Scottish Lawmaker: Government Should Seize Private Property for “Social Justice”
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
TheNewAmerican.com
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Scottish politicians are pushing legislation that would sacrifice personal property rights on the altar of “social justice.”
The Telegraph reports:
Landowners’ rights to use their property as they wish are to be watered down for the public good, a senior SNP minister has warned as she unveiled a Left-wing agenda to create a socialist society over the next century.
Aileen McLeod, the Scottish Land Reform Minister, told a conference in Edinburgh that the “core of my approach” is to shift the balance of the law so that the “public interest” is given greater precedence at the expense of “individual’s rights.”
She said the Scottish Government would use its new power over land ownership to push forward “social justice” and tackle inequality as part of a drive to work “towards the kind of society we want to be in the next 50 to 100 years.”
Using power to seize land? That sounds familiar.
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