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[theoldanarchist]

Yeah, this is good land-use planning!  This needs to be resisted, but there is so little time to organize anything to help these people.  This is what government does best, evict people from their land---from an organic farm, no less---for the purpose of building a fucking WalMart warehouse aiding private developers.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/

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[elendriel_212]

This seems a little too obviously "big bad corporation" vs "poor people" to me.

One immediate benefit of having Wal-Mart move in off the top of my head is that there will be jobs for those people.

I wouldn't get too worked up about this story.

[debord_saturday]

wait it's 350 families. Listen to the NPR report. It's pretty good.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5160542

[theoldanarchist]

Yes, the NPR report is much more balanced than this online article.

[theoldanarchist]

You'll pardon my idiocy, but how can it be "a little too obvious"? If you doubt the veracity of the story, all you need to do is look it up, the facts are out there. But, it seems that you are saying something else. I am worked up about it, and I hope a great many other people get worked up about it as well. These people do not need a WalMart, and they do not need the jobs it can, ostensibly, provide---they need to keep their farm. All of our major urban areas need more farms like this, and fewer WalMarts.

[debord_saturday]

Hey! Where'd my original comment to elendriel_212 go?!?!

[theoldanarchist]

I accidentally deleted it. Sorry.

[debord_saturday]

=O

Ruppert, Wal Mart

[anonymous]

Clicking on the final link above from the original post, I discovered its source and chief (and most verbally overheated and intellectually flabby) tub-thumper on this crusade, one Michael C. Ruppert, a bestselling conspiracy theorist perhaps best known heretofore for his "timeline" purporting to prove that vice-president Cheney was a major orchestrator of the 9-11 attacks (for those of you who have to leave now, don't forget to pick up the links below on your way out). For a couple of instructively Seinfeldesque "Good luck with all that" slowly-walking-backwards sendoffs to Ruppert from leading figures on the American left, see, e.g., this column from David Corn at AlterNet: http://www.alternet.org/story/12536... )

Re: Ruppert, Wal Mart

[theoldanarchist]

Oh my! Well, Scott, as always, you give me a great deal to think about, and I appreciate it endlessly. I know nothing about this Ruppert fellow, but what you've said here makes me very skeptical about anything he says. My own innate tendencies toward skepticism sometimes get overwhelmed by emotionalism, and I forget to check my sources---something I find hard to forgive in others.

As you say, the enemy, first and foremost, is the state, and its machinery. That said, I still hate WalMart, just not as much as the state.

Re: Ruppert, Wal Mart

[theoldanarchist]

Actually, it occurs to me that you should make a comment to the original post on boingboing, and give a lot of other people some perspective on this story. Just a thought.

Re: Ruppert, Wal Mart

[anonymous]

I appreciate greatly the spirit in which you chose to respond to the notes of reasoned dissent I tried so mightily to strike, and my tightly-coiled flourishes of rhetorical irony - the free-for-all of the web on many a day seems as positively choked with barely articulate and egotistical bluster as the pig-sties of the political shoutfests on cable, so any voice more approaching strop-honed and exquisitely-wielded cutlery, and away from the sledgehammer, is cause for gratitude on my part

[winstonjc]

You know what would be an interesting research project? You wanna know? Ok, ok, I'll tell ya! Call up the lumber company and find out how much a 2 by 4 costs; and a sheet of plywood; and siding, and a certain quantity of concrete, and a single quantity of nails... Then find out how man 2 by 4's and how many sheets of plywood, etc. etc. go into, say, a three bedroom house and then calculate the total cost. Probably you'd have to find out what different things go into a house, 2 by 4's, 1 by 8's, and so on.

[theoldanarchist]

Ok... and, then what? I'm not sure I understand where you're going with this.

[winstonjc]

It's probably just the latest of those "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Zen koans we weren't meant to bio-degrade with the enzymes secreted in the cerebral cortex...and I say this after absorbing the entire current page of his Livejournal linked above: I'm convinced he's the crossbred parthenogenic spawn-in-training of Jack "Deep Thoughts" Handey from *SNL*, Steven Wright - and the complete archive of *Simpsons* legend George Meyer's equally legendary homemade late-1980s humor-'zine ARMY MAN: AMERICA'S ONLY MAGAZINE...on the latter and its creator, the following three items are unforgettable must reading for all save the most stonefaced:

http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=925

http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/meyer00.html

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/6460/2000sept15.htm

SL

[theoldanarchist]

Uuhhh... ok, you two work this out yourselves... I'm confused and tired...