Citizens for Liberty Calls for an End to Eminent Domain

This is in reference to the Phoenixville Area School Board Members who voted to STEAL a families private property rights and business away from them, just because these elected officials think they can.

The Meadow Brook Golf Club was seized by FORCE through a simple vote of a few school board members. The livelihood and the legacy of this family owned business has been destroyed. Lets just call it for what it is, because this land was confiscated by THEFT from an unapologetic government. How can a few people have this much power? Is this law unjust and immoral? YES it is, but the true answer lies in the hearts and the minds of the people. What would you do if this happened to your family? I’m sure you would be outraged if you recieved a 30 day vacate notice too! What would the School Board members think if this happened to their property? Would they think this is right? No they would not, because how could any moral human being think that it is okay for someone else to confiscate their private property?

The right to own and use private property is fundamental to freedom and integral to the pursuit of happiness. James Madison stated that “As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may equally be said to have property in his rights.”

The traditional legal attributes of the ownership of private property are (a) the right to use the property as the owner wishes, and (b) the right to alienate (lease, pledge as security, or sell) the property as the owner wishes, and (c) the right to exclude from the property whomever the owner wishes. Jefferson argued that the right to exclude means the right to exclude EVERYONE from the property that the owner chose to exclude, even the government. Thus, the Jeffersonian view is that not only may the government not seize property, not only may it not seize property and pay a fair market value for it, but the government can only acquire property through a voluntary sale by the owner.

Let this be a lesson to the taxpayers and especially the voters of this School District. No longer will people vote for others that will use FORCE to take others private property, and also use this incident for political gains. No longer will We the People VOTE for any politician that does not have the best interest of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness (property).

Let this be a wake up call to everyone. Government is not our boss, they work for us! And it is time that we let them know it.