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diff --git a/content/posts/2024-10-17-letter-to-macon-telegraph.md b/content/posts/2024-10-17-letter-to-macon-telegraph.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76c2e18 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2024-10-17-letter-to-macon-telegraph.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +--- +title: Letter to Macon Telegraph +description: Requesting an article for local county corruption +date: 2024-10-17T21:11:08-04:00 +type: default +categories: "post" +tags: + - corrupt + - County + - letters + - communications +draft: true +thumbnail: + url: https://res.cloudinary.com/solardump/image/upload/v1729230748/photo-1623389122089-b490cd00820f_kegjhm.jpg + author: Markus Spiske + authorURL: https://unsplash.com/@markusspiske + origin: Unsplash + originURL: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-person-riding-a-skateboard-on-a-city-street-JnXPgELUMHc +fmContentType: post +--- + +### Matter at hand + +What we have here is really nothing less than plainly obvious once you wrap your head around it. Local officials in +Lamar County are openly performing favors for friends, completely disregarding state and federal law, tampering with +county tax records, and targeting local political opponents by encouraging illegal and environmentally destructive +construction practices beside their homes, which is costing tax-payers millions of dollars owed to them by law. We have +done our best to document everything, and are still in the process of writing it all out and collecting as much evidence +as we possibly can. The violations to federal and state law are without question, because photos and even sometimes +video evidence was taken while the violations were being performed. Other similar violations are even self admitted by +the developers, but because of social ties to county officials, the county officially refused to even acknowledge the +violations occurred. Which is outrageous. You have the developer contacting the county, openly acknowledging they have +been in violation of the law for over two months, and the county's response was to refuse to admit that anything took +place. + +### Monitored Subdivision + +We have been monitoring two developments in the county, one taking place on a sixty acre stretch of land that runs +alongside Hwy 36, and the other further back off from the highway on a hundred acre stretch of previous timber land. The +former is exemplary of the situation at hand, because of how it came into existence, which was a real estate deal +involving the county's own fire chief. Who openly violated state law by practicing real estate brokering without owning +the property himself, and without the required state licensing. The local fire chief financially benefited from the +brokered sale by receiving a discount of over $100,000 on a different piece of property he then purchased for himself +from the same seller, and was given thousands of dollars in free equipment rental from the buyer, who was temporarily +stealing the equipment from his employer. It was an illegal real estate sale that never should have been allowed to +occur. + +#### Subdivision on Junkyard + +Another reason the smaller of these two developments deserve public attention is because it is a subdivision that is +being built on top of the oldest junkyard in the county. The junkyard was previously owned by the McCollum Bros, and had fallen +out of operation by the 1950's at the latest. Old cars, barrels full of oil, various automotive fluids, radiators, lead +sensors, and buckets of hardened lead paint were allowed to sit outside and deteriorate for at least 50 years or more, +polluting the soil and surrounding land. Since its operation predates all environmentally protective regulations +regarding junkyard pollution it is a known toxic waste dump and a ticking time bomb. Without question, the ground is +polluted with carcinogens and heavy metals. When the McCollum family sold the land, they removed the junk and had it +hauled away, but they did nothing about the pollutants in the soil. The health dept is aware of the situation, but is +powerless to prevent it's construction, and the developers have been informed of the hazards, but don't care. Just from +constructing houses without a building permit and violating the federal soil and erosion prevention act, the subdivision +has generated over 3 million dollars in fines. Combine this with the potential violations encountered for constructing +homes on property not fit for human occupation and real estate fraud for not informing buyers of known property defects, +and you have a disaster waiting to happen. + +### The next future development + +The county just announced a new tax increase and the largest planned development in its history, which has residents +upset. As it appears the current policy of the county is to completely and totally disregard any and all regulatory +policies intended to protect the private property of local residents and the environment. The multi million dollar +development is planned to take place along several thousand acres of land running parallel to I-75. The land has been +primarily used for timber for at least a hundred years or more, and the end result will be an additional 4,000 homes +added to the county. Some individuals refer to this as "progress", but they are mistaken, as progress refers to a +forward movement in the direction of an improved state. When federal laws are violated, people are lied to, the personal +value of their homes destroyed, and the environment is decimated to solely benefit the wallets of a select minority of +individuals, then what you have is the farthest thing from progress. diff --git a/content/posts/criticism_business.md b/content/posts/criticism_business.md index 6412bf2..1b0970d 100644 --- a/content/posts/criticism_business.md +++ b/content/posts/criticism_business.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags: - "" draft: true categories: - - Post + - Posts --- ## Response to the criticism, "It was none of our business" diff --git a/content/posts/criticism_propaganda.md b/content/posts/criticism_propaganda.md index 01737ea..6910702 100644 --- a/content/posts/criticism_propaganda.md +++ b/content/posts/criticism_propaganda.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ thumbnail: origin: Unsplash originURL: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-sign-on-the-side-of-a-building-that-says-propaganda-no-g6w40MiCa7w categories: - - Post + - Posts --- >[!NOTE] diff --git a/content/posts/sfolly.md b/content/posts/sfolly.md index aed8032..435afd2 100644 --- a/content/posts/sfolly.md +++ b/content/posts/sfolly.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ thumbnail: origin: Unsplash originURL: https://unsplash.com/photos/black-metal-screen-with-brown-metal-screen-kmNZRWs63dw categories: - - Post + - Posts --- This was the beginning of the slow death of our home. We desperately tried to contact the owner to purchase the land, would have paid much more than it sold for, and have every reason to believe we were intentionally robbed of the opportunity. For over sixty years our family had lived in seclusion and in privacy, it was the reason why we lived there, and it is what we gave our neighbor of over 45 years. All of that was about to be destroyed on purpose, and the Fire Chief took time off of work to help out. diff --git a/content/posts/stupid_answer.md b/content/posts/stupid_answer.md index 201dbc5..7bbb2cb 100644 --- a/content/posts/stupid_answer.md +++ b/content/posts/stupid_answer.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ thumbnail: origin: Unsplash originURL: https://unsplash.com/photos/white-sheep-on-white-surface-4ApmfdVo32Q categories: - - Post + - Posts --- The gentleman across the street from us came over to acquire about selling our house, which we had no intention of doing. While he was there he asked, "Do you really believe all that stuff about solar?" Such a question was a little insulting, because we just had spent months being ridiculed for taking a stand on our research on the negative effects of solar energy, research that we still stand by. At the time, we just wanted to get along with the guy and be polite. We had grown up with his two daughters, and not had any problems with his family. The last thing we wanted to do was get into an argument, especially about solar energy. |