08.08.07
We hope that this website will prevent any others from making the same mistake that we did in moving anywhere near the town of Lexington. Lexington is a predatory, parasitic town with no regard for the people who live in or around the town. The Town leaders waste excessive amounts of tax dollars while pursuing a practice of Forcefully Annexing surrounding neighborhoods to pay for their arrogantly imperial rule and lack of foresight. The town spreads out, leaving the wreckage of past mistakes like unbandaged wounds. Entire neighborhoods are ignored, littered and unsafe. The people have given up on attending town meetings because, as is common knowledge, the people of Lexington and Davidson County have no voice or vote on any issue. The town is run as a dictatorship, with the same few people making the decisions and dominating the political machine. There is no freedom, no Constitutional Government, no respect for citizens. It is filled with dilapidated buildings and litter that the town refuses to clean up, the crime and taxes are high and the rates for services continue to rise. Lexington is no place to raise a family, buy a home or start a business. There is NO leadership, NO budgeting, and the people here have NO choice in how the City is run because there is NO vote on any issue. The only areas within the City limits that receive prompt, effective service in any way are the areas where the Town Councilmen and political supporters live. Forced annexation is a policy akin to trashing your own backyard, refusing to clean it up and then taking your neighbors yard that he has kept clean….and then makling him pay for the new fence that you put up!
Our City is run so that the wishes, desires, request and concerns of citizens are inconsequential to the Town Council and planners. They truly believe that they are the only ones who matter, and that their opinions are the only ones that count. Citizens are there to work for them, and they are there to tell citizens how to live. It may sound archaic to the “progressive” elitist, but it was intended to be the other way around….
lexingt2 said,
August 13, 2007 at 10:25 am
What about the city council going on a retreat in Asheville, i think, to the Grove park inn? Does everybody need to go on the taxpayer bill? Its this weekend, i think…R Lambert
lexingt2 said,
August 13, 2007 at 9:38 pm
North Carolina has a history of being on the wrong side of history, and seems to be determined to stay there. When Slavery was the issue, the leaders of this state defended it as an economic necessity, claiming that we could not compete economically without it, and that it was necessary to support the entire state infrastructure. These arguments, to our shame, are the same ones now being used to defend the modern form of slavery called forced annexation. Forced annexation is a parasitic, malignant and undemocratic form of oppressive tyranny that does not resemble either the spirit nor the letter of our Constitional form of Government. Without vote, without consideration of the people annexed and without any Democratic debate or Representation townships across this state are misusing an originally flawed and archaic law to force the nearby County residents into neo-slavery by simply taking their hard-earned money through unjustified and unreasonable taxation. Because County residents are forbidden by law to vote in town elections, this results in the undeniable condition of taxation without representation, and the obligatory “public hearings” are an exercise in futility that only result in further anger and frustration and hatred when the county citizens are invariably ignored and mistreated by the town officials. The history of Forced Annexation is shamefully redundant. The “public meetings” are held. The county residents plead, protest, and usually spend thousands fighting the annexation. These County citizens fight because of an instinctive sense of moral outrage, not because some legal grey area has been infringed upon or even because they believe that they can win. They always fight because the simple, basic and most fundamental right of an American citizen – the right to VOTE – is being denied to them. They fight because of the insult to their humanity; they fight for a greater principle than most of them are even able to articulate or fully realize. They fight for the same reasons our founding fathers fought the War for Independence. They fight because they know, instinctively, that every American citizen should have the right to choose where to live and whom to pay taxes to. The League of Municipalities would have everyone believe that those who oppose Forced Annexations are selfish, and that it is only about money. I wonder what the patriots who died for the principles of self-determination and liberty would think of those arguments, or the people across the world today who fight for the right to vote and resent being taxed by tyrants. History is full of tried and failed policies that should show us where policies such as Forced annexation will lead us. The townships, using phrases taken from the Leagues’ propagandized memos, say that Forced Annexations