While reading the "No Property" article for this week, I got to thinking about Kelo. If property rights are an essential component of liberty and personhood--and I think they are--then perhaps the public correctly views Kelo as the Court declining to protect vulnerable homeowners against the use of governmental power to deprive them of their liberty and personhood by taking their homes for economic redevelopment. Even if the "public good" is advanced from a pragmatic perspective when property is taken from A and put to a better use by B, perhaps the price is too high when the taking strikes at the core of the liberty and personhood of a few unfortunate folks like Susette Kelo.
When government redistributes property rights from A to B, it is redistributing liberty and personhood from A to B. Or at least that is one way to think about this issue
