ACWWA would love to have Elbert County’s water. Their director, Gary Atkin said that. Being desirous of the water and being able to develop the infrastructure for groundwater so that their return makes sense is something that ACWWA has changed its mind about. They paid $12,000,000 to Rick Hunt and now want to sell it back. I think laying out that kind of cash is pretty indicative of desire.
The definition of cabal is that it is a secretive clique, usually political in nature. Are you really suggesting that their were no politicians at the ACWWA meetings? Are you trying to suggest that a meeting with a dozen or so developers with designs on water for their business operations where no one from the ECWAB was invited does not qualify as secretive?
You do not have all of the facts at your disposal. Where were you when Metli denied that these meetings occured? I was in the room. I have talked to numerous participants who were in those meetings, have you? If you had you would know that not everyone who was there wanted to be involved because they knew it would breech the public’s trust level.
Then there is your veiled threat that I could be sued silly. Everyone knows that you feature yourself as a legal eagle. If it is a warning, thanks for the tip. If it is you flexing your brilliant legal skills…cool. It’s nice you have a hobby.
Brooks, just admit it, you are angry because I think the master plan should be regulatory. You gave me a tepid endorsement, but now you see me as an evil person who is after all of your rights. Don’t worry, I know you will be voting for Shipper or Andy. I think zoning makes sense. I do not want to privatize everything under the sun. Ayn Rand was an idiot. Rand advocated rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, neither of which work in the real world.
Now that I have said those things you can be guilt free as you vote for those Republicans that have your best interests at heart. You and Andy and Del and J.H. and any other person you desire can sit in a coffee house and discuss The Fountainhead.
I don’t care. I am done with your intellectual sniper fire. You don’t want a debate. You just want conversion. Not in this life time because your world lives by the rule that those that have are okay, and those who don’t are worthless annoyances. Too stark for me. Stop reading my site if it is such crap.
Robert Thomasson
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Nice bit of ad hominem, innuendo and insult Robert. Not persuasive, but lots of emotion there. You protest entirely too much. I don’t see you as evil, or myself as an objectivist or libertarian.
I thought you were more balanced early in the race, but your finding conspiracies of late around every corner, your endorsement of regulatory planning, your apparent confusion between planning and zoning, and your mean tone, these developments have disillusioned me. As for your statement about “rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism” not working in the real world, look around you. Our country was built by those forces. The industrial revolution, the explosion of wealth in America, our standard of living, these did not come from a command economy, from planners, from regulators, from the state, or from the left. They came from the unleashing of freedom under the rule of law. I know that’s a hard one for Democrats to understand because y’all use the rule of law to control people. But the rule of law in America used to be more about equal opportunity than about equal outcome. People were much more free to create, invent, engage, and even fail, without planning overlords to regulate things. I’d like to see the pendulum swing back in that direction because I believe free people are happier and create more, not only for their own benefit, but for the mutual benefit of everyone else too. The left seem to have a deep mistrust of free people, and frankly, where that comes from mystifies me.
And on your point about conversation and dialog, I’ve posted on this site everything you have written to me about things on this site, along with my responses. On Abe21, however, I find no contrary views. Am I to conclude that “A Better Elbert” is an Elbert without dissent? – a strange prescription from the party that holds dissent to be one of the highest forms of patriotism. I know that 1st Amendment free speech rights can only be enforced against the government, but for private publishers such as yourself, it looks a little cultish to only present one side to matters.
ACWWA would love to have Elbert County’s water. Their director, Gary Atkin said that. Being desirous of the water and being able to develop the infrastructure for groundwater so that their return makes sense is something that ACWWA has changed its mind about. They paid $12,000,000 to Rick Hunt and now want to sell it back. I think laying out that kind of cash is pretty indicative of desire.
The definition of cabal is that it is a secretive clique, usually political in nature. Are you really suggesting that their were no politicians at the ACWWA meetings? Are you trying to suggest that a meeting with a dozen or so developers with designs on water for their business operations where no one from the ECWAB was invited does not qualify as secretive?
You do not have all of the facts at your disposal. Where were you when Metli denied that these meetings occured? I was in the room. I have talked to numerous participants who were in those meetings, have you? If you had you would know that not everyone who was there wanted to be involved because they knew it would breech the public’s trust level.
Then there is your veiled threat that I could be sued silly. Everyone knows that you feature yourself as a legal eagle. If it is a warning, thanks for the tip. If it is you flexing your brilliant legal skills…cool. It’s nice you have a hobby.
Brooks, just admit it, you are angry because I think the master plan should be regulatory. You gave me a tepid endorsement, but now you see me as an evil person who is after all of your rights. Don’t worry, I know you will be voting for Shipper or Andy. I think zoning makes sense. I do not want to privatize everything under the sun. Ayn Rand was an idiot. Rand advocated rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, neither of which work in the real world.
Now that I have said those things you can be guilt free as you vote for those Republicans that have your best interests at heart. You and Andy and Del and J.H. and any other person you desire can sit in a coffee house and discuss The Fountainhead.
I don’t care. I am done with your intellectual sniper fire. You don’t want a debate. You just want conversion. Not in this life time because your world lives by the rule that those that have are okay, and those who don’t are worthless annoyances. Too stark for me. Stop reading my site if it is such crap.
Robert Thomasson
Nice bit of ad hominem, innuendo and insult Robert. Not persuasive, but lots of emotion there. You protest entirely too much. I don’t see you as evil, or myself as an objectivist or libertarian.
I thought you were more balanced early in the race, but your finding conspiracies of late around every corner, your endorsement of regulatory planning, your apparent confusion between planning and zoning, and your mean tone, these developments have disillusioned me. As for your statement about “rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism” not working in the real world, look around you. Our country was built by those forces. The industrial revolution, the explosion of wealth in America, our standard of living, these did not come from a command economy, from planners, from regulators, from the state, or from the left. They came from the unleashing of freedom under the rule of law. I know that’s a hard one for Democrats to understand because y’all use the rule of law to control people. But the rule of law in America used to be more about equal opportunity than about equal outcome. People were much more free to create, invent, engage, and even fail, without planning overlords to regulate things. I’d like to see the pendulum swing back in that direction because I believe free people are happier and create more, not only for their own benefit, but for the mutual benefit of everyone else too. The left seem to have a deep mistrust of free people, and frankly, where that comes from mystifies me.
And on your point about conversation and dialog, I’ve posted on this site everything you have written to me about things on this site, along with my responses. On Abe21, however, I find no contrary views. Am I to conclude that “A Better Elbert” is an Elbert without dissent? – a strange prescription from the party that holds dissent to be one of the highest forms of patriotism. I know that 1st Amendment free speech rights can only be enforced against the government, but for private publishers such as yourself, it looks a little cultish to only present one side to matters.