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It is not arguable what “our future” in Sevier will be like if Our Smokies Our Future (OSOF) blueprint plan is adopted by local government.
Assuming a “buy-in” by local elected officials, federal taxpayer funding will finance the new real estate development that will take place.
As with more than 600 other local governments that have undergone precisely this same OSOF procedure, here is what acceptance of the “carrot-and-stick” federal taxpayer money will absolutely mandate for Sevier’s citizens: open-space imperatives, burdensome prohibitive zoning, in-perpetuity conservation easements, limits on resource extraction (including, at some point, water from wells), land-usage prohibitions, and eminent domain.
Add to these “wonderful, appealing ideas”—a local environmental police force will provide enforcement as an unrecognizable Sevier County gradually emerges right before our eyes . . . and we did not even see it coming, ignoring all the fact-based warnings. Our Smokies Our Future advocate/visioning facilitator, Gianni Longo of New York, tells Sevier citizens none of these facts—facts that have become reality in 600 localities in the U.S. thus far.
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The “carrot” will be temporary, but the “stick” will be permanent!
That is what is so worrisome about all the “feel good” initiatives that are being manipulated into Sevier County.
It’s always amazed me that the well intended are so oblivious to the incrementalism of socialism that has undermined the founding principles of our freedom. I really believe the facilitaors of OSOF want to do what’s best for the county. But like so many others, they forget the foremost ingredient of freedom: private property rights. Anything that infringes — even remotely–on private property rights adds to the continuing erosion
of our constitutional principles.
Seems that old saying has relavance here; hell is paved with good intentions
An uninformed citizenry accepts the mask as the reality. The mask is not genuine. The reality is!
So what’s the reality? Well, it’s not the “wonderful, appealing ideas” of OSOF. The letter writer of “Ruse” has that right. The “Ruse” consists of the “wonderful, appealing ideas”–all meant to hide the fact that private-property rights will be sacrificed on the altar of those ideas. THAT is the REALITY. The ruse is SOOOOOOO clever!