North Port Newspaper
by John Galt
March 21, 2010
Over the past few months I’ve posted stories about the former town of North Port Charlotte, Florida which is now known as North Port, FL, the protectorate of the People’s Republic of North Korea except that I think the short guy over there doesn’t have something like 9,000 homes empty in his nation. The stories in order of most recent to now are:
An Update to the North Port Story Below
A City You Would Never Want to Live In
Well today there is a story in our local newspaper the Sarasota Herald-Tribune with an update as to the happenings there:
North Port code suits wind down
Whoops!
Wonder why this is happening? The 13% + unemployment rate? The lack of money in the county due to short-sighted ignorant political leaders? Perhaps it is that old nagging economic fact that unemployed people can’t and don’t pay taxes, fines, penalties, mortgages or anything else for that matter.
My favorite part of the story:
The 40-plus cases North Port has pursued since 2006 are now down to a handful and the city is working toward settlements in those cases, including that of single mother Diane Pearson, from whom North Port wanted $27,000 because she parked an unlicensed car in her driveway.
Pearson, with the help of pro-bono attorney Robert Lincoln, won a reprieve in January when 12th Circuit Court Judge Charles Roberts reduced the fine from $27,000 to $2,500 because the city failed to verify how long the car was parked in violation of the city code.
Why is this amusing to me?
Simple. The arrogant jerks got their lunch handed to them. Causing a citizen to enforce the laws upon themselves to satisfy their petty fiefdoms plus absurd rules is finally coming back to bite them where it hurts most, in the wallet. There are numerous communities like this one in Florida and the remaining residents understand that having a rat infested junked up front yard is a danger to the community. There is one thing worse than rats and disease however and that’s anti-liberty minded petty fascists who attempt to run every aspects of their citizen’s lives.
Like we have now in Washington, D.C.
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