are necessary for “a more balanced revenue distribution” which is paraphrasing Marx and Lennin when they advocated the “redistribution of wealth”. If the powerful Russian empire could not force it to work, what makes the League and its advocates believe that it is a sustainable practice for America on its own soil? Adolf Hitler said that he believed in private property ownership as long as it adhered to the principle of “the common good.” The “common good” is the most-used excuse in support of Forced Annexations. Supporters of Forced Annexation have plenty of historical precedent and advocates, yet none in agreement with this country’s founding fathers and none which have ever been successful. There is no other great, free power that will come to liberate our American citizens from its’ oppressive Government, no other system that American citizens can hope for and work to achieve in hopes of gaining our freedom. Our fight is here; our hope is in regaining our country. Our soldiers are ourselves, and our only weapons are information, organization and our votes. A politician can call him or herself a Democrat or Republican or Libertarian, but a person is defined by what they do, not by what they say. A Neo-Communist or Socialist will support Forced Annexation. It is a simple fact that has been hidden and confused behind excuses and misdirection. It is time the North Carolina politicians were reminded of the state motto “to be, not to seem”. It is time the American taxpayer stirred from the accepting, lazy and habitual servitude and held elected officials accountable, or our children and grandchildren will be left to fight another Revolution one day to regain the freedoms that we lose for them today. It is time that the most valuable resource of this state and nation – the working taxpayer – demanded accountability from their elected officials. Call or write for information on how we can work to return our State to us, the people.
M.Thompson said,
August 15, 2007 at 8:40 pm
The city of LEXINGTON is just like any other city in North Carolina, the only thing on there mind is money, once they get yours the’ll use it to buy up your property, the american people need to make a stand agaist tyranny in any form of government, after all they do work for us don”t they????
lexingt2 said,
August 15, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Their stated reason for annexation is for a “more balanced revenue distribution”……sounds like the “redistribution of wealth” phlosophy of Karl Marx found in the Communist Manifesto…
lexingt2 said,
August 29, 2007 at 6:03 pm
THE CYCLE REPEATS
Gov. Easley and the General Assembly increase the state’s budget by 9.5 percent
Since the 1980s, and continuing throughout the 1990s and into the new century, state government in North Carolina has been in a constant cycle of spend and tax — state spending is increased to match tax revenue growth in the fat years, but rather than cutting spending when the economy slows, tax rates are increased to cover the promised overspending. The $1.8 billion spending surge marking this year’s final budget promises to continue this cycle. With a Savings Reserve Account (rainy day fund) balance equal to just 3.9 percent of General Fund appropriations, N.C. policymakers have left themselves little room to maneuver when income-tax collections inevitably decline. Analysis by the John Locke Foundation, North Carolina’s leading think tank, give the history of this spend-and-tax cycle, including how fast the state’s General Fund has grown over just the past five years — from $14.3 billion in FY 2003 to $20.7 billion in FY 2008.
From the John Locke Foundation
Joe Weingarten said,
December 31, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I live in an area know as Geist, a community that is unincorporated next to the town of Fishers Indiana, you could change the words Lexington to Fishers and I would think it was the same place. The Town of Fishers is trying to force annex us so they can make a profit of 3.2 million dollars a year in tax revenue and not provide any increase in services. We are fighting forced annexation at every level we can and hope you do the same. One of the main things we are doing is working to get the law changed statewide, not an easy task, with the towns and cities fighting us all the way. Good luck in your fight.
Joe Weingarten said,
January 3, 2008 at 8:50 pm
FYI - Indiana update
Bill Being Introduced to Eliminate Forced Annexation
State Senator Jeff Drozda (District 21) is introducing a bill on
Monday, January 7th at 9:00 am in room 431 at the Statehouse which
will do away with forced annexation in the State of Indiana. A press
conference is scheduled afterwards at 10:30 am. Representatives from
Southwest Clay, Home Place, and other annex-affected areas in Indiana
will be in attendance to show their support of this bill.
The briefing and press conference is open to the public.
celpjefscycle said,
January 12, 2008 at 5:35 am
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john evers said,
March 13, 2008 at 12:37 pm
The wind never blows on my side of town, because being forced into annexation sucks.