permaculture

[George Mogiljansky <mogiljan@yahoo.com>]

Robert,
 
It is as if the status quo must be preserved at all
costs, including the very freedoms by which it was
created in the first place.

Have the elected bodies ever overturned a Supreme
Court decision?

George


--- Robert Waldrop <rmwj@soonernet.com> wrote:

> This decision of the US Supreme Court is, well,
> the politest thing I can think of to say about it
> is that it is "UTTERLY DEPRAVED".
> 
> "Urban renewal" has been used for years as a way
> to destroy poor and working class neighborhoods
> and transfer the land use to purposes desired by
> non-poor people.  Here in OKC, a very nice 1950s
> neighborhood was destroyed to put in a big box
> store. Earlier, the historic heart of the African
> American business and residential community was
> destroyed in what amounted to a "due process riot"
> by covetous white people who wanted the land
> (close to downtown, thus potentially valuable) but
> who did not want to pay market prices for the
> land. So the City condemned the properties, paid
> people cheap prices which were upheld by the
> courts, and ethnically cleansed the area.
> 
> People in rural areas may think this only impacts
> cities, but think again.  Suppose Seaboard Farms
> wants to put a giant Confined Animal Feeding
> Operation in your area, but the neighbors object.
> This won't be a problem in the future.  Just
> condemn their properties, force them to sell for
> cheap price, and voila, "economic benefit" in the
> form of a new Confined Animal Feeding Operation to
> "support the local economy".
> 
> This is one of the most anti-permaculture,
> anti-sustainable living decisions ever made by the
> US SUpreme Court, it ranks with their decisions
> legitimizing the "personhood" of corporations.
> 
> Robert Waldrop, who is very sad and scared about
> this in Oklahoma City
> www.bettertimesinfo.org


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