Every resident should have an equal voice at community meetings.
Period. There's no requirement to own land in order to vote or to be
a citizen or to comment on public events in this country. (I'm
guessing that the question of land ownership is your point here,
Tony, but you're too "crafty" to say so out loud and prefer to make
meaningless insinuations.) My guess is that what you're really
threatened by is the articulateness of Frank's comments. If you don't
agree with him, fine, but you should realize that by attacking him
personally instead of making arguments of substance you make it
obvious that you don't have a leg to stand on.
Maggie
On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Anthony West wrote:
So Frank, the public critic of a private real-estate development,
is publicly secret about himself. The rest of the world is obliged
to expose its inner workings to Frank on demand, but Frank owes
nothing to the rest of us in return. We can't even know where he
lives! Yet he claims the authority to order other people how to
spend their money, because he is their secret neighbor, and he
knows better than they do what they should do with their own property.
Frank, what is your address, what is your phone number and what is
your economic interest in this discussion?
-- Tony West
What do you do for a living, by the way, Frank? Where do you
live, and how do you afford to live there? Can you please tell
the neighborhood exactly who you are? You are a frequent angry
critic of how your neighbors manage their properties and their
public spaces; yet we know strangely little about you. What's the
scoop? How much do you pay to your landlord for the environment
you think this proposed hotel would disrupt? If information about
the hotel is rightfully public, isn't information about you
rightfully public as well? Tell us who you are and where you are.
No, the two don't follow. There is nothing even roughly
equivalent. My personal information is rightly private.
Information regarding an application for a zoning variance is just
as rightly public. I really have no secrets but I don't respond to
bullying. Sorry. Besides, the size and source of my income has no
bearing on my value as a member of this neighborhood.
Frank
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