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No Respect
Since 1995 Mary Jane Wolf has told the Avon School Board that she does not want to sell them the land she has lived on for almost all of her life. Unfortunately, as we know all too well, politicians are often not really that concerned about what citizens want. The board is currently moving forward with eminent domain proceedings to take most of Mary Jane's land for a new middle school.
Wolf, who was widowed in 2005 and diagnosed with cancer shortly after, has faced increasingly aggressive attempts by district officials to buy 25 of the 30 acres she lives on. Though she would get to keep her home she would be forced to give up most of what is left of land that has been in her family for generations.
As with so many of the other victims of eminent domain, all that Mary Jane wants is to be left alone on the property that she rightfully owns. The use of eminent domain in cases like this show the politicians in favor of such takings to have a complete disrespect for the property rights of citizens, one of the most fundamental rights we have. If politicians are unable to respect the peoples' right to trade their property at their own discretion, then it is unlikely they will respect many of the peoples' other rights.
A republic cannot long function when those who are elected to represent the people have no respect for the very rights they are elected to defend.
