“Pittsboro Matters” group demands town and county governments usurp private property rights for “the common good”

“The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons.  Greed, anger, and delusion.”

Preston Development does not have to inform you of exactly what kind of nails they will use, 4” or 6” clapboards, red or brown bricks, etc. Developers must adjust their vision and dreams to meet EXISTING state, county, and town regulations/ordinances.  For example, there is already a restriction on what may be done within 1000 feet of a river and within a watershed.  This is exactly what happened to Cary first, then Apex and Morrisville.  YOU (and your ilk) are demanding Pittsboro become exactly like Cary and Apex.  Your myopic vision misses the fact that Charlotte has
been growing since gold was discovered nearby.

55,000 MORE people are coming to Chatham County whether Preston Development succeeds or not.  Most  business ventures fail (e.g. Haw River canal project, Silk Hope, Townsend Inc., Odell Manufacturing).  Succeeding in
business has always been tough.  Most businesses lose money of private investors.   I think it is a crying shame when businesses fail because of crushing government rules and regulations like those in Cary and Apex and coming to (if not already here in) Pittsboro.

The ground called Chatham Park is NOT YOURS to “make intelligent choices”. If you wanted to choose what to do with that ground, you should have bought it before Preston Development.  And now you claim to protect community by using the power of the government (with guns and bullet-proof vests) to force your neighbor to build according to YOUR vision (and make it just like Cary and Apex).  And if existing laws, rules, and regulations are not
good enough you will insist new laws and ordinances are enacted.

You are demanding town and county governments usurp private property rights for “the common good” (in your opinion) striking at the heart of our God-given rights and basis for our laws and government.

Brad Page, you are a good man with good intentions.  But you have enough money you could retire and spend the rest of your life doing good things for others – and helping to destroy the nation where you live.  Rome was not destroyed by one hand or one enemy but “death by a thousand cuts”. Americans are giving our liberties and responsibilities to government.   Government does not give liberties back willingly. We have thousands of years of historical proof that government is not trustworthy.   America is dying a death of a thousand cuts.

Brad Page, I must admire you.  It is difficult for most carpenters to have the skills and business sense to save up enough money over their careers to retire.  Most carpenters I know, in business for themselves, found it difficult to save after paying for children’s college, paying helpers and their benefits, paying taxes and fees and insurances and building inspectors.  Most carpenters who [still] have a “retirement fund” worked for government (school systems, universities, county government, etc.)  or worked for a private company before the bottom dropped out of the economy.

You did not grow up in Chatham County on a piece of property your grandaddy’s granddaddy developed so you probably are enjoying the hard work of some developer.  You seem to value “free choice” except for Preston Development?  Does your Zen Buddhism encourage assault on Preston Development and others’ rights?  What does your teacher say about coveting others’ property?

I believe expecting government to solve YOUR problems with Chatham Park will ONLY result in the loss of OUR nation to something less than a representative republic.  Something resembling the tyranny of fascism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, “banana republic”, Stalinism, or our own American flavor of tyrannical socialism.  I find it horribly discordant a Zen Buddhist would be part of the pittsboromatters mob.  So un-Zen.  Does Jim Goodnight deserve less respect than the caterpillar under your foot?  Or the lady confined to her recliner?