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(12/20/2005)
Lost Liberty Hotel Developer Announces Anti-Eminent Domain Song Proceeds will help group seeking to oust Judge Souter from his New Hampshire home
By Bob Ellis Dakota Voice Logan Darrow Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, has announced a new anti-eminent domain song, with half of the proceeds benefiting Freestar Media. The song, Preeminent Domain, was written by Steven Schub and his band The Fenwicks. The band will split the proceeds 50/50 with Freestar Media, helping advance the Lost Liberty Hotel project. The Lost Liberty Hotel project sprang from the June 2005 Kelo v. New London eminent domain case in which U.S. Supreme Court Judge David Souter ruled that municipalities can take property from an owner and give it to developers which will generate more tax revenue for the local government Clements is seeking to build a hotel on the land currently owned by Judge Souter. The town has declined Clements' request for the land, but he and some residents of Weare, New Hampshire, are working to bring the issue to a vote of the townspeople. 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. The lyrics to Preeminent Domain are as follows: Allow me to make it eminently clear It's a free country Judge, or didn't you hear. Facts are facts, and rights are rights Take my land and you take my life
So easy to give when it ain't yours So easy to take what you didn't create
Nothing grows on trees but leaves And if you don't leave us free, that's all there'll be
All we want is to be left alone From the Right and the Left they invade our home
So easy to give when it ain't yours So easy to take what you didn't create
When did we fall asleep, when did we turn to sheep? How did we get so dependent, how did we get so dumb? Why did we let this happen? When did our government becomes our master? It's time to remember who we are...
I hear you laughing, but it won't be funny There's only so far you can push this country.
'Cause facts are still facts, and rights are still rights Take our land and you take our life
So easy to give when it ain't yours So easy to take what you didn't create It's upside down and inside out But not for long as you'll find out . The song can be purchased for $2.00 here. The Supreme Court ruling has been widely denounced across the country, in the United States Congress, and in many states and localities. Some state legislatures are already creating their own laws to protect their citizens from this abuse of eminent domain, with many other legislatures planning to follow suit in the coming year.
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