This article was censored from a regional newspaper for criticizing a corrupt business opening shop in Battle Ground, WA.

I am always confused when I see seemingly patriotic Americans walking into and out of Walmart. For a country so largely against Communism, we sure don’t mind supporting their political prisons and forced labor camps with our money.

This year, yet another such exploitative “superstore” will be built in our country – this time coming to suck the economic life of locally owned enterprises and fair wages out of Battle Ground, all in the name of cheap, toxic, imported junk that no one needed in the first place.

While Costco is making news for paying its employees well above minimum wage and thereby supporting local economies across the country, Walmart remains notorious for employees forced to live off of meager food stamp rations, putting further stress on our governmental safety-net systems. They value their workers so much, they have even taken out what is chillingly called, “Dead Peasant” Insurance on their very lives, so the company can make sure to generate a good sum of money should any of their impoverished employees happen to inconvenience them by passing away.

Is this the kind of Un-American exploitation of our citizens and assault on our local businesses we are prepared to take? With companies like Whole Foods and Costco offering great, healthful products and employee benefits, why is the city of Battle Ground choosing instead to allow a corrupt, internationally notorious business like Walmart into our community? Battle Ground is set to move forward, having recently opened a co-op to house local produce and support the health and wellbeing of its citizens, as well as being able to boast a thriving array of local businesses. Let’s continue in the right direction, not regress back to the feudal ages of serfs and (Corrupt CEO) kings. Let’s all of us “peasants” write to city council members today, and demand the space allotted to Walmart be used to house a more ethical company that has local interests at heart; one that will be an asset to our town rather than a destructive economic blight.

SHUT DOWN Walmart – our proud town deserves more respectful businesses practices.

So some of this super insane "Humanity is a disease" and "kill it so the Earth can live" is pretty upsetting. Having studied Ayurveda, I know that number one, we are literally the planet. We are created out of the Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether. The food we eat becomes our bodies. Insperable, just changing forms.

Second of all, the argument "humanity is a cancer" needs to be understood. Cancer is a group of cells that have gotten out of harmony with the greater whole. Western medicine aims to "kill it" with radiation, etc.: "A war on cancer." This practice of warring on things is actually a practice of self hatred, and part of the disease of viewing things as separate from ourselves, when that is infact impossible.

"Heal Thyself." 

How is this concept different? Holistic medicine aims to get elements that are our of balance, back in harmony. So the solution is not to "kill humans to save the planet," but to get humans back into harmony with Nature - their Greater Self. Nature is not something outside of us to save. It is ourselves, and we are capable of healing, with the correct worldview and actions that stem from it.