmen and women now hold the keys to takeover in their hands. As Justice O'Conner notes on page 34 of the link above, the expansion of the government's definition of public use is both absurd and uncheckable. With the sole litmus test being whether or not the takeover will benefit the communityat large, a vague area opens, one surely to be exploited. Certainly tearing down three houses to build a park would benefit my community, how about yours? Shame on the liberal justices, shame on Kennedy for joining them, and shame on me for believing the left had the desire to defend the little man. Perhaps they are becoming like the Canadian left, opening the government to any mafia style graft they can squeeze through...


If any reader made it through all that nonsense I just wrote, congratulations. I am aware that few care about these things, but man the government irks me...