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| Subject: I want you to be really safe, as safe as possible "AND" your rights preserved | |
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Author: Butch Huber |
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Date Posted: Tue, Sep 15 2009, 12:32:39 In reply to: Smith 's message, "Butch" on Tue, Sep 15 2009, 11:31:33 Nobody will find a citizen in this city, or anywhere for that matter, who cares more about your rights, and his rights, than I do. My eyes have been opened, and are being opened even more, to just how far government has grown into the lives, living rooms, bedrooms, and boardrooms in America. It is time to push back everywhere, and anywhere, we see government exerting influence, power, or using authority where it isn't intended under our Constitution. I have been wrong in some of what I have posted on here, not because I had wrong intentions, but because I was ignorant. I have to revise some of my position because I made assumptions that actually were not correct. For instance, it isn't the city that gives the Homeowner's association the right to exist, it is the Secretary of State, and therefore the State, that gives the homeowner's association the right to exist. The city requires that it exist, but the state gives it the right to exist. The city approves the bylaws, but the state says that they can have bylaws. Then, to make things even more confusing, the federal government gives the homeowner the right to be a non-profit. This all sets up a tremendous form of class discrimination and favorable taxing situations whereby the rich are able to enjoy amenities that would have been taxed and everyone would be able to use them, only they keep the people who aren't rich out! There are so many things wrong with a homeowner's association I don't know where to start in pointing them out! Smith, please understand, I believe, at least for now, that the members of the board, at least most of them, made a well-intentioned, wrong decision, and they are now doing what most people do when they make a mistake, they are trying to justify their decision rather than just admit the mistake and correct it. Until they prove otherwise, that is what I am going to believe. That doesn't mean that I don't feel there is a level of arrogance and obstinance going on here, at least in the case of one or more of the board members. I don't feel that the decision to make that down the backboards make us safer, I think the decision ultimately makes us less safe. We are saying to those boys who scared you, "you win". It's like giving in to terrorists. I believe we deserve better than that. I want the government to recognize that it actually caused this entire mess. They required we have a homeowner's association and a common area, and they should be very active in fixing this situation. I believe Chief Garrett probably will solve this issue in time. From all that I have heard he is a good man and a capable police chief. The police of Mt. Juliet are fully aware that running those kids out of Willoughby Station isn't solving the problem, they know that solving the problem is solving the problem. Those boys saying "step off, or we will step you off" to a resident of this community, at the common area, is no different than if they were to hop out of their cars and start doing something on my property and telling me to step off or they will step me off when I told them to leave. A neighborhood watch isn't what is called for to tackle this type of problem either. The boys described earlier are over the top, we as ordinary citizens are ill equipped, under empowered, un-trained, and un-skilled to handle such a situation. This really is something for the police to handle, and I think they can handle it, they may just need some help from us or some authority from the government. Again, doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, no matter how justifiable it may seem, is still...."the wrong thing". There are a lot of things that would be justifiable, except for that they are wrong. If the boards being down keeps the bad kids away temporarily, and as long as the board recognizes that it was wrong for them to take the boards down the way they did, and if they put together a plan to actually fix the problem, and if that plan has a date of when the boards will go back up, I would agree to vote for their actions. (As long as the plan is reasonable and practical and as long as the deadline for reinstalling the boards isn't too far away. However, I can't condone a behavior that says to me, "we have a right to take away something that you paid for and there isn't a thing you can do about it". [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Butch in re: HOA | Lori | Tue, Sep 15 2009, 13:24:58 |
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| Meeting | Smith (Curious) | Tue, Sep 15 2009, 21:46:14 |
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