I’ve written before about Laconia’s Hathaway House (here) that is considered to be a historic landmark and the animus that “community stakeholders” have towards the owner simply because the owner won’t keep it up to “their” standards. Well, two of these chuckleheads are at it again in sending Letters to the Editor excoriating the corporate owners (a Dunkin Donuts franchisee) and their Letters to the Editor are shown after the Jump. I sent this into the Laconia Daily Sun:
To the Editor:
I dryly note that Progressives became so hated during the last century, they needed to rebrand themselves. They chose “Liberal” to next redefine and abuse.But their intent was not to elevate Classic Western Liberalism that emphasized the Individual and Rights granted by God but the regressive idea that the Individual should be subservient to the Collective which would grant (and therefore, could revoke) those Rights which otherwise should be held inviolate including the Right to Private Property. And as we know, they blew that word up and have retreated to the original word, Progressive. Either way, I call them incremental Socialists.
The Hathaway House situation provides us with yet another GRAND example of people absconding with a word’s original meaning: “stakeholder”. Previously viewed as simply a person that held the stakes for erecting a tent or a fence, they have redefined its usage by involving themselves into “the process” as “interested and involved citizens”. At the national and international level, they are generally known as Non-Governmental Organizations. Think of the EPA, its royal decrees (void of legislation) – and the environmental groups that insert themselves and “advise” on policy. Even though they have no ownership interest in property whose value may well be diminished, they have no problem in helping to promulgate regulations that diminishes the Rights of the owners to use that property. They call themselves “advocates” – we used to call these people Busybodies.
