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RichK
06-29-05, 12:06 PM
:laugh: :thumbup:

http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

Press Release

For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media
For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media

Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.

Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."

Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.

"This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development."

Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.

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Logan Darrow Clements
Freestar Media, LLC

Phone 310-593-4843
logan@freestarmedia.com
http://www.freestarmedia.com

JLMannin
06-29-05, 12:42 PM
The land would have to be zoned commercial first for a hotel to be built, and if this is in a residential area, that my not fly.

Looking at this from another angle, this could actually cost localities property tax revenues. One popular activity now is to build new mini-mansions on the lots formerly occupied by 30 to 40 year old houses. Yuppies board their SUV's or sportswagons and cruise through old neighborhoods looking for the perfect lot to place their ostentatious house and offer the current occupants an obscene amount of money for it to get the lot. The offers are ridiculously above the actual market value and the effect is to raise the taxable value of the whole area. Now they can take the existing house via the eminent domain process and pay what it is actually worth, so the older homes do not increase in taxable value; but the new ostentatious houses would meet the requirements of generating more tax revenue, but the net effect to the municipality would likely be less $$ overall as opposed to the first scenario.

Ankf00
06-29-05, 09:46 PM
Anthony Kennedy's seperate opinion states that you can't just use eminent domain just for any old private developer, but it has to be part of the municipalities plan to bring about greater benefit to the public community as a whole, in the CT case, a revitalization project...

I still think it's a load of bull though :saywhat: land thieves, they're taking the Okie motto to heart :saywhat: