“Your houses, your homes, your family, your friends. May they live in misery that never ends. I curse you all. May you rot in hell. To each of you I send this spell.”
The woman at the center of a national battle over property rights has sent some not-so-joyous tidings to people involved in taking her house to make way for private development.
Susette Kelo’s holiday cards feature a snowy image of her pink house and a message that reads, in part, “Your houses, your homes, your family, your friends. May they live in misery that never ends. I curse you all. May you rot in hell. To each of you I send this spell.”
If you read further you can see just how heartless the bureaucrats are that stole this lady’s home.
Kelo, one of the last holdouts, earlier this year accepted a $442,155 settlement, more than $300,000 above the appraised value of her home in 2000.
“It’s amazing anyone could be so vindictive when they’ve made so much money,” said Gail Schwenker-Mayer,
Excuse me Ms. Schwenker-Mayer, not everyone’s a money grubbing witch like you are. If she wanted to sell for a profit she would have done so freely, not spent untold amount of time and effort fighting you all of the way to the Supreme Court. Besides we’re talking about the appraised value of the home in 2000, not in 2006. And besides that the developers stand to make millions profiting from her property that she’s lived in her whole life. What’s that property worth today or say in ten years when maybe she was ready to sell. Someone else is benefiting from the huge run-up in real estate.
Besides any appraisal is irrelevant. The value of the house is what she was willing to sell it for.
New London Development Corp. member Reid Burdick said he put the card on his mantel with his other Christmas greetings.
“I think the poor woman has gone around the bend,” he said. “I haven’t gotten any mail from her in years. I still feel bad for Susette. The sorry part of this is that the things she’s angry about were not done to be mean-spirited toward her personally.”
Oh gee, it was nothing personal to evict this woman from her home. What could be more personal than that. What an idiot for saying that.
Fellow NLDC member George Milne, a former top executive at Pfizer Inc., called the card “immensely childish.”
“It’s sort of sad she elected to do this,” Milne said. “We were trying to do things for the city. It was nothing personal.”
I guess it’s not childish to make millions taking someone’s property. It’s amazing what people like this can do to rationalize the theft of this ladies home.