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rights, makes the next easier. Those who value Freedom of religion, ol the right to bear arms, or freedom of speech, of the press or of assembly, should take not.
There is a cost attached to every freedom, every right. Free speech and a free press allow publication and performance of behavior, ideas, movies, songs and words most find disgusting and socially damaging. We discourage such excesses but consider the price bearable for the greater benefits freedom of speech brings.
So it is with property rights. One person’s beautiful home is another's “Ugh!" The latter, even with majority support, does not have a right to deny the former’s choice — unless there is a real, not fancied, danger to the public health or safety. Look carefully at these proposals and stop the proliferation of well-intended but costly, largely needless, regulations.
What can we do? Every county citizen: Study the proposed amendments, contact your supervisor, tell him how you feel. Attend future hearings. Discuss with friends, neighbors.
Just don’t let what James Madison foresaw in a speech to the Virginia Convention in 1788 happen here::
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
What Madison saw is happening now. Let us, at least in this instance, stop it, here, in our county that adjoins his, one that shares his love of freedom.
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