The Slow Painful Death of American Freedom

Well, today America died, just a little more.

Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that cities can take… steal would be my phraseology for it… private property from one private party (which, i'm assuming, will usually consist of a poorer-to-middle class family or a small Mom & Pop business) and award it to another private party (typically, I'm assuming, will be a rich corporation or a housing development firm), assuming the property would generate more revenue.

More. Revenue. Your local government can give your home to a corporation, because it will bring in more cash.

Mere words cannot express my current level of outrage. Has our society not been crushed by the weight of corporate-political greed enough that they must heap this final insult upon the common person? The fact that some bureaucratic stooge who has had his palms greased with sufficient amounts of cash by the right people can mark your home as condemned so they can bulldoze it and put up a strip mall is positively disgraceful. The rich and well connected already have a ludicrous amount of control over the affairs of our country as it is. Now they can legally seize property from people who’ve worked hard thier entire lives for what little they have? Destroy homes that have been in a family for over a century because the new hotel needs a bigger parking lot?

Where the hell are we, Zimbabwe? Because I can’t believe I’m still living in America.

Sorry, I’m too incensed to make much more of an argument without it degenerating into illegible ranting. I’ll call it a night, after one final rant directed at those responsible for this travesty:

Supreme Court "Justices" Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kennedy… You have stabbed the citizenry of the United States in the back. I hope whatever Pfizer paid you so they could bulldoze homes at will was worth betraying basic rights you are supposed to be defending.

Have a nice fucking day.