On Sun, 18 May 2008 14:14:56 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, F.
George McDuffee quickly quoth:

I would start with the "imminent domain" cases where the local
pols seize private property to be transferred to private
individuals and companies on the grounds this will "revitalize"
an urban area or improve local tax revenues. [There are many

I don't recall hearing what happened in the case of Souter's property
after the Kelo Decision.

others, generally involving pension funding and corporate
stockholder "rights"] A closely related situation is the rush by
the pols to sell public property [to "balance the budget"] such
as roads at fire sale prices to for-profit companies that then
charge the public to use the facilities their taxes paid for.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062300783.html

I'm with Sandy.


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06169/698927-84.stm

The thought of foreign countries/interests owning most of our main
thoroughfares makes me uncomfortable.


http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=14921

Chicago sure gets its share of gangstas, doesn't it?


Some specific instances are SCOTUS failure/refusal to act on, or
indeed even recognize, the problems of the inaccuracy and/or
fraud of the new computerized voting methods [which not only
determine which politicians are elected, but also the passage of
bond issues and local tax rates], and their denial of the reality
of the existence of, and gross abuse by, transnational
corporations, many of which now rival many nominally independent
countries in wealth and influence.

We now appear to be headed back into the "two societies"
described by the "National Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders" [1967] know popularly as the "Kerner Commission,"
except this is now divided into a huge class of [increasingly]
poor, and a tiny class of the affluent.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission

Do you feel that there has been no progress toward integration in the
past 40 years, since that report was made, Unk? I think that vast
improvements have come about. Then again, bigots (both white and
black, the worst being the KKK and people like the REVs Jackson,
Wright, and Farrakhan) continue to -strongly- promote the division.
sigh


Given the events that caused the creation of this investigatory
commission [i.e. wide-spread urban riots and extreme civil
disorders], it would appear that every effort should be made to
avoid such a division. Deliberate [or even the passive allowing]
of the creation of social conditions known to promote "class
warfare" is about on a par with the deliberate re-introduction of
bubonic plague, small pox or typhus as a population control
measure.

Some folks are saying that has already been done with AIDS. Who knows?

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