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Bureaucratic fun
PIEDMONT AREA residents might be excused lately for a trace of paranoia along the lines of “the Bureaucrats will get you if you don’t watch out.” It certainly seems they’re trying. One Fauquier resident came out of a zoning hearing the other day shaking his head in wonder: “I thought they (Bureaucrats) were supposed to look after us.” It’s a common fallacy; more citizens should realize that Bureaucrats are either (a) interested in looking after themselves, or (b) looking after the interests of the people they’re supposed to be regulating. The public hardly ever enters into it, except as something to be victimized.
But what do you do«when confronted with a situation where subjective decisions can be made without public notice, and then be chided for not filing a formal protest within a stipulated—and largely arbitrary—time frame? Shake your head in wonder, that’s what you do. What do you do when a lawyer for the Bureaucrats gives it as his opinion that telephone conversations constitute legal notice, even when there is no record of the nature of the conversation? Shake your head in wonder, that’s what you do.
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