The Tom Woods Show, episode 1149.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Talking to Courtney Ballaker today, she wrote, produced, and directed.

A new film called Little Pink House, and it recounts the events that culminated in the Supreme Court case of Kilo v. New London,

which, of course, was the famous eminent domain case.

And the twist here was that this was a case of eminent domain in which private land was being

taken from one private owner and being given to another private owner.

And the question was, is this an abuse of eminent domain and so on and so forth? And the result is quite a compelling film

indeed. We're going to talk about it today. Now, obviously, if I wanted to make this wonkish,

we would talk about the incorporation doctrine and whether the Bill of Rights was meant to apply to the states, or whether, you know, we could also talk about eminent domain being an abomination, regardless of who the recipient of the seized land is.

You're still taking somebody's property away, regardless of whether you have good intentions or not.

Like we wouldn't say in any other

part of our lives that as long as your intentions are good, you can do terrible things to people.

So we, libertarians might be inclined to say across the board, let's be against eminent domain.

But that's not the conversation I want to have today. Today I want to talk about this particular

film and its potential to reach people outside of those of us who

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