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Sunday, October 12, 2014
We Have a Constitution to Protect Minorities
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Anonymous
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Unless, of course, you are in the minority who wants freedom to develop your land. In that case, the greater good, as determined by the democratic party in the Town of Boone, should prevail.
My grandma always said your rights end where my nose begins. If developing your land won't let your house slide down on top of mine or flood it (like that business below the Cottages....built because the county has no protections for neighboring property owners) or cause my kid to die from an asthma attack, I'm all for whatever you want to do. I have neighbors whose yard looks like an old car cemetery...doesn't both me a bit. But the guy who puts his septic field right above my well...that should be illegal.
You failed to post my last comment, so I doubt you'll post this one either. Learn from history. The houses that slid were approved by the town of boone. You have no problem alienating and belittling minorities(landowners) who don't agree with your groupthink. But, you champion constitional rights if they are popular with your group. Integrity, right there.
"Learn from history. The houses that slid were approved by the town of boone."
And after that happened, the town started studying steep slope regulations. I'd say that is the very definition of "learning from history," wouldn't you?
Come on, Anon. Even YOU have your threshold regarding regulations. Would you be OK with it if I built my house next to yours, and instead of installing a septic tank, I just ran a pipe out of my house and pointed it toward your property?? What if I decided to open a gay strip club next door to your church? Or maybe a heavy industrial facility with large trucks going in and out all day and night?
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
4 comments:
Unless, of course, you are in the minority who wants freedom to develop your land. In that case, the greater good, as determined by the democratic party in the Town of Boone, should prevail.
My grandma always said your rights end where my nose begins. If developing your land won't let your house slide down on top of mine or flood it (like that business below the Cottages....built because the county has no protections for neighboring property owners) or cause my kid to die from an asthma attack, I'm all for whatever you want to do. I have neighbors whose yard looks like an old car cemetery...doesn't both me a bit. But the guy who puts his septic field right above my well...that should be illegal.
You failed to post my last comment, so I doubt you'll post this one either. Learn from history. The houses that slid were approved by the town of boone. You have no problem alienating and belittling minorities(landowners) who don't agree with your groupthink. But, you champion constitional rights if they are popular with your group. Integrity, right there.
"Learn from history. The houses that slid were approved by the town of boone."
And after that happened, the town started studying steep slope regulations. I'd say that is the very definition of "learning from history," wouldn't you?
Come on, Anon. Even YOU have your threshold regarding regulations. Would you be OK with it if I built my house next to yours, and instead of installing a septic tank, I just ran a pipe out of my house and pointed it toward your property?? What if I decided to open a gay strip club next door to your church? Or maybe a heavy industrial facility with large trucks going in and out all day and night?
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