Dennis Byrne on Kelo and the planners

Dennis Byrne tells us about an important group promoting the theft mentality:

To understand how court liberals made this remarkable jump over the political fence, it helps to understand the mindset of the American Planning Society, based in Chicago. The group, which argued before the court in support of this outcome, embodies the view that government, not the marketplace, should decide where growth occurs--in central cities and inner suburbs.

Toward that end, the 37,000-member group of urban planners and other like-minded individuals believes in the wisdom of condemning property and handing it over to economic interests that could better use it for the "public good"--the public good being whatever local government decides, as the group spelled out in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the high court.

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