Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Countywide Zoning Regulations, our farms will come under government control. Citizens of unincorporated rural Grady County, you are about to be snookered again. This is George Bivins, your old county commissioner. I intend to run against Elwin Childs again. I hope by disclosing this now, I can head off his intended vote for zoning regulations , coming soon. The Cairo Messenger has longed for zoning for many years, and demonstrates the government’s insatiable appetite for controlling our lives. Finally, after all these years the Messenger has three votes in its corner. It was able to do this by getting a commitment from Elwin Childs. On Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011 Mr. Childs voted for public hearings on zoning ordinance. And to pay $15,000 to RDC for zoning maps and other services. And, true to its word, the next day, Messenger published a two page color spread on Elwin Child’s family and his hog doings. This looks bad, maybe even a little shady. If you think zoning regulations will protect farms, you had better think again.
There are two of the five county commission districts where virtually all voters are city area residents; the other three represent the county’s unincoporated rural voters. Elwin Childs is supposed to represent county rural voters, but votes with the two city county commissioners. Elwin Childs is key to Cairo Messenger control. He makes up the majority three to two.
When States, cities and counties are declaring bankruptcies, pensions are not being paid, people are being laid off, and bonds are in default, can Grady County afford zoning regulations? No, they cannot, if you look down the road to see what is happening worldwide. Virtually all the riots, Egypt’s government overthrown, chaos in the streets of Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, were in protest of increased food prices and food shortage. States and cities are laying off police officers en mass. They’re putting prisoners back on the streets because there is not enough money to house them. Many states , including New York and New Jersey, have refused to pay their pension funds. New Jersey laid off thousands of teachers, fired 1300 state workers, and drastically reduced funding to cities and counties. The party is over my fellow citizens. But, Cairo Messenger and Elwin Childs want Zoning Regulations. The party is not over for Mr. Elwin Childs and the messenger. They expect state funding to continue. It will not.
What will zoning regulations cost Grady County? I estimate initially $100,000 per year. Oh, I know they will claim that the present staff can handle the job. Yeah, maybe for a few weeks. Now, aside from the cost to Grady County, there is this: Once zoning regulations are passed, the board of commissioners cannot cancel them because the Superior court will rule, within a lawsuit, that zoning must continue. See “judge Orders County to enforce zoning.” TTimes, 12/25/02. Habersham county commission threw out zoning regulations, judge ruled that zoning must continue or he would jail them. Clearly this ruling was unconstitutional, but it stood.
My biggest fear is zoning of farmland. With the present Obama government anything can happen. The U. S. Constitution is being ignored in many areas. Once zoning regulations are allowed on the books county government can re -rig them overnight. To outlaw certain pesticides, stop irrigation, confiscate food, dictate what you will plant, or anything else it wants. The Grady County Commission can do anything it wants to do. I know, I was a commissioner from 1996 – 2000.
The biggest fear we all should have is governments ignoring the U. S. Constitution, and the election of madmen in the Federal Government. Is there any doubt now that madmen exist in government? Tyrants never announce their intentions in the beginning. They gain control by voluntary consent of the masses, then exploit any opportunity to expand their powers. Recall Obama’s water - carrier Rahm Emanual, saying that “no good crisis should go to waste”. He means that government should expand its power over the masses at every available opportunity. Here in Grady County, you have the power to stop this expansion of government that will, unquestionably, be expanded until everyone’s toes are being stepped on. If you allow this expansion of government control over your private property rights, you will NEVER regain these rights again. NEVER!
The private property interests of rural county voters are not being represented by Mr. Elwin Childs. Watch the newspapers for a public meeting on zoning, hopefully at the county volunteer fire stations, soon. Be sure to attend and express yourself firmly. Talk to your friends who oppose zoning regulations, bring them. This is war over the control of your property.
Chairman Norton will request a straw vote at each meeting “that way it would not be railroaded by the Cairo Messenger.” In other words they could not report that zoning is favored if it is not. You would not have to speak, just raise your hand when vote is taken.
What is Cairo Messengers interest in zoning regulations? I believe, and have believed for a long time, that ultimately they want consolidation of city and county governments. This would meld the tax bases together and widen it to something over 10,000 properties. But, the most important point is that they would have to control only one unelected board, not the county commission, the cities mayors and council, these boards would dissolve. This would satisfy the government’s insatiable appetite for controlling our lives. Lack of county wide zoning is an impediment to consolidation.
I will print and post this radio address at local stores, or I will email it to you.
George Bivins
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