State Attempting to Seize Private Property to Give it to Church
Sometimes I wonder if I'm too bombastic with my posts about US theocracy. Then I read stories like this and am reminded I'm right on target. The State of New Jersey is attempting to seize the Golden Cicadia, a tavern. The Golden Cicadia is not run down, it is not disreputable, it does not serve as a front for illegal activities. It's only crime is that it sits on property that someone else wants, but they don't want it enough to buy outright. The someone else who wants the property wants the state to seize it and turn it over to them at a fraction of what it is worth. And who is the someone else who wants that property? The Roman Catholic Church, who wants to build an athletic field on the property for St. Peter's Preparatory School. The state is attempting to seize private property to turn it over to the Church.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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