NIMBY in North Florida
Below is an excerpt from the Tallahassee Democrat, which makes a strong point:
Urban planners and developers have an acronym, “NIMBY,” that describes important undertakings that everyone agrees are badly needed — but “not in my back yard.”
The nastiest NIMBY was sparked by the now-abandoned plan by the well-meaning director of a homeless transition ministry to house 16 men, most of them sex offenders, at the Good Samaritan Thrift Store in Woodville.
That’s about a quarter-mile from an elementary school.
Angry parents picketed last week, demanding that the men not be housed there. County Commissioner Bill Proctor, Sheriff Mike Wood and School Superintendent Jackie Pons tried to allay their fears — the offenders would be supervised, with restrictive curfews and monitoring with security cameras and GPS systems — but explanations were futile. The county told Glenn Burns, head of the Good Samaritan Network, not to use the shop as a residential facility.
The anger is understandable. Nobody wants sex offenders anywhere. But, according to state records, there are 43 registered sex offenders living within three miles of Good Samaritan. And they are far less supervised. Burns said a lot of the men will now “live in the woods somewhere,” which hardly solves the problem.
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The more i read on Florida Action Committee. The more Ithink that’s where they want. Registered Citizens to live
i think they should go ahead with the plan anyway and after a few years of no incidents there minds will change, but also in a few years at least someone those same people that are against it will know or be related to someone that gets put on the hit list then there mind will change. Over the past 18 years that i been on it i have noticed that the larger the hit list grows the more people that had once said hang the SO, NIMBY, etc… are now voicing opinions against it when these illegal laws hit home.
Had i known i was going to be on the hit list for life in stead of a few years then i would of went to trial instead of taking a 2 year probation deal. In realty if the state thought i was guilty of a horrible crime ad facing 15 years in prison then why would they offer me 2 years of probation. I’ll tell you why, something my high priced lawyer did not tell me when i had 3 min’s to make up my mind. I just realized this a min. ago, i viewed sentence score sheets in the past and i just realize i would of scored probation on it if i would have gone to trial and lost; my lawyer never told me that he said i was facing up to 15 years in prison. but yet my lawyer most likely sold me made a deal with them me for some lighter stuff on someone else. as lawyer did not get the records from my open lewdness case from another state where i shot the moon when i was 18 thus the state seen that and thought where there is smoke there is fire.