discretion – A public official’s power or right to act in certain circumstances according to personal judgment and conscience. [Black’s Law Dictionary]
Mr. Brown – the Democrat Party official placed on to the Elbert County Planning Commission by BOCC member Larry Ross, a recent Democrat himself – does not trust the Republican majority on the BOCC to administer the law in the best interest of Elbert County.
Mr. Brown pushes regulations that, in the name of discretion, remove all discretion from the process.
First off, this is an impossible task. Second, if Mr. Brown has his way Elbert County will be saddled with an impossibly tortuous body of regulatory law for oil and gas development that will put a stop to all oil and gas development.
Coincidentally, this has been Mr. Brown’s, and Larry Ross’s, objective all along.
Mr. Brown is on the Planning Commission to push the left’s agenda by any means possible. If he can’t control the wording of the regulatory law, his fallback strategy is to delay the implementation of it. Either one serves the purpose of preventing oil and gas development. Brown is a determinist who intends to dictate the zoning law out of the mistaken belief that law can control human behavior. While law can certainly influence human behavior, law will never control people to the extent the left believes.
It’s a mistake to put legal zealots in Planning Commission seats. All they need is a foot in the door to insinuate anything they desire into the process. That’s what lawyers do – they build cases out of thin air.
Take a step back from the particular points Mr. Brown and company ceaselessly argue. Look at the one-way trend toward their objective of obstructing oil and gas development. For almost 3 years now in Elbert County, their contributions to this nascent oil and gas industry have been about: control, delay, refusal, preemption, denial, suspension, constriction, prevention, etc., all performed in the name of good regulations.
Bullshit.
Are we not supposed to notice that nothing that they suggest actually facilitates this industry?
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