via Reason (link), it seems the City of New London is looking to charge the Kelo plaintiffs for back rent on their properties from 2000 to present. In some cases this adds up to over $300k for homeowners. Any person that believes in limited government or property rights already grieves over this decision. However I think their is a silver lining to this whole thing.

The actions of the New London Development Corporation are so egregious that this may actually help turn the tide in the favor of the limited govt/property right crowd. Already we see politicians stepping over themselves to try and pass eminent domain reform. If we publicize how these poor elderly homeowners are being even further screwed by self important bureaucrats high on their petty powers, we might be able to help turn the tide away from government and towards more freedom oriented candidates.

Having no elected officials to begin with, the LP would be prime candidates to take advantage of this issue. But their inability to raise money, mobilize their base, or accomplish much of anything, means they won’t.

I think this would be a great issue for the RLC to grab hold of, but unfortunately it too has very little infrastructure. So for now this needs to be spread over the blogosphere and via word of mouth. In the mean time I need to start building a database.

Funny, thats what caused me to burn out last time. :)