Annexation is not the morally right action to take
I still do not understand how a man that is protecting his home during a burglary can be charged with murder. It has happened over and over here in America and even here in Warren County. A person is trying to protect the things he has worked hard to enjoy and someone that is too lazy to do the work themselves comes in to take it all away.
That uneasy feeling I got when I read about that man being charged with murder is the same feeling I get when a group wants to annex something that the person being annexed does not want. We as Americans stood up to Saddam Hussein when he tried to annex Kuwait. I don’t agree with that notion that the people being annexed just don’t know what they are missing.
Isn’t that the justification our ancestors tried using when they brought African slaves to this country? They also pushed the native Indians out of the way for the betterment of themselves. America finally realized it was wrong and changed its ways. America is still trying to reverse those black eyes.
Have you noticed that even in South Africa they have reversed the annexation the English had done by giving the farms back to the original African settlers? I’m not trying to compare slavery with annexation. I just want us to think about what is morally right before we react.
No matter how much you try to justify your reasons, if it is not right – it is not right. I know the city has the right to do it, but that does not make it right. Slavery was legal for years before they realized it was not morally right. If this piece of land is so valuable to the city, the two questions come to mind. First, why didn’t the city annex it when the bypass was first built before the land was developed? Secondly, why didn’t all of the aldermen agree on it?
Our city has a lot of serious issues that need to be addressed and I feel whoever is elected should vote the way the majority of the people would want them to.
I think there are a lot of people who are happy with the steady, but slow, growth that has come to the area. There are many of us who could have lived anywhere, but we took less to stay in a place we enjoy the way it is.
I think growth in the city is like growth in a church. There is a fine line where too much growth is bad. You want to grow big but have the down-home closeness feeling. I commend the latest aldermen on their jobs they did, for they were doing as they believed was best for the city. I disagreed with some of the decisions they made, but did they really know how the majority of voters felt about the issues before they were elected?
I try to live by the Golden Rule – do unto others as you would have done unto you. That’s a rule I am trying to teach my children, but I don’t think you stop living by it once you reach adulthood.
Nathan Smith
411 Sunset Drive
and future Ben La View resident