Eminent Domain, Chinese Style

Which again would lead to the owner being sued to hell for threathening someone like that.

If you own all the land around someone else then you can dig it all away, leaving the American on a silly mountain of stupid.

Anyone else read the title as "Eminem Domain"

yeah thought it said eminem at 1st too oO

anyway the chinese folk never ceases to amaze me, not in a good way tho

the only reason why they do this shit is because the government there allow developers to go to such extremes

on a side note though i find it amazing how the western nations isn't saying a thing about this and yet if it were Japan putting out an eroge they're quick to pounce! WTF!?

@ Anon 05:33
Doesn't stop people,
and god forbid if you're the smuck who has to deliver the summons.

@unsung hero

you forget, america owes china a sh*tload of money

Its not a threat if you blow their crotch off.

For the U.S., getting out of our debt with China should be a top priority. We'll really start to regret it in 20-30 years.

In the US, Eminent Domain allows the government to force you out of your home if you are blocking what is considered a public project (usually to try and correct urban blight, or construct a public benefit). They have to pay you "market rates" for your land and all improvements, and that's it, and you have little recourse.

One case went to the supreme court and they ruled in favor of allowing eminent domain laws. The next weekend, one of the justices was booted out of his home under the same law. Poetic indeed.

@ anon 6:43

i meant western nations as a whole i know why the U.S. won't say anything but why aren't other nations taking a stand against china?

well they are pussies for one, who only get involved when it directly effects them.

for 2 they dont have the resources.

3 china gets shit done, sweat shops or whatever, i don't see anyone willing to pay an extra 10-20$ for what use to be a 8$ shirt, do you?

lets face it, this isnt genocide. this is people being dicks to people. unless war breaks out us wont do shit.

@unsung hero
The western nations do regularly complain and tell China to change it's attitude, but that's about it. There's never any punishment at all.

Right after complaining the very same people sign new multi billion buck trade agreements, though.

As you can guess it's super effective.

Anyone seen Up!?

The Pixar Movie? yeah it's pretty close to real.

05:33 sry but no, that wouldn't happen. Not without the case in the lower courts being scrutinized if that were to come to pass.

anon@14:02 - just add balloons.

@5:33: No, actually. At least in jurisdictions based on Common Law and Roman traditions there are right of way clauses precisely to prevent things like this. Of course your land can still be disowned by the government, but in that case often the law requires market-rate payment or a new plot in restitution.
What this means in practice, and this happened close to where I live, if a project developer buys up all the land around your home, which in this case wasn't done out of ill intent, the project developer has to keep a road free from your home to a public road. Again in our case the developer had no ill intentions, it just kind of happened, but it did prevent them from having an apartment building enclosing a park.

@schrobby what you said is also true (sadly)

it would be cheaper if the developer hires sumone to kill them or "accidentally" burn their house down. in china, the owner owns the projected construction only, thus the government would be able to legally take back the land if the house gets burnt down.

ps: that actually happened b4

ni hao

In this case, police protection means protection from the police...

I meant that guy over th

Oops... misspelled moat

this goes to show you the kind of mentality the government has over there if they're so trigger happy why not actually START A WAR (the U.S. does it all the time to satisfy its "trigger finger") or maybe they know if they do start some shit the entirety of the N.A.T.O. alliance would put them in their place?

At the moment China would be epicly SOL if they fucked around with US or even NATO. France alone has enough nuclear firepower to roll them over twice over.