But do not think you are a helpless victim. Do not claim you have a *magical* right! This is a case where you citizens have to fight!
And gee -- if the situation is as you say, then the board with these excessive fines has handed you a great weapon.
Still -- victims don't win fights even with the best of weapons. The ones you fight are like you, they are humans, they are people in your community. They speak the same language, they go to the same places, etc. etc.
There is no mythical beast called a "Govt". There is just us.
The board acts with vigor! What are the citizens doing? Just complaining, being victimized?
bvw, I’m not a victim of this ban in Raleigh. The citizens of Raleigh are the “victims”. I agree with speaking up, fighting back, etc. However, this liberal, unthinking attitude is invading all manner of “gov’t” policies because the average person is becoming more liberal, socialistic, whatever you want to call it. It’s easy to be a liberal; it’s much more difficult to be conservative. The council in Raleigh may or may not learn their ban on garbage disposal units won’t fix their problem. By that time, they’ll be on to blaming and banning something else. And people will forget why can’t use garbage disposals anymore.
It gets tiring for the average joe to fight and prevent stupid decisions, when it is so easy to make them anymore.
Other than your earlier attack upon all city dwellers, I was pretty much in agreement with much of what you have been saying.........until I came to this comment.
You are naive beyond naive if you truly believe such drivel.
The only "us" are those who say "enough is enough" about this type of infringement, but alas there are far too few and thus there is no "mythical" beast called gov't -- it is a real beast.
You have stated you have no problem with this "PR" stunt from this government entity, but you say that only because it is a non-issue to you and has no impact on you. It also has no impact on me, but I do not consider it a non-issue. Someday one of these "non-issues" is going to have an impact on me and if I don't speak up for and with those it does impact, none of them will speak up for me when it is my turn.