Today is Kelo Day, the third anniversay of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing local governments to take peoples homes and handing the land over to a PRIVATE DEVELOPER. It’s one thing to use “eminent domain” to put in a new highway (which can be used by all) and a whole other thing to take that land a make a BIG BOX STORE.

Susette Kelo was lead plaintiff in the landmark 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled private property can be seized and handed over to politically connected private developers so long as the government treasury might benefit.

So, join the Institute for Justice and help fight eminent domain abuse across the country.

Oh, and Ms Kelo’s house? It was removed (she got it re-located, after a protracted fight). And what’s happened in the THREE YEARS since the verdict? The area is STILL AN EMPTY LOT. The developer has done NOTHING with it.

Do you really want your house torn down and replaced with a Big Box Store, a Factory, or an empty lot? Just because some politically connected developer, with deep pockets, wooes your greedy “public servants”?