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Eminent DomainWhat Good is it?
Suppose there is a change from “Common Land ”  to Private Property
ownership of land?  Open range land in western territory was divided  and claimed by private owners for homestead of farms.  People must use the physical means:  of land  to travel and visit each other.
The Social Function  of  Property  documents this principle.  Trespassing  across private land  is  avoided by  a  public Right of  Way.  Karl Malden advertised  the American Express Credit Card:
“Don’t leave home without it.”
A  joke  when  all the people were  escaping  across the  Berlin Wall,  before  it was  demolished,  was  that  the Russians  had introduced  their own version  of  a  credit card.  The Russian slogan  was:
Don’t leave home !
Freedom to choose and act on personal choices,  is the means   to live Humanly,  contrasted with a caged animal.  These  Human  Rights  include freedom to travel,  to cooperate,  and trade.
“Right of Way” is land where anyone is free to travel by the normal  and usual means:  walking,  horses,  and  wheels.  The Wheel Tax  is a fee  for the  “priviledge”  of using wheels  to travel on  public  Right of Ways.  Just Stay Home  unless you buy a license to travel.  (Pedestrians and horses are prohibited  on many  high speed public roads.  Fuel Taxes  and fees paid by commercial trucks  are the means  to  pay  for  these roads).   Perhaps  a  particular location  is  the only  place  to travel ?
The  pass  through  Sharp Gap  is  an  example,  where Eminent Domain  is a legal tool to avoid being held hostage to a particular land owner.  The Huray Abattoir  was located in the Gap of  Sharp Ridge near  old Central Avenue Pike,  when the Dixie Highway -  U.S. 25W  was re-routed in  1929 - 1930.  That property was bought later,  to build Interstate 75  through the gap.  But  Public Use”  does not include  evicting property owners  off the island by  “unpopular”  majority vote.  Highway planners were repudiated by the courts,  and unable to take the Coster Shop facility of Southern Railroad to build the Interstate 75 route.  Re-experience the  Im-Proper  interpretation of  Eminent Domain  by an Exciting,  Crack The Whip! drive  down  that memory lane.
At the 22 Nov. 05 meeting of Knoxville City Council,
Carney-ficials  performed their (Phil Harris) revue
of  Music Man  lite!
Ya got Trouble,  my friends,  right here,
I say,  trouble right here in River City!
Ya got Trouble,  with a capital  T
and that rhymes with  B
and that stands for B l i g h t!
Before Election:  voted: two  to seven,
Now they conjure  mass defection.
Ate  to one,  by acclamation,
Annul’d  their prior  Approbation:
De-Hall,  De-Vower’d,  by  Condemnation!

This is an acid test for Saints or Succubi ?
“Blight”  was the word used by City Council to justify
  their Condemnable Power of  Perfect Government,
  to remediate blighted property.  Would City Council
  Members recognize  B l i g h t!
  if struck by a falling Elm Tree?
City Council can demonstrate their eagerness  to promote Highway Safety and “Public Use,”  by applying  (Industrial Property acquired by City of Knoxville)  the former  Coster Shop land  to rebuild the expressway — without the:
Sharp Dan g ero U S c u r v e s.


Proposal to Establish by Legislative Decree:
The Sovereignty of the Consumers
In the Volunteer State Of Tennessee:
          Penny Ante Voting

The best Government that money can buy:
Ac-Cent-You-ate  The Positive,
E-liminate  the Negative:      (Temptation for Elected Leaders),
Latch on  to the affirmative,
Don’t Mess with Mister In-Between:  (Lobbyists,  and Ladies).

The Harlem Corner   illustrates “Central Planning.”

Private owners are in business  just to make money.
    Rosa Parks’ money:  good as  white people’s money.
Which is Best?  Ownership and Rights,
    or Government Planning.


Private Rights, Public Good
Supreme Makeover




     Bligh t  of the MCCLUNG Warehouses
on Jackson Avenue,  was used to threaten condemnation by
Knoxville City Government.  Sandwiched between the buildings
bought by Mr. Mark Saroff during 1991 - 1993,  is the building
owned by  Ernie Gross Designs.  This building is a beacon of
quality and innovation,  which demonstrates his great ability!

