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Re: 'Lego Ban' at Seattle School Fueled by Anti-Private Property Crusaders
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:15:59 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Sid Dinsay wrote:
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You have to go in via http://www.techcentralstation.com to find this article.
There is no direct link.
L’Eggo My Lego
By Maureen Martin
28 Feb 2007
Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private
property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos. • --snip--
Officials in Bremerton, for example, condemned a house where a widow had lived
for 55 years so her property could be used for a car lot, according to the
Institute for Justice. And Seattle successfully condemned nine properties and
turned them over to a private developer for retail shops and hotel parking, IJ
reports. Attempts to do the same thing in Vancouver (for mixed use
development) and Lakewood (for an amusement park) failed for reasons unrelated
to property confiscation issues.
The court’s ruling in Kelo, however, whetted municipal condemnation appetites
even further. The Institute for Justice reports 272 takings for private use
are pending or threatened in the state as of last summer. It’s unclear if
Legos will be targeted. But given what’s being taught in some schools, perhaps
it’s just a matter of time.
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I like how the author ties together two entirely different stories into one for
hilarious comic effect. Private school teaches children that private property
is evil through an example using Lego is so obviously related to how the council
that takes private property to be sold on as... private property... isn’t it?
Ummm...
Well, I don’t know about anyone else but I thinks that perhaps the journalist
writing this piece but have been a bit lax in his or her standards... maybe the
two stories aren’t actually very close to the truth at all. Mixing unrelated
stories with the pretense that the two are related suggests to me that perhaps
the author might be a little selective... anyway, it made me laugh.
Tim
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