Little Pink House is a devastating dramatization of Susette Kelo’s battle to keep her house from politicians invoking ‘eminent domain.’By Kyle Smith
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/little-pink-house-eminent-domain-portrayal-devastating/Working on behalf of a giant corporation and a corrupt politician, a development czar explains at a town-hall meeting why it’s necessary to bulldoze a group of houses nestled by a river: to “help those in need,†of course. “The jobless, the homeless, the people on the fringes of society will benefit the most from this plan,†says the development executive. Replies an incredulous resident: “You’re gonna help the homeless by kicking people out of their homes?â€
Welcome to the Dr. Strangelove War Room of property rights . . .
. . . That caustically written scene arrives in the middle of Little Pink House, a devastating and important dramatization of the efforts of New London, Conn., paramedic Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener) to retain her house against the onrushing bulldozers of the state. To see the movie is to take the red pill and be introduced to how much deception, cynicism, and corruption underlie even seemingly routine acts of government. Little Pink House should be viewed by every teen and young adult who is in danger of confusing government’s noble-sounding stated motives with its actual ones . . .
. . . A New London lawyer actually argues, “How is any city supposed to grow if you’re handcuffing leaders with vision? The whole plan is for the greater good!†Shame on anyone who believed this, and shame most especially on Justices Ginsburg, Kennedy, Stevens, Souter, and Breyer for affirming it in the Supreme Court, in a decision that agreed with the government that a poor landholder could be forced out in favor of a rich one because the rich one promised to provide more tax revenue . . .
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Irony: Donaldus Minimus has supported the
Kelo decision while his Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, opposed it. At the time
of the ruling, Gorsuch was so impressed by Justice Clarence Thomas's blistering dissent in
Kelo that he e-mailed copies of it
to two friends of his who clerked for Thomas with his comments praising the dissent. "Blown away" by it was one way Gorsuch
phrased it.
