Thursday, June 23, 2005

Oligarchy and Mobocracy come alive!

Those who dismiss people who want to rein in the power of the Supreme Court as right-wing extremists have just gotten a nasty wake-up call. That means that if your community decides to put a shopping mall on your farm or house, they can force you off for the benefit of a private party. This isn't like razing a house to build a highway. This isn't like taking farmland to build a water treatment plant for a city. This is Wal-Mart laying foundation over your garden because your local officials deem that you are getting in the way of the "general good." For once Sandra was on the right side of an issue with her dissent!

Our government has just declared that the inalienable right to own property is now subject to the whims of the mob and those who have more money and power than you.

I will find a way to protest this. Put on your thinking caps, kids.