Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:17:43 -0500
From: Taylor Kish
Subject: Lynch mobs pull together, too
Property owner, Gil McNeil, opines when a group with enough support pulls together they might win.
Here is my real question. . .
What is Chatham Park proposing that existing laws, rules, and ordinances are insufficient?
Are the leaders of Pittsboro Matters saying YOU are better and more qualified to regulate Chatham Park than Chatham County Manager Charlie Horne and his county supervisors and staff that were ALL installed by coalition democrats BEFORE 2011?
If the federal government proposed Chatham Park as an enterprise zone to promote fairness with minorities, PittsoborMatters would not have formed with a list of demands. BUT especially because it is being built by a supposedly unprotected “rich white guy”, PM feels like they can demand EXTRA concessions outside existing laws, rules, and ordinances.
“Lawful” means according to the U.S. Constitution and our basis for our laws. When something is done outside of our constitution, it is lawless. When laws are ignored, THAT is lawless. Just because a group wants something, does not mean it is lawful.
What if someone forms a group to pass a law requiring everyone to buy a firearm? What if someone forms a group to require students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before classes each day? What if a law is passed saying you may only have two children? What if a law is passed that everyone must take and pass a test on the U.S. Constitution before voting? What if all candidates for public office and employment had to pass a proficiency test on the U.S. Constitution?
Mr. McNeil, when you promote the increase of government power, you reduce individual liberty. It will only be a matter of time before government regulators come for your neighbor’s home-based construction business, landscape business, or woodworking business and demand you meet all the same laws, rules, and ordinances of similar businesses.
I can’t describe my surprise when I found a leader of PittsboroMatters is a developer of luxurious subdivisions and yet promotes EXTRA burdens on OTHER developers. So MANY PittsboroMatters leaders have such apparently HUGE conflicts of interests it makes me wonder what is their REAL motivation?