The brick corner of the building near Broadway Viaduct was
rebuilt in 1993  to maintain structural integrity.  The warehouse
building closer to the Broadway viaduct is historic,  but ugly,
and will be demolished to provide parking for the development.
       Is this Ugly building   blighted?
The Knoxville Convention Center is blighted -  when recognized
as a blood-sucking leech on taxpayers,  and compared to the
benefits and performance of the Knoxville Expo Center.
Exceptionally capable workmen have been hired by Mr. Saroff
to rebuild the brick corner adjacent to the building owned by
Mr. Ernie Gross.  Compare this to the neglect of the Ampitheatre
and the Candy Factory nearby.  Follow the example of many
former communist countries:  privatize more of these “Blighted”
public investments.
Brick masonry repair work has proceeded for the past month.
Building permits and Construction Permits were approved for this
repair work;  after the structural engineer hired by Mr. Saroff was
able to explain that this method is superior to the usual procedures.
Why was this work delayed since 1991?  Mr. Saroff says that he
was advised by the Central Business Improvement District (CBID)
to disregard the outside of his buildings,  and wait for a grant
from the City of Knoxville.
Funds for Grants are collected by an eight per-cent surcharge
on property taxes of the central business district of Knoxville.
This  “additional incentive” was created to entice investors to buy,
and spend to repair and refurbish buildings in this downtown area.
     The spending part was easy:  Additional taxes were levied.
Property tax rates were increased during Reconstruction,  by 1872,
four to thirty times the rates of 1860.  Government agents put on
the taxes to make land cheap,  and confiscate for ‘unpaid taxes.’
This expansion of state and local government provided for tax-funded
government schooling  which has emphasized a politically correct
version of history.  The extensive growth of planning ideas has
increased the use of vague and obscure terms.
     This Metropulse  Insight column  blurs  “the public realm,
and the realm of private development.”
  “Everyone with a stake”
and a  “Vision”  is encouraged to attend a meeting on Tuesday,
March 7,  and drive it into the heart of  Privately Owned Property.

Friedrich Hayek wrote  The Road To Serfdom,  “The End Of Truth”
Chapter XI:  “The most effective way of making people accept”
(The Plan),  “is to use the old words  but change their meaning.”
This is quoted from the book  Ordeal By Planning:  “There is a wide
range of terms employed by planners,”  “The ultimate effect of this
use of slipshod language  is to dilute,  where it does not positively
poison,  the meaning of words  to the point at which discussion
could just as usefully be carried on in pure gibberish.”

The CBID,  was started during 1993 and 1994,  and many grants
have been made to restore other downtown buildings.  Mr. Saroff
was told that a grant would be made to help pay for outside repairs
when this block of downtown Knoxville was  “Prioritized.”
Grants have been stopped.  Why is this block still paying the tax
surcharge  and denied a grant by the City of Knoxville to improve
the property,  while threatened with  condemnation -  for “blight? 
Mr. Saroff’s request for a  facade grant  in 2004 was denied.
“Saroff has failed to provide evidence that he can finance even the
‘relatively minor’ cosmetic improvements outlined in the proposal.”
“To date,  that’s one of the biggest reasons we’ve rejected his
proposals,”  “says KCDC executive director Alvin Nance.”
“There’s no way for us to know whether his estimates are satisfactory.”

Is your Factory  “Satisfactory? 
Do you have a license to use “Wheels? 
Are you  “Certified” to teach your children a lesson?  When did
Knoxvillians volunteer for this version of  Plato’s  “Ideal City,”  where
every development must be ‘approved’  by the  Supreme Planners?
Ownership of this property by Mr. Saroff  is contingent upon approval
by KCDC.  “Redevelopment” of the warehouses on Jackson Avenue
is contingent upon approval by the  KCDC central planners.
     Many ideas of previous Planners  have re-vitiated Knoxville.
Clinch Avenue Viaduct was closed  “Temporarily” for the World’s Fair
exposition.  “All roads lead to Rome! ”  inspired Planners to convert
many downtown streets to one-way.  This was similar to a prank by
Clemson University students,  who placed highway   DETOUR
signs to route traffic into the campus. (But no egress routes.)
The JAIL complex was a desperate measure to keep downtown alive.
Sob-sister-city of  bombed out East Berlin,  failed to bring tourists.
All this work was done to reverse an earlier Plan,  which removed the
merchants from Market Square.  Cobbled Gay Street  re-created the
quaint,  friendly conviviality of early days  (without the streetcars).
William Bendix said:   “What a revoltin’ development this is ! 



Only  one  “Yes” Vote  on the Morrill Tariff
came from a state  which Seceeded —

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Why we drive on
   Opposite Side  of  the Road?
      Chattanooga-chews
         Rails - To - Pork?
 Ms. Terry?   DuPONT,   August 2, 1965.
  In 1962  the FEC  refused  union wage demands  and  decided  to  negotiate directly  with  its employees.”   Supervisory personnel  operated  the  railroad.   Acts  of  violence  and sabotage  included  removing rails,  damaging  switches,  and  firing gunshots  at  the  locomotive cabs.

    We  The  People  Of  The
 United States  Of  America
Affirm the Sovereignty of  our
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL  REPUBLIC—
DeLimitation  of  Federal Powers.

Council-approved plans,     Scopes Trial.

Adventure into the  Tennessee Styx?

The Social Function of Property

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