Florida: City to Seize Homes Over a $5 Parking Ticket

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Isn't this ordinance public record? Anyone got a link?

Go back to the very top and click the very prominent link. And then you will find a copy of it.

[KurtDaBear]

The initial posting said city council members "voted to advance a proposal" to enact said ordinance.  The ordinance has not been enacted, so the citizens still have the opportunity to show up at their council meeting and tell the council members what part of their anatomies they believe their heads are stuck in.

And if they don't, then they deserve the government they get.  Fuck 'em!

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Just that they were thinking about this indicates how much esteem the bureaucrats hold ordinary people in.

[Tom Sawyer]

And if they don't, then they deserve the government they get.  Fuck 'em!

Wow...
Don't quite know how to address that. Guess I have less faith in democracy.

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People will happily vote for their own enslavement, because they've been told it's freedom.

[powerchuter]

Oh my gosh, everyday it's getting more and more friggin ridiculous!     I hate reading the news anymore but I also can't bury my head in the sand.  It's time for a REVOLUTION!

That's why we're here...
You are a part of it...
And it's already started!
Thanks!

[TackleTheWorld]

The initial posting said city council members "voted to advance a proposal" to enact said ordinance.  The ordinance has not been enacted, so the citizens still have the opportunity to show up at their council meeting and tell the council members what part of their anatomies they believe their heads are stuck in.

And if they don't, then they deserve the government they get.  Fuck 'em!

That is the argument of the bureaucrats in my town.  They say, "Hey our board meetings are open to the public.  You weren't here to stop us.  We can take anything we want".

I say I shouldn't have to attend 6 board meetings a week and understand all their code words and rant endlessly at have a chance to keep my property.

[Russell Kanning]

sometimes they will meet into the night if necessary to outlast you ... or keep postponing business until you are not available.

[KurtDaBear]

It was Jefferson, I think, who said. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Therefore, annoying as it can be, it's sometimes necessary to attend those pesky (and boring) board and/or council meetings to let "our representatives" know that we're watching with less than approval.  Then every couple years an election comes along, and we get the chance to turn part of the bunch out.

A small taxpayers' group that I belong to in our town (30 people in a town of 100,000) has in the past 18 months overseen the defeat of a half-cent city sales-tax increase, a half-cent county sales-tax increase, and a city councilman's attempt to impose "Project Labor Agreement" contracting requirements onto the city to repay his union election supporters.  (He got a little frustrated over the whole thing and attempted to strangle his girlfriend, but is currently out on bail and still serving on the council, pending trial. If he's convicted of felony assault, we could get a majority on the council in November.)

We were fortunate in the sales-tax campaigns to have the financial support of a maverick businessman and an eccentric millionaire, but even with their help we were outspent 10 to 1 and still won.

The rest of the time we doggedly attend the council and school board meetings and keep writing letters to the editor. It takes some work, but it also gets some results.  We're beginning to see more and more letters from people we don't know on the same themes we've been pushing. 

Truth will out, and people will respond positively.

[Dreepa]

It was Jefferson, I think, who said. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Therefore, annoying as it can be, it's sometimes necessary to attend those pesky (and boring) board and/or council meetings to let "our representatives" know that we're watching with less than approval. 

Last night the meeting I attended was 4.5 hours long.....

[KurtDaBear]

Last night the meeting I attended was 4.5 hours long.....

Bummer!  I applaud your stamina.