Free In Idaho!

If you go to YouTube you’re sure to find dozens of jihadi videos of dead American soldiers, jew-hating videos, Westboro Baptist videos… videos that are difficult to get taken down (join the Smackdown).  But it took less than a week for YouTube to cave in to the people who think Robert Spencer’s speech at Dartmouth during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was hate speech.  They removed it.  Clueless dhimmis?  Cowards? 

Thanks to LGF and Joe’s Dartblog, here’s a copy of it.  It is important that this kind of speech be heard. Another copy (better?) is available here.

Eminent domain..government taking of private property for the public good.  Don’t get me started.  But!  This article was too good to pass up, so I have to pass it along.  And the fact that this story can generate any traction at all says a lot about San Francisco.  So, without further ado, from the Perverts Republic of San Francisco, comes this

[San Francisco, CA] They wouldn’t sell at any price.  Now it doesn’t matter.  After four generations of Davidsons owning Orchards by the Bay, one of the few farms within San Francisco city limits stands to be seized under eminent domain… because San Francisco needs a steady supply of marijuana.

Eminent domain detractors say this is one of the most outrageous examples of the abuse of this long-standing law, which allows government to seize private property for public use or in recent years, if they deem it ‘for the public good’.   The fact that government officials plan to grow 400 acres of pot where walnut trees once stood is simply adding insult to injury.

“Don’t think for a moment that this is for public use,” says Grant Dennis, director of The Private Property Front, a Los Angeles based coalition of attorneys who work pro-bono in fighting eminent domain abuse.  “This is about someone pushing their pro-marijuana agenda, and using the livelihoods of innocent citizens to accomplish it.”

Not true, says San Francisco city councilman Ted Brenner.  Brenner claims that the Davidsons were offered fair market value for Orchards by the Bay, but refused to sell. 

“They were stubborn, so they get what they get, which is half that,” he says.

Read the whole thing. This site is a serious resource, I might have to blogroll it.