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Date Posted: Friday, October 19, 08:22:12am
Author: Dave Zitzkat
Subject: Gutless Wonder Comment
In reply to: Gluteus 's message, "What???" on Friday, October 19, 07:32:52am

You are not only a gutless wonder, afraid to sign your name, but you are really stupid. I am starting to think you are Facts, in which case I will blow your cover, again.

Being against throwing money away, paying rich people to keep their land, and buying development rights for the same price as the land could be bought for does not mean that one is opposed to rural settings.

If you are facts, you have quite a temper. You have been in trouble once for your temper getting out of hand, and twice means hard time. Control yourself and try to act civilized, however, difficult that may be.




> Do any
>>of us really have any right to stifle development from
>>the grave even with the best of intentions? Somehow,
>>tying up land in perpetuity smacks of paternalism and
>>a lack of trust in future generations. Why don't we
>>think our children and their children won't love the
>>land enough to be good stewards of it themselves?
>>
>>Plus, it also strikes me how much these open space
>>initiatives violate the traditions which drew most of
>>our ancestors here. Land, and the possibility of
>>individual land ownership, was a big draw to colonial
>>settlers in the 16th century. You couldn't even vote
>>or participate in government until the mid-1800's
>>unless you were a man who owned land. I think this
>>idea of municipally-owned land held in common is
>>actually antithetical to the American Dream. To quote
>>from Wikipedia:
>>
>
>
>Imagine, someone who hates the rural essence of NW CT.
>Why don't you move back to the city where you belong,
>where every place is just like every other place,
>where the land is hammered for profit-taking and
>children hang at malls? Jerk.

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  • Now...now...now, Gluteus. Be careful in assuming. -- Linda LaRue, Friday, October 19, 09:46:05am
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