Kansas citizens attack under-construction Wall Mart breaking freezer units

This reminds me of an idea I once had.

What would prevent someone from getting control of a local government, and banning all retail outlets, as a way to address unemployment?

 

Probably a windfall for the fat cats with insurance policies to cash in on. A small blessing for the raped consumers.

 

Three cheers for the union thugs then..

 

They also sell fresh fruits and veggies comrade....It's best you keep your nose in your own hell-hole.

 

RtWingaFraud endorses vandalism.

 

I'm more used to the experimental idea. I'm trying to find things that don't fit, I have thoughts about what does fit, but as I said, kids don't fit for a number of reasons

1. no graphitti
2. no theft
3. no video
4. the directed nature of the attacks (freezer/cooler damage rather than random)
5. the difficulty of steering a scissorlift

All of the above, to me anyway, points away from kids joyriding through a store for kicks on a Friday night. Kids love to post their activities on youtube, kids like to graphiti, kids are much more random. There is not much support for the idea that kids randomly broke into a store and decided to ram freezers. It's not a good hypothesis, as it doesn't fit the data. I'm also ruling out unicorns and polar bears, because really neither one makes sense.

 

I don't love or hate Walmart, but not a single one would be in business if people kept shopping at all those mom and pop stores they all claim to admire so much. The ONLY blame any city has is itself. Unless, the city revokes a bunch of licences from stores surrounding a new Walmart so they are unable to operate, none of them can complain about the effect it has. Corruption is one thing. People (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing how they miss all the private small stores, while shopping in all the big super stores, are just dumb hypocrites.

 

I don't believe, for example, that a child's addiction to heroin is the fault of the child.

Addiction is a compulsion not a choice. People are compelled to shop at Walmart and to eat unhealthy foods because of the socioeconomic condition that is the fault of the government.

There should not be an exploitative evil Walmart. (but a fair distributor) There should not be Junk food. There should not be heroin.

There should be a socioeconomic condition of respected entrepreneurialism, fair market, and individual prosperity similar to the best of American times. The rich will be rich. But they should not impede the country's real people from becoming rich (and so we need a Fair Market). They should not impede the real people's implied natural right of health. They should not impede the real people's natural implied right to not be slaves.

 

Low price coerces people to shop at Wal-Mart?

 

Walmart sells junk and healthy food. If you choose to eat the junk, thats on YOU. If a city's population chooses to go after the cheapest goods, then complains how the smaller shops are going out of business, the blame lays squarely where it belongs...the people. Walmart does NOT force you to shop there. You CHOOSE to. If price is the only factor in buying goods, then don't complain when Mom and Pop go out of business. Its city officials faults also for giving them tax breaks to move in, so when THEY (*)(*)(*)(*)(*), its on THEM.

Don't complain that you have lung cancer, while smoking your whole life. Don't complain you have liver cancer when you've a drunk. Don't complain you have skin cancer(not talking about exceptions) if you spent your whole life at the beach and never used any lotion. Don't complain about high car insurance rates when you have a lousy driving record. Don't complain about being fat when you eat like a pig. Don't complain about high gas prices while driving around in a Hummer without any actual need for it. Don't be a HYPOCRITE.

 

I don't believe America is good because of its bad. I believe America is just bad.

I thought you wanted to change it.

 

If Walmart was allowed to open a store in Russia, it would be inundated by Russians whose lives would be made better because of it.

 

I endorse the take down of corporate parasites like Walmart by any means possible at this point. They squash people like bus so why should anybody treat them with any kind of respect? Whatever works at this point.

 

If they did not want the walmart there, they should have filed an injunction and stopped it from being built in the first place. A town is allowed to stop new construction if they feel it will harm the people or the economy of the town.

 

Quite to the contrary, it was probably someone from the local grocery store who feared going out of business because they cannot compete with Walmart's prices. Kansas is a right-to-work state (right-to-starve) and unions have very little interest in orgainzing in most of those states.

 

It's not like kids always do things for no reason. I wouldn't be surprise if this was done by teenage anarchists - despite what people say they're often well organized.

This could've been done either by poeople hired by a local small business or businesses (I can't see them doing it themselves) or someone with an ideological imperitive from a Union, party or an Anarchist group.

 

Right to work should be in all states. I worked a union job for several years, and we only striked twice. Both strikes were over stupid reasons, but the union leaders convinced enough people to strike that they got a majority. Since, we were right to work, and we did not agree with the reasons behind the strike, a number of workers and I simply continued working and refused to join the strike.

 

I work in a union security state; I worked union and we never struck.

 

If the people of the town didn't want Wal-Mart, all they had to do is simply not shop there.

 

Well, maybe "random" was a poor choice of words. What I mean is that the attack was aimed specifically at the parts of the store that would cause massive damage. It was somebody who knew enough about the workings of a grocery store to know that the money shot was coolers and freezers, not simply ramming things, well, randomly, to do whatever damage they could. They also were aimed at as much damage as possible -- no spray painting the coolers or walls, but a lot of breaking things.

It could be anarchists, but anarchists would likely have left at least one of those circle A symbols around as a mark.

 

I guess they probably would've left a symbol, good point.

 

So we agree these are older people... They, like many Americans, simply have no faith in the system. WHY would they "file an injunction" when they know that only CORPORATIONS can wield that power and that common people do not have the time or energy amid their own struggle for survival in their slave state to gather enough signatures or do whatever needs to be done to ensure a successful injunction. It is just another example of real people deprived of the avenues of dissent.

And what do we see as the US Tyrannist Regime suppresses and seals the avenues for dissent, either directly (as in oppression of free speech rights), or indirectly through corporate and elitist pandering for elective mercy causing socioeconomic depravity and slave conditions for the natural real people?? VANDALISM, TERRORISM, PROTEST, AND UPHEVAL.

So these good people of Kansas' response was, AT LEAST IN THEIR OWN MINDS, their only remaining avenue for effective dissent. A method of speech as significant as any other. Illegal? Yes. Probably shouldn't have done it? Yes. But at the same time VERY TELLING as to the STRUGGLE OF AMERICANS to live under the yoke of US Government corporate exploitation and oppression!!

 

Your words:

Walmart does NOT force you to shop there. You CHOOSE to. If price is the only factor in buying goods, then don't complain when Mom and Pop go out of business. Its city officials faults also for giving them tax breaks to move in, so when THEY (*)(*)(*)(*)(*), its on THEM.


My response:

If I sell "good" food at two or three times the price of " the garbage, and all people can afford is the garbage (barely), then it's their own fault? Bad argument dude.

 

That's an off the wall accusation. Maybe left handed Christian jewel thieves did it. Or maybe it was blind Muslim baseball players. gee whiz

 

I'm not making any accusations, the key word is "could". These are the main groups I think would feel compelled to do this.