America Goes Down the Shitter

"Land of the Free" - Yeah, right. Effective as of yesterday no one in this country have any property rights. The supreme cork made that clear when it found that New London, Conn, can bulldoze people's homes for no other reason than it can then give the property to someone they can tax at a higher rate. Selling this box I have now and getting a Winnebago is sounding better all the time.

Robert Mugabe is back in the news - he's back tearing down the homes and businesses of those he thinks might not love him. Now that his people are starving due to his destruction of the farming communities, he's having his storm troopers rip up any vegetable patches that the poor around Harare have planted. Why? Because these plots "threaten the environment."

Before his last election Mugabe gave a shitload of folks houses - now that there's no elections coming he's had the army round these people and throw them out of those houses.

When you read these two disparate articles together like this, I can't help but think we're closer to Zimbabwe than we are to a free and democratic nation.