It turns out that Pfizer is closing down a research facility in the New London area.
Aside from being another sign that businesses in liberal states are shutting down at an alarming rate, it's also a sign at the abject stupidity of government in general.
The Pfizer facility in question was the main attraction in the much hyped Kelo v. City of New London case where the United States Supreme Court decided that private property could be taken from an individual citizen and given over to another private citizen so long as the property is a "blight" (as defined by the government who wants to take the land) and that the new private citizen can generate more tax revenue for the city. Apparently that constitutes the common good of eminent domain.
What of that area now? After years of heartbreak and fighting that left many people displaced from their homes and bitter at being forced to leave a neighborhood their families had lived for years, that entire section seized by the City of New London is in ruins. The homes have all been bulldozed in anticipation of a massive new commercial complex, highlighted by the existing Pfizer plant. Now it is truly blighted, overgrown with weeds and with the departure of Pfizer, completely abandoned.
All of us who see the folly in the government taking private property can now shout from the rooftops about how right we are but what good does that do the people of the community who were forced from their homes? Nothing. Their lives were still uprooted and their communal history destroyed by the cold, clumsy hand of government. The same kind of leftist government that we now have nationally spouting its inane belief in community organizing, group think. It takes a village indeed. It seem as if the people of New London had a managing community long before the government decided to make a dandelion farm out of their property.
This is especially pertinent after the House's ill-conceived, ill-intentioned stab at Nationalized Healthcare Saturday night. What should be obvious is that the government does far worse than over hype and under deliver. Government is a degenerative force by nature. Even with the best intentions the government can only do a good deed for somebody or group by doing ill to somebody else. Big government activists sleep well at night by justifying taking the fruits of ones labor (and by extension their freedom) by employing the Robin Hood justification model, robbing the rich to give to the poor. Ignoring how this very practice robs people on both ends of their human ambition and dignity, the entire claim is a complete lie. The area in question, while not blighted by any means, was filled with lower income families. They were the victims, they had their property taken in an effort to give a gift to a big business pharmaceutical company. How very nice of the party of the liberal guy, the Democrats, to rob the poor to prop up the rich. All in the name of the liberals true goal in all things, taxes and control. I suspect Pfizer will be fine after this affair becomes nothing more than a curious historical footnote, the fate of the residents of New London is unknown and as far as I can tell, uncared about.
I suspect hoping any of the people involved in this atrocity to feel any sense of shame is far out of the realm of possibility, they've no doubt moved on to their next public fleecing scheme. At the very least can we not use this as a teachable example of government incompetence? Given the current plans dancing in the heads of ideological radicals in power currently, it seems more important than ever.
read the fully story here from the DC Examiner
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