Eminent Domain Outrage in Connecticut

November 22nd, 2009 by Andy in Corporations, 'Democracy' & USA Inc.

This is priceless. Literally. After a community is laid prostrate before the tantalizing promise of corporate mammon, it is left high and dry by the very company that they were colonized by against their own wishes in the first place. Of course, this was made possible by the Supreme Corp ruling that gave the go ahead to private corporations to use the government as their tool to expropriate private property for their own benefit. Could this be considered somewhat akin to the “special economic zones” of spreading across the likes of China and India?

Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer to Leave New London, Site of Major Housing Battle

Homeowners in New London, Connecticut took on the city’s leaders after they announced plans to condemn all of the homes in one neighborhood to make way for a private development project for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The city said it would bring in thousands of jobs. After a 2005 Supreme Court ruling against the homeowners, the entire neighborhood was bulldozed. This week Pfizer announced it is shutting down its research center.

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