OneGun wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:54 am
Maybe if the declaration had provided more detail on what kind of private property and for what purpose, I'd have a less negative reaction. Like if they needed my truck to transport medicals supplies to a hospital. I'd say yes and and offer to drive it myself.
Context is everything and the lack is disturbing.
One of the more interesting questions is: who will make that determination? Will it be done on the fly by the animal control person? Obviously, someone in the bureaucracy determined that they needed/wanted that tremendous power. Who and why?
I'm more than a little antsy about such things. I lived in Tarrant/Colleyville. I bought a house there based on the master plan. A couple of years after my purchase, Colleyville passed a "minute order" which, we were told, gave the power to the State of Texas/TxDOT to build a 6 lane highway about 150 feet from my front door. When you looked at the minute order, it didn't say anything about any of that. So the residents got up in arms, hired a lawyer and unraveled what was a litany of lies about what was to happen. A compromise was reached for a 4 line road, only to be abrogated by TxDOT who would "build the road that we needed." Only years afterward did we learn that the catalyst was a developer who wanted to build a regional mall at Cheek-Sparger/121. Tarrant County politics, probably not unlike the politics in most areas doesn't seem to come close to transparency. Given the propensity of politicians to seize a moment, it seems worthwhile to ask questions and be skeptical. You will notice that this is the Second Amendment (how ironic) to the Tarrant County EO. What will limit the 7 days from be coming 30 or 180 days? And since they are ready to apply jail and fines to enforce their will, it would seem prudent to wonder what is really happening. I've followed several other items through the Tarrant County process over the past year. Sherrif Bil Waybourn spoke to my group about one of those items in which Judge Whitley was directly involved. It turned out OK because the public put a lot of pressure on Mr. Whitley.
One could say that I should mind my own business since I don't currently live in Tarrant. But I see a one-upsmanship going on among the county leadership, ranging from Dallas to Harris. I don't want my county doing a copy-cat enactment of things like this.
