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June 29, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized |

Our Rights Proceed From Leninists
- By Rudy Takala

In a recent Supreme Court decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “If the peasants sow the fields poorly, they should be helped-and this particularly applies to the poor peasants-by means of collective cultivation of the large estates. There is no other way of helping the poor peasants.” Therefore, “The landed estates must be confiscated immediately .”

Actually, that was Vladimir Lenin writing in an issue of the communist publication Pravda on June 2, 1917. I’ve compiled a small list of quotes for use in this article, but at times it can be hard to remember who used which ones. It doesn’t help that Lenin and Justice Stevens - the oldest member on the court - are roughly the same age. Rest assured that while quotes may be at times confused, no one’s beliefs will be misrepresented.

What the Supreme Court ruled on is as pertinent to America today as it was to Russia in 1917: the distribution of land. Connecticut statutes express a legislative determination that the taking of land as part of an economic development project is a “public use” and in the “public interest.” The point of debate was the Constitutionality of a Connecticut city’s confiscation of land to that end………
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