Wal-Martistan wants sovereignty

Wal-Mart is trying to build a new store in Inglewood, CA. But they want to be exempt from the law.

While Wal-Mart has turned to the ballot in a number of cities and towns to win the right to build its giant emporiums, the Inglewood initiative is significantly different. The proposal would essentially exempt Wal-Mart from all of Inglewood's planning, zoning and environmental regulations, creating a city-within-a-city subject only to its own rules. Wal-Mart has hired an advertising and public relations firm to market the initiative and is spending more than $1 million to support the measure, known as initiative 04-A.

And it's not just Inglewood where Wal-Mart wants to start little Wal-Martistans.

And they say that Inglewood will be a test case. If the initiative succeeds here, they say, it will become a model for Wal-Mart sovereignty across the nation and around the globe.

So Wal-Martistan doesn't feel like paying attention to all those pesky city laws. What's next, state laws? Federal laws? Where does their arrogance stop? This is absolutely fucking ridiculous. If Wal-Martistan doesn't like the laws in local communities where they want to setup shop, too fucking bad. Every other business has to abide by them. What makes Wal-Martistan think they're so special?