Grievance 30 - Land Confiscation

The U.S. Constitution provided no automatic specific means to guarantee
Americans equal treatment under the law.

In communities across the country, various government agencies
forcefully took land from lawful owners and awarded its use to others
for "redevelopment", including residential and commercial property.

In some instances, uncooperative residents were removed from their homes
by armed agents, and structures they had lived in for many years were demolished
by bulldozer.

In a typical commercial case, a government agency took legal steps to
force the owners of a small long-established cafe to sell to the agency
at a "fair price" in order that it, in turn, could sell to other
interests for construction of a pizza restaurant and gasoline station.

Playing on the emotion of "civic pride" and promoted by media,
redevelopment programs were a boon to commercial interests that forced
improvements for their own benefit through the corrupted power of
government agencies.

With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, all individuals are guaranteed equal treatment under
the laws enacted by the people at-large, and government is barred from
giving favor to one commercial interest over another.

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