Just when I thought that a large portion of the government was just in the back pocket of the religious zealots of our great nation, now they are acting as though they are God.

I have reconciled in myself the idea that government should be allowed to trample the rights of property owners if it be for the greater public good of any locality so long as the displaced were given a reasonable deal, but now I feel as though the government has truly overstepped its bounds by allowing community leaders to take people’s property in order to sell it to private corporations if the resulting situation will bring greater tax benefits to the area.

This time it wasn’t the lawmakers or executives in our government that gave us the dreaded rear admiral (although some of them were instrumental), it was the “Supreme Court,” the interpreters of our laws and the same body that refused to hear my case against Papa John’s for the misleading advertising campaign for their worthless Cinnapie which appeared to be a full-pizza sized on the commercial, but in reality was no bigger than a compact disc-- complete with a miniature look-a-like pizza box.

The damned things should have been free, and those crooks were acting like they were doing us a favor. Please pardon my contempt for the Papa…I digress…good-for-nothing liar.

Back to the point at hand, this latest assault on our liberties is an outrage, and the government's trying to play it off as if it were in our best interest. If a municipality wants to exercise eminent domain to build a schoolhouse or a hospital that’s one thing, but if they’re gonna take my land and give it to the Waltons so they can build another one-stop crap-mart, that’s over the line.

We recently celebrated our independence from treatment like this that my fellow past patriots bravely fought against and in doing so gave birth to our great nation. The government is acting like we are simply tenants on their land and can be expelled at any time for the further lining of government coffers.

The taxes we pay on the property that we supposedly own have been turned into nothing more than rent to a government that may evict us whenever they see fit to do so. In the President’s recent speech about ongoing military engagements he said the word freedom probably 150 times (I lost count)-- he’s obsessed with it. Where’s ours? Whatever you do, don’t invite the government any further into our homes because before long, they’ll just take them. A house stolen for the benefit of corporations cannot stand.

 I know it.

-Roy Bancroft, Jr.