Friday, June 24, 2005
Look out, here comes the Wal-Mart Monster!
This week a really strange Supreme Court decision came out. It said that private corporations can seize your house and property to make room for a shopping center, a hotel, a parking garage or other business. To me this is an extension of boarding soldiers in your house, which is forbidden by the Constitution. However, it is law in many states that the state can seize land for such things as a highway. They usually offer you a good sum for this land, but still, they infringe upon property rights and your feeling of being in a place you can call your own.
What's new now is that the Supreme Court has said that private businesses can seize your land. This is really going to cause some rebellion in some places. Many people disapprove of Wal-Mart because of its using cheap labor overseas, the crowdedness of its stores, its disregard for communities' sense of connectedness and its small businesses, many of which fold upon the arrival of a Wal-Mart, and its tearing down wilderness, a home to wild animals of all sorts, to construct its Supercenters. Now the Supreme Court says it can take your land for a Wal-Mart. If you are dead set against the store, you will be really angry about this. If this mood prevails over a huge community of such people, a rebellion could result.
I don't know what the Supremes were thinking on this one. They need to protect the individual property owner's sense of security in his home.
What's new now is that the Supreme Court has said that private businesses can seize your land. This is really going to cause some rebellion in some places. Many people disapprove of Wal-Mart because of its using cheap labor overseas, the crowdedness of its stores, its disregard for communities' sense of connectedness and its small businesses, many of which fold upon the arrival of a Wal-Mart, and its tearing down wilderness, a home to wild animals of all sorts, to construct its Supercenters. Now the Supreme Court says it can take your land for a Wal-Mart. If you are dead set against the store, you will be really angry about this. If this mood prevails over a huge community of such people, a rebellion could result.
I don't know what the Supremes were thinking on this one. They need to protect the individual property owner's sense of security in his home.
